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denzil_correa
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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The inclusion of the Arcade tab on the App Store has pushed this change. I'm guessing that Apple feels like most people don't really update apps manually and just do an auto-update.
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The 32 suicides were reported amongst the 32,000 people whose jobs were affected.
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32 reported suicides in 32,000 people whose jobs were affected.
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> First - the rate of suicides at Orange during this time were pretty much on par with suicide rates in France overall. Orange has 100K employees, and there are going to be suicides every year. The…
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You may want to look into Base rate fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy …
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I have been a reviewer for (Computer Science) journals of publications like - Springer, Elsevier, IEEE, AAAI and ACM. The reviewer doesn't receive any money for reviews. The editing is entirely…
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> I just read the news that France fined Google (again) [1] for arbitrarily banning a company from Google Ads and promoting its own services (unrelated to the other company). This is the kind of t…
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> This is good! Investigation is taking place, not automatically fining and asking questions later. There was a multi-year investigation by France before the fine was issued to Google.
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> Or is it $4.20 with the comma as decimal separator as seen in some non-English-speaking European counties Most likely this considering it is a French website. https://ankuj3.wixsite.co…
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> The oft cited $2.6B cost to develop a drug is derived from data from big pharma drug development programs. This number can not be validated as most of the information is not public. It's a s…
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> “In some cases, we might be allowed to pass over animal models and go straight to human testing once we show these drugs can hit their targets with no toxicity.” But those changes are probably ma…
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> That would hurt society more than help because once the algorithms are public, the code's inner workings can then be gamed and abused. That's the paradox or contradiction: for the algor…
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Here's a viewpoint from John Preskill who coined the term "Quantum Supremacy" https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-preskill-explains-quantu... > The quantum supremacy…
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NYT will reveal more details in subsequent articles. > In this and subsequent articles we’ll reveal what we’ve found and why it has so shaken us.
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Certainly, that can’t be used as an argument against persecution of non Muslims - the country didn’t even exist then!
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> Pakistan, Non-Muslim population fell from 23% to 3%. This is a straight up propaganda and an outright lie [0]. The population of non-Muslims in Pakistan has always hovered around 3.5%. Census 195…
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Shameless plug. I did some analysis on closed and deleted questions on StackOverflow posted between 2008-2014 [0, 1]. The key findings from the analysis were as follows * Closed questions due to the r…
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Probably this dictionary definition of Kendra (kendră) might make sense in this context kendra
(IndE) noun C a centre for some activity (research, study, business, art, etc.)
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> There's famous examples of revolutions in science being claimed as mundane results. Topologists said Nash was just applying topology to economics and it was nothing new (to them). Mathematic…