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by xhevahir 3mo ago
It's about brazen corruption in one of the world's most famous institutions. Taking an interest in it isn't as irrational as all that.
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
> Lobbying is cheap because it’s just making powerpoint presentations to Congressional staffers. No. It is not. For starters, ask anybody who works at a DC restaurant or sporting venue.
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
I'm reminded of a remark I read somewhere that the em dash is "almost excessively versatile." > As for semicolons, semicolons are neat, they are like the coolest punctuation mark after the em dash All that energy spent on
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
> One of Damore's mistakes was opting for a high-decoupling route on a politically charged topic instead of a low decoupling route. Why does the formation of correct beliefs, a topic people have been discussing for millennia, requir
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
That doesn't sound to me like a consequence of their free-as-in-beer business model. It sounds like an accurate reflection of business culture and the way people talk in that sort of milieu.
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
As far as I can tell neither Callard nor anyone else talk about this concept anywhere outside this interview. Odd.
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
What about "Germanic" society are you saying is incompatible with this? (English is a Germanic language, by the way.)
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
What technology is this using? pYIN? Deep learning? I don't see any indication.
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
I was able to do that using SoundHound on my Windows Phone 10 years ago.
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
It's an arbitrary metric that creates an illusion of rigor. That looks to me like an instance of the quantitative (or McNamara) fallacy, and a pretty typical application of pseudoscience.
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
Smells like EA. The "Evidence stance" measure in particular, which purports to gauge a study's rigorousness as a simple percentage, is rank pseudoscience.
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
> Most of my cards are handwritten by me and accommodate my brain. I'm guessing from all the talk about Anki that people are missing this part. I think these frictionless, digital replacements for note cards are solving the wrong pr
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by xhevahir 3mo ago
I spent a day or so traveling through Germany with my parents a few weeks ago as part of a (much longer) trip and a common refrain during that day was, "So much for German efficiency." Frankfurt's airport was a tiring and fru
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by xhevahir 4mo ago
The English article for "let it rot" (or a related phrase) seems to be here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping
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by xhevahir 5mo ago
More like demanding cash. This looks like a manic episode. The post was flagged, and now it's gone back to not being flagged, which I don't understand.
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by xhevahir 5mo ago
There's plenty of reading material about her controversies: https://unherd.com/2019/02/techs-dark-overlords/?edition=us https://www.yahoo.com/news/rogue-occupy-wall-street-account-..
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by xhevahir 5mo ago
The candidate you're describing is a unicorn. Even assuming that this acqui-hire routine is a good way of finding such people, that doesn't answer the question why they're needed for "some dumb integration to make Hubspo
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by xhevahir 5mo ago
The few mentions of plugins lead me to believe that Files.md won't have them, and this: >Do we really need this feature? Will it help us to do the real job, or does it just give dopamine? Makes me think that requests for features ge
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by xhevahir 5mo ago
> Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese) This is enough to discredit the whole infographic in my eyes. No matter what the CPC or anybody else may claim, these are distinct languages, and not dialects. Not only that, but in some of these place
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by xhevahir 5mo ago
JD isn't a terminal degree. There's two higher degrees I think. MDs and JDs are professional professional qualifications, which makes their situation a bit different from purely academic degrees. For example the ABA acts kind of l
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by xhevahir 5mo ago
There's a lot of them. Just search for Frutiger Aero on GitHub.
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by xhevahir 5mo ago
The "apply my ability" is doing a lot of work, so to speak, in the above exchange. Work that might eventually well be automated away.
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Write programs you can still hack when you feel dumb(draketo.de)
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by xhevahir 6mo ago
Conspiracy theories were a lot more recondite back then, less accessible to what people today would call "normies." Before X Files you would rarely encounter them unless you subscribed to the Loompanics catalog, or ran into a LaRo
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by xhevahir 6mo ago
That rule reminds me of Raya. Isn't the whole idea of that service (which is only available on iOS, I think) that it's only intended for a small group of users, who've been invited?
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by xhevahir 6mo ago
And a neural network is really just a composed, non-linear parameterized function that maps input vectors to output vectors. Sometimes metaphors or analogies do contribute something valuable.
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by xhevahir 6mo ago
People downvoting the above should consider whether the genetic fallacy is really so much a fallacy when we're talking to a bunch of machines. I'm pretty sure the parent comment is the work of a bot, and I have no interest in talk
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by xhevahir 6mo ago
He may be a little guy but that doesn't mean that he's a fall guy. The Special Forces at Fort Bragg are a law unto themselves. I've just finished reading The Fort Bragg Cartel and the things some of those guys have been up to
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by xhevahir 6mo ago
When I first played the NES the pause feature impressed me even more than did the graphics. Apparently Atari already had the feature on the 5200 console, but even as late as 1988 it felt like magic to hit a button, go and eat dinner, and an
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by xhevahir 6mo ago
I've never been able to get into Calvino. Those works of his that I've read mostly felt like games and puzzles, sterile mental exercises, or inconsequential fantasy.

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