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Koide’s coincidence(johndcook.com)
32 points by tacon 8y ago|6 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
The same term has been adopted in transportation planning, for the curves of equal commute time to a job location, etc. Google has an incredible amount of data about this, but I don't know that it has been made available in any usable
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What I learned about weight loss from spending a day inside a metabolic chamber(vox.com)
4 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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How the Kessler Syndrome can end all space exploration and destroy modern life(bigthink.com)
8 points by tacon 8y ago|3 comments
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Puzzlingly High Correlations in FMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, Cognition [pdf](pashler.com)
1 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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Dear Academia, I loved you, but I’m leaving you (2014)(anothersb.blogspot.com)
129 points by tacon 8y ago|87 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
I used to have regular hypnogogia, and I often imagined that monsters were coming to steal my wallet and keys from my bedside. Those items started "moving" during the night, to under the mattress, or into blankets in the closet,
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by tacon 8y ago
In the late 90s I was on a US project which included a small Dutch software company. The founder told me about Dutch people who had been living in the US for thirty plus years, speaking perfect English, now in nursing homes, who with age o
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by tacon 8y ago
One of the tricks of those books about being wrong is that we almost always believe we are right. Every once in a while, we get evidence to change out belief, and then we again believe we are right. So the actual fraction of our existence
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Equal Earth map projection(johndcook.com)
4 points by tacon 8y ago|1 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
German with a Texas accent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_German
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To Explain or to Predict? (2010) [pdf](galitshmueli.com)
61 points by tacon 8y ago|13 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
I am reminded of this classic snark from The Elements of Programming Style (1974)[0]: "Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help … many programmers do not use such comp
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by tacon 8y ago
You are making the common mistake of confounding essential complexity with accidental complexity. One you are stuck managing and one you can eliminate with skill. The world isn't getting less complex just because you work harder on y
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by tacon 8y ago
Is the software engineering profession doomed to lose its memory every generation? The premise of this post is ridiculous: >The single most important quality in a piece of software is simplicity. How panglossian, imagining the best of a
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by tacon 8y ago
I suggest creating a form letter where you threaten to file an ADA action against them, as well as notifying your state's attorney, etc. Plus cc: the local TV station consumer reporter. When they give you static, they get a copy of t
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Software Startups: This Is How You Craft a Patent Strategy(forbes.com)
3 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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Emotions Killing Your Intellectual Productivity(lemire.me)
1 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
The Onion nailed the West's current interest in yoga twenty years ago[0], and it's only gotten worse. It's amazing how much money you can make as long as you divorce religion and spirituality from a practice optimized over a
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The Belt That Listens to Your Bowels(newyorker.com)
1 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
No, the way to protect yourself is to disclose anything you don't want to patent, but don't want patented against yourself. IBM had a great system for several decades[0]: [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
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What I’ve Learned Working in a Code for America Brigade(thoughtfulcode.com)
1 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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Your Next Glass of Wine Might Be a Fake – And You'll Love It(wired.com)
2 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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Proving life exists on Earth(johndcook.com)
2 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
The 99% Invisible podcast episode, "America's Last Top Model", is an excellent history of the project.[0] [0] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/americas-last-top-mod...
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by tacon 8y ago
>If hash capacity were traded on a perfectly competitive market, then it would always make sense to rent 51% of the capacity at market rates, earn the transaction fees, and also perform a double-spending attack. Lenin was right: "Wh
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by tacon 8y ago
>Evolution suggests the next step to language and reason on the right architecture is comparatively easy. <Something> suggesting the next step to language and reason is the right path and easy is the rhyming history of AI for sixty
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by tacon 8y ago
I like the idea of an online bank, so I signed up for Simple. They sent me a credit card with my first name and middle initial, instead of first initial and middle name, as I had filled out their form, and like every other credit card I hav
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by tacon 8y ago
I know that the very first time I watched the MIT robot cheetah, I instantly imagined the version that is surely coming: that robot with a gun mounted on it, hunting down a human[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn
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by tacon 8y ago
Leaving out AI, Robin Hanson has an entire book on what happens when we "only" start to emulate existing human thought in machines, what he calls "ems". Given only that, no new algorithms, just an increase in speed, he

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