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by salimmadjd 1y ago
Duolingo user here with a 4 year streak. Duolingo is not a language teaching platform at its core. It’s a gaming platform with language as its gaming skill. Duolingo at some point became so focused on gamification that it just became a game
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by salimmadjd 3y ago
Add a few more that others may not mention: Brahms symphony 4 - 1st movement Brahms symphony 3 - 3rd movement Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 Jazz Duke Ellington & John Coltrane In a Sentimental Mood My Little Brown Book Dave Brubeck Qua
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by salimmadjd 3y ago
Bummer! Here’s a photo I captured from their very early days [0]. If I recall it’s a composite (stack) of nearly 100 photos. my goal was to show an industrial startup in one image. BTW, I signed a 10-year NDA and I’m guessing their employe
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by salimmadjd 3y ago
OT - 3b1b did an interesting video on the epidemic modeling [0] that shaped my thinking a bit on the lockdown and caused me to lose a few friends to argue against the prolonged lockdowns. I believe he used the same technique deployed by ma
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by salimmadjd 3y ago
Awni Hannun of Apple AI research team has a deep dive thread on X [0] with some additional info and answers some of the questions [0] https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1732184443451019431?s=46&t=O...
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by salimmadjd 3y ago
Curious how many here have actually read this bill? If you’ve read it and you still support it (as a US citizen) I’m going to be so heartbroken by today’s tech community. This is authoritarianism in the name of protecting our children. I un
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by salimmadjd 4y ago
With GPT-4, I'm thinking if Duolingo has fundamentally been reduced to a game. The key network effect left is pretty much a leaderboard that fuels their daily retention. So any existing game company could potentially create another gam
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by salimmadjd 4y ago
The cynical me thinks this is also a pre-election (“wish selection”) PR to help promote the case for Gavin Newsom as president. You can imagine a talking point like “under my leadership, California overtook Germany as the 4th economy in the
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by salimmadjd 4y ago
We spent $6 trillion on the “War on terror” [0] We do know we’ve had mini ice age as a result of "Grand Solar Minimum" [1] (in addition to volcanic activities) which means reducing the solar output does reduce surface heat. At thi
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by salimmadjd 4y ago
Different (maybe controversial)take. You should be given the choice to be grandfathered into the version of TOS upon first using that service. I think with social media where value is derived by ongoing time investment of users, the TOS cha
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
I totally agree on the syntax, Haskell is far cleaner. I’m not sure what the reasoning was here. I hope the author or others can shed some light.
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
The same polarizing media conveniently blamed Facebook and Twitter (though to a lesser extent) for all the polarization that they have been fomenting for years. I guess that move wasn’t as surprising for me as seeing the number of people i
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
Anyone knows how much more efficiency is gained (due to reduced weight) once a jetliner consumes 50% of its fuel? Curious if for flying it’ll be more practical to use electricity for some kind of direct or indirect carbon sequestration (to
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
Yang is underestimating the network effect of the two parties. I thought running for mayor of NY City was kind of odd. His lack of experience really showed after his initial name ID advantage faded away. I feel like he is fighting for relev
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
I took a mook Erlang class and after that, I couldn’t really get into elixir. Erlang just felt a lot more expressive
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
Many Americans still do not realize Trump won riding on $5 billions in free media advertising[1] Hillary also edged Bernie in the primaries receiving over $740m over sanders $320m [2] We also know free media is becoming more effective than
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
Frontline (PBS)in partnership with Forbidden Stories are doing a report [1] on NSO hacking the phone of Khashoggi’s fiancé and other journalist and activists around the world. Looks like her phone was compromised by NSO based on the report
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
From the AP version (h/t @tareqak) [0], "identification of anyone engaged in foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity". Key phrase, state-sanctioned . This has less to do with tracking down cybercriminals, and more
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
It’ll be great if you had an “about us” section there so I could easily see who is behind it, instead having to google it. Your backgrounds [1] seem very solid so why not showcase it? [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/asg
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
is that because the limitation of his testing insurgents?
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
IMO this is what causing this huge self-promotion trend. 1 - it's become so much easier and accessible, with twitter, blog, FB, IG, YT. 2 - your ability to promote yourself has great impact in your financial and career growth. 3 - EGO.
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
His lens tests are excellent. The lens rentals blog is the best place to find them [0]. If you're in market for high quality lenses, lens rental blog is a great resource. I also like cameralabs' lens tests [1]. Not as scientific a
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
Have many of us have become the useful idiots of the corporate media overloads? I know it's fashionable to blame Facebook for the divisiveness, but I'm old enough to recall Obama's 2004 DNC speech that got him his first natio
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by salimmadjd 5y ago
FYI, the author’s LinkedIn profile [0] in case you’re curious how qualified he is. Am I the only one who doesn’t see anything here that tells you why he should be working for MIT Review writing about cyber security? [0] https://w
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. It’ll be interesting if you show some kind of a product roadmap. Maybe there is a product already out there that does that, but it’ll be useful if google sheet can work in conjunction
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
We’ve been trying to find a suitable partner in this space. Email me salim at AsthmaMD.org
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Anyone looked at the three sample complaints? 7 upvotes, 2 upvotes, 5 upvotes. For context, the post (I'm guessing he is a co-founder or some senior person at Parler) John Matze has 34,000 upvotes. These posts seem like bad or manufact
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
I think DT helped resurrect Twitter from irrelevance. Which is why they tolerated him for so long. Now that he is past his usefulness, they decided to suspend him.
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
intasa, that didn’t appear in the archive. “A new word!” he crowed. Abu Bashar, our Bedouin driver, proposed that it meant “to be forgotten after having once been famous.” Wow “to be forgotten after having once been famous”. This blows my
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Is retracting enough? So a news story gets out, millions read it, share or watch it. Then NYT retracts it. Maybe adding a footnote or correction (sometimes they don't even do that [1]) is added to the story. Maybe the story is removed

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