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by hmwhy 7y ago
Have only been a backer before so take my opinion with a gain of salt. Thinking ahead is great, but it's often too easy to overestimate how good an idea is and get lost in thinking about all the things that were never going to happen.
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by hmwhy 7y ago
My previous comment was a mental experiment for something that I found super interesting; it just kind of leaked out without much, um, thinking. It was definitely not my intention to suggest that Ricci's choice did not influence what i
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by hmwhy 7y ago
A lot of the things on the list confound me, too, but I suppose we should use caution and not be too quick to judge. It is possible that schools are really that different in some countries; the author never had the opportunity to go through
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by hmwhy 7y ago
It may be true that many the Chinese names for those lands are the same, or at least very similar, to those used in Ricci's maps; but, suppose you could remove all existing knowledge about what those lands are called in the Chinese lan
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by hmwhy 7y ago
For someone who's tried seeking remote work (and kind of failed because most of my colleagues don't work remotely), remote work is all about work-life balance for me, and it signals that my employer intends to be lean and agile (m
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by hmwhy 7y ago
Please take what @farleykr and @robsinatra said very seriously and act on them. A few years ago I suffered from anxiety/depression for about a year during what I thought was the most important time of my career. I was overseas at the t
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by hmwhy 7y ago
A bit of a tangent, I think the following part is gold and really captures the moment: > ... It comes over you when you’re suddenly faced with a new result that shows you just how strange and unexpected the physical universe can be. At f
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by hmwhy 7y ago
Thank you for pointing that out! I did misinterpret that part of the abstract! On a perhaps related note, it seem a bit surprising to me because when I first started with neural networks about a year ago, I tried to shortcut hyperparameter
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by hmwhy 7y ago
My recent experience has been quite different with using cash in China. I was aware that most things are now paid with QR codes when I came here a few months ago, so I brought enough cash with me just in case things go wrong (and they did),
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by hmwhy 7y ago
I don't think the comment on log-log plots is limited to just log-log plots, and the point is that there are times when the width of the line of best fit, together with the size of data points, misleads the reader to think that it&#x27
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by hmwhy 7y ago
Thank you very much for pointing that out! I'm not sure why it never occurred to me that mine could be a medical condition, and all this time I have been quietly hating myself for being extremely intolerant of others while the conditio
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by hmwhy 8y ago
> Those that won't or can't, no school can help them. Isn't that the complete opposite to what teaching is about? Have you considered that maybe this isn't a problem with the students but a problem with society and th
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by hmwhy 8y ago
I think you have presented a fallacy: > If an experiment is run that says the sky is blue, then its invalidation does not mean that the sky is not blue. If an experiment's hypothesis is that the sky is blue and the sky is indeed blu
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by hmwhy 8y ago
> This quote, and everything actually observed during the SPE, is consistent with Milgram's work, which has been replicated a zillion times. I think you may be cherry-picking quotes here, here is another from much later in the artic
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by hmwhy 8y ago
Economics and policies aside, I’m a bit skeptical about the approach described in that article regarding the use of potassium hydroxide (production, transportation) and it’s subsequent processing (to re-release the captured carbon dioxide,
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by hmwhy 8y ago
Genuine question—how would this bug be produced in the first place? My (limited) experience makes me think that cleartext passwords are somehow hard coded to be logged, perhaps through error logging or a feature that’s intended for testing
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by hmwhy 9y ago
My comment is probably also considered "negative" but I actually come from an academic background and appreciate the value and importance of good research. In my opinion, the major problem with your post is that your view crystall
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by hmwhy 9y ago
I tend to disagree with those distinctions and I'm inclined to think the difference is simply that, to a "researcher", doing things is a job; and to a "tinkerer", doing things is a joy. ## Scholarship To begin with,
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by hmwhy 9y ago
I was immediately reminded of a wiki page about enlightenment (Immanuel Kant) [0] after reading through the essay, which may an interesting additional reading to some. The English translation of the essay that the wiki page is based on can
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by hmwhy 9y ago
Serious question/statement looking for an answer here—I don’t understand why every time an article along the line of this gets attention it makes me wonder if anyone out there is working on two things: 1. Educating the general populati
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by hmwhy 9y ago
This article really doesn’t add anything new or helpful to the conversation. The message seems to be “chill, people, we have been doing okay and we still seem okay, so we will be okay”, the relevant paragraph being: > For all of the conc
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by hmwhy 9y ago
This is from someone on the receiving end and is probably slightly older than your kids—I think it's great that you are teaching your kids how to deal with conflicts and making them think, but I'm not sure that stressing them to t
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by hmwhy 9y ago
I think you have every right to engage—not least because I started my response emotionally to begin with (and thinking why there are so many "good" NYT articles all the time). I honestly did not mean to offend you in particular an
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by hmwhy 9y ago
I really don't want to say this in an uncivil way but can people please stop spamming Hacker News with these articles full of cherry-picked scientific studies from New York Times or can their posts be automatically weighted less if the
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by hmwhy 9y ago
If you go to the bottom of the page for any book (well, I only sampled a few so "any" may be exaggerated), it says: "The [LANGUAGE] Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is wr
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by hmwhy 9y ago
The way I interpret the writing is that if one understands who she is then the act of pleasing herself is meaningless "doing" that would never cross her mind in the first place. I really don't think there is anything in the w
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by hmwhy 9y ago
I am ashamed to say that I have a similar probalem (but I don’t have a family) but, let’s face it, you already know the solution because you asked the question—you know that drinking is a problem in your situation. Just stop if you love you
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by hmwhy 9y ago
I absolutely agree with you. Over time, I have developed the habit of writing thoughts and detailed discussions of why certain things were done in my lab notebooks (I was taught not to do that as an undergraduate). It's very frustratin
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by hmwhy 9y ago
If you are referring to just the slogan for this particular campaign then I would say yes (I don't think they are trying to make it a universal Alipay slogan in all Chinese-speaking countries). The calligraphic font used for the phrase
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by hmwhy 9y ago
I think the analysis may be interesting to readers who can't read Chinese, but I don't think the author has taken the time to analyse the phrase in the context of advertising, and I don't think the conclusion is at all surpri

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