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Statistically, self-driving cars are about to kill someone. What happens next?(theguardian.com)
2 points by rinze 10y ago|0 comments
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The 'Windsor Hum': where is the noise plaguing a city of 210,000 coming from?(theguardian.com)
3 points by rinze 10y ago|0 comments
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Amphetamine use in America's workforce(daily.jstor.org)
163 points by rinze 10y ago|250 comments
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by rinze 10y ago
No, actually they don't.
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by rinze 10y ago
In the past, when I have tried to submit an article that had already been covered, I was redirected to the old discussion, but now I was able to post it, so I don't know. Perhaps it was covered and URLs differ slightly.
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Is the online advertising bubble finally starting to pop?(blogs.harvard.edu)
64 points by rinze 10y ago|44 comments
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by rinze 10y ago
I wouldn't have skipped it, as I learned a lot of stuff that I found incredibly useful. I would have left earlier, that is also true.
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by rinze 10y ago
> It's just a way for people with PhDs to remain in academia, doing research, so that they can build up their publication list to land tenure-track academic positions. Precisely this. Or also (my case): we have been doing research a
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by rinze 10y ago
Yahoo had a very good approach to the problem of scalability with Yahoo Pipes, that allowed nearly anyone to filter and mix different RSS feeds (say, for instance, get from Wired only those articles wrtten by a given author and containing a
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by rinze 11y ago
This short text from Charles Stross is incredibly relevant: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders... > Corporations do not share our priorities. They are hive organisms construc
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Why we’re living in an era of neuroscience hype(kernelmag.dailydot.com)
4 points by rinze 11y ago|0 comments
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The business of cleaning up spaghetti code(economist.com)
2 points by rinze 11y ago|0 comments
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by rinze 11y ago
I just use the https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb url. It formats the whole thing pretty nicely.
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The North Dakota Crude Oil That's Worth Less Than Nothing(bloomberg.com)
3 points by rinze 11y ago|0 comments
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How BuzzFeed News Used Betting Data to Investigate Match-Fixing in Tennis(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by rinze 11y ago|0 comments
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When liberals attack science(nymag.com)
11 points by rinze 11y ago|1 comments
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by rinze 11y ago
Write laws against the dissidence, but call it terrorism. Then you can argue that you are just trying to get the same level of access everybody else is asking for.
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by rinze 11y ago
I have only read the text diagonally while looking for some keywords, but my 2 cents: in many cases, when a neuroscience study claims to be able to "predict" something, they mean "var X and var Y show a strong correlation&quo
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by rinze 11y ago
If no more coins are mined (or the mining rate drops to almost negligible levels), is there still any incentive for people to keep the blockchain alive by computing power? Aside from keeping the whole system alive, I mean.
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National coalition in favor of campus censorship(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by rinze 11y ago|0 comments
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by rinze 11y ago
Could you provide some textbook reference? I'd really appreciate it.
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by rinze 11y ago
For context[1]: > The scientific evidence linking both processed meat and tobacco to certain types of cancer is strong. In that sense, both are carcinogens. But smoking increases your relative risk of lung cancer by 2,500 percent; eating
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by rinze 11y ago
This reminds me of this paper published a while ago [1] (coauthored by Colin Firth -- yes, the actor) that studied correlations between political beliefs and the structure of certain brain regions. Quote: "Here we show that this functi
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The GOP Has a Tech Talent Problem It Might Not Solve(wired.com)
13 points by rinze 11y ago|3 comments
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by rinze 11y ago
> A robot in the US is more or less going to cost the same as a robot in China I have no data to back this up, but my intuition tells me that a robot made in the US (with American workers) will still cost more to make than the same robot
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by rinze 11y ago
> The jobs did not go to robots in America, they went to workers in China. They went to robots in China. There was a very good video documentary on this in (I think) The New York Times not long ago, but I haven't been able to find i
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by rinze 12y ago
Very similar in Spain. We get our pre-filled forms and you only have to correct what's missing (typically, in my case, the annual rent I paid the landlord) using a secure on-line system. You then submit it on-line too. Done. Takes 30 m