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by lmkg 17y ago
Group by continent. Organizing a flat list of 50 items into 7 groups of 7[1] should improve accessibility, if the categories make any sort of sense. I would be interested in seeing research comparisons of flat dropdown vs grouped dropdown (
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by lmkg 17y ago
My favorite thing about Unlambda is that the creator added a new feature, in order to make the language harder to use. Let that be a warning to the rest of us.
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by lmkg 17y ago
I have trouble believing that even a professional, experienced psychiatrist or therapist can diagnose being cured from clinical depression based on a handful of facebook photos. I also have trouble believing that the decision at the insuran
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by lmkg 17y ago
Keep in mind that an adversarial opponent is a game-theoretic abstraction. The useful thought-experiment of an adversary is often used even when there is not a literal 'opponent,' eg in natural-disaster-proof design. In essence, imagining a
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by lmkg 17y ago
Examining the use of language by modeling them with Game Theory may provide some interesting insights to what makes legal writing so unique. Natural language, in a normal context, is (usually) co-operative, to the extent that the speaker an
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by lmkg 17y ago
Microsoft can replace IE8, but can they replace IE6?
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by lmkg 17y ago
The balancing act between new and hardcore players is something that video game publishers have to deal with as well. They have an easier time of it, but it's by no means trivial. While video games are flexible with respect to skill require
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by lmkg 17y ago
The first paragraph or two of this reminded me of Goodhart's Law: as soon as a metric becomes a goal, it tends to lose value as a metric. My pet analogy is taking an overheating car, and trying to fix the thermometer instead of the engine.
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by lmkg 17y ago
The author wasn't very good at communicating this, but the point of the article is NOT that twitter is useless to him. His point is that it's useless to most other users. He certainly doesn't mind the extra publicity. However, an expired co
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by lmkg 17y ago
Enforcing the anit-collusion laws runs into exactly the same problem as enforcing the original anti-copyright laws, so that's not really a solution.
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by lmkg 17y ago
I agree that the contention between the two problems is real. That censorship is bad needs no explanation in a community like this. But the stigmatization of ex-criminals is counterproductive to them achieving the standards they're being ju