gboudrias

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by gboudrias 7y ago
As long as it also applies to juice. It's usually the same amount of "bad sugar" but since it says "orange" on the bottle, people think it's healthy...
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by gboudrias 7y ago
And what's your objection? Zork good Fortnite bad?
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by gboudrias 7y ago
This seems... Unsustainable?
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by gboudrias 7y ago
Really curious how shutting down every service works as a business model.
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by gboudrias 7y ago
The MMPI-2 is the big reference right now. Legally you'll probably need a licensed psychologist to administer it (depending on your state/country), but that would be true of most useful tests.
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by gboudrias 7y ago
This was a few years ago, so things may have changed by now. But as they say, once bitten twice shy, and the wisdom of "just cron it" doesn't work with highly experimental tools like LE was for what I estimate to be the major
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by gboudrias 7y ago
Hi, psychology student here. It's not very good in a psychometric sense, but its validity problems aren't really a concern when it comes to idiographic data ie: "helpful tools for getting to know the people with whom she was
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by gboudrias 7y ago
Yeah "just" a cron job except the implementation changes several times a year. Somehow this automated process was more time-consuming than the previous, manual one.
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by gboudrias 7y ago
For the life of me I can't parse that title.
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by gboudrias 7y ago
Not a radio engineer, but it's the shape of the Faraday cage that matters I think, not the size. The required shape most likely depends on the wavelength, as the idea is to distort the waves... Basically if your grid is too tight (ie a
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by gboudrias 7y ago
And Coke kills people (union leaders) in South America as a cost of doing business. So yeah.
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by gboudrias 7y ago
Agreed. I remember thinking "what don't I get? Why do we need getters and setters?". After some years (and discovering Python), I realized there's nothing to get, it's just ridiculous overengineering 95% of the time
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by gboudrias 7y ago
This is as useless as art, which is to say it appeals to a need not readily apparent to people not familiar with the culture.
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by gboudrias 7y ago
I thought it was the Qualcomm Apple settlement? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19676499 Surely it can't be a coincidence. Though the weather thing might not be either, but if so this was a very well coordinated r
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by gboudrias 7y ago
It's become irrelevant because technology is now the measure of all things. It's an outdated mindset to view science and the pursuit of knowledge as sacred things that must have an order. If the technology is progressing, then the
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by gboudrias 7y ago
He's the poster child of epistemological relativism in science.... Whether he meant this or not I can't say, but his book doesn't seem overly concerned about history for its own sake. I find it too easy to get lost in the hid
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by gboudrias 7y ago
> The gist of his thesis, if I recall correctly, is that scientists are indeed progressing towards a deeper understanding of the universe Interpreting Kuhn is an art unto itself, but I find rather that he is saying progressed can't
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by gboudrias 7y ago
Have some dude oncall? You probably don't need more than one per city. Or do you not expect the car to detect puke and/or a passed-out passenger? Seems like a trivial problem compared to all the recognition software that would be
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by gboudrias 7y ago
Because they can't be under anyone's jurisdiction if they haven't been contacted? It would be like aliens arresting us for breaking galactic laws when we didn't even know there were aliens. If you're asking why they
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Montreal. I'm not a therapist yet, and most people get rejected for the doctorate, but I figure worst case I'll have a bachelor's degree in psychology so with my programming experience I could look into AI companies. Most lik
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Hey I'm doing the same thing! We have little else in common though, mainly I just figured I really want to help people and tech helps in such an abstract way it doesn't feel rewarding. I do meditate though, so my own process isn&#
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by gboudrias 8y ago
You literally said if he offends me I have issues or don't understand him. This disregards the notion that you can understand someone as a fellow scientist and be offended by their indefensible interpretations. Sorry but it's not
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by gboudrias 8y ago
> If he offends you then you either have issues or don't understand him or both, but he would gladly engage with you either way. Hmmm no we can also think he uses mostly weak papers with dodgy methodologies and over-generalizes the
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Holy crap, I don't remember hearing about this. Yeah I'd rather not have that. Reminds me of the Ubuntu hubris and their built-in ads. You just have to wonder what it is that makes big open-source companies so disconnected from t
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I wanted to like OpenStack but at the time I felt like it didn't... Let me? It did everything complicated in a relatively straightforward manner, but I didn't want dev to be complicated. I wanted my dev simple, and I felt like the
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Maybe no one wants to spend money on this, but I think a greater diversity of viewpoints would lead to more trust from the public. It is a hard sell for either party though.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I'm not saying it benefits the public necessarily, I'm saying it benefits those who opt for diversity. I don't expect STEM to have as big an impact on women's liberation as, say, business or politics. I don't think
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by gboudrias 8y ago
Could you explain what point you're making? I can't tell if you're disagreeing with me or not.
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by gboudrias 8y ago
The closer your field's demographics are to your society's, the lower the risk of (unconscious) bias is. Science as a whole should strive to be as unbiased as possible, as that's the closest we can get to objectivity. The sam
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by gboudrias 8y ago
I'm about as anti-Apple as it gets and I agree. You don't need words like "alarming" in an article about audio bugs.

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