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by ralfd 9y ago
Take this story about the "banned words at the CDC" which double checked a story by the Washington Post: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/health/cdc-trump-banned-w... The NYT contacted the ag
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by ralfd 9y ago
I started the tic tac toe demo but I don't quite understand how to use it?
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by ralfd 9y ago
What is that ikea thingy?
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by ralfd 9y ago
And: > In addition to his son, who wrote and directed a sequel to “On Any Sunday” in 2014, Mr. Brown is survived by his daughter, Nancie Brown; another son, Wade; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren Surfing and a nice family
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by ralfd 9y ago
Important detail though: It wasn't the cop who is heard talking in the video who shot him.
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by ralfd 9y ago
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/
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by ralfd 9y ago
Can someone explain the n modulo operation to me?
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by ralfd 9y ago
http://infoproc.blogspot.de/2008/07/annals-of-psychometry-iq... Stephen Hsu argued there that Feynmans school iq test must have had a low ceiling. From what we know about the consistently high IQ scores of other i
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by ralfd 9y ago
Cookie clicker is endless. This has a “story arc” and a definitive end point when you win the game.
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by ralfd 9y ago
But then the question is why our ancestors didn't invent stuff 100 thousand years earlier.
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by ralfd 9y ago
>> when I was watching the keynote live, and Jobs swiped his finger to scroll, I audibly gasped. > Palm OS apps were using swipe to scroll for several years before that. As far back as at least 2002. I don't know how good Palm
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by ralfd 9y ago
> cishet Was that necessary? A) The women working at Google are predominantly also cishet and B) gay guys can be misogynistic too (sometimes even more, as they dont need women in any way).
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by ralfd 9y ago
Has it been passed? Turings original paper assumes adults conversing intelligently. That is the spirit of the test. Not a clever hack of the rules, like posing as a child which doesn't speak english. This is the $20000 long bet from 20
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by ralfd 9y ago
> Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K. This didn't seem like much Not much? I hate you Silicon Valley!
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by ralfd 9y ago
Jurassic Park is one of THE seminal movies of the 90s and the female kid in the show saves the day because she "knows Unix". That was pretty cool. Though it was only a small role, not the lead like in War Games.
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by ralfd 9y ago
Go to the public library and use a pc there? Or a free wifi in a mall?
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by ralfd 9y ago
What the parent meant is that you get a paper ticket, even if you pay per card at an automated kiosk. Online-QR-code-tickets bought per Smartphone are now common too though.
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by ralfd 9y ago
A bombshell last week was that an influential study didnt replicate: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122417714422...
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by ralfd 9y ago
> just good old fashioned auction market theory - Which is? I would love to read more, any pointer/links for reading about that?
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by ralfd 9y ago
> A collapse in the roof of a gigantic tunnel being driven into a hillside sounds like a pretty dramatic event. But the entrepreneur TJ Rodgers is calm as he recalls what happened. "It's not like you see in the movies with rock
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by ralfd 9y ago
According to the picture that was a sorry wilted sunflower.
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by ralfd 9y ago
Isn't that just paying the interest in the beginning in full, instead of over time or at the end of the loan?
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by ralfd 9y ago
It is not radio alone. We also didn't find any alien megastructures dimming stars. Though Tabby's star is strange. http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a26575/some... Subreddit devoted t
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by ralfd 9y ago
I am stuck. What is the next step here? (Aside from programming it in Prolog.) https://i.imgur.com/ezUHHBp.png
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by ralfd 9y ago
Your obvious next career step is to be a top-tier ML expert?
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by ralfd 9y ago
Did it work?
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by ralfd 9y ago
At the pool? Go to the beach!
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by ralfd 9y ago
Interesting. The internet says the shadow of the moon during an eclipse has a speed between 500m - 1500m per second. So from a high point you really can see the shadow racing across earth.
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by ralfd 9y ago
I think you are absolutely right about Jobs. He took a company on the brink of bankruptcy with less than 5% market share and made it the most valuable company of the planet. If by happy accident or by masterplan design I don't think an
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by ralfd 9y ago
This is it. The paranoid list/methods in the sibling comment by Razengan is good, but you cripple and annoy yourself (no admin account etc).

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