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by yboris 5y ago
Any time I heard "epistemic" I am reminded of the stellar paper "In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How Lazy and Ignorant Can You Be?" by Michael Bishop Arguing that in numerous settings, even crude simple linear m
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by yboris 5y ago
I have a 4+ year commercial application Video Hub App built with Electron and Angular (it's also charityware - $3.50 of each purchase goes to a cost-effective charity). https://videohubapp.com/en/ https:&#x2F
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Related: yEd graph editor with my favorite feature: automatic diagram untangling / re-arrangement / reflow. https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
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Look at incomes across the world normalized with PPP (Purchasing Power Parity): https://income-inequality.info/ Earning $30k in the US puts one in the top 5% of the world's population with respect to income (adjusted f
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most - by three researchers at Harvard that have spent over a decade helping resolve challenging interpersonal conflicts. I read in it in my early 20s and have been using the framework
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If I'm not mistaken (based on a bunch of philosophy courses I took at Rutgers University a bit over a decade ago), philosophers use "morality" and "ethics" interchangeably - and both terms are, roughly speaking, sys
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Consider an alternative: diff2html - an npm CLI you install and summon with 1 command launches your default browser with a visual diff. https://diff2html.xyz/
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Before I ever commit anything, I always run diff2html command to view my changes in HTML side-by-side (I even have an alias `diff` that makes it fast and easy). https://diff2html.xyz/
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A more-important metric is "How Rich Am I?" - which will blow your mind . The world income distribution is exceptionally unequal and this chart will make it very clear (plus a call to action). https://howrichami.giving
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https://archive.ph/KoBkI
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PSA: For images, there's a finally successor to jpeg: JPEG XL (.jxl) - has lossy and lossless mode; is progressive (you can download just the first parts of the bitstream to get a lower resolution image; and other benefits!) https:&
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9 To 5 Schedule Should Be the Next Pillar of Work to Fall(nytimes.com)
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Try diff2html - just a single npm install command away from viewing your diffs in your browser whenever you run "diff2html" in your terminal (pro tip: alias "diff" to the command). https://diff2html.xyz&#x2F
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Try diff2html-cli -- you alias in your terminal "diff" to the diff2html command and you get a beautiful HTML diff (side-by-side or inline) of the current changes you've made (or against a branch you choose). https:/
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by yboris 5y ago
Reminds me of László Polgár - who wanted to show the world that if focused properly, any child can become stellar at something. He chose chess since it was an easy-to-measure-outcome mental activity. Two daughters become the best and seco
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Forget Small What About Micro Nuclear Energy?(youtube.com)
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Worth noting: itch.io has a Bundle for Ukraine : https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine
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Just wanted to share nps as a nice way to manage scripts for your package.json https://www.npmjs.com/package/nps You can create a dedicated JS file (with comments and more!) that will house your scripts, which you
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You should try Vite - https://vitejs.dev/ - start a TypeScript project in under a minute - no annoying Webpack configuration needed.
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I took a philosophy course in my university focusing on law, covering contracts. The professor gave an example "a band wants to play at a venue, they make a contract; what happens if the venue burns down, who owes who money?" Ther
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I'm baffled that dense contracts with so much money on the line do not have better clarification of the terms. It would take one or two extra sentences to make intentions clear for both parties (e.g. "For example, if neither party
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I'd say the new iMac is better: https://www.apple.com/imac/ Doesn't have a CD drive, but at least for me, I've not used one in a decade.
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Thank you for sharing! I looked around and found this cool link: https://blog.alexellis.io/state-of-netbooting-raspberry-pi-i...
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One of my all-time favorite papers is: In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How Lazy and Ignorant Can You Be by Michael Bishop. The author looks at empirical evidence (experiments) and shows that you can take experts' predictions
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I think your distrust in nutrition studies might stem from the fact there are nefarious entities publishing things. Various industries have a financial interest in making it look like their product, because it contains substance X, is benef
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A more-detailed look at inequality across the world can be seen through this interactive visualization I created: https://income-inequality.info/ Comparing income distributions within countries and between countries in in
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As BA.2 subvariant of Omicron rises, lab studies point to signs of severity(cnn.com)
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Belgium to give workers right to request four-day week(theguardian.com)
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side-note but related: a 1-page year calendar This is my favorite way to organize a year - a beautiful design, one page to collect everything: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/
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See the True Cost of Your Cheap Chicken(nytimes.com)
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