grepherder

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by grepherder 13y ago
Actually, you were right to correct me to begin with, see the other reply.
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by grepherder 13y ago
You're right, I might have misinterpreted. He didn't actually write anything else that implies he found the positive correlation counterintuitive. I don't know what the author's actual meaning was, so I still can't say for sure, but you'r
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by grepherder 13y ago
What makes you think that? The author is the one claiming the result, which is that people who study science (which is amoral, not immoral) tend to be good people, is counterintuitive. If anyone, the author is the one in confusion. If you t
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by grepherder 13y ago
On the surface, these results seems counterintuitive; science, after all, is — in the strictest sense — amoral. Either this is just another insincere sentence thrown in to fill the article, or the author's intuition is terrible. Something
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by grepherder 14y ago
Let me put it this way: I'm all for one person who's interested to learn coding. Sure, if you wish, even let all this public campaigning and incentives be there. I'm fine with it. I will help this hypothetical guy personally if he comes my
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by grepherder 14y ago
Obviously Google translate is not error free, nor is any statistical translation system going to be comparable to a human translator in the very near future, but you're underestimating the current development of statistical translation. Gra
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by grepherder 14y ago
As a european, I trust neither. Trust? I mean really, one of them is only caring about monetizing everything possible, the other has its own (sometimes mysterious) motives, why should I trust anyone but my friends and family? I think the qu
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by grepherder 14y ago
We have similar chess history, but I think you're being emotional here in your "rebuttal of chess". I've had similar thoughts but I've come to the natural conclusion that all that matters in the end is whether I enjoy playing it or not. Som
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by grepherder 14y ago
The Cyrillic script[1] and the Armenian alphabet[2] were also devised in similar fashion, and probably many more. It is not unusual for writing systems or alphabets to find widespread usage in this manner. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by grepherder 14y ago
Yes, also yes to the exaggeration bit, but intelligence is just, well, intelligence. A complex "brain" can be about emotional depth, about being able to communicate that emotional complexity, it can be about processing senses in amazing way
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by grepherder 14y ago
Neanderthals? Yes with them our cousins there is the possibility of interbreeding having occurred, but most likely is that as a species as a whole they went extinct from competition. If even with our similarities and closeness there was eno
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by grepherder 14y ago
Yup, I kind of acknowledged that already, what you say is true of course. Yet in my environment I can still imagine software scenarios where I can say "you need a technical guy for this" to my friends and mean a non-programmer or a special
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by grepherder 14y ago
Came here to say almost the same thing, but one more tidbit. Technical = Technical, Programmer = Programmer, and in some cultures even Technical != Programmer. Granted I'm not in US, and I know in the jargon around here people who can code
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by grepherder 14y ago
>> Memorizing a foreign language word is not just translation, it's about understanding context and usage for that word. Exactly. I didn't mean to suggest that you can actually "learn" those 100 words in a meaningful way. That tresh
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by grepherder 14y ago
100 words per day is definitely possible with very clever techniques and hard work, so is a vocabulary of about 20,000 words in 5 months, but to be fluent (C1) in using them is another story. It is certainly unrealistic unless we're talking
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by grepherder 14y ago
>> Daniel Tammet learned Icelandic in one week. Your point? Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. And some people have eidetic memory. There is little relevance unless we find a method to recreate these traits in "normal" people, the
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by grepherder 14y ago
I agree with everything you wrote, but couldn't resist adding: being first is good, being great is better, but being lucky is best. After a certain point entrepreneurs have to humble themselves down and accept the fact that sheer luck, or m
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by grepherder 14y ago
The tip is of course valid and pro, and I'd recommend the same, but it's already being done, under machine translation. Also, in this area big data loses its meaning, as you don't really need traditional databases, you just process raw text
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by grepherder 14y ago
"Frauenquote" is just a specialization of the term "positive discrimination" in the UK, France, Spain and in most of the EU, and "affirmative action" in the US and some other countries. Other countries do not have a specific term for the ge
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by grepherder 14y ago
I think your statement is somehow not well thought out, and by "your" statement I mean "almost everyone's" actually, I just semi-randomly picked out yours to comment on because it captures my counter-argument well. You're saying Google rele
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by grepherder 14y ago
I can see how it's his own fault from a practical viewpoint, but really? Considering opt-in vs. opt-out, status quo bias and all that? I think he has (people have) a right to criticise at least.
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by grepherder 14y ago
What's the harm? Even if it's a mass hysteria (a bit of a hyperbole), it's certainly not one of those destructive ones (TSA et al.). At worst people wrote some overly dramatic stuff on social media and wasted a small amount of our time here
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by grepherder 14y ago
I'm not taking any sides on this, but yours is another hyperbole, Facebook is definitely not as harmless as email. If every email from everyone around the world went through the same company, and they could data mine it as they wished, then
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by grepherder 14y ago
>> for your brain to stop thinking about an unfinished task, you must (1) know and trust that an external system will remind you to perform that task when it is time to perform it, and (2) have chosen the next action taken at a suf
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by grepherder 14y ago
>> 3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean "More people died" don't say "Mortality rose." Am I the only one that doesn't agree with this, at least in general? I mean, the idea behind the advice is of co
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by grepherder 14y ago
I'm not going to partake in the discussion about whether fictional work should or should not objectify women. I have my take on it and others theirs, and we can agree to disagree. No moral absolutes. But to be against a work of fiction that
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by grepherder 14y ago
Good point. To disagree so strongly when anectodal evidence is shared regardless of context became a culture in itself rather than a model for rational behaviour and is disruptive. Academic science is an entirely different story. It's a gro
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by grepherder 14y ago
Ditto, I too think this discussion is a bit tired. It's a free market, if someone agrees to do something for a certain pay, let them. Obviously, in most cases, you are going to get more commitment and possibly even higher quality work from
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by grepherder 14y ago
OK - I stand corrected, actually rereading what I wrote it came out a bit strong ("doesn't have anything to do with"), it does have more than a bit even, true. Concerning the other point, it's also true but it's something else entirely. I n
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by grepherder 14y ago
Isn't this trivium? It's almost like saying a mathematician can be an excellent physicist. Also, beware - correlation fallacy. In my experience it doesn't have anything to do with the education itself, I believe you can easily generalize an

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