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First Demonstration of Artificial Intelligence on a Quantum Computer(medium.com)
5 points by draq 12y ago|0 comments
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The Gamergate controversy(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by draq 12y ago|0 comments
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by draq 12y ago
"Certainly the increased use of computer models, such as GCMs, cries out for the separation of those who make the models from those who verify them. [...] an independent research institute [...] must fund more than one team to do resea
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by draq 12y ago
A more recent story concerning the resignation of a famous climate scientist, Lennart Bengtsson, former director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, from a controversial lobby group due to what Crichton calls "conse
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Attorney accidentally sues himself(overlawyered.com)
3 points by draq 12y ago|0 comments
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Big Bang breakthrough team allows they may be wrong(phys.org)
1 points by draq 12y ago|0 comments
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by draq 12y ago
"Quality software" can also contain fatal errors. I don't know the title implies. Just because the production of something is expensive, doesn't mean that you have to charge money for its use (of course, it would be very
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by draq 12y ago
If it was hosted by the Royal Society, wouldn't it be on their website ( https://royalsociety.org/events/?type=all&direction=past )?
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Figure out German animal names with this handy flowchart(twentytwowords.com)
1 points by draq 12y ago|0 comments
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Dunning–Kruger effect(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by draq 12y ago|0 comments
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CERN's Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge(kaggle.com)
1 points by draq 12y ago|0 comments
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Functional Programming Principles in Scala with Martin Odersky(coursera.org)
37 points by draq 12y ago|15 comments
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by draq 12y ago
I think this is another example of the QWERTY effect. Obviously, there are many pieces of word processing software that are superior, but he is so used to his system that, to him, the transaction cost outweighs the opportunity cost.
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by draq 13y ago
Your comment manages to be on top despite having little content. So? EDIT: HN is not a journalistic site. So don't worry about the decline of journalism in this context. Personally, I think it is very legitimate to appeal to sentiments
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by draq 13y ago
I thought the introductory statement is ironical, but, apparently, it is not. I don't think this article resounds well within the HN community since it is a "mainstream space" that is being criticized. However, despite its p
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by draq 13y ago
<irony>Infrastructure provided for free by MPS?</irony>
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by draq 13y ago
No, but again, sociopathy is currently more an insult than a clearly defined "disorder".
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by draq 13y ago
So data and information are irreversibly lost? In the Age of Internet?
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Trust and the NSA: Who can you trust?(economist.com)
13 points by draq 13y ago|1 comments
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In No One We Trust(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
37 points by draq 13y ago|15 comments
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Throwing out the textbook: Salt surprises chemists(eurekalert.org)
2 points by draq 13y ago|0 comments
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Why do Germans shun Twitter?(economist.com)
3 points by draq 13y ago|1 comments
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by draq 13y ago
Exposure to air. The higher, the windier, the farther the spores get.
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How Cronyism, Bad Management and Too Many Cooks Sank Healthcare.gov (slate.com)
1 points by draq 13y ago|0 comments
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The war on terror is Obama's Vietnam(economist.com)
2 points by draq 13y ago|0 comments
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by draq 13y ago
Not necessarily, but maybe the employer is subtly implying: "Old people don't need apply." But if the employer wrote the job description with the intention of causing potential sexual arousal (e.g. if that perk is amongst fre
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What's your Twitter genotype? - Predicting future behaviour(technologyreview.com)
1 points by draq 13y ago|0 comments
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Martyr myth: Suicide bombers are really suicidal and exhibit signs of depression(newscientist.com)
4 points by draq 13y ago|0 comments
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by draq 13y ago
Your title is extremely misleading. I cannot possibly think why giving the students a third option is indentured servitude. If anything, it liberates the students from the servitude of their student loans.
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by draq 13y ago
I think it's alien.

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