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by isolli 7y ago
Agreed. You could make a similar point about race when it comes to sport abilities. It would be horrific to offer sports activities to children based on race, even though, in effect, some children will have a much smaller chance of becoming
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by isolli 7y ago
Fair point! But I have been fairly neutral (except unconsciously...). I have also observed marked differences as early as 15 months. And it matches the experience of a lot of parents.
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by isolli 7y ago
There's also a similar theory to explain why boys are more interested in cars than girls (which my kids have proven convincingly, albeit with a low sample size): boys, as future hunters, are attracted to preys that move, hence, in the
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by isolli 7y ago
How cold is the water? It has to be cold, right?
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by isolli 7y ago
Interestingly dvacettri is also acceptable :)
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by isolli 7y ago
I found it much easier to set up to run on GPU than Keras.
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by isolli 7y ago
We paid as much as the Duchess of Cambridge, who also gave birth to her first child around that time!
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by isolli 7y ago
This is why my wife almost died in the US. We left the hospital after two days, and were left to fend for ourselves. We were so busy with the newborn that we didn't notice that my wife was developing an infection. By the time she faint
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by isolli 7y ago
How do you assess quality on eBay, e.g. for cables?
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by isolli 7y ago
It's an interesting point, but I would like to correct one thing: when people in Paris don't buy cars, in most cases it's not because they don't have the means but because it's highly impractical to drive one. Besid
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Replacing public transit with Uber: two years later in Innisfil(theguardian.com)
2 points by isolli 7y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 7y ago
Thanks, it is indeed a bit more complicated than I first thought! There is a sweet spot: "Above a certain distance it becomes more fuel-efficient to make a halfway stop to refuel, despite the energy losses in descent and climb." [
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by isolli 7y ago
Related: I was surprised to learn recently that short-distance trips by plane actually have lower CO2-emissions than long-distance ones, because the plane does not need to carry so much fuel just for later use.
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by isolli 7y ago
Maybe they changed it because it was not clear! I was also curious to know if I had misunderstood because I'm not a native English speaker. I know that "I work out of Berlin" means "I work in Berlin", so...
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by isolli 7y ago
Isn't the title misleading? From the article: "The new French tax will be 1.5 euros for flights within France." Unless "out of France" simply means originating in France, regardless of whether the destination is in
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The global new cities “epidemic”(theguardian.com)
1 points by isolli 7y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 7y ago
Similar situation on the iPhone: I no longer use the physical volume button to take a picture (which is a shame) because, starting with the 6/6S it is exactly opposite the power button. As a result, the phone keeps turning off instead
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by isolli 7y ago
How did AJAX save JS? I would be interested in reading about that!
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by isolli 7y ago
It reminds me of a story that came out a few years ago, of how an OCaml developer tracked a thorny issue all the way down to a processor bug [0]. It took them 5 months - and a lucky break. [0] I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors ( htt
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by isolli 7y ago
Nitpick: he was Hungarian.
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by isolli 7y ago
Actually this has been studied, establishing for instance the grandmother effect in pre-industrial Canada [0] ("women with mothers nearby had more and healthier children"). See [1] for more resources. Anecdotally, I can personally
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by isolli 7y ago
Related [0], large animals seldom get cancer, at least at rates much lower than humans, which is surprising considering how many more cells they have (each of which has a certain probability of becoming cancerous). The assumption is that, a
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by isolli 7y ago
Agreed. This paragraph (in an otherwise insightful essay) was particularly jarring: "Remarkable things are happening in the field of artificial (general) intelligence. Deep learning algorithms have proven to be better than humans at sp
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by isolli 7y ago
You will be very interested in the Carver challenge [0]. In 1985, Bob Carver challenged the Stereophile magazine by claiming that he could perfectly reproduce the sound of any amplifier they chose by tweaking one of his (solid-state) amplif
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by isolli 7y ago
Agreed. I remember it as: "show what the code does, not how it does it".
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Ride-hailing apps exacerbate Bangkok's motorbike taxi turf wars(theguardian.com)
2 points by isolli 7y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 7y ago
Have you tried advertising on DuckDuckGo? There's not as much traffic, but it could be worth it.
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by isolli 7y ago
It's also about unlearning one's previous workflows.
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by isolli 7y ago
No, it's market forces. If the world was overflowing with employment opportunities, then unskilled labor would leave unpleasant jobs, and employers would have to pay them as much as it takes for someone to put up with the unpleasantnes
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Has Tokyo reached “peak city”?(theguardian.com)
11 points by isolli 7y ago|5 comments

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