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by philelly 10y ago
this essay's style seems endemic in tech writing: logorrheic and trafficking in technical details/protocols in place of the underlying principles (cogency, brevity, a single unifying argument that can be simply stated). i apprecia
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by philelly 16y ago
looking up the paper on pubmed reveals a flurry of letters to the editor published in the subsequent issue that call out the 'tai method' for what it is. i would actually bet a good number of the 70 citations that so worry 'flip tomato' ar
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by philelly 16y ago
it's ironic that a blog post like this would use an image that appears to be poking fun at the fervor with which people record and analyze paul graham's teachings
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by philelly 17y ago
yet, his personal blog is largely attacks on people who publish essays questioning his conclusions. for instance, he appears to be still steaming over the whole pinker review/ eigenvalue debacle. i guess i can't really argue with the quot
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by philelly 17y ago
i don't grasp the 'problem' with the rating system. a 4.5 star deli offers 4.5 star deli cuisine, and a 4 star restaurant offers 4 star haute cuisine. are they that much more comparable than a 4 star restaurant and a 5 star laundromat?
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by philelly 17y ago
welcome to reddit
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by philelly 17y ago
the people here seem so self-motivated that i would be surprised if many of them would want to pay yearly fees to be told they are smart, as opposed to simply telling themselves they're smart or, better yet, not really worrying about it at
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by philelly 17y ago
I think we agree completely that the use of GPA as a measure of ability is limited. To be fair, though, I never asserted that GPA would predict who would 'have a better social life' or who would be 'in better shape.' In fact, I might pred
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by philelly 17y ago
the 'relevance of grades' argument never seems to die here. like any other measure of ability, the use of GPA has its limitations. the reason the debate continues, i suspect, is that a lot of people here got bad grades.
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by philelly 17y ago
i guess being stoned all semester is outside the box
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by philelly 17y ago
It is exactly because the "top x" title is a gimmick that I want it faithfully included in HN titles. This way, I know to not click on the link in the first place, as I typically avoid these types of list articles.
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by philelly 17y ago
i love rules
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by philelly 17y ago
i think a lot of the discussion regarding this topic has focused too closely on famous scientists/innovators and whether they were insufferably arrogant or not. certainly we can all agree that many famous scientists were arrogant, and i be
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by philelly 17y ago
this is an amusing article that points out some of the more classic examples of wolfram's risible self-promotion. it's odd, however, that this critique comes from someone whose own webpage offers 3 headshots of himself, including one at th
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by philelly 17y ago
maybe wolfram wants alpha to do many of the things that we now consider 'googling;' maybe he doesn't. regardless, the author's point stands that alpha doesn't seem to do too many things that are useful to me on a day-to-day or even week-to
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by philelly 17y ago
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/bubblecity1
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by philelly 17y ago
i guess my issue is (and perhaps this is because i haven't read up enough on the biohacking movement) that transforming e. coli shouldn't be sold as 'hacking,' which to me implies that you'll be free to kind of build and design whatever you
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by philelly 17y ago
it's worth pointing out that all of the protocols i've found on this site after a brief search are essentially late middle school/early high school science fair projects. i'm not a computer person but i assume that this is not what you wou
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by philelly 18y ago
i think people are going a little overboard about this. it was a humorous essay, reflecting real events probably but told in an exaggerated style. (i do admit that the part about the dad and girlfriend pushed the humor into something a bi
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The iPhone Springboard in CSS3 (no JavaScript)(stephencelis.com)
13 points by philelly 18y ago|4 comments
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by philelly 18y ago
i'd be interested in how much money justin.tv makes as compared to various countries' GDPs
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by philelly 18y ago
old definition of genius: exceedingly rare brain abnormality that confers exceptional intelligence. gladwell definition of genius: exceedingly rare brain abnormality that confers drive to devote 10,000 hours to a random task. forgive me if
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Popular Facebook applications are unabashed scams (even Stanford ones)
4 points by philelly 19y ago|1 comments
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by philelly 19y ago
people are not the only things that can make a space crowded, and the author is perhaps referring to this.