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by themgt 10y ago
Coming from Ruby, Elixir feels like a powerful, beautiful language with a surprisingly radical but ultimately simple approach to concurrency thanks to Erlang/BEAM, and Phoenix is like Rails 2006, as far as the framework to sell Elixir&
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I hate to be "that quantum consciousness guy", but one of the first sentences of the first lecture stood out to me: For a computer to be a quantum computer the physical systems that encode the individual bits must have no physica
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Oh, you're a fucking Nazi. Take your phrenology back to Stormfront, buddy. I am actually not, whatsoever a Nazi nor do I have any affiliation with or respect for Stormfront or other white nationalists, race essentialists and related
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This is such incredibly poor agenda-driven "journalism", with cherry-picked data used to (poorly) attack a sort of straw man argument: Asian Americans seem to offer proof that minorities can prosper — and even leapfrog whites — i
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To what extent have others outside Crowdstrike confirmed their findings? They seem mainly based around commonalities in what is understood to be a propriety malware platform/toolset attributed to the Russians. Like a Metasploit-Stuxnet
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Agreed for sure. As someone who's lived or spent time in a number of other cultures I do think there's something excessively (if not uniquely) toxic about American life, which if I had to summarize (and agree with Sebastian Junger
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Fascinating to watch a brief video from Robert Whitaker [1] The core of his argument appears to be that because the brain tends to compensate for disequilibrium, psych drugs in the long-term paradoxically have the opposite effect that they
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by themgt 10y ago
We have a couple legacy Rails <-> Elixir apps being slow-ported forward (low hanging fruit first). The real winner so far for us has been Exq [1], which is a Sidekiq-compatible job library. What that means is you can selectively recei
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9 New Features in Ruby 2.4(blackbytes.info)
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From Wikipedia on Piekle [1]: "Any conceivable emissions reductions policies, even if successful, cannot have a perceptible impact on the climate for many decades", and from this he concludes that, "In coming decades the onl
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This may be a stupid lay question, but to me the existence and usefulness ("realness") of quasiparticles suggests an obvious analogy to actual particles. In other words if we understand that quantum mechanics leads to quasiparticl
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Working at a Shopify expert company [1], I'm curious about Frenzy's relation to / integration with the rest of the Shopify platform, and e.g. whether it will be possible to manage via (additions to) the Shopify API? Is this c
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By the same token, doctors are better equipped to understand (to the extent we can) the neurochemical reactions being caused by drugs and how they act on the brain. I would imagine a doctor who e.g. understands how many anti-depressants wor
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Honestly, analysis of this type (breaking down vote patterns by machine/type and calling out the electronic vote winner) has been presented in previous elections and mainly treated as fringe conspiracy theory. I think it is incredibly
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That's really not a good way to graph the data. If you're rigging an election (within a state) you win by total votes, not how many counties are won. Showing which counties tipped one way or the other by voting machine type is far
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by themgt 10y ago
A little hyperbolic, based on a single line from an exec at a different company in a single ad. I get this is a great way to promote their brand, but it seems pretty close to your standard in-group clickbait marketing: 1) pick a big target
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Yeah that's awful. In Ruby it'd be like: all_checked = todo.select(&:completed?) none_checked = todo.reject(&:completed?) todo_count = todo.count(&:completed?)
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Oracle is currently reviewing the existing Dyn product roadmap and will be providing guidance to customers in accordance with Oracle's standard product communication policies. Any resulting features and timing of release of such featu
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I like that it's called the "Permian Basin". We're literally digging up the sequestered carbon from hundreds of millions of years ago and putting it back up into the atmosphere to rapidly recreate the climate of that per
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Explaining It All to You: The Persistence of Vox(currentaffairs.org)
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Open-access in Nature: http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13009
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NYT comment I found interesting: At this initial stages, one can only make reasonable inferences. As a former Main Justice public corruption prosecutor (with the Public Integrity Section), one can reasonably infer that the emails on their
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by themgt 10y ago
> More transistors were made in 2014 than in all the years prior to 2011. That is an incredible bumper-sticker factoid. Does that pace keep up, that in any given year N we're manufacturing as many transistors as year(0 .. N-4) combi
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“China and Russia are developing battle networks that are as good as our own. They can see as far as ours can see; they can throw guided munitions as far as we can,” said Robert O. Work, the deputy defense secretary, who has been a driving
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Many-body physics and the capacity of quantum channels with memory [pdf](arxiv.org)
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Where is the line drawn though? Can Tesla sign a contract with McDonald's and then prohibit my self-driving car from taking me to Taco Bell? Could Tesla allow me to deliver pizzas for Papa Johns but not my local pizza shop?
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It's hard to draw the line though: "needy Latinos", that environmentalists should "get a life", the sneering comments about Catholics, the constant chummy relations with the media and a reporter leaking info "b
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I believe you're right. I hold out some hope someone will come up with a magic atmospheric CCS, but realistically what we're doing is lying to ourselves that global-scale negative emissions will become feasible, because it's
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Odd though, the author just recently reviewed another mechanistic consciousness book and recommended this old essay [1] in the review. There seems to be a real resistance towards accepting what's hard about the hard problem. http:&#x2

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