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by niklasd 8y ago
Not so sure about that. I'm using a heuristic method. Since I'm not a statistics expert and sometimes can't properly assess Talebs statements, I ask myself: "Can I trust the judgement of this person?". Looking at th
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by niklasd 8y ago
True. But from the parody you very quickly get the idea what kind of person Taleb is, and the text kind of summarises my feelings towards him, so I find it concise. But you should of course take it with a grain of salt, since I used this wo
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by niklasd 8y ago
After having seen Talebs Twitter feed, I can't take him serious. He might have (had) some good ideas, but I find it really hard to trust the judgment of a person who berates others on Twitter (e.g. he calls Pinker a charlatan) and thi
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by niklasd 8y ago
A concise abstract of Talebs last book can be found here https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/25/skin-in-the-ga... Besides the problems I have with Taleb I'm happy that the OP had the courage
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by niklasd 8y ago
At my university we started with C (and some Assembly) and contiued with Java (and I privatly learn Python). I really liked to start with C and then move to a language with a higher abstraction – so you can understand what these higher lang
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by niklasd 8y ago
Well, I agree with you about the point that what we perceive as "culture of a country" is often a made up construct which doesn't account for the variety of backgrounds and behavior of the citizens. It really is very hard to
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by niklasd 8y ago
It was just an anecdotic example of a more general habit that also affects office jobs. I heard that directly from people who have an IT team in India, and the answers here at HN also seem to imply that this is a wider shared experience.
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by niklasd 8y ago
I studied in India 2012 for a short time. I met incredible smart and hardworking people. However, one thing that I found quite unnerving was that there is a tendency to always anwser yes if asked if one knows how to do something, even if th
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by niklasd 8y ago
Another example of studies that seem to be hard to dublicate is about the concept of priming [0]. I think sometimes the non-scientific community picks up an idea which just seems so good and starts to apply it to an array of life sitations,
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by niklasd 8y ago
I think it gives a very good overview of calculus. It starts right at the beginning with a easy to understand explanation of integrating and differentiation and is fun to read – thank you!
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I know that Negota Logic uses Prolog for the reasoning in their Legal Tech app (which is mainly written in Java). Since the app itself has a terrible user experience and looks like stuck in a ninties dystopia, there might be better examples
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by niklasd 9y ago
From the perspective of a business, building your own data center only makes sense if it part of your business (like at Dropbox). Paying a margin for a service that is not part of your core model is per se not a bad thing, in most cases it