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David Graeber Left Us a Parting Gift – His Thoughts on Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid”(truthout.org)
25 points by kkwteh 6y ago|4 comments
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by kkwteh 6y ago
This is a big reason why I rejected my green card offer and moved to France.
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by kkwteh 6y ago
I was thinking of using Apache Drill for converting CSVs to Parquet. What else do people use for that?
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by kkwteh 6y ago
There was a tech talk I saw on Youtube a few years ago that I really liked that argued that Facebook succeeded because of PHP, not despite it. IIRC, the main argument was that despite its flaws, PHP has one killer feature, which is that i
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by kkwteh 7y ago
Could you explain what these Conway style "blunders" are? I hadn't heard of them, and a web search didn't turn up anything.
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Book Review: The Precipice(slatestarcodex.com)
6 points by kkwteh 7y ago|1 comments
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by kkwteh 7y ago
In the Guardian article in the parent comment, the warning says that any anti-inflammatory drug may be a risk, not just NSAIDs. They include cortisone as an example of a drug to avoid, which is a non-NSAID anti-inflammatory.
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by kkwteh 7y ago
Going into debt is a big problem if it eats up all of your tax revenue to service it. The WW2 debt was managed by growing the economy to the point where the debt became a small fraction of tax revenue. It seems impossible for modern econo
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by kkwteh 7y ago
I particularly enjoyed being immersed in the ethos of engineering, which is very different from the ethos of science. A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few o
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by kkwteh 7y ago
My guess is that it's mainly because postdocs are an unknown quantity without legible , interpretable experience, which greatly increases the risk of hiring them. One of the main achievements of the Insight Data Science program (whi
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by kkwteh 7y ago
I use the small wins trick a lot. I start with the smallest win, which is writing down a small win on my todo list. Then, when I see the small task, I feel motivated to do it just so I can have the pleasure of checking it off my list. By th
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by kkwteh 7y ago
A lot of these problems postdocs are running seem to be the result of an inefficient allocation of talent by our current educational system. All the smartest kids get tracked into getting math and physics PhDs and by the time they get to th
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by kkwteh 7y ago
Reminds me a bit of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, which is an incredible book.
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Marginal Revolution(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by kkwteh 7y ago|0 comments
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by kkwteh 7y ago
Reading this piece reaffirmed a lot of what I had been feeling in the SFMoma my last couple of visits. The place just felt lifeless. All the art was really disconnected from the world, and the abstract stuff seemed especially pointless.
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by kkwteh 7y ago
Looking at the code frequency, it looks like development of Lean 3 all but stopped around January 2018. The Lean 4 repo shows lots of activity since January 2019, but isn't in a useable form. What are the future plans for the project?
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by kkwteh 7y ago
Daniel Dennett introduced the introducing notion of Intuition Pump, which I would say definitely qualify as transformative tools for thought. They are thought experiments designed to focus attention on important features of a question and t
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How to change the course of human history(theanarchistlibrary.org)
2 points by kkwteh 7y ago|1 comments
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by kkwteh 7y ago
It would have been great to have digital textbooks in university. I had to walk a lot to get around campus, and I could only carry at the very most three textbooks at the time. Not having access to all of my books at all times was definitel
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by kkwteh 7y ago
I don’t know if it’s that far off. Our current notions of progress haven't allowed us to avoid our current condition of extreme indebtedness and financial insecurity and I think we're at a point where we need to reexamine these no
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by kkwteh 7y ago
I do agree that most people are boring if you don't try and figure out what's interesting about them. Discovering what's interesting about someone is an art. The totality of people you will meet have a much wider variety of e
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by kkwteh 7y ago
Unfiltered anecdotal comments are often much richer than the kind of piece that makes it through the editorial process of a large publication like Bloomberg. That's not to say I don't take it with a grain of salt.
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by kkwteh 7y ago
That 30% MBA unemployment figure is much more striking to me than the article. Any thoughts as to why your friends can't find jobs? Where were they planning on working?
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by kkwteh 7y ago
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
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by kkwteh 7y ago
I agree with other replies that salary is a very flawed indicator of intelligence, but it was a simple data point to share. My only point is that it's not at all obvious that IQ is a valid measure of intelligence. If you think about wh
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by kkwteh 7y ago
One huge assumption no one has challenged is the notion that IQ is a valid measure of intelligence. One reason to doubt this is that above a low threshold (80 IIRC), IQ has no correlation with salary.
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Uber Seeks About $10B in Year’s Biggest IPO(bloomberg.com)
2 points by kkwteh 8y ago|0 comments
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by kkwteh 8y ago
I wrote a quick and dirty Python script that outputs a string of guesses that will beat the guesser. It keeps track of the 5-gram counters and always opts for the less-used option. If there is no less-used option it picks a random direction
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by kkwteh 8y ago
I moved to Paris from San Francisco. The startup I joined uses English as its working language, so the language barrier hasn't been a problem at all. Also I found French to be relatively similar to English and quite easy to learn. It&#
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by kkwteh 8y ago
Here's an old blog post with the salary grid for the company. It's a bit out of date. Today the salaries are somewhat higher and equity grants are smaller. https://www.maddyness.com/2017/06/25/maddyr

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