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by unabst 10y ago
> It took my mother, my boyfriend, and my therapist together to convince me to stick around until I found something new. When you're crying every day and your closest people are forcing you to keep working... Something has to be wro
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by unabst 11y ago
There is no good side or bad side in American justice or anywhere with similar systems. The defense is expected to lie through their teeth even if they're guilty, and the prosecution is expected to convict at all costs regardless of in
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by unabst 11y ago
The more data you have, the more creative we can get with it. Gather enough statistics, and you're bound to find something that backs your theory. Traditional intuition insists this isn't suppose to happen. But that's why sta
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by unabst 11y ago
For the most part, they don't teach either. They don't teach good communication skills, nor do they teach you to shut up. Typically, students will talk, and get scolded when the teacher doesn't want them to talk. That's
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by unabst 11y ago
Absolutely. Also, for many immigrants, the American Dream can end at being working middle class with a house and enough money to pay for their child's tuition... except, being middle class in the US is no walk in the park.
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by unabst 11y ago
An external struggle can be empowering and meaningful. It's when the struggle is over and the dream is not all it was cracked up to be that we begin to struggle with ourselves. And that is depressing. Now we are enslaved and fighting t
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by unabst 11y ago
Right. You continue to exemplify my point. Talkers truly underestimate the bandwidth it takes to engage someone properly, and if you're not engaging someone properly, your presence is just insulting. If you're in an open office wi
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by unabst 11y ago
Communication skills are important, but you need to know when to shut the fuck up. That's what's universally important and entirely true. Instructions are never perfect. It's whether you can get the job done anyway, once you
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by unabst 11y ago
So I guess this was a comedy piece? Some more serious issues I've noticed: #1. They don't teach you that teachers are paid to put up with you. Employers aren't paid to put up with you. They're paid to fire people who was
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by unabst 11y ago
This piece has nothing to do with programming. The problem is simply with jobs, and a common career mentality, which goes something like this: "If you do good work, your career will take care of you. If you weren't taken care of,
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by unabst 11y ago
> humans beat calculators because we create them The new calculator will beat the old calculator. Humans don't beat calculators themselves. But only humans have the capacity to improve on calculators. And this is truly all we'
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by unabst 11y ago
Using words such as "intuition" just makes the line between Strong and Weak AI blurrier, but that line is absolute. Think of it this way. Strong AI would lose to Weak AI at Go. So Strong AI is not in AphaGo's evolutionary pat
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by unabst 11y ago
This. It's absolutely about overfitting/underfitting. Just as our eyes see a lot more but can only focus on one thing, abstractions are just that. They focus on specific things. But the problem with the physical reality is that it
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by unabst 11y ago
The abstraction paradox is with regard to any abstraction. Theories are abstractions. But science is not just theories. It's application as you say. Arguments should be over accuracy and application. To simply prove a theory wrong is r
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by unabst 11y ago
The moment the theory is the reality, it's exact. Like cartoons. Like definitions. Like math. But physics and science is about reality. It's about the physical apple, not the word apple. A real apple is physical. There is no amoun
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by unabst 11y ago
I call this the "abstraction paradox". There is no way that an abstraction can fully equate what it abstracts. "Apple" could never equal a real apple. But abstraction allows us to think about real apples. In science, all
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by unabst 11y ago
> true of two American speakers Absolutely. Red and blue states. The east and west coast. Socioeconomic class. Gender, race, age, education. You and I. But those are the differences. What we have in common also pertains. Almost everyone
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by unabst 11y ago
If anything, the author could have gone into Wittgenstein more, but she did cover a lot of ground... My stab at it: Before Wittgenstein philosophers were obsessed with the factual nature of words and tried mapping everything correctly (logi
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by unabst 11y ago
"There are no synonyms." [1] Does "apple" in English truly equal "ringo" in Japanese? The context is similar, but the iconic implications and inferences are not an exact match. There is something uniquely Ameri
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by unabst 11y ago
1) But don't they also have an advantage with economies of scale? Maybe anything below x million isn't worth it, but cost-wise they should definitely have an advantage. And why not try them at least. 2) Right. Except ads definitel
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by unabst 11y ago
I can see how none of these would be the silver bullet, but I can't see how scale is the problem. If you're too big, then, what? Are you saying their burden for profit is too big? The burden they have a reputation for ignoring? An
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by unabst 11y ago
Twitter users have money because adults have money. The inability to make any value proposition worth paying for is almost admitting you're worthless. Per James Altucher, for my 10 ideas a day exercise: - Pay-to-view, pay-to-subscrib
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by unabst 11y ago
Framing mistakes like this really bothers me. Your passion was not your weak spot. Your weak spot was allowing others to exploit it. Passion can be exploited just like anything else. Those who are looking to exploit will exploit anything. C
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by unabst 11y ago
All the FBI or anyone with a locked phone has to do is wait without updating the phone. Eventually an exploit for that version will emerge. It appears they've already caught up to iphone5 and iOS 8. http://www.ebay.com/
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by unabst 11y ago
This. Constants don't come first. Experimental measurement does. It's not like constants are backed by anything. They are what they are because they're always the same no matter how many times we measure them. If they changed
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by unabst 11y ago
> "hiding" structure inside of them Physical constants all "hide" structure inside of them. They are abstractions of some physical virtue of nature; whatever physical in nature that gives rise to the constant. All co
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by unabst 11y ago
This article continues to feed our baseless fears of AI. If we're looking for an existential threat to humankind, we have it already in nuclear bombs. If you want a "kill switch" compatible with any robot, it's called a
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by unabst 11y ago
Weak AI will never become self-aware. Actually, neither will strong AI unless we are including awareness as one of it's strong traits (some do, some don't). Awareness is a virtue in and of itself, and any machine that has it will
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by unabst 11y ago
Steve Tyler of Aerosmith: "If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing." ... and you know he would say that.
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by unabst 11y ago
Excuses go well with dodging blame, but the greater issue there is that there is someone blaming you. You assumed I blame people. I don't. From the article, the coach made an excuse because he was expecting to be blamed. Instead, he wa

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