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by tw1010 9y ago
What an incredible twist. I bet most people would have pinned him as the next Jobs or Gates only a few years ago.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I suspect people can be waay harder to model then that.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I love it! But why would you need to verify that your email is associated to your username? What if you'd want to stay anonymous and not let whoever created the app know your private contact information? The information is out there fo
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by tw1010 9y ago
For someone who's not at all in touch or in synch with all this, why should I install it? What is the value proposition? Just to send money to other people in an ideologically pure way?
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by tw1010 9y ago
Which begs the question, since humans have been able to dominate their ecology and competitors to such a massive degree, why didn't our evolution stagnate a long long time ago? The answer, as far as I have read, seems to be that for hu
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by tw1010 9y ago
Easy solutions and shortcuts seems to be the norm when it comes to advice. But as usual with these things, the grown-up advice aught to be kept in mind; remember to try all the low-hanging, boring, solutions first, like diet and exersize, b
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by tw1010 9y ago
From "the social function of intellect"[1]: "Henry Ford, it is said, commissioned a survey of the car scrap yards of America to find out if there were parts of the Model T Ford which never failed. His inspectors came back wit
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by tw1010 9y ago
Is it a canary or a noisy red flag (too noisy to be useful) if the signal has a really high false positive activation rate?
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by tw1010 9y ago
"kind of"
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by tw1010 9y ago
I find this post intriguing not just for the actual effect, but as yet another little signal of the slow and steady mixing of serious-ish mathematics (though mostly applied maths) into engineering culture; which there was almost no trace of
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by tw1010 9y ago
Whenever people say that there's new research that threatens to crumble the foundations of mathematics (like Banach–Tarski) or physics, I try to remind myself that this is mostly just academic. Don't get me wrong, it's import
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by tw1010 9y ago
A lot of these "formulas" become way easier to understand once you've derived them yourself (a few times), just as a heads up. Memorizing mathematics, if you care about taking it seriously for the long term, should be done at
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by tw1010 9y ago
Woah, things are really happening in the intersection of engineering and money. I was sceptical a few years ago, but now that quite a number of applications using technology in the blockchain/bitcoin world are appearing, does it really
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by tw1010 9y ago
How should one prepare financially for the fact that you're going to die one day?
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by tw1010 9y ago
I wonder if other societies would play Minecraft differently. Would people coming from a more egalitarian background do things like this?
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by tw1010 9y ago
Bret Weinstein, the evolutionary biologist, recently discussed similar ideas in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzAgSp_O03I Here is a shorter piece of the interview that focuses a bit more on the specific id
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by tw1010 9y ago
There are good ways and bad ways to interpret the book. Just because good engineers have historically not lived their lives according to these particular buzzwords, does not mean they haven't implicitly incorperated similar, analogous,
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by tw1010 9y ago
Proofs are fun when you study them on your own time. When you're time constrained, as you often are with school, they're way less fun and way more stressful.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Funny how utterly natural and subconsious this stuff becomes after a while. I almost felt like commenting something snyde about how superfluous it is to make it this explicit, but then I realized that it was only a few years ago that it mad
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by tw1010 9y ago
Funny how Medium started out being branded as the one clean template alternative to all the others, and has now devolved into just as cluttered as all the rest.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I suspect it is more likely that the bubble was way overestimated by the media in the past.
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by tw1010 9y ago
So what? Inequality should only matter to you personally if it means the lower bound on income, the poorest of the poor, is going down. If the richest is getting richer, maybe that means the poorest are becoming poorer as a consequence, but
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by tw1010 9y ago
There are now so many people who have read and taken to heart these types of tricks, that displaying that you've read them, even if you come across slighly insincere is itself sometimes a positive social signal (i.e. that you're t
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by tw1010 9y ago
I guess the discrepancy between what I expected the article to be, based on the title, and what it actually was is a good reflection on the fact that development of these types of services is no longer built from first principles, low level
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by tw1010 9y ago
N=1 data point says thing about stock, quick, let's all sell
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by tw1010 9y ago
It's only four items. I appreciated the enumeration.
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by tw1010 9y ago
He's right. But muscles can also break from overuse. Just be careful, ya'll.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Polya's text was targeted towards researchers and people who already understood the basics pretty well. But I don't think the analogy approach is valid (or at least, not recommended) in the context of this thread, where the parent
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I worry about the fact that you're being downvoted, because what you're saying is utterly crucial and important. I fear those who ignore it will waste a lot of time with really misguided ways of doing mathematics. The analogy appr
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by tw1010 9y ago
I guess they wanted to make robots less scary by rooting the story in the idea of babies. But it doesn't really achieve its purpose since there's still the obvious narrative of "oh, so what happends when the baby robots grows

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