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by techbio 8y ago
Links seem to be dead now.
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Quick estimates that are good magnitude approximations but often somewhat wrong have a way of getting better, whereas estimates whose main purpose is to be within some delta of the actual time are working from the wrong value metric. A reas
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One thing: More, smaller estimates, have the property of being wrong by a lesser amount, and they are likely to cancel each other out. Estimates in hours instead of weeks are far less likely to block your work in progress for as long. Teams
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Support for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwave_entrainment ?
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Sounds centrist, unlike virtually all those in politics.
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Patterns to be discovered will become readily apparent, and hopefully help many of those less fortunate souls to become whole again.
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Improving Mental Healthcare WithAI(techbio.org)
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I was unfamiliar with this. Great story. I appreciated the inclusion in the article of the related myth of Ouruboros. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
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It was interesting for me to discover how the motorized scooter rental companies maintain a charge on the device's batteries: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/charg...
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Note to self (and anyone else): check out https://grokbit.com after all the traffic from this post gets handled. Looks like it (attempts to) serve a very popular need. Time to bring my side-project up a couple of notches.
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How a College Degree Became a Basic Need(washingtonpost.com)
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Overview of Abductive Reasoning(plato.stanford.edu)
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Why America doesn't prepare for the future(washingtonpost.com)
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"Word By Word" by Kory Stamper, an editor of the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary, includes a section and conveys a culture around coordinating a team of definition writers from paper citations using intra-office mail/notes and a p
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Article is about Lucid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_(programming_language)
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Generative art would be more compelling with clean, commented source attached. Even to non-programmers. I am always drawn to good explanations for inexplicable beauty, but what better explanation for the unknown than procedures to repeat it
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JavaScript Frameworks Code Comparison (React, Angular1+2, Vue)(github.com)
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The page describe copy/paste functionality towards the bottom. Would you mind saving someone the time to validate the two conflicting statements and explain the disagreement?
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The question is, how can society's interests be better served as regards the mass incarceration of offenders? Is it slavery, or does it just look like it to a minority of the population in, related to, neighboring with, or heading for
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Prison Striker's List of Demands(nonprofitquarterly.org)
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While Redditisms leaking into HN comments are usually downvoted, I actually got this for the first time just now. Probably because while on HN I wear my thinking cap, and on Reddit I read mainly for amusement and don't spend the time
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In comparison the Airbus A380's wingspan is about 260 feet, and the Boeing 747-8's is about 230'.
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Please pardon my inexperience, but at what scale does this become significant? Where I've worked readability/clarity/technical-debt have always taken more primary positions as relates to expected costs. Would you mind linking
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This article [1] was linked from a Wired article earlier that touched on the same question. To editorialize, undergraduate students are not considered in it to be a much better sample than properly run MTurkers. [1] http://journa
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The answer to so many similar classification questions is to apply the simplest of case-built classifiers to detect red flags and then write a regex to exclude new classes of bot data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-me
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There is a fantastic series of talks he gave in the late '60s at Harvard. It can be almost meditative to hear him addressing literature, poetry and philosophy in his own thoughtful voice. Listen at: http://www.openculture.co
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The potato paradox disappears entirely with the right illustration [1]. Something similar (though not quite so clear as paradox's grid) for bonds: [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Potato_paradox.svg [2]
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"Never odd or even" is one some here might like to see, and perhaps suggests the shorter palindrome, "NaN".
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How Wo We Fix Biased Technology (2017)(fivethirtyeight.com)
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I hope someone will treat the concept in greater depth than I can, but in my mind it seems imperative to universally tax robots and AI for some measure of their income, to balance new distortions placed upon real people's innate capa

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