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27,567karma·4,366submissions·November 17, 2011
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"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
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I once read a similar apocryphal narrative. Someone, kept receiving 0$ credit card bills and the company sent repeated reminders with warnings. The person called, sent letters to discuss the situation…
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> This article, as usual, has no idea what it's talking about. Are you talking about the article or the paper? The paper is published at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (…
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Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) - used in Inforation Retrieval systems - is one example of a patented algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis http:/…
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Slide 12/13 talk about how these areas are "devoid of Computer Scientists". In traditional areas like Biology and Chemistry, there is an acceptance that Computer Science is "not a …
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Why? > Lombard wanted to cut 20% of staff — about 22,000 employees — to reduce debt and make the company more competitive. But many workers retained the protections they had enjoyed as civil servan…
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> It bothers me that so many of these guides are aimed at passing the job interview instead of teaching the topic at hand. This is another manifestation of the "Goodhart's Law" http…
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> My biggest realization about doing hard things is that I needed to let go of my intellectual entitlement. Just because something is (or seems) effortless to others, doesn't mean it will be t…
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> so why would I think this paper used the UN definition? Because if you read the paper from the OP link, the authors cite that their definition of ultra-processed food is from Monteiro et al 2008 …
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> This provided him with the subject matter for his famous paper Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001). Like Chambers, he divided statistics into two groups: The data modeling culture (Cham…
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This is not true. > Even if you are self-employed, you can also decide whether you wish to be insured via the statutory health insurance scheme or through a private fund. http://www.bamf…
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Firefox Focus with tracking protection and content blocking. You can use your favorite browser and use Focus to block ads. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/focus …
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Berlin ran the first experimental Trolleybus in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromote …
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> and MSNBC/CNN and any other left leaning news network dropped their shit to jump on the bandwagon of harassing her. How was the the coverage of the right leaning news sites?
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Link to Apple's Press Release : https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/the-facts-about-paren... …