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by nyeah 6d ago
This approach is really worth pointing out and recommending. Not everyone is allowed / encouraged to realize how powerful it is.
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by nyeah 12d ago
MIT gonna MIT. That's a known issue. But HN users are still upvoting articles that are literally MIT press releases.
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by nyeah 14d ago
I think Snow himself was reasonable. I can't promise that the article makes sense.
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by nyeah 15d ago
Are you saying this may be a bad investment?
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by nyeah 15d ago
So you get a lot more than one point for your money, you get a semi-infinite line. EDIT: Is really cone, see below.
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by nyeah 16d ago
>Snow's view appears to lean toward the scientistic, and scientism is [...] incoherent Snow seems like a deep thinker to me. I think it's a mistake to attribute scientism to him. (Fair disclosure, I'm a bit of a CP Snow fa
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by nyeah 19d ago
The article relates that this isn't about the state of the art. It's about insight gained while taking a calculus class.
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by nyeah 19d ago
Yeah, agreed. But words are cheap. It's one thing to say we don't need vector calculus, and another to develop that claim through the actual vector calculus, step by step.
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by nyeah 20d ago
"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." Warren Buffett
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by nyeah 22d ago
I interpret this article, and all related discussion, as an invitation to talk about my personal finance habits.
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by nyeah 27d ago
I think teachers did tell us exactly this. But we were 15 and we didn't believe them or didn't listen.
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by nyeah 1mo ago
He didn't quite say "widespread." He said "rewarded."
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by nyeah 1mo ago
>That quote is the article, and it's a little surprising that it's buried so far into the content Is it really surprising in 2026? Today's online writing style is not primarily designed to communicate. It's designed t
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by nyeah 1mo ago
Oh, good point, thanks.
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by nyeah 1mo ago
>That quote is the article, and it's a little surprising that it's buried so far into the content Is it really surprising in 2026? Today's online writing style is not primarily designed to communicate. It's designed t
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by nyeah 1mo ago
Thank goodness unemployment is down.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
It's definitely not just you :)
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Yeah it's as if the publishers are somehow strapped for cash compared to AI companies.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
>Ethics as opposed to morality is about codified rules That's not accurate. See e.g. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-theory/ section 1.2.1 "Morality and Ethics"
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Not by just feeding in a lot of old time series.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Yeah I don't understand the kvetching about someone making a movie. What's the downside? * The movie might suck. * Millions of people might watch a movie I don't like * Family or friends might force me to watch it. Two word
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by nyeah 2mo ago
The Odyssey? Or the review?
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Sure. If it really is hate, then that's the right word.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Sure, of course. I'm trying to draw a distinction between disagreement and hate. I'm not trying to eliminate either one.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Can I ask for more info? Is it the perfect word for how some people feel about the tech industry? The perfect word to describe disagreement?
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Ok fair.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Yeah. "Hate": https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-does-the-public-hate-the-te... Re the linked piece, I'm concerned about people saying "they hate us" when they really mean "they disagree wit
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by nyeah 2mo ago
>Whether or not these girls had phones, or social media, was irrelevant The article explains why that was not irrelevant.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
The article explains very clearly what these issues have to do with each other in this particular case.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
TFA gives an example where kids are at risk and an old person is misusing a phone. It is clearly not advocating for this scenario to occur more often. Can you show anything else to indicate that the conclusion is "toughen them up"

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