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by stillsut 11y ago
I prefer to write like a man reading his powerpoint slides verbatim
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by stillsut 11y ago
> this year in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics points out that recreational math can be used to awaken mathematics-related “joy,” “satisfaction,” “excitement” and “curiosity” in students, ... In contrast, the Common Core in the Uni
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by stillsut 11y ago
Well for the U.S., agricultural production went from 90% of the population in 1860 to < 2% today. And we net export food. In developing countries, you're most likely to suffer a famine if you're a farmer. We can save the people
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by stillsut 11y ago
Patents are a trade: you get an 18 year monopoly for public disclosure of how your innovation works. In societies that lack patent protection, much innovation becomes a trade secret guarded against public use for generations, think China an
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Reid Hoffman: Network Man(newyorker.com)
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by stillsut 11y ago
I was always interested in Econ / Applied-Math research as an undergrad and would build toy models in those areas. When I graduated, I went to work at a financial company before coming back to study theory again 3 years later. The imme
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by stillsut 11y ago
The old car saying goes: Fast, Cheap, Reliable. Pick two, you can't get the third. Requirement creep seems to be the real problem here: Now we want aggressive fuel-efficiency targets, crash safety, and a host of other "nice to hav
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by stillsut 11y ago
Or after 3 unsuccessful tries, the system wipes itself. Try: macworld, oops...macw0rld, oops... macwor1d! There's no law against incompetence, true?
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by stillsut 11y ago
Check out "The Other Foot" [0] by Ray Bradbury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man
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by stillsut 11y ago
The protagonist doesn't wish his brother was born with his same gene for heart failure, he wishes companies would stop using genetic tests to filter out candidates. Most of the movie deals with bad guys trying to find trace hair and DN
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by stillsut 11y ago
Dystopian anticipations have been 180 degrees wrong: 1.Genetic Testing - Anticpated: GATTACA What we got: A bunch of innocent people freed from jail. Who, today, would want to live in a world without genetic forensics? 2. P
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by stillsut 11y ago
Since I don't own a boat, I wouldn't mind if they bought a bunch of yachts. Since I live in Cambridge, I care very much how much gets fenced into official Harvard only property.
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Stuart Russell: Let's Ban Autonomous Weapons(bostonglobe.com)
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The New Romantics in the Computer Age(nytimes.com)
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by stillsut 11y ago
Jim Rogers, you may know me from such books as: Investment Biker A Bull in China Adventure Capitalist Hot Commodities (seriously, http://www.jimrogers.com/ ) This guy has traveled the world and learned lots of puns.
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by stillsut 11y ago
Think about the range of preferences held by Nazi high command as it became apparent they would lose the war: Some were prepared to go to their deaths and take as many of their own citizens with them in the name of ideology. Some desperatel
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Inside the fight for Bitcoin's future(newyorker.com)
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by stillsut 11y ago
Here's one job that might be open: Photographer for the BBC. Article features one corny stock image + 3 webcam myspace shots?
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by stillsut 11y ago
I was thinking about this for IoT yesterday. Basically if you wanted a machine with premanent uptime, it would be two identical basic machines that would periodically power cycle each other. On error, hard-reset, and reload the OS/app
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by stillsut 11y ago
To play devil's/HR's advocate: Couldn't this be better at producing the attitude and behavioral change that we aim for with "sensitivity training"? Training might ask two of these men to have a mock encounter w
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by stillsut 11y ago
This is to be expected during an El Nino year. Let's see how big it gets!
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by stillsut 11y ago
It's a good interview question. Here's how I would answer it: At scale there would be drivers dedicated to filling up at only one restaurant, and then delivering to multiple customers before refilling. The more popular restaurants
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by stillsut 11y ago
Under-appreciated aspect of excel: You store the data on a spreadsheet. A dev: hmm...Should it be Mongo-esque NoSQL, in-memory sqlite, MySQL vs SQLServer? But Postgres has most open source momentum...let's do pros v cons. Excel dude: P
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by stillsut 11y ago
Attempts like these might be barking up the wrong tree. People who are going to be successful in bootstrapping themselves from 0 to dev are going to naturally grasp logic, state, or any other general programming concept. (Not master, but gr
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FAA Software Update Triggers Travel Nightmare(wsj.com)
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by stillsut 11y ago
> is terribly wrong, but barring traumatic brain injury or something it's absurd to suggest that either is wrong on account of not understanding basic economics There are plenty of eminent CS prof's that couldn't push a He
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by stillsut 11y ago
Sure, uber's competition loses...but that's like saying Google Search sucks because what bad things happend to Alta Vista and all their employees and investors. The ones who win: rider and driver.
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by stillsut 11y ago
The AirHockey Demo seems like a complete rip-off of a Spanish maker's product, which he has been promoting: https://github.com/JJulio/AHRobot Maybe I'm wrong, but I think some credit is due
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by stillsut 11y ago
Here's the key point where the author and me diverge: > In this context, the hacker ethic is hollowed out and subsumed into the ideology of solutionism, to use a term coined by the Belarusian-born tech critic Evgeny Morozov. It desc
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What the heck is going on at Quanttus(betaboston.com)
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