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by quocanh 5y ago
I don't know much about computing as a profession, but wasn't it just algorithmic arithmetic?
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by quocanh 5y ago
I'd settle for any society where women built the huts. Nearly every society has needed to construct some form of shelter or build some sort of tool. Basketweaving comes to mind. Grilling and baking are great examples of what I'm t
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by quocanh 5y ago
I think the point is that a significant part (majority?) of our culture is defined by our biology and nearly all is at least influenced by biology. The ultimate counterexamples would be societies where women are in charge of the engineering
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by quocanh 5y ago
I think the irony here is more pleasing.
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by quocanh 5y ago
Yep. You got it. And I would go further - not just ignore but reject. That’s what is meant by separating ideas. You find what is orthogonal and keep what is useful.
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by quocanh 5y ago
Close/open-mindedness isn't about being morally wrong/right. It's about holding a vile idea in your head long enough to see its various facets. To study it and understand it. Openmindedness here means being able to under
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by quocanh 5y ago
You're twisting my words. No one is arguing "for" slavery here.
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by quocanh 5y ago
You definitely have to be opened minded in order to read this. I can see how this could be offensive or distasteful but from a purely academic point of view it's interesting to see that a master-slave relationship was more than a contr
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by quocanh 5y ago
Because judgements are arbitrary and in practice unfairly hurts foreign companies. There's an analogue that has happened in the U.S. Let's say that my little white town passes a law that forbids jaywalking. Protects pedestrians...
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by quocanh 5y ago
I don’t feel that, actually. I’m not sure where you got that impression - maybe straw men are easier to debate? There are laws and then are how laws are enacted. Hint: pay attention to how homegrown EU companies are treated. EDIT: https:&#
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by quocanh 5y ago
That is one purpose yes and that’s why it has support of the people. The PATRIOT Act is similar. Its purpose is to protect Americans from terrorism.
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by quocanh 5y ago
GDPR enforcement is completely arbitrary (in both senses of the word). People might cheer for the downfall of the tech giants but it's really just a way for the EU to control US companies, extending their power beyond their jurisdictio
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by quocanh 5y ago
Anybody who creates unnecessary conflict is insufferable. There's no reason to use this achievement to bash others.
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by quocanh 5y ago
I agree that the columns of the results should be more obvious. But I am a proponent of "from should be first". I have never written a SQL query without thinking about the contents of a table or its relations. If it was my way, I
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by quocanh 5y ago
I love this! Do you experiment with your tech stack? Swapping things in and out to see which apps are best?
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by quocanh 5y ago
From what I understand, a chip plant's workers have PhDs because when problems arise on the line, they require a lot of knowledge to fix.
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by quocanh 5y ago
There's an article written by a public school teacher that disagrees with you. What is your personal experience with the issue?
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by quocanh 5y ago
Keep in mind (and this is conjecture) that the specific kind of person who makes a great SRE will be more neurotic than the average person. There's a specific kind of meticulousness and paranoia that makes certain people way better at
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by quocanh 5y ago
It would be General Intelligence but it's probably not Artificial General Intelligence in so much as the intelligence aspect wasn't designed and created. It also wouldn't be able to get smarter at the rate of singularity sinc
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by quocanh 5y ago
It's interesting to see the most active reasons: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GbVdarjAHEjUzhDsmtPJ...
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by quocanh 5y ago
If you're willing to dismiss an anecdote then you should also dismiss the first anecdote in this thread. If you're willing to listen to an anecdote, then you should also listen to the second anecdote in this thread. This is about
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by quocanh 5y ago
It seemed suspicious to me that the vaccine seemed to increase the rate of infection. I had no idea how it would do that, so I looked at the report itself. My initial suspicion was some confounding factors. > As with all vaccines, the
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by quocanh 5y ago
I love this. But also why.
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by quocanh 5y ago
Showing one way to get to the solution doesn't mean that it's the only way to get to the solution. It's still possible to solve these problems without the training examples that Copilot has memorized.
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by quocanh 5y ago
Here's my minority opinion: Leetcode-style problems can be valuable for finding talent. I know this will get me a lot of hate in programming circles. Trust me that I know it feels horrible when you're bad at them. It does not mean
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by quocanh 5y ago
> He said one trucker was handing out bottles of water and one bread delivery truck opened its doors and people handed out loaves. I love hearing stories about the positive aspects of humanity. It's too easy to hear about the negati
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by quocanh 5y ago
Anecdotally: It's a drug that sort of shakes up your mind. It lets you make all sorts of connections that you aren't going to sober, unless you spend a ton of time reflecting. At the end, you gain this incredible emotional clarity
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by quocanh 5y ago
That's an interesting hypothesis but it wouldn't explain why the data-driven algorithms promote negativity. Perhaps there's another mechanism at work here: e.g. once you've tasted enough sugar in your diet then anything
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by quocanh 5y ago
Which results are different than Google's?
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by quocanh 5y ago
Facial recognition software.

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