yannis7

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by yannis7 8y ago
Adding to the comments of science politicisation, I also believe that the "popularisation" of science has taken a significant blow to its public perception. Take all "I f-g love science"-like websites that portray resear
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by yannis7 8y ago
oh how much I dislike this latest trend in tech-hip employee headshots where they blast insane amounts of light on one's face - that, in combination with the fake smile on all those pics, gives such an eerie effect..
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by yannis7 8y ago
met the co-founder Howie at a dinner in San Fran back in 2012 - I think the app was called Grid back then? Very passionate and driven, I remember him leaving the event early to work on the app. I also remember my typical cynicism (held to m
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by yannis7 8y ago
arrogant and pompous uses of terms "mediocre, soul-sucking, etc etc", while the fundamental ideas of the article range from trivial to minimal-value
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by yannis7 8y ago
Twitter is built short-burst/high-speed communication - the kind that works great for machines but not for humans. The result is that it has turned the world into one massive Medieval village; flash-spreading of rumours, hysteria, big
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by yannis7 8y ago
lol - though I completely disagree with the premise of social media is the new smoking. I would also assume by the time millenials are grampas nobody is gonna be looking at screens but through some AR glasses/lenses
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by yannis7 8y ago
I've personally deleted NYT from "My Life Forever" - couldn't be better off
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by yannis7 8y ago
read "rally Americans against Russians[Democrats]/China[Republicans]"
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by yannis7 8y ago
I find the earlier/Socratic dialogues, from Symposium to Apology, much easier to read, more fluid and dynamic - that probably has to do with the character of Socrates himself. Works such as the Republic are a bit too heavyweight &#x2F
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by yannis7 9y ago
I'm surprised how many people mention reduction of sugar intake as a component of productivity boosting. Though I am currently on a low-carb diet for weight control, the times I remember me being the most productive were when I was eat
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by yannis7 9y ago
with all due respect my friend, and honestly I don't mean to insult you, but what you're describing "drugs are everywhere / everyone does them / everyone works best with them / it's all prevalent and norma
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by yannis7 9y ago
Back in my academia years, I was really frustrated with that group of researchers, "cult of power law" I called them - mainly centered around Santa Fe Institute. In all their talks, the pattern was always the same: 1) take a datas
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by yannis7 9y ago
no "provincial" backstabbing in LA/NYC - God no.
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by yannis7 9y ago
I find that the biggest intellectual mistake of pessimists is that they take an actuarial view of reality: "99% of startups fail, thus we are doomed from the get-go and our <current problems> are evidence of that". This migh
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by yannis7 9y ago
Just indicates how many bored hipsters have enough free time to engage in post-ironic trolling
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by yannis7 9y ago
just another attempt by the witch-hunting media trash to portray tech people as the "new bankers". it is amazing how similar those "respectable" metropolitan left-wing newspapers are to their populist-right counterparts:
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by yannis7 9y ago
On your point, might be worth mentioning that Facebook is starting to lose its focus with acquisitions such as Oculus Rift - which Zuck considers a major strategic move
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by yannis7 9y ago
I guess my point was that the "moral" aspect of academia (="pushing the limits of knowledge") has faded away over the last few decades. Currently departments are pressing researchers towards output rather than long-term
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by yannis7 9y ago
it will definitely be fun, both being a student + working on your own project. From my experience, for some reason PhD advisors tend to work well/really like mature students. No hard data on this, just an empirical observation across 3
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by yannis7 9y ago
Academia nowadays is a high-tech bureaucracy; you are forced to churn out documents (papers) that need to cite other documents, and you're evaluated based on your position in the inter-document citation network. Then you have to write
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by yannis7 9y ago
nothing screams "disconnected coastal elite" more than a young hip billionaire who thinks that his 50-state "poverty safari" trip resonates with voters
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by yannis7 9y ago
EVE is even more fun to listen to... I often have the soundtrack playing while working
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by yannis7 9y ago
one additional reason not to feed that clickbait machine
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by yannis7 9y ago
I would frame this on my wall - spot on
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by yannis7 9y ago
...or London. Far less distractions too.
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Peter Thiel – The Only Living Trump Supporter in Silicon Valley(theguardian.com)
3 points by yannis7 10y ago|0 comments
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by yannis7 10y ago
Back in the day if you were playing D&D you were worshipping the devil - now if you play video games you hate various societal groups. So interesting how puritanism evolves