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1921.
by jl2718 8y ago
One thing I never understood about SpaceX is whether it’s really worth it to build a multi-use rocket. It’s a really simple design, and the materials are not that expensive. When I was studying this stuff, it seemed that we were moving in t
1922.
by jl2718 8y ago
I’m very concerned to hear that Demmis Hassabis is a genus. I knew he was smart, and I was prepared to accept that he may be a different species, but I was hoping that he would maintain at least some backward compatibility with the primates
1923.
by jl2718 8y ago
Humans are bad interfaces too. That’s why we have computers. People only like humans because they are also human. Nobody will miss the long lines at McD, but they might miss the smile. If a robot smiles at me, I won’t be happy, I’ll be scar
1924.
by jl2718 8y ago
My question is: where is the due diligence from investors? Nobody even bothers anymore. I’ve begun to think they don’t even care, because they truly believe that money makes success, not people, and certainly not technology.
1925.
by jl2718 8y ago
These are interesting evidence, but they don’t explore the question of why. The idea that mere color of skin would be causal to performance in anything other than hide-and-seek is kind of anaethema, right? I’m certain that there is a legiti
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by jl2718 8y ago
I seriously doubt they dropped it because of a protest. They set up shop in Beijing to do the same work for China. More likely, the Pentagon got outbid.
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by jl2718 8y ago
“a gender pay gap and lack of diversity could make it difficult for the company to hire and retain workers” The solution to a constrained maximization is never greater than the unconstrained solution. So how does adding a diversity constrai
1928.
by jl2718 8y ago
Facebook is now a newsertainment media platform. Same playbook as LinkedIn. Neither have anything to do with ‘connecting people’ anymore. I don’t get it. News media is dying. Why would you want to copy them? How is this profitable?
1929.
by jl2718 8y ago
This seems really obvious. Why do you think nobody else does this?
1930.
by jl2718 8y ago
If google really wanted a fair and objective hiring process, it would be easy. They don’t. The coding interview is one of the most subjective processes I’ve seen in hiring. The interviewer reviews the resume, and then gives a vague problem
1931.
by jl2718 8y ago
Imagine how long it would have taken if it were shorter.
1932.
by jl2718 8y ago
Link to repo?
1933.
by jl2718 8y ago
In sociology, the opposite is almost always true, in psychology, it’s usually false, in medicine, maybe half true, but what about machine learning?
1934.
by jl2718 8y ago
Actually it’s kind of interesting that primary code is not studied in CS. Given all the Carmack lore going around, I’ll add that I learned quite a bit of x86asm from his Wolf3D release that could not have come from any book. I guess the val
1935.
by jl2718 8y ago
“Loser” doesn’t mean “lost money”. His shares were liquid and increased ~1000x in value. If he hadn’t sold already, he would have held a board seat at the end. Tim Draper understands the hype machine better than anybody else. He knows how i
1936.
by jl2718 8y ago
Ha! Why would you assume he didn’t?
1937.
by jl2718 9y ago
> collective action... the best form of which is bounded by the popular will This notion is dangerous. Popular will brings fascism, authoritarianism, discrimination, instability, and uncertainty. Popular will is not and never has been a
1938.
by jl2718 9y ago
Is there not a positive aspect of the ‘Commandment’, that a person is free to do with their body as they wish, so long as it does not violate the sanctity and dignity and peaceful experience of another, nor violate or deny rights to propert
1939.
by jl2718 9y ago
What about legalized consensual sex work?Problem solved?
1940.
by jl2718 9y ago
I was quite impressed with the Wolf3D rendering engine when somebody released the code years back.
1941.
by jl2718 9y ago
College is pay-for-prestige. You also get friends of similar wealth and intelligence. This whole thing is a modern version of the Calvinist ideology of predestination, that some people are born better than others, and they deserve more with
1942.
by jl2718 9y ago
The maximum deceleration of a vehicle is g times the tangent of the angle from the center of mass to the front wheel contact point. On a sidewalk, a safe stopping distance is about 1 meter. Because of the small angle, safe speed for scooter
1943.
by jl2718 9y ago
That moment when your brain falls asleep in class and tells you it unveiled the deep connection between carnival blister peanut texture and the quantum variational bound. And then you wake up suddenly and get scared because you think you mi
1944.
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