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by peterlk 8y ago
I think I will forever be bitter about an argument that I had with a professor in college about statistical significance. There was a study with 12 (or some other tiny N) people who were told to click a button when they saw some change as a
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by peterlk 8y ago
Because breaking sites like Soundcloud and Youtube by default seems like an overreaction to the abuse of auto-playing sound
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by peterlk 8y ago
Paint more! https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/art-fear-the-ceramic...
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by peterlk 8y ago
This is not always true. A friend once built an application for the government (I don't remember any more specifics) in Python. He delivered it to them and mentioned in a document somewhere that it was written in python. This was unacc
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To me, this feeling comes from knowing where the bottom is. This is different from person to person. For me, the bottom is being beaten by my drug dealer in a run down building with nowhere to go. I have never visited this place, but I know
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by peterlk 8y ago
"... We need wilderness preserved--as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds--because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for
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by peterlk 8y ago
I had a grandfather dementia. Whenever we had to leave from visiting him, he would remark that we "just got here!". His short term memory was less than 5 minutes, so he would start the "but you just got here" bit by the
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by peterlk 8y ago
For real. Why not just call it USB 4.0 and divorce the branding from the technical specification? You can put a thing on the back of the box that says "implements USB specification 3.2.16a-rfc#4619" or whatever.
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by peterlk 8y ago
I'm going to propose a counter-argument based on an experiment I'm running on myself. I recently started trading stocks because I wanted to expose myself to a different news-sphere. I believe that I will grow and understand more a
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by peterlk 8y ago
I like to call this "the official's tax" and it comes with any significant money transfer in the Philippines. Everyone needs their cut or you don't get what you want. People come up with creative ways of applying this ta
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> When you have 100k+ employees, it's immensely difficult to keep tabs on every. single. thing. that's happening. Tough. You want the big bucks? You gotta solve hard problems. Big companies shouldn't be able to whine or ex
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by peterlk 8y ago
I spent most of last year travelling, and getting an apartment where I had hot water whenever I wanted was heavenly. You don't realize how convenient things are until you don't have them for a long period of time. A hot shower now
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by peterlk 8y ago
Why doesn't roadmap.com fit the bill?
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> it turns out that it's not actually sharing any data except with academics. That wouldn't make me feel better. Remember Cambridge Analytica [0]? [0] https://www.politico.eu/article/cambridge-analytica-aca
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by peterlk 8y ago
Here's a structural thing we could do to improve our education system. Give teachers more money. And on top of that fix, change the career path incentives to keep the best teachers teaching. Right now, the best teachers are financially
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by peterlk 8y ago
Several years ago, shortly after the Higgs discovery, I sat down with a couple CERN people, and their comment was that the current problem is that we need more theoretical physicists coming up with measurable predictions. As many of the oth
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Aha Launches Visual Marketing Planning Software(blog.aha.io)
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Then you're not being creative enough. Digital turntables are extremely precise. I once hooked up my ns7 (1) to an old windows laptop, spun the turntable, and crashed the computer. I think that highly precise applications like this cou
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by peterlk 8y ago
Does anyone have any suggestions for a book specific to audio synthesis DSP?
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Sears survives bankruptcy auction and will keep 400 stores open(washingtonpost.com)
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by peterlk 8y ago
If you're interested in chord generation, I've used Cthulu[0] by Xfer records to experiment with chord progressions quickly. [0] https://xferrecords.com/products/cthulhu
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> People that are my age or younger though? They'll click anything on Facebook and share their information everywhere, will download anything and install it without second thoughts I gotta say, though, this was excellent experientia
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by peterlk 8y ago
I think the reason to not use roman numerals is because what Roman numeral would you use for B major. B diminished is IV, but B major is not in the C scale, neither is B minor or B augmented, or B sus2 or Bsus4. It makes sense to write it a
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by peterlk 8y ago
This is obviously not true. They use Roman numerals in the article and in follow-on articles
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Yep, by the same companies that will bring you _Surveillance Lidar_!
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by peterlk 8y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but my view of VC money has changed significantly in the last couple years. Raising money is a failure mode. If you are raising money it is because you failed at something and you need the money to catch
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by peterlk 8y ago
Wow. I had a lot of fun with the JTKs when they first came out. I set up a small render farm, and had a blast with them. But at a $2500 price point, I can't see broke, indebted, just-out-of-college me getting the opportunity to do that
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> Is it normal that I don't have close friends and that I'm solitary? This is quite a common narrative. But it is also very easy for it to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you don't believe that it is easy to make fri
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I think this is too cynical; to the point of being harmful. This argument resonates with me like the argument to not vote because your individual vote doesn't matter. You say that you're not trying to dissuade people from their pr
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Then there is a large amount of the world which you have not seen. People are still tried and convicted of witchcraft in many African nations. I have a friend who recently had to play diplomat to a small village in a country in North Wester

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