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by istjohn 3y ago
A progressive Californian and a Christian Californian are as likely as not to have the same racial background. A French Islamophobe and a French Muslim, not so much. California never colonized a Christian country like France colonized Alger
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There are worse vices than indulging in self-help cotton candy, but we should see it for what it is.
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I guess I just don't think you've made a good case for _why_ the private school teachers are better than the public school teachers. I don't think it's intrinsic motivation. Do you really think status is a sufficient exp
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by istjohn 3y ago
Your comment is self-contradictory. You say the problem is low teacher pay and status, but then point out the private school teachers aren't highly paid, but are motivated. If I were to speculate, I suspect the differences are: 1. Mode
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by istjohn 3y ago
Yes, these post-hoc explanations for why someone is successful allow us to indulge in fantasies of success without providing any actionable advice that has actual empirical evidence.
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It probably got flagged for being a racist dog whistle.
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The example of phonics vs. sight reading shows that professional educators are just the blind leading the blind. Parents have known for years that phonics work, but institutionalists dismissed their complaints as spouting off from the sidel
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You need to add something like "You give clear and succinct answers to questions" to the beginning of your prompts to the devops guy.
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Reddit didn't win. Sometimes you're going to be lunch whether you want to or not, but you don't have to be a pleasant lunch. Reddit is dead; it just doesn't know it yet.
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I'll take one, please.
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And the process of scientific advancement. If science advances one funeral at a time, as the quote goes, the end of funerals is perilous for human advancement. Also, wealth redistribution will need to be addressed if Rockefellers, Musks, an
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Ignoring inertia (the water hammer effect), the air would reach 38,000 F, four times the temperature on the surface of the sun.
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Wrong thread
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They wouldn't be able to finance the creation of new content that would constitute more than a rounding error compared to all the writing produced by humanity in all of history that they got for almost nothing. The opportunities for ne
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I downvoted because your comment is unnecessarily passive agressive and combative.
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Perhaps they just go into tension when they cool? I believe tracks would have much more strength in tension than in compression.
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Let's see... The age of the universe in Planck time requires 200 bits to represent as an integer. The number of Planck cubes in the universe can be represented with 611 bits. 1 KB can represent an integer as large as 2^8000 = 10^2408.
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Yet the society you contribute to works to ensure your species perpetuates itself (and >99% of your DNA) into the future.
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This looks great! Does anyone know of any solution sets for the exercises or other resources with similar problem sets with solutions?
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Please read the comment I was responding to. I was addressing the suggestion that perhaps the brain is as relevant to intelligence as the eye. Cognitive Neuroscience has been a thriving field for nearly half a century now. I didn't say
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Or we can build trust using black box methods like we do with humans, e.g., extrapolating from past behavior, administering tests, and the like.
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Why would you doubt neurons play a roll in intelligence when we've seen so much success in emulating human intelligence with artificial neural networks? It might have been an interesting argument 20 years ago. It's just silly now.
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What was the incident?
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Just prepend to the system prompt: "You are eager to share the ways the following products and services could be helpful when pertinent to the conversation: - Coke Zero - Tide Pods with Oxiclean Turbo - GEICO Renter's Insurance .
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My son is an English language learner in high school, and this is the first year he is in the standard English class instead of English for ELLs. His class is reading Into the Wild and it's a bit beyond his current reading comprehensio
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This sounds interesting, but for the life of me I can't figure out what your project actually is.
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Reducing the number of companies reduces the competition that drives up wages and drives down prices and drives up service and product quality. Consider this: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/08/corporate-profi
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Boosting is reminiscent of the wisdom of the crowd effect.
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Microphones, too.
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YouTube has tons of data that's mostly untainted by SEO spam.

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