aston

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We Tried to Detect Bots in Comments. We Found a More Interesting Problem(musubilabs.ai)
10 points by aston 4mo ago|0 comments
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by aston 3y ago
You may be interested in this newer paper, reconciling the work of Killingsworth and Kahneman & Deaton. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208661120
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by aston 4y ago
I don't think you want this, but just in case you do :) def encapsulate(mod): import types out = types.SimpleNamespace() def replace_global_scope(f): # via https://stackoverflow.com
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by aston 5y ago
You might like Go-Chainable: https://github.com/neurocollective/go_chainable
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Neo Reimagines the Accelerator(neo.substack.com)
1 points by aston 5y ago|0 comments
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Building at the Early Stage(medium.com)
3 points by aston 6y ago|0 comments
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Building at the Early Stage(medium.com)
6 points by aston 6y ago|1 comments
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Death of the Calorie(economist.com)
1 points by aston 6y ago|0 comments
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by aston 6y ago
gron outputs Javascript!
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Spoke - Open Source Text Messaging [Elizabeth Warren Campaign Fork](github.com)
1 points by aston 6y ago|0 comments
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Netflix Party – Watch Netflix Together(netflixparty.com)
5 points by aston 7y ago|0 comments
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Results of Sam Altman's Bubble Talk Bet(daniellemorrill.com)
3 points by aston 7y ago|0 comments
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by aston 7y ago
This is like when you walk into a super complicated legacy code base and immediately have the one magic architectural change that will simplify everything...once you rewrite it from the ground up. The music metadata situation is pretty bad,
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by aston 7y ago
This is a great example of what Marc Andreesen called the Moby Dick theory of big companies [1]. Paraphrased, the behavior of any big company is largely inexplicable when viewed from the outside. And from the inside, too! [1] https:/&
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by aston 7y ago
Should lawmakers resist? There's no lack of housing and infrastructure projects worth spending on, state-wide.
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Index, Stripe back bookkeeping service Pilot.com with $40M(techcrunch.com)
4 points by aston 7y ago|1 comments
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Stripe backs $40M investment in AI accounting service Pilot.com(fortune.com)
15 points by aston 7y ago|11 comments
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by aston 7y ago
Blake Ross (co-founder of Mozilla) has a great post about his journey with Aphantasia here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
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Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase(keybase.io)
213 points by aston 8y ago|97 comments
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by aston 8y ago
A nice video explainer involving the authors of this paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCrtk-pyP0I
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by aston 8y ago
Spotify skipped their lockout period, with pretty boring results.
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by aston 8y ago
Here's the simplest way to understand where your money goes (assuming you're a subscriber, otherwise where the ad revenue earned on your eyeballs goes): For each song you stream, that artist gets a fixed fraction of a cent. Unless
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Quora User Data Compromised(help.quora.com)
11 points by aston 8y ago|1 comments
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React Hook recipes every day(usehooks.com)
23 points by aston 8y ago|6 comments
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by aston 8y ago
Your dates are sorted incorrectly. W2010 happens before S2010, etc.
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by aston 8y ago
The distribution by batch is pretty interesting: S2011 10 W2012 10 S2012 9 S2014 7 W2013 7 S2013 6 W2016 6 W2015 6 S2016 5 W2014 5 S2010 4 S2015 4 W2011 4 S2009 3 W2008 2 W2007 2 W2017 2
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by aston 8y ago
Louder is not really worse when it comes to music. In fact, try turning up whatever you're listening to right now--it'll actually sound better! The loudness wars (mass application of massive compression that reduces dynamic range)
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Keybase Exploding Messages(keybase.io)
413 points by aston 8y ago|142 comments
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by aston 8y ago
Another way to frame this is that it's easier to get rich via your investments than your direct labor. Working at a company that is willing to give you equity is a funny sort of investing: you're investing your time rather than yo
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Financial pitfalls to avoid with your startup(pilot.com)
8 points by aston 8y ago|0 comments

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