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by stillsut 11y ago
How does the "AI" interpret this repo: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris... It's near perfect idiomatic java. But does the dev solve any actual problem? More generally, how can
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I’m a Moderate Biker Gang Member Compelled to Condemn This Violence(nytimes.com)
1 points by stillsut 11y ago|0 comments
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A Fascinating Minimum-Wage Experiment Is About to Unfold(newyorker.com)
36 points by stillsut 11y ago|97 comments
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by stillsut 11y ago
I spent many hours being instructed cursive and "penmanship". So be it - its the essential foundation to all the notes, essays, etc you do in school. Likewise, if we want kids to have a foundation in computing, I'd advocate a
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by stillsut 11y ago
Doesn't work on windows - ImportError: No module name fcntl
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by stillsut 11y ago
Could anyone link me a HelloWorld for the following use: Chrome extension that can use the devtools.network api (Bonus points) if it shows how to work with Selenium
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by stillsut 11y ago
Why? Libertarians think gov't is needed for certain institutions like an army, or a justice system.
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by stillsut 11y ago
Except for the "craigslist early adopters", almost everyone who has done online dating has done so based on word-of-mouth recommendation from people they trust. Success = recommend to friends; Viral.
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by stillsut 11y ago
It's not a bug it's a feature.
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by stillsut 11y ago
Beyond the the ~7year business cycle, career stability in Medicine vs. Engineering is subject to long-term trends. For the current 50 year old cohort, the end of the cold war has to be the most relevant factor in the opportunities available
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by stillsut 11y ago
Remember who made the equipment Stuxnet targetted? Siemens. When you export lots of specialized industrial equipment with potential use in military/nuclear tech, someone is probably monitoring you. Oversight is good for everybody.
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by stillsut 11y ago
It seems like Moore's-law-like trend can get us to telescopes by 2050 that can detect the chemical composition of exo-planets. Significant oxygen would be a sign, as on Earth, of ongoing chemical respiration from life - otherwise O2 wo
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by stillsut 12y ago
IPython notebooks run in the browser, but (usually) don't use a remote server. This medium - html/js - is great for analysis work with lots of image-processing/plotting/reporting, etc. but very difficult to build out a f
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by stillsut 12y ago
My 'Bait & Switch' light turned on half way through: The author tries to move between mech-eng analysis (under controlled experimental conditions) - "what happens to this piece of metal in a 25 mph crash? how about 30?&qu
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by stillsut 12y ago
I'd offer the example of the intern dataminer at the Potti lab which was found to have committed a particularly egregious form of model fitting and led to its erroneous use in actual cancer patient treatment: by splitting obs from the
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by stillsut 12y ago
Programming is the equivalent of Football. A decent amount of NFL players didn't play the sport until their late teens, some even waited until their early twenties! This is unheard of for any other competitive sport. This occurs often
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by stillsut 12y ago
For over a decade, the most important question for any enterprise data tool was: Does it import/export to Excel? The potential value of Slack is to ask that same question about any B2B software an exec is considering. Slack&#x27
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A Call to Look Past Sustainable Development(nytimes.com)
7 points by stillsut 12y ago|3 comments
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by stillsut 12y ago
These studies seem so prevalent in today's age, maybe the participants know they are being studied, know what the outcome the study is looking for, and might overcompensate their behavior to make sure they "pass" the test. I
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by stillsut 12y ago
> a chorded keyboard for shorthand typing, how did that not catch on I think it's coming back with smart watches. They can sense the ligaments in your wrist and know what letters you're "air typing"
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Let's Hit Pause Before Genetic Engineering Humans(wsj.com)
1 points by stillsut 12y ago|0 comments
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A Guide to Thesis-Writing and a Guide to Life(newyorker.com)
86 points by stillsut 12y ago|19 comments
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by stillsut 12y ago
Packages. They can be built by a single prof/grad student. They can be used by anyone based on R's package-manager GUI. Research in most fields is going to move more quickly than any software team can add functionality to monolith
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by stillsut 12y ago
Maybe there's a certain problem a developer was born to solve. Like the hummingbirds whose beak only fits one type of flower. On this problem, the developer could be 10x, on others he sits with his peers.
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by stillsut 12y ago
Actuary here: only 5% of billable-hours go into the concept of the math and probability behind setting appropriate price. 95% of the work involves translating the messiness of real-world into the model-based world. This is the type of thing
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by stillsut 12y ago
Brought to you by Marriott. "Stay inside your comfort zone" -Most Interesting Man in the World
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by stillsut 12y ago
In populations studies at all scales, Adam is more recent than Eve. 10 years ago, I read it was Eve 120,000 years ago and Adam 60,000 years ago for the out of Africa theory.
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by stillsut 12y ago
Just finished the book, was not shaken to my core. When 99% of trading became computerized,very few "trading desks" knew anything about the foundation of what they did. They were still trying to be an 80's guy. Not surprising
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by stillsut 12y ago
The guy's in software but then he acts dumbstruck that the machine wouldn't tell him the optimal move? Wouldn't you be happy if there was at least some player skill involved which would contribute over time help you lose less
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by stillsut 12y ago
This is the opposite of a great program. A great program scales with Moore's Law: when you get 2x memory, the program gets better, ideally more than 2x better. Human limitations remain constant through the ages, that's why climbin

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