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Harvard, Yale under investigation for failing to report foreign funding(thehill.com)
1 points by pattusk 7y ago|0 comments
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No word of any cases, but North Korea steps up anti-virus campaign(reuters.com)
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by pattusk 7y ago
> In fact, the price of a movie ticket hasn’t gone up much in the last 90 years. In 1929, a ticket was $0.35; today, it’s $9. Adjusted for inflation, that’s a fairly reasonable price increase of 108%. I'm sorry but how is a 100% pri
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by pattusk 7y ago
Turns out wikipedia has a page on this issue: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programmin... I'm sure it's not comprehensive though.
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by pattusk 7y ago
This classical chinese programming language was posted here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22213406 I know that the ussr developed a cyrillic based programming language (on my phone now so can't find an
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Confessions of a Failed Academic(medium.com)
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by pattusk 7y ago
I read the title and got excited thinking this would be using embeddings to gather insights about language family. As in, if you ran k-means on the same corpus of n languages with k < n, how would, say, Finnish, Mongolian, Turkish and Ja
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Swipe Right for a Master’s Degree(quillette.com)
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Would Apollo 11 Have Happened Without Russia?(today.tamu.edu)
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by pattusk 7y ago
For those experiencing issues: http://archive.is/rX4g4
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by pattusk 7y ago
That's quite a rant, but I fail to see much value in his arguments? TeX was never meant to parse Math the way Mathematica or other software is? > Free software acts as a virus. Free systems have the potency to wipe out any other pro
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Ghislaine Maxwell's personal emails have been hacked(dailymail.co.uk)
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by pattusk 7y ago
Could some of it be explained by demographic changes (immigration)? iI remember always being taught growing up than 37.5°C was the average human body temperature. However after moving to East Asia I met plenty of people who consider 37.5 a
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by pattusk 7y ago
Bergson's Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness Not exactly unknown but Bergson isn't as fashionable as he used to be and often derided for his belief in spiritualism and failure to understand Einstei
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About That Russian ‘Spy’(wsj.com)
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by pattusk 7y ago
Certainly interesting to see English's domination increasingly challenged on open source tech projects. However this makes contributing harder for non-Chinese speakers. I had a look at the git's issues page and all the discussion
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Crime in Antarctica(en.wikipedia.org)
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How trashy TV made children dumber and enabled a wave of populist leaders(washingtonpost.com)
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by pattusk 7y ago
This was a fascinating read overall but I found the effort to translate everything into modern big-tech terminology very distracting. Furthermore the Gates/Jobs or Microsoft/Apple analogies seem tenuous at best and gives the impre
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The Tragic Death of a Secret Gamer(theatlantic.com)
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by pattusk 7y ago
> The sample consisted of data from both Brazilian and Swedish companies, comprising IT departments at one large online media and social networking company with around 5,000 employees, one smaller software life-cycle consultancy company
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The Food That Helps Battle Depression(wsj.com)
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Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old(theguardian.com)
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by pattusk 7y ago
I always found it strange that Foucault has come to be identified, in the mainstream view of his work but also in academic circles, with radical leftism. It's hard to read Discipline and punish or any of his work on biopolitics and not
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Could 1989 Have Led to Democracy in China?(nationalinterest.org)
39 points by pattusk 7y ago|22 comments
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by pattusk 7y ago
> the last generation of pure-blooded people and holders of possibly the only untampered gene pool left in the world. I'm no geneticist but I wonder if such statements have any scientific value or even meaning. What is an "unta
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Europe’s Dangerous Creation Myth(politico.eu)
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99% of Borrowers Rejected Again for Student Loan Forgiveness(on.forbes.com)
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by pattusk 7y ago
Because they usually ask for one (or several) of the following: - Basic information that could be retrieved automatically (say from an ID card or a driver's licence) but that you have to input on every form: name, address, date of birt
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by pattusk 7y ago
> None of these options are particularly hard to implement. The first one would allow us to generate our own licence keys and would be more elegant but also more time-consuming, while the last two are trivial. I like how you can tell the

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