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by whitegrape 11y ago
An average IQ one std dev below other groups does not preclude the existence of individuals who have an IQ two std devs above an average member of the other group. https://antidem.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/glan
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by whitegrape 11y ago
There's an even simpler explanation you get when you control for upbringing. But instead we prefer Occam's Butterknife to the razor. ( https://polymathblogger.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/occams-butt... )
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Additionally there's more than one macro system out there to allow for infix math in Lisp... And for non-mathy things, in Clojure at least you're often using the threading macro -> or some variation of do/doto.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
I remember DDG did side-by-side comparisons, but did they ever just query Google themselves and then do their own stuff on top? Anyway I'm not sure Google can be beaten at all by any particular newcomer, instead they might suffer death
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by whitegrape 11y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, it's generally a lot simpler to redesign your workspace to take advantage of a simpler robot design than it is to get a bunch of more general robots like this that still aren't quite there any
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by whitegrape 11y ago
I think the figure is closer to 100 W average across the day since the brain cannot exist in isolation of the body which needs ~2000 calories daily, but still, we're fairly efficient. We're built with advanced nanotechnology.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
There's an esr version of this I enjoy too: "The single most important kind of intelligence is the ability to see past your own strongly-held preconceptions and your tribe's conventional wisdom and engage reality as it actual
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by whitegrape 11y ago
I find if you can get anyone to consider the tradeoffs of things they believe, that alone makes it possible and worthwhile to have a conversation. But those people are rare. (I think Rich Hickey noted this is even a problem in programming l
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Nice. Did you just do it with strict calorie watching or some other diet? My friend lost his 100lbs in about 5-6 months on Keto, I've used it to lose 50lbs quickly myself, I think it makes the lower calorie count hard to notice... In h
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Sounds like it's more for your daughter to experiment with cooking waffles on than to be of practical use? Kind of like an easy-bake-oven. Though if I had a kid I'd just encourage them to use the full appliances to start with. ;)
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Jaimie[1] said something a while back when he was getting started on constructing his fiberglass boats by hand... "'Dude, why don't you have any tools? Why don't you just go get the right stuff?' To which I respond:
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Giving and receiving the consumable gifts is the best I think, and I'd rather give/receive cash than gift cards as the extreme version of that. I generally wouldn't consider clothing a consumable item though -- I wear socks u
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by whitegrape 11y ago
The demo and step by step blog is great but there is some really bad code in it... Is it idiomatic Wisp to keep the surface-level syntax of Clojure but none of the important bits like immutability and abstractions?
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by whitegrape 11y ago
It doesn't seem like it would apply for all instances and combinations of food. For me, I've had a $90 porterhouse, which was truly delicious, and was indeed worth more (not less) than if I had gotten one $45 alternative cut to ea
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Title needs (2012), I'd love to read a more recent followup if anyone knows about one. My brother didn't show signs of his schizophrenia until his teens (it may have been triggered/hastened by drug use, I haven't kept up
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Either nothing, or $1k-3k spot bonuses. The leads might be able to complain in a few months / hint at leaving and get a significant raise or more RSUs.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Nice one, hadn't seen that particular article about the problem before. A hidden underlying detail in my comment is an assumption that such a waste crisis is so far in the future that we'll have things like space elevators (making
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Nitpick: absence of evidence is evidence of absence.[1] But it is not evidence for just anything... [1] http://oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html
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by whitegrape 11y ago
If I'm very proud of my company, I might be flattered that they too want to work at the same company so much. If my company's just a'ight, I'll think "why? and where have you been working in the meantime?" Addi
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Clojure has syntax for sets. I really like Clojure's data literals. I even think there's a Common Lisp package (or two) out there implementing reader macros to allow Clojure's syntax, but I don't think it's popular
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by whitegrape 11y ago
The US (and the world in general, really) has a lot of open land. We're in no danger of reaching "peak landfill" anytime soon, and if/when we do, it will probably be feasible and cheaper to lift and launch waste into the
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Use of GC in Nim is up to you -- you can malloc/free as you please if you want and avoid it altogether. I'm not sure to what extent you can/can't make use of the standard library if you avoid GC, but even if you lessen y
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Every now and again when I'm really figuratively toked up I go reread the history of Crash Bandicoot and also dream for more Lisp in the games industry (and every other industry). :) But I think Nim is slightly more realistic.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
I wonder if Blow has ever looked at Nim. Sometimes I hallucinate that game devs will have an Awakening and realize it's the way forward.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
If you're a man trying to marry up, you're facing extra challenges if the woman values her family's opinions at all. Not too long ago in pretty much all the civilized world the Father controlled who his daughters wed, you had
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by whitegrape 11y ago
In one sense you're practicing the wrong thing. You need to practice going off from the top of your head, not practice any particular routine or speech. How long can you talk to yourself without going blank on what to say next, or gett
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by whitegrape 11y ago
74% is a lot less than 100%.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
The last bit is funny since it's basically the same thing for people with impostor syndrome (which seems pretty common in the industry) but those people may or may not subjectively feel like they're trying their best regardless. A
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by whitegrape 11y ago
This is mostly true, but I don't think the evidence is there for videogames. What you might find evidence for w.r.t videogames is that they'll change your behavioral responses under stress, for example having played many shooter g
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Daily standups and a fear of being "caught" on those days where you maybe spent the whole day getting around to doing something that would take you 30 minutes in the zone add to the stress. Standups become vague/dishonest to

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