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by plg 10y ago
Isn't everything? The older I get the more I realize that all of the orderly systems I thought governed life, society and the universe are in fact a system of hacks and bag of tricks. Sure there are rules. Except when there are excepti
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by plg 10y ago
The social issue thing is real and it's an interesting quandary. I think my personal beef with them is when I interact with someone wearing an earpiece, it makes me think (rightly or wrongly) that they are happy to interact with me BUT
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by plg 10y ago
AirPods - so is walking around with a thing in your ear cool now? Around here it certainly still signals "I am a jackass"
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by plg 10y ago
what do they do (with the body) if someone dies on a long haul flight and it's still many many hours to land
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Ask HN: What is the difference between a “product” and a “solution”?
2 points by plg 10y ago|1 comments
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by plg 10y ago
I've been waiting for a way to access my 1Password data on the web, e.g. from a Linux machine (no 1Password Linux client exists) so I'll gladly pay the subscription fee now that this exists. Also the quality of the software (in te
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by plg 10y ago
for now
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by plg 10y ago
If only there existed a peer to peer solution that doesn't require trusting a central host
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by plg 10y ago
has anyone considered the possibility that perhaps Apple has made a judgement that the recent resurgence in AI/ML is, (like all of them before, over the past 50 years) overblown, and Apple would rather spend their time and resources on
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by plg 10y ago
seems to me they used the same data that was used to fit the models, to estimate prediction accuracy. This overestimates prediction accuracy. It would be better to use data that was not used to fit the models to assess accuracy. This is kno
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by plg 10y ago
what font is used for the main text?
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by plg 10y ago
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/19/dont-invert-that-ma...
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The trick to having it all: asking for help … and hiring a butler(theguardian.com)
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WHY DID GOOGLE ERASE DENNIS COOPER’S BELoveD LITERARY BLOG?(newyorker.com)
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Canada’s research regime in need of major surgery(theglobeandmail.com)
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Turmoil over medical research funding spurs action from Ottawa(theglobeandmail.com)
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by plg 10y ago
i have to say this never-ending fixation / worship of Feynman is a bit creepy
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by plg 10y ago
an oft-neglected nugget of info that has great bearing on a buy-and-hold approach, esp with mutual funds: FEES Fees can kill your returns There are many low-fee or no-fee options
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by plg 10y ago
I took my kid to one of these last year. It was fairly useless. They drag around little action-icons into a list to make an animated character move around and do stuff. My 11-year-old was bored stiff. Edit: PS the Apple Store employee who r
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Dag Kittlaus (co-founder of Siri) Interview with Charlie Rose(charlierose.com)
1 points by plg 10y ago|0 comments
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by plg 10y ago
(Eric Schmidt to Charlie Rose at 37:38 in the video)
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If you want to keep something private the best place to keep it is Gmail(charlierose.com)
1 points by plg 10y ago|1 comments
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by plg 10y ago
all of Poggio's lectures start the same way "OK, So, Uh"
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How Apple lost its way: Steve Jobs’ love of simplicity is gone(theguardian.com)
8 points by plg 10y ago|2 comments
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by plg 10y ago
github link to code?
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BJ Novak: li.st -– not for groceries(theguardian.com)
2 points by plg 10y ago|0 comments
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by plg 10y ago
and ford focus sales outnumber bmw 3-series who cares
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by plg 10y ago
why not set it up as a tor hidden service?
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U.S. agency advises Windows PC users remove Apple's QuickTime over bugs(mobile.reuters.com)
2 points by plg 11y ago|0 comments
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by plg 11y ago
is there source code showing how to pull down these data points?

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