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your-nanny
7y ago
I hadn't known about the microbe end of the story. I'm kinda disappointed. I had long imagined that the inevitable process of fossil fuel generation and accumulation would eventually turn the earth into a flaming tarball, and it w
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your-nanny
7y ago
so somebody here thinks pornhub's recommendation system doesn't also encourage the viewing of more and more extreme content? if so, say so, don't be lazy.
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7y ago
YouTube has been criticized for it's recommender system tending to push viewers to more and more extreme content. I think the porn tube industry no different.
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7y ago
and yet everyone pretends the opposite
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7y ago
why
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your-nanny
7y ago
Actually, large amount of cash instruments are pretty unweildy things. And you still have to pay to secure it in the meanwhile.
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7y ago
So, I've always wanted to write novels, and after some nice feedback on some vignettes, I've decided to give it a go. But, not quitting my day job as a programner. My wife is a visual artist: I know how that goes. The realities of
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your-nanny
7y ago
sqlite to the rescue?
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7y ago
Nai e me, but it seems an extension scheme, in which additional features can optionally be added (for $) as desired is way to go.
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7y ago
interesting point. I suppose in LOC tho.
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7y ago
For someone who still has many many textbooks sitting in their shelf many years after graduating, I find this very sad.
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7y ago
not strong enough for the frame without being too heavy. there are wood composite bicycles, today, but that is whole other thang
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7y ago
I just want to pipe in here and mention that there is lots of evidence that Americans are moving around far less than they used to, and this has economist worried because of its implications for economic mobility. See: https://ww
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7y ago
I imagine psychologists care a great deal about that difference.
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7y ago
One result that disagrees with other results does not "debunk" anything. It merely changes our confidence in the hypothesis. It's not even clear that this result contradicts that social psych result.
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7y ago
Does the paper account for whether bystanders knew the individuals involved? You can't treat a group of people on the street as an unstructured independent sample...
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7y ago
Just noting here that there is no necessary contradiction between the probability of at least one bystander helping increasing with number of bystanders, and the individual propensity of helping going down with an increasing number of bysta
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7y ago
I think you should take a harder look at what is going on here.
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7y ago
but this is just as much about growing timber. 30 years, the trees will be cut down. that's if some bug doesn't eat up the monoculture first. my bet is that a rich diverse ecosystem will suck up far more carbon in long run.
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7y ago
or a way for Germany to eliminate British sea power in Mediterranean, and provide convenient German land route to Africa
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7y ago
I know there has been some recent discussion within the python community that Python's batteries included philosophy is failing the community, with some arguing that the python standard library should be streamlined. But I see third pa
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7y ago
thanks!
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7y ago
thanks!
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7y ago
actually it may be the case that the soil is too poor, or the long winter nights and too short days is too inhibitive. I know that efforts to reforest Iceland have not been very successful. even if it worked, could be too slow
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7y ago
I wonder about growing trees in regions losing permafrost from GW
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7y ago
disable camera. the day that is no longer possible is the day I go offline
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7y ago
so, we use eye tracking in experiments to look at how people acquire information. For example, you can parameterize a drift diffusion model using input from gaze. But the equipment is not cheap. I see this as a means of acquiring that sort
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there is already sophisticated eye tracking equipment more suitable for military purpose. Might be useful for spying, but not more useful than key logging or screen capture.
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7y ago
can you point to me a proof of that property.
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7y ago
does this algorithm have a name?
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