kristjankalm

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by kristjankalm 2y ago
“Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist an
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by kristjankalm 4y ago
as the article says, it's "most extreme" with respect to its size compared to the surrounding waves: "the Ucluelet wave was nearly three times the size of its peers."
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by kristjankalm 4y ago
I regularly use parmigiano rind when making vegetable stock. Hopefully the tracker extract will add some nuance.
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by kristjankalm 5y ago
that's excellent -- couldn't find any background info on the project, do you know the context?
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by kristjankalm 5y ago
The author of the book -- Ester Salgarella -- has also put together an online searchable corpus of Linear A: https://sigla.phis.me It's very neatly annotated, e.g: https://sigla.phis.me/document/ARKH%20
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by kristjankalm 5y ago
how did joining the EU restrict Commonwealth immigration?
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by kristjankalm 5y ago
i find such logic hard to understand: UK was part of the EU, hence the open labour market. That's the whole point of EU. What did they find unfair exactly -- that Nigeria was not part of the EU? Or that countries can agree to have an o
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by kristjankalm 5y ago
yes but amplification matters -- there's been at least one study which measured the clickbaity-ness of headliness of paid vs ad-based news sites and the difference was sth like an order of magnitude. i'll see if i can find the lin
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by kristjankalm 5y ago
advertising is the primary driver for clickbait and emotion-driven content. it enables The Daily Mail, it results in youtube's algorithm hell, it's why facebook exists. 'clicks = money' is bad for mental health. as long
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by kristjankalm 5y ago
yes, this reasoning does make sense. but given the human cost it should only make sense if there's a significant prior: in most of these cases there was no previous evidence whatsoever, just a new system, and boom, thieves. I think the
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by kristjankalm 5y ago
This is unreal. Shitty software sending people to prison without anyone in the process considering what exactly is the likelihood of hundreds of postmasters simultaneously becoming thieves overnight.
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by kristjankalm 6y ago
Could I ask the source for these numbers? I've been trying to find some production numbers for popular synths (including submodels, e.g. all Minimoog or Prophet 5 versions combined etc), but haven't really found anything properly
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by kristjankalm 6y ago
> American gun culture has little to do with this case. Cops behave like this because behind door number one there could be a guy with an assault rifle ready to take them down i'm struggling to understand this -- are you saying ther
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by kristjankalm 6y ago
cheers, had no idea
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by kristjankalm 6y ago
could you elaborate why? i mainly use deliveroo and tip with the app -- they also seek to minimise contact so usually i just get to pick up the food from my doorstep, cash tipping seems a bit suboptimal
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by kristjankalm 6y ago
low temp storage was also required for the ebola vaccine and yet it was successfully administered to more than quarter of a million people in equatorial Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivu_Ebola_epidemic#Vaccinati
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by kristjankalm 6y ago
pretty much any metric you could come up with to "measure" civilisation -- literacy, urbanisation, economic output, monetary economy -- went to historic lows. slightly orthogonal to this, but the original motivation behind the &#x
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by kristjankalm 6y ago
born in the 1980s
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by kristjankalm 6y ago
First, I am relatively familiar with the admission process at Cambridge and noone gives a crap whether you were on a robotics team at high school + the rest of the extra-curricular jazz. Personal statements mostly just get ignored. Have no
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by kristjankalm 6y ago
also -- this markes the absolute lowpoint in the play and things start slowly but definitely improving from that point on. although Antigonus does end up eaten by the bear.
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Houseparty's privacy policy: “opt-out has no value”(twitter.com)
2 points by kristjankalm 7y ago|0 comments
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by kristjankalm 7y ago
> Practice Fusion solicited a nearly $1 million payment from the opioid company, promising that in exchange it would create alerts in its software that would cause physicians to write more prescriptions for extended release opioids than
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by kristjankalm 7y ago
so a specific example then -- in your opinion is putting ca one million Uighurs and Kazakhs into internment camps compatible with the 'Chinese way'?
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by kristjankalm 7y ago
compared to the best known subscription success stories -- the NYT, WP -- it certainly seems significantly smaller. but i agree, that comparison isn't very valid, it's certainly a heavyweight amongst magazines.
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by kristjankalm 7y ago
> And we all know that consumers don't fork enough money to support ads-free journalism, which leads to perverse incentives. yes they do. susbcription-based models are doing quite well. besides the big heavyweights, in UK alone the
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by kristjankalm 7y ago
> I'm guessing their focus is on the lowest level activities in simple brains, perhaps afferent/efferent sensory perception, metabolic and physiological regulatory control -- the kind of things instrumented in worms like C. Ele
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by kristjankalm 7y ago
they're arguing that articifial neural nets are useful models of brain function and anatomy. a lot of people in the field of neuroscience strongly disagree, hence their attempt to outline the utility of ANNs.
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by kristjankalm 7y ago
cheers, that seems properly sourced
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by kristjankalm 7y ago
from where does this increase in cancer probability statistic come from? anyone have a link to a paper? tried googling but found nothing reliable sadly
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by kristjankalm 8y ago
yeah that map is pretty unusable on mobile -- doesn't matter which frame/page/version

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