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by BucketSort 8y ago
It's also usually true.
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by BucketSort 8y ago
It's funny because statisticians are among the loudest critics of how easily statistics can be abused. I encourage you not to be turned away from a whole field because one bad representative. Professors are humans too and say a lot of
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by BucketSort 8y ago
When we are electing the president by the same principle, I assure you that it is even worse than you can imagine. Societal collapse is imminent. Those who are comforted by their station in life always think they are living in a utopia. You
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by BucketSort 8y ago
You are assuming that the world is well ordered and that all things will balance like that, but it isn't. People don't see those jobs as options, they aren't even aware of the opportunities, and there is social stigma against
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Your only comments on your account defend the organization and you have not disclosed your apparent affiliation: https://words.democracy.earth/@paulaberman
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Yes, good point. Usually you can filter blogs by reading the comments and seeing the reception it got as well as the popularity. If it is an open source project, you can see the stars on GH and read through the issues on the repo to further
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Blog posts other developers make detailing the way they've built a particular project have helped me gain some perspective when looking to understand how people are working in a particular stack. Learning from other projects is good fo
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Apparently this was a Y Combinator startup launched in 2015.
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by BucketSort 8y ago
I think most of what they say is fear mongering and totally irrelevant. For example, the image that says "the biggest threat to democracy: these people never existed" and showing the AI generated faces. How is that the biggest thr
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Create a culture that is so fixated on wealth above all else and this is what happens. When everyone around you is judging you based on what you have and on the successes you've achieved, what motivation does one have to behave morally
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Google and FB having successive outages? Is this just a coincidence or is there some shared infrastructure that would explain this?
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Living for the postmortem on this one.
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Actually the problem with climate change deniers is that they doubt the source and cannot reason about the issue themselves. This is actually one example of needing a system to help people reason. Just telling someone something will not con
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by BucketSort 8y ago
You're welcome!!!
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by BucketSort 8y ago
I'm not talking merely about platforms for discovering information, I'm talking about platforms for thinking. Have you ever seen https://www.bayesialab.com ? I went to one of their workshops in NYC and they produced qui
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by BucketSort 8y ago
What was your reasoning that lead you to believe that the social/political problems of the world won't be fixed with technology? I personally have come to the opposite conclusion. I think we need systems to help us reason about an
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by BucketSort 8y ago
This twitter may be of interest to you, they aggregate information on this topic. https://twitter.com/black_in_ai . I don't know why race is relevant to this article though. Must we make everything a race issue?
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by BucketSort 8y ago
For programmers: It's like being a distributed systems engineer and being expected to just jump into some intricate problem of a physics engine. Sure you can "speak" the same language, but it would take you time to familiariz
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by BucketSort 8y ago
It's always humbling how much effort it takes to implement things. People with "great ideas" really are a dime a dozen. What's rarer is a person with the ability and discipline to carry an idea from conception to complet
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by BucketSort 8y ago
We understand what "smart" means in relation to what one can do in the world, but that says nothing of what it actually is. It's like if I make an analogy: "That guy is like a dog chasing a bone." It only means some
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Once we can rigorously define what "smarter than a four-year-old" means, then yes. But until we even know what we are talking about, no.
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by BucketSort 8y ago
I consider their role to be the people that are exploring mathematical models of phenomena that may or may not exist, so when the regular physicists find something new, there's some mathematical precedent they can use. Physics is about
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Oof that is bad. I admit that I only used it to learn the basic concepts that just did exercises and read the prelude documentation ( which is fantastic ). Thanks for letting me know.
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by BucketSort 8y ago
The main concepts are presented well, but people have complained about it being dated. What in particular do you find outdated?
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by BucketSort 8y ago
It is actually quite important to read up on Haskell if you don't have a background in modern FP. It isn't like other languages where you just see what's different from what you already know. There's a lot of conceptual
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by BucketSort 8y ago
This has been a common point of complaint in Physics since Einstein, and probably before. The idea that you can come up with ideas about how the universe works in the absence of experimentation doesn't sit right with many scientists. T
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by BucketSort 8y ago
I think it depends on what you are doing. If you are just doing API plumbing, the idea of introducing more rigor into the process may seem somewhat absurd. If you are doing real programming, however, Haskell allows you to elegantly structur
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by BucketSort 8y ago
Related: Dijkstra's comments on mathematics and CS - http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EW... . I've personally been getting a lot of satisfaction from learning Haskell an
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by BucketSort 8y ago
It's because my negative tone. And I'm sorry for my tone. It's just that every day I see us slipping further and further into becoming a completely corrupt country without any humanitarian values. In the end, I love everyone
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by BucketSort 8y ago
It's amazing that you got down voted so much. Do people not like facing reality or something?

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