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by humanistbot 3y ago
Misleading editorialized title. The actual title is "Stanford, Harvard revise high school math curriculum recommendations, exclude data science"
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> They often state very clearly that costs for publications (submission or publication fees, open access fees etc) cannot be paid from grant money. I think you've been misinformed. At least in the US, EU, Canada, and Australia, that
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by humanistbot 3y ago
That's why copyright holders for reference works have been using copyright traps for ages. That's where you include a fictional town in a map, a nonsense word in a dictionary, or a fake person in your phone book. If your competito
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by humanistbot 3y ago
It seems you're in the team sports model of politics. In other words, ideas are not evaluated based on whether they are good or bad towards some principle or goal. They are evaluated based on who supports it. Everything the other team
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> Is there a core banking system running? The Minimum Viable Bank System is a paper ledger, paper Know Your Customer records, and cash in a locked container. You don't have to support electronic transfers or even paper checks. Just
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by humanistbot 3y ago
They are, it's a Goldman Sachs account branded by Apple. But the recent bank failures have shown that the US government did not even hesitate to cover depositors who put themselves at risk. Goodbye moral hazard.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Most are above 4%: https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/banks/the-highest-savings-ac...
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by humanistbot 3y ago
This is below current market rates for savings accounts (edit: for online-based high-interest savings accounts). Current highest rate for a no-minimum FDIC-insured account is from UFB, which is 4.81% APY: https://www.fool.com&#x2
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by humanistbot 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarweb#Technology
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> are there forums with better user moderation systems that boost ranking of quality comments and decrease ranking of comment noise? Something where I can systematically increase the ranking of comments of users I respect (or I transitiv
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> If GPT is like an assistant whose work you always have to double check in order to be sure of the validity of the results, that seems to be a pretty big caveat to me. Sounds like every junior developer fresh out of college I've ha
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by humanistbot 3y ago
>The answer, and no one likes this, is what people say they want and what they actually want as votes by their enrollment are two different things. There's no "paradox" here. There's just a huge gap between two groups
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by humanistbot 4y ago
> But this type of Lichtenstein work never sat well with me. The transformation is extremely minimal - minor changes to the scene, a new cropping, and conversion from ink to painting. If I handed something like that in in school I’d get
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by humanistbot 4y ago
Someone find that Musk tweet before the acquisition where he says something like successful products don't have to put up barriers to stop customers from leaving. Didn't he promise to resign as CEO once he found a replacement? How
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by humanistbot 4y ago
They were all scams, pump and dump.
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by humanistbot 4y ago
> non-democratic country Just because a country is a democracy does not mean it will be a reliable trading partner. Democracies can easily swing from free market to protectionist trade policies -- and back. Outsourcing a very large fract
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by humanistbot 4y ago
No. We're talking in the hundreds of millions of people who either make a 1040 PDF themselves or have one made for them, and every year. The number of people who have used a cryptocurrency is probably larger than but within one order o
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by humanistbot 4y ago
OK fine, except for IRS Tax Form 1040. Each year's form is probably the most intentionally distributed PDF on the planet (so excluding PDFs bundled with software like this story). I don't think there is a country larger than the U
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by humanistbot 4y ago
Alan Turing's 1950 article in Mind proposing the Turing Test (Computing Machinery and Intelligence) IRS Tax Form 1040 The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights The US Constitution and Declaration of Independence The
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by humanistbot 4y ago
Binder is great! Here is an example of it in action, with a notebook in a github repo that solves fizbuzz 50 different ways. It is super easy on both the dev and user side. For the dev, just create a public git* repo, upload the ipynb, any
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by humanistbot 4y ago
flagged. you're not funny, and also not geoff hinton
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by humanistbot 4y ago
The key joke and catchphrases for one of the most popular television shows of the era (The Honeymooners) was about a husband threatening to physically assault his wife ("One of these days, Alice, right in the kisser! Bang, zoom, to the
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by humanistbot 4y ago
sigh Let me guess: you were born in the 70s to 80s, and the 80s/90s were a formative time for you? That is because you don't remember all the shit that played in whatever golden time period you're imagining. You only rememb
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by humanistbot 4y ago
> I've been seeing reports of TLOU PC port choking on cards with 10gb of vram, only getting decent once you crest 12gb. That seems more because devs didn't do a good job in porting a 10 year old game (released in 2013) that ra
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by humanistbot 4y ago
> I feel that the majority of relationships and marriages say 60-70 years ago were happy and mutually fulfilling, but now anecdotally it seems that most people are not happy whatsoever. It's the same phenomenon as people thinking t
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by humanistbot 4y ago
This headline should have read: 2% of Japanese self-report living as recluses And there is no link to the actual report, which I can't seem to find anywhere. I wanted to know if they had some definition or threshold of reclusiveness th
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by humanistbot 4y ago
Remote work and/or inheritance. When you don't need to pay rent or mortgage, you don't even need to work that much.
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by humanistbot 4y ago
You're comparing apple pie and orange juice here (even worse than comparing apples and oranges). Pandas is an open-source library for people who know python programming. Stata is an expensive GUI-based suite for non-programmers. If you
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by humanistbot 4y ago
Can your entire dataframe fit in memory? Then you're good with pandas. If not, that's why those alternatives exist.

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