eli_awry

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If Steve Jobs were handed a pen and told, “sell me this pen”, how would he?(quora.com)
2 points by eli_awry 11y ago|1 comments
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by eli_awry 13y ago
I think that's a different company - it's not even in Texas.
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by eli_awry 13y ago
Because people help themselves to food, everyone takes like 1/2 meat and then the first six people take 1/2 veg as well. I agree, for single serving meals like sandwiches that are not easily dividable, it makes sense to only have a few vege
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by eli_awry 13y ago
As a vegetarian fed by ZeroCater, it feels like a lot of the time the thinking goes something like 'we have 20 meat-eaters and 3 vegetarians - let's get 20 lamb/chicken shish kebaps and 3 vegetables ones!' It sucks to have to make a meal ou
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Khan Academy Launches First State-Wide Pilot In Idaho(informationweek.com)
69 points by eli_awry 14y ago|6 comments
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by eli_awry 14y ago
I totally would. I just got a MaKay MaKey because it's a cool thing that lets me tinker around a little and do some fun stuff, without the commitment of having to get a ton of soldering stuff etc. But I know that I now have an Arduino which
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by eli_awry 14y ago
My perspective is this: I want to make really awesome intelligent tutoring systems. I'm inspired by Enders Game, Diamond Age, and the Aristotle essay by Hillis. I want to do this because I think that the current model for distributing educ
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by eli_awry 14y ago
Well, the premise of The Dispossessed is that the anarcho-syndicalist society actually becomes an oppressive monolithic power. As a result, the protagonist is unable to find an outlet for his special talents, and has to turn to other means
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by eli_awry 14y ago
I haven't had exposure to the hacker houses on the West Coast, so I can't really speak to that. The motives of hackers I've known usually have to do with impacting the world and making it better for more people. I've been in punk houses wit
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by eli_awry 14y ago
Because some people might not know: Wobbly=member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a union opposed to capitalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World . They're over a century old, and are still active.
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by eli_awry 14y ago
So part of the problem is their alternatives to capitalism. Which are mostly primitivist (as in, destroy infrastructure) communist (in the central planning, grey way depicted in i.e. The Dispossessed) or just kinda goofy. As a lifestyle cho
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by eli_awry 14y ago
The communities of kids like that that I know make circuses and free schools and are extraordinarily well-read.
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by eli_awry 14y ago
I agree - I think it's somewhat cultural. That community has a lot of good ideas, but few fleshed-out solutions, which are harder and require more technical/modeling skills. It's hardly unique to them - education researchers (for instance,
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by eli_awry 14y ago
It was totally sexy. I think the answer is free copies of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon in every soup kitchen ;)
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by eli_awry 14y ago
There's something in between wasting talent and becoming a worker bee. I was part of a similar community and found it disenchanting because I wanted to make new things. So I left, and now I make a lot of awesome things, and I'm much happier
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by eli_awry 14y ago
I'm a 23 year old with purple hair, but I'm also a PhD student at a top 10 university for computer science. I've hung out in tons of squats and punk houses, and briefly been a street kid, but I got a 2380 on my SATs. I lived in a non-reside
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The New Educational Disruptors(cs.utexas.edu)
5 points by eli_awry 14y ago|0 comments
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Google Map of North Korea Annotated by Everyone - Except North Koreans(nytimes.com)
2 points by eli_awry 14y ago|0 comments
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by eli_awry 14y ago
He doesn't actually say what the positive correlation is, which I find disingenuous and suspicious. Because his scatterplot is so non-detailed, it's about as useful as the following scatterplot of SAT scores: X|X --- X|X Where the axes are
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by eli_awry 14y ago
Vi Hart, who produces these videos, now works at Khan Academy. She's also one of the people to make tau (as an alternative to pi) go viral. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ
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Hexaflexagons(youtube.com)
4 points by eli_awry 14y ago|1 comments
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by eli_awry 14y ago
Another interesting thing would be to let the plea-bargain cases go to trial, with a moot outcome and see how many come up not guilty. Unfortunately, it would be very difficult to motivate lawyers to argue their hardest.
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Chances of being found not guilty(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by eli_awry 14y ago|7 comments
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The failures of teacher evaluations(garyrubinstein.teachforus.org)
1 points by eli_awry 14y ago|0 comments
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by eli_awry 14y ago
For the help of other people: BDFL = Benevolent Dictator for Life. Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life ) doesnt list him as an example, but that doesn't stop him from being pretty close.
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by eli_awry 14y ago
I've spent the last 1.5 years as a machine learning PhD student slowly discovering many of these resources and topics, and I wish I had had this list at the beginning - it contains most of the gems I've found. I'd add that PGM course on Cou
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by eli_awry 14y ago
I looked at about 60,000 distinct users. But you're right about my overall strategy. I chose all of the subreddits with over some number of subscribers (I forget what the number was now.)I ended up with 433 subs. I filtered out the current
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by eli_awry 14y ago
I combatted this in two ways - first, I only looked at the top 433 reddits. There are always going to be the same people cross-subscribed between A and B as between B and A. This graph is not of the number of people cross-subscribed betw
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by eli_awry 14y ago
Some of these issues seem like they could be addressed by in-house people at Reddit better than people on the outside - and I'm pretty sure they're already doing some stuff. One could identify clusters of users who 1) usually only vote for
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by eli_awry 14y ago
That's a cool idea. In the original title, 'Hidden' was 'Latent' - communities that de-facto exist even though they are not explicit. 'Latent' would have been a more precise word, but 'hidden' is more accessible.

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