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by jonmc12 10y ago
Where do benefit corporations and b corps ( https://www.bcorporation.net/what-are-b-corps ) miss the mark? Benefit corps have the specific purpose to increase prosperity for all stakeholders - not just shareholders. They ar
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Happy to post some links below. I'd also by interested in more good reading in this direction, particularly from someone in political science field (I am not). Iron Law of Oligarchy: https://www.britannica.com/topic&#x
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"it is not a stupid person ... It is a person who almost certainly has no indication that he will suffer any negative consequences" Jackets and sexual advances are likely just the symptoms. From Fowler's account it sounds li
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Buckminster Fuller, considering ego-suicide: "I see the hydrogen atom doesn't have to earn a living before behaving like a hydrogen atom. In fact, as best I can see, only human beings operate on the basis of 'having to earn
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by jonmc12 10y ago
Local municipalities could easily take more protectionist measures like this to preserve basic needs of local citizens. It seems very reasonable and feasible to tax money coming from outside of the municipality so that housing prices (or f
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Seems like some drone radar and trained eagles might be effective vs quadcopters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAYVyj6vf3Y .
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> Note that I did not say my lifestyle, I said my mentality. I am unable to be active. This is a fixed mindset vs a growth mindset; that itself is the over-arching lifestyle choice you are making. Getting in shape is painful, but after
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I think the argument for using physics models for constraints in a DL system was a more clear argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MdSE-N0bxs
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A 100-Drone Swarm, Dropped from Jets, Plans Its Own Moves(technologyreview.com)
3 points by jonmc12 10y ago|1 comments
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Interesting reddit discussion before reveal. Assesses bot identity and gameplay: https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/5l3l7e/chinese_ai_cr...
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Title should indicate this is from 2009.
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I analyzed technology proficiency level vs adult literacy level. Listing the equivalent literacy level with relatively equal % of population. ie, level 3 proficiency is 5% of population; above a college reading level is 5% of adult populat
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Obama Advisers Urge Action Against Bioterror Threat(technologyreview.com)
24 points by jonmc12 10y ago|6 comments
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Was curious how this drought compared to direct human impact on trees, quickly mashed together some facts. There just over 400B trees live around the world, 7.3B in California. Thats 1.8% of estimated world tree population vs holding 0.5%
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Drunk History just did a version of this story: http://www.cc.com/full-episodes/0kxro9/drunk-history-sibling...
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I'm not sure the reports say its contamination. Its possible the powder is just incompatible with the digestive system of some people in same way as, say, leafy vegetables or carrageenan affect some people's digestion but not oth
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by jonmc12 10y ago
All western reporting about Sesame Credit has focused on privacy. Has there been any objective analysis on projected economic impact of the system?
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This study from DocSend in June '15 claims the average seed round is raised in 12 weeks after contacting 58 investors. https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/08/lessons-from-a-study-of-pe... Conditions for rais
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You might like Craig's paper "Interoception and Emotion: A Neuroanitomical Perspective" https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DFK1QwlrOUAC&pg=PA272&h... He presents evidence that primate emotion evolve
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I've thought China's Sesame Credit system could be interesting in this direction. I know there are some dystopian perspectives on the program. At the same time, consider how much they can learn about consumer behaviors from the
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Cool paper! learned a lot about shared beliefs. But I was asking myself "why is 50k traders using similar trading patterns an example of collective intelligence"? I expected an example of a collective accomplishing a group goal
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Was wondering why the 1896 time of 12s was so slow - found this pic of the race - https://www.olympic.org/news/speed-merchant-burke-shines-in-... . Running surface, shoes, starting blocks.. exactly. Today there are 8t
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by jonmc12 10y ago
From a workflow perspective, this is basically a practical tickler system (but also integrates notes/collections). Ticklers can be very helpful for removing anxiety about things falling through the cracks, but requires staying in the
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In a recent article "Why Aging isn't Inevitable" ( http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/why-aging-isnt-inevitable ), the author suggested that the the "Grandmother Hypothesis" sounds reasona
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by jonmc12 11y ago
Tapjoy posted an infographic recently as well: http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/infographic-whales-account...
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by jonmc12 11y ago
What did you think was the most interesting feedback or update on OpenAI since announcing in Dec?
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> Routing is solved by community packages Its a bit awkward in places. Like if you want to receive a server-side web-hook, Iron Router is really the only way to go. But, lets say you have an Angular client, Iron Router can't be di
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In a lot of ways I agree, but change doesn't come from attacking people. "Don't hate the player, hate the game" - we live in a place where we don't yet draw clear lines for capitalistic behavior or how it might aff
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Pretty amazing, DST's $200M @ $10B valuation came 20 months after the AllThingsD article. From http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/26/mark-zuckerberg-and-yuri-mi... - 'just doing our math': "MA
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The author discusses concepts around intelligence without articulating what definition of intelligence he is adopting. When he discusses the innovation in understanding planetary motion, or chemical substances, it represents examples of wh

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