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Classic: "Clinical vs. Actuarial Assessments" (1989) -- models beat experts(jsomers.net)
2 points by jsomers 17y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 17y ago
I'm judging by the dearth of comments here that these rules are considered excellent (hence the upvotes) but obvious (so no discussion). Which makes me wonder how valuable they are, especially to the kind of people invited to speak at TED..
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by jsomers 17y ago
Neat idea, especially if you only need one or two sheets of the stuff. Any more and you're probably better off heading to an office supply store (if only to save on costly printer ink).
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by jsomers 17y ago
In a follow-on post, I plan to say more about the method of study that I’ve found effective. I got rolling with the new journal sections of the MIT libraries, but today, the internet should serve even better. That may turn out to be the
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by jsomers 17y ago
If nothing else this is a gorgeous application -- it looks great. And in fact it looks like something I might use as often as Wikipedia (though not as often as Google). I can't wait to play around with it; some of these examples (nutritio
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by jsomers 17y ago
Like Gladwell points out, you have to be extremely well-conditioned to press for a whole game. It takes a lot out of you. So it could be counter-productive if your team isn't in excellent shape, because a poorly executed press (say, if yo
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by jsomers 18y ago
Cool. I'd be curious to know some of what you picked up in grad school. Care to elaborate?
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by jsomers 18y ago
Hmm, DFW's sentences are occasionally indulgent, but they don't sound like this. Here's a sample chosen (somewhat) haphazardly: If we want to know what American normality is -- what Americans want to regard as normal -- we can trust televi
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A quick look at Metacat (AI project out of Douglas Hofstadter's research group)(jsomers.net)
3 points by jsomers 18y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 18y ago
I don't think he is being entirely serious in this post, which is sprinkled with self-deprecation masquerading as egotism.
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by jsomers 18y ago
Pun intended?
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by jsomers 18y ago
Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for.
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Ask YC: Can you control the lizard-spit function?
4 points by jsomers 18y ago|3 comments
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by jsomers 18y ago
Oh boy... regardless of the strength of the argument here, I'm going to be sending this to virtually everyone I know. - a Canadian in America
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by jsomers 18y ago
Although it's written by a murderer, there is a lot of good thought and even humor in this piece.
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Industrial Society and Its Future (Unabomber Manifesto)(en.wikisource.org)
1 points by jsomers 18y ago|2 comments
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by jsomers 18y ago
This is great. Gates seems a lot sharper (and funnier) when speaking extemporaneously.
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Automatically generated haikus using Python and Ulysses(jsomers.net)
3 points by jsomers 18y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 18y ago
I'm reminded of (Good) Will Hunting's zing to some jerk in a bar, right after calling him out (in a pretty spectacular way) for plagiarizing: "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in fifty years you're going start doing some thinking
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In defense of the corporate jet(nytimes.com)
7 points by jsomers 18y ago|9 comments
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The Bouba/Kiki Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jsomers 18y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 18y ago
I recall PG saying something a while back about a "rollback" feature that would give you the option to only display those comments and submissions created by users above a certain account-age/karma threshold. So in effect you could turn a k
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by jsomers 18y ago
I had no idea that "_" stores the last printed expression in the interactive interpreter. That little tip, and the wonderful visual description of Python's "names," were worth more than enough to cover the cost of reading the whole article.
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by jsomers 18y ago
Presumably it has something to do with an amendment that prevents future amendments, or gives that right to a single person (dictator).
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The (Mathematical) Theory and Practice of Juggling(solipsys.co.uk)
16 points by jsomers 18y ago|1 comments
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by jsomers 18y ago
PG's "most" includes more than I'm comfortable with, which is why I wrote the essay -- to defend those parts of the subject that I thought were unfairly called a waste of time. My "most," in other words, includes less than his.
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A Defense of Philosophy (against Paul Graham)(jsomers.net)
84 points by jsomers 18y ago|93 comments
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by jsomers 18y ago
Sure did, though I'm not sure if that's the case anymore -- I have this great chair now...
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by jsomers 18y ago
Because that way you'd lose the picture of the babe... Agreed, though: an example of your service in action is the first thing I'd want to see (after reading the nice, simple explanation of what it does).
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Measuring spam conversion rates by infiltrating the Storm botnet(icsi.berkeley.edu)
27 points by jsomers 18y ago|9 comments

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