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by pattusk 6y ago
https://github.com/p-e-w/krill I use krill because I like to get my feeds in a CLI. It also supports adding twitter. Development has stopped a while ago and I don't know of any active forks unfortunately.
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On Quitting Academia(lrb.co.uk)
2 points by pattusk 6y ago|0 comments
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by pattusk 6y ago
I don't think there's an out-of-the box library for things like the detection of passive voice or indirect questions. But you should be able to build something that would let you do it based on the basic NLP toolkit: dependency p
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AI Ruined Chess. Now, It's Making the Game Beautiful Again(wired.com)
5 points by pattusk 6y ago|0 comments
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by pattusk 6y ago
Not really, there is a difference of scale to consider. Best sellers are unpredictable from one page to the next, unexpected surprises abound but the general plot is highly predictable. Literary novels typically have very mundane, thoroughl
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by pattusk 6y ago
I would say exactly the opposite : cliffhangers and cheap thrills are the stuff the Da Vinci Code, Tom Clancy novels and all your best selling page turners are made of. Literary prize winning fiction has been what you could call post narrat
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How to Undo Gender Stereotypes in Math(wired.com)
10 points by pattusk 6y ago|2 comments
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Why Every City Feels the Same Now(theatlantic.com)
138 points by pattusk 6y ago|276 comments
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by pattusk 6y ago
This is generally known as sortition and was common in the ancient world. I've always felt it modern democratic politics would benefit greatly from such a system. I'm not sure the same is true of academia, you want students good e
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by pattusk 6y ago
I don't understand why everything has to be a "solution" for something. True innovations don't bring solutions to old problems, they just change the paradigm. Cars didn't solve the transportation problem. Horses sti
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Tether is what drives China’s crypto marke(decrypt.co)
2 points by pattusk 6y ago|0 comments
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Financial Apps Get You to Spend More and Question Less(wired.com)
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US Printed More Money in One Month Than in Two Centuries(medium.com)
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Amazon Invested in Startups and Then Launched Competing Products(finance.yahoo.com)
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by pattusk 6y ago
Right, but this is a problem of not knowing how (or not wanting) to manage returning vets, nothing specific to imperial bellicose ventures overseas. Most ancient societies had strict purification rituals for returning warriors, so that they
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by pattusk 6y ago
I agree with the article's title but much less with its content, which seems to claim that returning imperial soldiers will always cause some sort of trouble for the (soon to be former) empire. I think it's quite telling the autho
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by pattusk 6y ago
A whole series of colonial models was brought back to the West, and the result was that the West could practice something resembling colonization, or an internal colonialism, on itself I keep thinking a lot of today's identity politi
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by pattusk 6y ago
The article mentions at several point how the "financial repression" will be negative to investors. But what about for the majority of the population that holds little to no financial assets? Are you expecting a repeat of the fin
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It's Time to Defund Social Media(wired.com)
14 points by pattusk 6y ago|8 comments
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by pattusk 6y ago
GM Hikaru Nakamura famously took the Mensa online IQ test and scored a very average 102 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx3h70GoaoM I guess if you accept IQ as a proxy for general cognitive ability, this would suggest the a
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Afrofuturism Can Help the World Mend(wired.com)
1 points by pattusk 6y ago|1 comments
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France Is Officially Color-Blind. Reality Isn’t(theatlantic.com)
1 points by pattusk 6y ago|0 comments
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Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb’s variations(arstechnica.com)
4 points by pattusk 6y ago|1 comments
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by pattusk 6y ago
> But actually treating poem as an algebra problem really is taking it too far. Not really, a lot of poems (the symbolists come to mind) are actually meant to be treated as semantic puzzles or mathematical problems. Lewis Carroll is per
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by pattusk 6y ago
Isn't that exactly what universities (at least top universities) are and always have been? If you wanted to be a top cleric in the middle ages, you'd study in a university with the best manuscripts, the best scholars and the best
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Japan's Beloved Manga Assassin Becomes the Latest Coronavirus Fatality(usnews.com)
1 points by pattusk 6y ago|0 comments
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D3 is not a Data Visualization Library(medium.com)
1 points by pattusk 6y ago|0 comments
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Japan Suicides at Historic Low(reuters.com)
2 points by pattusk 7y ago|0 comments
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The computer pioneer who built modern China(bbc.com)
2 points by pattusk 7y ago|0 comments
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The Great Google Revolt(nytimes.com)
4 points by pattusk 7y ago|0 comments

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