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by unabst 11y ago
When I read posts like this, I used to think I needed to be more persuasive and crafty with how I presented what I was selling. I thought I lacked the skills of a good salesman, so to speak. Then I read somewhere that the greatness of a sal
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> history of reliable judgment Right. This is certainly one path and the path most seem to be on, and exactly the one that needs to be challenged. The key intuition here being that a judgement, which is a decision, is not an answer to a
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by unabst 11y ago
I think AI researchers and engineers tend to get too carried away with decision making, when the more valuable service is about communication of refined knowledge, which if I'm not mistaken is exactly your point. The problem has nothin
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Honestly, we may not even have a word for what we call privacy now. Or at least that would be a future I'd strive for. Our business is our business, and we love to mind our own business already. The government has played the fear card
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This sounds more like 2020. By the year 3000 there is a great chance we'll all have gotten over our fear, our conflict with government, and ourselves. Who wants to know? This is a question easily overlooked, but is crucial to observati
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Science might not be broken for the reasons mentioned, but I find the article overlooks the greatest evidence of all which is the article itself. Objectively deconstructing the practice of p-hacking is science at work and a scientific wor
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> To sum up: when you have people who have no idea what they're doing do statistics, they will do it badly. Or rather, when you have people who have a good idea what they're doing, they will do a good job of getting the results
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Yes, and Yes (hence the "sure"). But what is misleading is that we're often led to believe that what we think or believe is somehow relevant or even important in light of valid objective statements and observations. It's
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The most important process is acquiring evidence. You either have evidence or you don't. It's an observation more than anything. Though if observing what you know counts as thought, then sure (but I'd still rather reserve th
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by unabst 11y ago
Here is a simple definition of critical thinking: Be critical of what is being said until it can be validated tangibly. It only has two requirements. The courage to question what is in front of you, and the tools to test and validate statem
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by unabst 11y ago
This paper provides evidence for what some might consider an obvious conclusion, but there is always value in documenting evidence, better yet, generating it. The paper says established sectors are easier to predict than radical ones, just
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by unabst 11y ago
He makes an important distinction between being able to compute and actually understanding what one is doing. If a computer can do it, a person can then simulate the computer that did it, but that person wouldn't need to understand a w
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by unabst 11y ago
Even with more recent works, many copyright owners haven't uploaded their work to be online (digital, searchable, and shareable).This practice hinders academia also with journals insisting only to sell content and not share it. If ever
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by unabst 11y ago
Better copy: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.83....
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by unabst 11y ago
To immediately think to not do something is often a reflex based on memory, and not a rational decision. Training reflexes is all about applying how the brain works. Taking a hint from dog training, if you punish a dog too late, they forg
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Building shareware and selling it has nothing to do with building a business, let alone co-founders. What the author here has done is comparable to a composer selling music or an author selling a book. He built an ebay tool, and ebay sells
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Regarding NBC, their failure wasn't in the hamburger menu itself. They didn't use it properly. Their design had what looks like a menubar which is the precise anti-pattern to a menu-button. Those items, and what is showing already
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by unabst 11y ago
An experience is not a function of a feature. The browser does not define the experience -- the web developer does. So to say creating too many tools is bad, if anything, is an attack on the web developer for misusing their tools. For this
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by unabst 11y ago
Many entrepreneurs should find this outcome encouraging. No, Google can't just steal your idea even with the full working product before them. Ironically, android was the best heist job from Apple, but it's success is arguably due
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by unabst 11y ago
I love that these open letters give scientists a collective voice helping them weigh in on public debate with the media's blessing. But... saying AI is bad because they make great weapons sounds extremely naive, unless it's a decl
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by unabst 11y ago
But passion is what makes you determined and not give up. Like chasing someone you have a crush on. And imagine wanting to pee in an unfamiliar town or even a foreign country. We would get creative. Starting a company is long-term repetitio
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by unabst 11y ago
Amen. I would go as far to say Police should serve and protect lives, period, including, if not most importantly, those they arrest. Unfortunately being a gun society is likely what makes this impossible. There is a kill or be killed mental
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Actually I don't agree that determination is personal. It boils down to love really. It's the passion that keeps every founder going and most of them wear it on their sleeve in addition to completely embodying it. They use it to h
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We see successful people get lucky all over the place but it's the success that they have in common along with passion and most importantly the intellect to back both. To say their success is owed to luck is an unfalsifiable propositio
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And for those stuck using javascript but with they had static typing there is: http://flowtype.org/ The arguments for flow seem to resonate nicely with the points raised in the article.
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by unabst 11y ago
Your emphasis is on intellect, not wealth class. Middle class is enough to have access to intellect and nurture it with a top tier education. Obama and Dave Chappelle are also products of middle class intellects raising (dare i say) unicorn
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All the parent is saying is they were not upper or elite class. You're saying that much of the middle class in the US is privileged enough, and that these people had more going for them than money in the bank, which is the exact opposi
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Bill was upper middle class. Sure he had ties, but it wasn't wealth that made Microsoft a non-failure, nor was the IBM deal a simple handshake based on privilege.
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But the key common denominator is still education and software. Not poor does not equal rich, and even in Gates case his family wealth was never a factor in funding his company that was profitable early. You just have to be not-poor and sur
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This was truer in the past when entrepreneurs had to build physical products or lobby for their business through established family connections of power. Today wealth is less required as long as a proper education can be paid for. Entrepren

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