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by sn41 8y ago
I can't help but wonder - dragonfly, Maven etc. points to some very sinister, amoral leadership. Has this always been there, or only under the Pichai regime? I remember, for example, that Eric Schmidt was very keen on an absolutist dat
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by sn41 8y ago
> Makes sense, it is a very non-machine activity to consume food. Dang. Now I feel like running a GAN to come up with new recipes!
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by sn41 8y ago
I think additinonally, conversely, dystopian fiction is reflective of political attitudes - if you're in a repressive country and want to criticise the government, then you can write a fictional work criticising some other government -
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by sn41 8y ago
This is what I understand - in the Hindu tradition (perhaps it's similar in Buddhist and Catholic traditions) you are supposed to enter a new life when you become a Sannyasi (monk). One of the initial rituals in many schools is to perf
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by sn41 8y ago
I truly sympathise. Hope you hang in there, and wish you all the best. I can relate to some of this - when I post on math overflow, my questions are heckled for poor English - by French mathematicians, when the reality is that I grew up in
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by sn41 8y ago
Gamification is overt and transparent psychological manipulation. I had friends in Sociology etc. who had to conform to elaborate ethics compliance guidelines before launching surveys etc. Why is gamification not similarly controlled?
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by sn41 8y ago
It renders most websites I visit (reddit, Facebook etc.) fine enough. It takes a long time to start up, however. One really bad point about it is that on MacBooks, it seems to use up the battery charge really fast.
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by sn41 8y ago
I too don't see why tsv is better than csv. That said, as many people have pointed out, commas have legitimate uses in fields like Address of a locality etc. and this could cause a problem in scripting. About exporting using random cha
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by sn41 8y ago
I use Seamonkey. I wonder if there are people who prefer Seamonkey over Firefox.
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by sn41 8y ago
IIRC "The Garden of Forking Paths" is an interesting story by J. L. Borges, from where the title of the paper is probably taken.
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by sn41 8y ago
I have not seen a cogent explanation for the ban, other than their volatility. I suspect the ban is because of the fact that governments are wary of cash outflow from the country. This is a problem with developing countries, especially. I t
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by sn41 8y ago
Probably unrelated. This crisis is due to aggressive lending to unreliable parties, leading to mass default. The Lehman analogy is apt and to the point.
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by sn41 8y ago
One of the disastrous consequences of the current government rule is the stifling effect it has had on press freedom. There is no honest discussion of the issues. I have invested in the non-banking financial sector, as have many other India
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by sn41 8y ago
I would really like to respectfully listen to the points of view of the author, but I do not like myself manipulated by this excessive over the top clickbait headings. I hope that we can all return to a more civil discourse without resortin
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by sn41 8y ago
Squeak is the most delightful IDE I've worked in. I liked the idea that the IDE, including the interactive debugger, was available to the user to program. I hope Pharo gains more traction and becomes popular at least in teaching envir
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by sn41 8y ago
In addition to SICP, John Allen's "The Anatomy of Lisp" is also a great book to learn computing concepts through Lisp.
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by sn41 8y ago
Not that I know of. Mandatory drug testing in sports is now common. When operating heavy machinery, and when a lot of lives are at stake, I feel some safety procedures are called for.
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by sn41 8y ago
Honest question: why aren't pilots forced to take alcohol tests before flights? There was some JetBlue incident about 10 years ago, IIRC.
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by sn41 8y ago
Another nice concept: normal numbers. These are numbers which have a very basic property of randomness: getting the block frequencies right. [1] The strong law of large numbers implies that almost every number in the unit interval is normal
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by sn41 8y ago
Slightly recommended: The Terror by Dan Simmons. I did not really think it was great, but it is an interesting alternative take on the Erebus-Terror disaster.
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by sn41 8y ago
I'm Indian. Have heard about TE901 and Pitcairn island. Don't know about sheep or French terrorism - though I can hold forth on colonialism in general :)
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by sn41 8y ago
Related to this, there's also the chronicle of Gaspar de Carvajal which related big cities instead of where the equatorial Amazonian rain forest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_de_Carvajal
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by sn41 8y ago
The author is Sanjoy Mahajan. He has another interesting book, "Streetfighting Mathematics".
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by sn41 8y ago
I think GNU and open source will have a long-lasting impact on science as well. One of its contributions is that now we can point to computer science (esp. in areas like cryptography) as an example of an area where code and methodology etc.
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by sn41 8y ago
As a customer, I find OYO hotels to be very bad. There are hotels that I otherwise would not even have gone to (since low end hotels in India are appallingly filthy), but the OYO label lends them greater credibility. I avoid OYO when I can.
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by sn41 8y ago
http://archive.is/II8xf
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by sn41 8y ago
The issue is that peer review never pays off directly. The time spent in reviews mostly goes down a black hole. Editorships are awarded based on publication record, and not quality of reviews. As a result, more and more, reviews will tend t
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by sn41 8y ago
How about labor representation in the Board of Governors?
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by sn41 8y ago
I'm not sure that it's that bad. The US was the manufacturing leader for decades. China has been the leader only in the past 2. I'm sure the US can take the lead again. What is needed is for the US shareholders to go back to
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by sn41 8y ago
Yes, translating different paragraphs into different languages and back might work.

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