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Group for Hacker News NCAA Brackets(games.espn.go.com)
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by te_platt 12y ago
I have a friend who grew up in a home where her mom and grandma spoke to her only in Spanish and her dad only spoke to her in English. She was surprised when she went to Kindergarten and her teacher spoke English. She thought Spanish was
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by te_platt 12y ago
Well done! Thank you for your time and effort to do that. I enjoyed the story and learned a thing or two along the way.
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by te_platt 12y ago
There's a nice panorama of the site here: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/B-710,+Antofagasta,+Chile/An... Looks like it's a couple of hours drive to the nearest city, Antofagasta. That will be a lo
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by te_platt 12y ago
Even more pedantic - It could be ironic if he came here in a deliberate attempt to avoid more information about this case. Or maybe he was trying to show a friend how people on HN are averse to pedantic grammar related comments. Or maybe
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by te_platt 12y ago
This is subtle but important distinction. It is absolutely possible to do a confirming experiment that can give misleading results. There is a nice explanation in the wikipedia article under "Confirmation Bias". http:/&#x2
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This is a great resource for when your teenager comes to you with terrible eagerness - "Hey Dad, I found a truck online and it's only $1000. Will you come look at it with me?".
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by te_platt 12y ago
This doesn't just apply to sports. Most people don't share my enthusiasm for math and science but most people are enthusiastic about something. I enjoy asking people what they do for fun, or about an interesting (to them) projec
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by te_platt 12y ago
Equivocate came up in https://books.google.com/ngrams . Looks like the linked tool isn't quite up for it after all.
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If you have the right kind of friends you can play "Who knows the most obscure word?". Everyone picks a word from memory, check each word's position (We used to use google ngrams, but this would work well.), whoever gets the
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by te_platt 12y ago
I think your question is a bit backwards. What features would a pulse need to indicate it was caused with intelligent intent? These pulses have plausible (although exotic) explanations as natural events. There are people who have looked
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In the context of this article I think it's important to make a distinction between an expert and a specialist. I think of an expert as someone who almost always gets things right. For example, an expert pianist plays great music but
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There have been a lot of different ways to make and enforce laws through history, each with their particular costs and benefits. For a review of several I recommend this work (in progress) by David Friedman. http://www.daviddfrie
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by te_platt 12y ago
I lived a couple of years in Brazil and a couple of years in Chile and counted myself fluent in the language when I could comfortably understand the songs on the radio. This article makes me think the difference between fluent and native s
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by te_platt 12y ago
Looks like an early version of the Drake equation, only with the number of stars with planets very low and the probability that a planet has life very (like really, really) high.
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c#, Xamarin
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BAHFest – Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses(bahfest.com)
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If you look up Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose you will find a significant bibliography of non-mystic thought on the subject.
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This is somewhat simplistic but consider life as a kind of prisoner's dilemma. Cooperation has many benefits and the people cooperating have a strong incentive to make others cooperate as well. It's not an exact match but try su
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Vry wll don. I trid working out a rspons th sam way but it provd mor difficult than xpctd.
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Meteor Explosion Milky Way Time Lapse. By: Wes Eisenhauer(vimeo.com)
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I liked that the article isn't so much about #GamerGate as the nature of online arguments. I'm only vaguely aware of the issues of #GamerGate but I can completely understand the following from the article: "People are going t
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Net neutrality and the disruption of television distribution(washingtonpost.com)
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Hey, back to work. Some of us are a bit anxious for a few more chapters.
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When I was younger I had a hard time coming to grips with how non technical people would use something I made. I still don't really understand it but at least I understand that I don't understand it. With that I can trust the de
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Such is the power of a mystery. A simple repeating beep captivates thousands. And yes, I had to read the whole article to the end.
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Things like "Keep of the grass". Where if just a few people do something there's not a problem but where if too many people do it it could cause bigger problems. I think most political arguments come down to what should or s
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A couple of days ago one of my kids asked me I could give an example of something that was illegal but not immoral. We had a nice conversation working through the difference between the two. It was interesting to break things down into ca
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by te_platt 12y ago
Very clever nerd sniping. Until I read this I had no idea how badly I wanted to do something with agro-tech. All my ideas so far are just too silly to mention.
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Artist Recreated His Childhood Doodles as Digital Pics 20 Years Later(mic.com)
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