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Tesla officially breaks ground at Gigafactory 3(electrek.co)
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Google to Lease Office Space in a Los Angeles Mall(wsj.com)
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Rust WebAssembly 2019(blog.ryanlevick.com)
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IBM patents more than all of Germany(twitter.com)
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Arrhythmia detection and classification using a deep neural network(nature.com)
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Using Investors to Find the Ideal Startup Job (2015)(codingvc.com)
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GitLab’s CEO reflects on GitHub’s move to offer free private repos(about.gitlab.com)
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TypeScript and Rust are #5 and #13 on GitHub(mobile.twitter.com)
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Rust at speed – Building a fast concurrent database [video](youtube.com)
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The marginal return to the tough-on-crime stance may be close to zero(aeaweb.org)
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Rural areas are aging faster than urban areas(twitter.com)
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Greek affiliation reduces student grades by 0.1-0.3 standard deviations(aeaweb.org)
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No mainland China students were admitted to MIT through early action this year(beta.scmp.com)
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by whoisnnamdi 8y ago
This is an important point that is commonly overlooked. Traffic is a sign of something. It’s a sign that the benefits of transportation outweighs the costs of transportation. Given this, high traffic often implies that there is pent up dema
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by whoisnnamdi 8y ago
This is incorrect. Austerity can involve tax increases, spending cuts, or combinations of the two. It’s not limited simply to spending cuts. That said, it very much matters what “kind” of austerity one engages in, as research indicates that
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by whoisnnamdi 8y ago
Sure - perhaps alchemy in the sense that many practitioners are simply throwing things against the wall and seeing what sticks, but not in the sense that there isn't anything real behind all the math or engineering. Many advancements i
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by whoisnnamdi 8y ago
Thanks. Slowing realizing some of the benefits of dicts and trying to use them more in my code where I would have otherwise defaulted to another data structure. They really are quite useful and intuitive to work with once you understand bas
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by whoisnnamdi 8y ago
As another poster mentioned, don’t think that g is necessarily in opposition to bundles of domain-specific abilities. I see g as an attempt at dimensionalality reduction - can the essence of what is admittedly a complex phenomenon be boiled
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by whoisnnamdi 8y ago
I don’t think he gives himself nearly enough credit here If I could pay net $137 and end up with an email subscriber list of 2.5K along with a burgeoning personal brand centered around an exciting topic I’m interested in, I’d take that an
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by whoisnnamdi 8y ago
Think it should be kept in mind that what Taleb is arguing here is the limited usefulness of IQ in predicting success above a certain IQ level, let’s say the mean. He 100% acknowledges its usefulness for predicting success of lower IQ perso
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by whoisnnamdi 8y ago
This is very cool, and I can see all sorts of use cases where a tool like this could be valuable. Definitely will try to keep in mind that a tool for fast differentiation of arbitrary functions exists out in the world when starting my next
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Wage Discrimination in the NBA(papers.ssrn.com)
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