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by ppod 10y ago
It's very fashionable to suggest that social media is polarising. It's not clear from actual research that that is true. Most people lived in an echo chamber before social media anyway. We live in the most peaceful time in human h
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Really nice, is it a shiny app? They are ridiculously easy to set up.
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I should have included 'anonymous' in my criteria, the big difference between reddit and twitter is the % of accounts linked to real names.
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Reddit gets a lot of stick, but it's a bastion of civility and intelligence compared to the comments on youtube videos or even mainstream newspaper comments. I don't think there is any forum of comparable size that has a higher qu
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There is a picture of the book at the top of the page. The first words of the first paragraph are "Tom Wolfe’s most recent book". The first words of the second paragraph are "Let’s start with the part of the book about Darwin
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The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and th
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I don't think "getting it right" is a good way of phrasing it. The aspects of Eastern philosophy you mention seem more relevant to Western ideas like phenomenology, monism or pantheism. The identifying feature of existentiali
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>Over time you’ll develop a vocabulary of good words and bad words to use when writing papers. Speaking about machine learning or computer vision papers specifically as concrete examples, in your papers you never “study” or “investigate”
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It can be done with a sound recording of the tapping of the keys too: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs6431/zhuang.pdf
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Great article. Gets the tone and level of detail exactly right for talking about something like this to a wide audience.
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Doesn't all of the money that was going into the operating cost of the robot still end up in human pockets? Instead of going to the worker it goes to robot developers, robot maintainers, and energy companies. Then the argument it incre
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by ppod 10y ago
Is there a story behind the pictures accompanying that article?
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This is a really well written piece, so its petty to pick on an aspect of the style, but:I hate the trend of writing really short sentences and starting a new paragraph after almost every sentence. When you hear it in your head it's su
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If you use twitter as described in this article, then that's the kind of experience you will have. It's kind of like being in a large crowded public space. If you are loud and assertive and determined to stand up for everything yo
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Ah! I saw a very early version of that but never tried it, looks great! Thanks.
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There is a particular behaviour in RStudio that I would really love to be able to do in python, but haven't found the combination of IDE/or notebook that will do it yet: I want to execute through lines with cmd-return, or by highl
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You're right that's probably most gun owners too, I don't think hunting or target shooting is the driving reason. I think that civil rights should be more general than that -- like you should have a right to a level of perso
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I will wait for you to publish it. Does the decentralization depend on concerned citizens reporting their neighbours to the government, or is it more of a vigilante thing?
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>So my question is, to gun owners that support existing laws regarding semi-automatic weapons like the AR-15- would limiting its sale really be really as devastatingly harmful to society at large? The core of this issue, like so many pol
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I love how this is twenty paragraphs of narcissistic libertarianism followed with a conclusion that hints at "shooter control" through "network effects", which is some truly Orwellian language for government targeting of
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The UK is, relatively speaking, not a corrupt country, but this is one of its biggest problems. The magazine Private Eye basically every week lists out multiple cases where well-paid managers have moved between government and industry and u
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Here's the idea with sounding important: short sentences. It makes you sound urgent. Even knowledgeable. Don't believe me? Throw in a question. And then answer it. Exactly. But the big gun, to hold in reserve? New. Paragraph.
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Exactly. And adding to skype contacts didn't work for me on Mint Linux, signed in and launched the app but nothing new appearing in contacts.
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>this is what we get when countries still want to dominate each other. The most peaceful, prosperous, and healthy period known in human history?
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by ppod 11y ago
I had no idea this laptop had a GPU! Thanks!
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It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the se
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There's a fantastic blog post that does this with male and female ratemyprof reviews: http://bookworm.benschmidt.org/posts/2015-10-30-rejecting-th...
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I think the idea is that what we are really trying to measure is something unobservable like the underlying nature of the character or the writers' tendencies to give characters certain ways of speaking. We can say that Stan uses a wor
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>The CS and AI fields suffer from a lot of Dunning-Kreuger effect when they talk about biology I'm sure this is right, but what about the reverse -- how much do you know about AI? AI need not be as complex as natural intelligence to
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Is there any talk of installing some kind of guideline along existing roads that would help navigation or vision? Something like a bright line or a buried magnetic (or radio?) 'rail' for the cars to follow? I've read that vis

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