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IPad and Autism(sfweekly.com)
1 points by mbateman 16y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
> But regulation hasn’t stopped the [pension] plans from being underfunded, in part because the regulators, who worried that companies would use pensions as a slush fund to smooth their earnings, kept them from overcontributing in flush
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by mbateman 16y ago
I don't see why this is a big deal. Philadelphia has some recently added cycling lanes that I use all the time. If a car is parked you just look and cautiously veer around it. Sometimes you have to wait for a few seconds if there's heavy tr
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by mbateman 16y ago
You're right, I guess it's not. I was thinking the story was more about there being a successful Philly-based incubator than the startups it graduated. Anyhoo, yeah. Cool-looking company.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Incidentally, GiveLoop (one of DreamIt's graduates) looks like a great service. I would actually like to donate more money than I do, but I often don't precisely because this kind of transparency and feedback are typically absent.
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The parable of the transistor(asymco.com)
1 points by mbateman 16y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
There's a reason why modernism is modern and the rest are mostly historical. A lot of historical approaches to aesthetics are overly flowery and complex by today's standards. This is because in the historical context the fact that any of th
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by mbateman 16y ago
Ted Olson (one of the lawyers on the case) had a response in the New Yorker article on this case that I thought was pretty killer: > "I have spent a fair amount of time reading Dr. King's response to people who said, 'People aren't read
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by mbateman 16y ago
This is going to the Supreme Court, right? So does this mean that there can be same-sex marriages in the mean time? Or that the couples that were unmarried are (at least for now) remarried? EDIT: The NYT article on this -- http://www.nytim
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by mbateman 16y ago
This is a video. Definitely worth checking out for fans of the Wipeout games. For the unfamiliar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK1WSxNN4aU
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by mbateman 16y ago
Yes, from the article: "If you've worked with the spineless, you know how frustrating it can be to deal with their poisonous helplessness -- something that's only heightened in a startup where the most important thing you can do is not give
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by mbateman 16y ago
Amazing. The moral of the story is that having an exceptionally independent, driving job like a startup actually makes you better at weathering crises. Pretty counter-intuitive. One would think that having more stability and security in t
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by mbateman 16y ago
Fair enough. Exchange in particular seems to be a big deal. So maybe this is a nice example of the "halo" effect: people see exchange working on their newfangled iOS devices and realize it will work on Macs, with the added bonus that it's e
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by mbateman 16y ago
Apple makes better, prettier, more integrated, etc. laptops. Welcome to 2003.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Summary: Because he forgot.
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by mbateman 16y ago
> Also, as suggested in the comments, I used a chi-square goodness-of-fit test to see if the deviation is statistically significant, but it was not; with a p-value of 0.2303. Meaning we would fail to reject the null hypothesis: the obse
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by mbateman 16y ago
You "looked the word up online" just now and feel qualified to judge whether or not someone is a qualified interviewer? EDIT: Meh, I have been trolled.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Okay, this is just a counter-anecdote, but I know tons of people that are using Dropbox. It's really big and getting rapidly bigger in academia, which is how I first found out about it. Last week I had to send a PDF to one of my students (a
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by mbateman 16y ago
Eh, this has been known since at least the 1960s. See Segal, M., Campbell, D., and Herskovits, M. (1966), The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception , Bobbs-Merrill. And I wouldn't call it an example of visual perception being "hugely"
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The Economics of Privacy Pricing(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by mbateman 16y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
FYI, the columns on that page run into and obscure each other when you shrink the browser size (in Safari 5). This starts to happen well before 1000 pixels.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Maybe they figure that making a battery charger is with AA batteries, in these cases, better than putting any sort of power input on the otherwise sleek device? An iPad or iPhone needs inputs on it to b
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by mbateman 16y ago
To defend the film critic regurgitation a bit, I don't think characters have to have emotional depth or development, but it's typically a good thing when you care about them and their problems. As for the exposition point, I think something
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by mbateman 16y ago
> The theorem then states that if the experimenters are 'free' (as in will) to choose which direction to measure the spin of their particle, then the result of measuring the spin cannot be determined by anything previous to the experime
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by mbateman 16y ago
According to agent-causal views, at a certain level nothing else determines what the actor determines. I don't here want to argue which view of human action is the right one, I just want to point out (or argue, since even this is contentiou
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by mbateman 16y ago
Well, non-determinacy is a necessary condition, but that doesn't mean indeterminacy is. Non-determinacy can be divided into at least two things, indeterminacy (i.e. determined stochastically) and agent-determinacy (i.e. determined by the ac
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by mbateman 16y ago
Kind of clever. This looks to be based on the supposition that free will is indeterministic. The argument ties the indeterminacy of the choice to take some sort of measurement to the quantum indeterminacy of the results of the measurements.
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by mbateman 16y ago
For some reason, I've never been able to get the knack of regular expressions. This is the best introduction to them that I've seen, though I wish I'd read it years ago. However, if you've tinkered with regex at all ever, which I suspect vi
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by mbateman 16y ago
Though I'm loathe to admit it, some of these are very clever programs. Don't know about the "People's Restaurants," though. I guess they are probably just soup kitchens with a more totalitarian name. EDIT: It seems like making food a basic
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by mbateman 16y ago
Yes, but academic psychology can also coin terms that are a bit silly. There is a real distinction here, to be sure, and I'm glad that there are academics working on it. But "entity theorist" vs. "incremental theorist" is bad terminology fo

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