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by rickhanlonii 12y ago
Seems like an application of Hanlon's Razor[1], with an important extension: > Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, unless that stupidity is adequately explained by malice. I'd like to co
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by rickhanlonii 12y ago
Can anyone clarify this for me? > Professor Warwick claims that the test was “unrestricted.” However, having the chatbot claim to be a 13-year-old child, and one for whom English is not a first language, is effectively a restriction. K
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by rickhanlonii 12y ago
We love Github Issues at our company, but it's missing one thing we really need: metrics. We need to track when a milestone was started, who completed how many issues in a milestone, what was the issue estimated at and what was to actu
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
You're being obtuse. If you read what he was saying, it would be obvious that he didn't mean a formalized "mapping" and meant a binary relation. Instead of using this as an opportunity to evangelize maths and teach, you
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
That's a great point! Under that definition of a^b, 0^0=1 follows from the definition and is not itself defined. It's exactly the same as 1+1=2. However, what I said is absolutely true for the definition of a^b that the author o
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
This case isn't as exciting as the parallel postulate case; you're not going to get a whole new branch of mathematics, just a change in a lot of formulas/definitions/notations. The example in the article is the binomial
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
I agree with the point you're making, but I want to be a little pedantic: It's true that addition is a definition, but 1+1=2 is not--it logically follows from the definition of addition.
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
It's very important to note here that 0^0=1 is a shorthand and not a truth . Mathematicians are absolutely not stating that they have proven, or that it is true, that 0^0=1. It is a definition, not a claim of equality. They're
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
I don't personally like that you did this, but I think it's the right move and I wholeheartedly support it. The truth is, I only don't like it because homestarrunner.
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
Perhaps more importantly to the author, I noticed this when I tried to share via twitter. display:none; on the comments div worked fine.
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
Apparently, he is. As a science enthusiast, I completely accept this. I don't care if the president is Republican or Democrat; I don't care if this is Obama just trying to improve his images; I don't care about the politics o
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
> Where is your evidence that mind studies can produce empirical evidence or theories? In the citation section of the book. Until you refute this evidence , the claim "scientists publish peer-reviewed scientific papers with empir
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
>Because psychology's topic is the mind, and because the mind is not a physical entity, psychology cannot produce empirical, falsifiable evidence ("testable against the empirical world") to supports its claims. Therefore,
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
You make a valuable distinction; Kahneman did not win the Nobel for psychology, and in fact there is no such thing. But to call psychology a pseudoscience confuses either the definition of science or of psychology. In Thinking, Fast and Sl
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
My name is Rick and I'm a 80 hour a week guy. I'm 26, single, and have no pets. I have a family and friends, but I'm very transparent about my work habits and priorities as a full-stack engineer. Being so young, I see myself
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
OP: I think this is great. I've been looking for something lightweight that will keep my bookmarks better grouped and organized almost like an enhanced bookmarks bar without cluttering me with features. At first glance this seems like
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
I love the app, and I want OP to know that that a watermark is a deal breaker for me. Without a watermark, I have things I can use this app for. While using it, if I like it and want the premium features then I'll upgrade. With a water
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
As someone who studied math as an undergrad, I completely agree. As far as I can remember, Learning the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory was no more difficult to me than learning the Mean Value Theorem. But I guess my point is that prog
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
Do you have a reason to believe this?
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
Then the answer is "it depends". You can program at a level with a cognitive demand on par with Algebra (however defined), and you can program at the level of Complex Analysis. There's no one-to-one map between the two. Just
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
I have Simple and I love it! I have a few invites if anyone is interested.
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
I was confused by this for awhile until I started hanging around a group of people who use SnapChat almost as much as texting. For the most part they share innocuous "here's what I'm doing" type photos. They use SnapChat
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
Exactly. I know the scene here feels bad for RapGenius because they're putting themselves in their shoes and appreciating how devastating a penalty this is. But I don't feel bad for them whatsoever, and neither should anyone else.
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
Because, to him, it tastes like soap. > In the largest genome-wide association study of cilantro preference to date, 23andMe scientists compared genetic data from more than 25,000 individuals with European ancestry who declared whether t
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
>a job that is "below them" This is absolutely not why people are not getting of UI to take a minimum wage job. Right now, if they were to accept a minimum wage job, they would lose UI and get paid less for the job then they ar
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
I'm about to throw up. Here's what that message was a reply to: -----Original Message----- From: eisenstein@stratfor.com [mailto:eisenstein@stratfor.com] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:02 AM To: Fred Burton Cc: <allstratf
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
You must have meant to reply to someone else because my point wasn't that it is right, but that the position isn't contradictory.
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
I don't see the irony. If I'm Florian Bersier, the creator, and I believe that it's ultimately the users choice to manipulate the the UI--up to and including removing ads--then I can still use those same ads on my site withou
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
It's not uncommon to use "sic" to denote a british spelling of a word, though the usage in that instance is debated.
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by rickhanlonii 13y ago
> How trustworthy are these results? The accumulated findings from several experiments help build a convincing case, but unfortunately the field study - which had the potential to provide the most persuasive evidence - is seriously flawe

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