godarderik

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by godarderik 8y ago
They never found MH370.
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by godarderik 9y ago
What? An airplane is 飞机，where 飞 = flying and 机 = machine
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Europe to Remove 500-Euro Bill, the ‘Bin Laden’ Bank Note Criminals Love(nytimes.com)
1 points by godarderik 10y ago|0 comments
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by godarderik 11y ago
While a noble idea, this seems quite incompatible with the first amendment.
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What Is the Point of College?(nytimes.com)
2 points by godarderik 11y ago|0 comments
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by godarderik 11y ago
While this does look like a great resource, I find it hard to take him seriously when he writes things like this: https://profhugodegaris.wordpress.com/masculism/
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by godarderik 11y ago
Why does it have to be an Indian student? Your point would be equally valid without racist generalizations.
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Split Image: Penn Runner's Depression Masked on Social Media(espn.go.com)
4 points by godarderik 11y ago|0 comments
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How a Silicon Valley teen made thousands hacking a popular online game(businessinsider.com)
5 points by godarderik 11y ago|0 comments
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by godarderik 12y ago
This article is particularly relevant to me. I’m originally from a suburb of Cleveland less than half an hour from where the OP works, and I’m currently an undergraduate at Harvard. There are definitely some differences between the areas, a
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Why I Am Teaching a Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet”(newyorker.com)
5 points by godarderik 12y ago|0 comments
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by godarderik 12y ago
http://imgur.com/xUOT7ja Here are the first ten pages, I can post more if anyone wants me to.
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by godarderik 12y ago
I'm currently a freshman at an Ivy League school where no credit is offered for AP exams, and I believe that this policy is similar at many of our peer institutions. The exams can be used for placement purposes; however, they aren&#x2
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by godarderik 12y ago
I made the other submission and it's actually the exact same article, there is just a small difference in the URL. Interesting to see how this took off when the other one did not.
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MoMA Has Mistaken Video Games for Art (2013)(newrepublic.com)
1 points by godarderik 12y ago|2 comments
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Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience?(nytimes.com)
15 points by godarderik 12y ago|7 comments
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by godarderik 12y ago
Reading this story brings to mind the history of algorithms in the field of machine translation. Early attempts at the problem attempted to explicitly define the rules of converting between tongues using meticulously laid out systems of voc
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by godarderik 12y ago
Fixed it, thanks.
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by godarderik 12y ago
According to a study published several years ago, mainstream languages seem to operate on an information density/speed tradeoff [1].The authors found that languages that are spoken faster seem to encode less information per syllable th
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An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012)(newyorker.com)
272 points by godarderik 12y ago|106 comments
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What Makes Employees Work Harder: Punishment or Pampering?(theatlantic.com)
64 points by godarderik 13y ago|52 comments
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by godarderik 13y ago
The entire list is here: http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/dr_executed_offenders.html
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In Texas, a Catalog of Last Rants, Pleas and Apologies(nytimes.com)
1 points by godarderik 13y ago|1 comments
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The K-Pop Plastic Surgery Obsession(theatlantic.com)
1 points by godarderik 13y ago|0 comments
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George W. Bush is smarter than you(keithhennessey.com)
97 points by godarderik 13y ago|76 comments
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A breakup letter to stanford university(returnthegayze.tumblr.com)
1 points by godarderik 14y ago|0 comments
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Pre-Med’s New Priorities: Heart and Soul and Social Science(nytimes.com)
1 points by godarderik 14y ago|0 comments
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by godarderik 14y ago
That's really interesting, I had never really thought about it like that before. Can you elaborate a little more about your in experience in the West versus somewhere else? While I do agree this is an issue, how would you actually go about
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by godarderik 14y ago
On the contrary, the Coursera courses that I've taken have been nothing less than top notch. The teachers have been great and easy to understand, the programming assignments challenging and relevant, and the whole experience felt polished a
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by godarderik 14y ago
I think he's referring to high school, where the selection of computer courses is far more limited. At my high school right now (in the United States), the only computer course covers using MS Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Absolutely no prog

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