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1951.
by leobg 5y ago
Well, anger is a positive emotion after all. We actually like being angry. For one thing, anger masks any underlying emotions that would make us feel more vulnerable (sadness, desire, loneliness, etc.). And then it comes with a rush of ener
1952.
by leobg 5y ago
Your comment makes no sense to me. The guy wanted something, he went after it, and he succeeded. How is that a slave mentality?
1953.
by leobg 5y ago
“How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World” by Harry Browne.
1954.
by leobg 5y ago
Downloaded it, installed it, and loving it! The big thing I'm missing most is LastPass. Without access to my passwords, I can see myself falling back to Chrome. In fact, I need to keep Chrome running so I can look up my login names and
1955.
by leobg 5y ago
Well, there always has been a substantial difference in the quality of journalism between newspapers (subscription based) and tabloids (sold individually), wasn’t there? What the internet adds, of course, is the constant competitive pressur
1956.
by leobg 5y ago
Have an army of pre-qualified reviewers at the ready. Have them blast the site with comments as soon as your launch is live to game the algorithm and get more traffic. Alternatively, just sit back, hope that people will judge you based on t
1957.
by leobg 5y ago
Could you give us a list of, say, 2,000 positive examples, so we can train a classifier? Thanks
1958.
by leobg 5y ago
“View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.” LOL
1959.
by leobg 5y ago
“We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done.”
1960.
by leobg 5y ago
Recent NYT article on Engelmann: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/opinion/kids-reading-spel...
1961.
Ask HN: Why doesn’t Amazon enforce review policies?
1 points by leobg 5y ago|0 comments
1962.
by leobg 5y ago
It’s quite obvious to me that this is the holy Grail of natural language processing: A representation of real world knowledge which can be updated from human language, and which can be automatically translated into human language. That woul
1963.
Ask HN: Book that exalts man's spirit?
2 points by leobg 5y ago|1 comments
1964.
by leobg 5y ago
ASK HN: What book (by any author, and from any era) stands out to you that does what Faulkner describes here? “[Man] has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about th
1965.
by leobg 5y ago
If you need vector search: Weaviate.
1966.
by leobg 5y ago
That’s a $5 AliExpress drone with some felt attached to it. Good luck steering that in windy outdoors to pollinate hundreds of flowers. Flight time of 5 minutes. One blade of grass in the rotors and it’s done. The video in the article shows
1967.
by leobg 5y ago
Exactly! I am as baffled as you are these techniques are not being used. (That’s actually incorrect. These techniques are being used. Just not for teaching. Instead, they are being used by companies like Facebook. Positive reinforcement is
1968.
by leobg 5y ago
Tesla Model X. My wife, my daughter and I have just returned from a trip to Switzerland. All three of us slept in the car (latex mattress in the back, full climate control). You can glide along mountain paths silently. And on your way to yo
1969.
by leobg 5y ago
Are you aware of the work on “programmed teaching” by B.F. Skinner and Siegfried Engelmann (Direct Instruction)?
1970.
by leobg 5y ago
That sounds really powerful! Can you share more? What did you learn? How did you overcome your fear of sounding awkward? What made the difference in not coming across inquisitorial or superior? What would you say was holding you back the mo
1971.
Ask HN: Outliner that displays an items “weight”?
1 points by leobg 5y ago|0 comments
1972.
by leobg 5y ago
I still have mine.
1973.
by leobg 5y ago
Wouldn’t that be super easy to measure? Just map cancer incidents alongside with cell phone antenna locations. If it isn’t that easy, the “correlation“ probably is also way less clear than the headline suggests.