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> At 48, Dan Peres is already an old hand at being a former magazine editor. Condé Nast shut down Details, the men’s glossy that he had been editor of for 15 years, in 2015 Wait, if my math is corr…

It's worth remembering that Vision Fund's apparent thesis wasn't just to have a many-losers-compensated-by-a-big-winner portfolio like most VC funds, but that they would pick winners by…

Dan Grossman's "Programming Languages, Part A" (In Coursera) made me fall in love with SML. Highly recommended.

About getting treatment: it's extremely irritating that some people judge using Ritalin is somehow morally wrong. Yes, I get that "lifestyle changes" could help, but I don't want t…

That is basically Adam Smith's (and consequently almost every pro-market economist) thesis. Actually his thesis is that on average the answer is "yes". If it's true or false is a m…

To be fair, I think her shtick is throwing useless stuff away, not avoiding acquiring it in the first place (because if you didn't have, you wouldn't need to discard it). With this new store…

In Composing Contracts[0], Peyton Jones, Eber and Seward describe a framework for "programming" financial contracts, even allowing for external events[1] to influence the result (for example…

Bipartisan legislation incoming

Just to give some context, the paper referenced by the post[0] is a bit old. Eamonn Keogh is (to my knowledge) the current head of the research group that developed the Matrix Profile, which purports …

Is there any hope beyond developing nuclear (fission / fusion) tech for this world to sustain 10 billion humans consuming as much energy as an average Californian?[0] As the gp said, the objectiv…

No, I make my own, but it’s nothing special. Short snippets of code with “what does this do”, “what’s the syntax for _____ in LANG” or “best too for X in standard lib”.

If it’s any help, I’ve been using anki (spaced repetition software) to keep my useful-but-not-frequently skills sharp. I feel it’s effective for programming languages and shortcuts.

Killer bots will be treated just like nukes: world powers will justify their investment in the technology by saying that the other side is also doing it, and when it becomes clear that there are only …

Maybe the machine mearning community is particularly good at curating feeds, heh

I'm not an expert in licenses, could someone weight in and explain how the AGPLv3 was being abused? Did the mentioned companies follow the spirit of the license and were getting away with someth…

>The ads in the paper newspaper are usually fine. Rarely do they affront or annoy; and they are tailored to the general profile of the newspaper's readership. Now I feel stupid. For all the do…

If we get fully cryptographic computation (I don’t know if I’m using the term correctly, but basically no one knows what you’re doing with their cycles), why would we need decentralization? Couldn’t I…

Is Julia a decent substitute for non numerically focused tasks? I’ve been thinking about learning a new lang recently, and while Julia does seem to be a real alternative to python for analysis, I can’…

My thoughts exactly. Maybe Apple was a couple of steps ahead and added an amazing feature for the ever growing Chinese market. Who knows?

Something I wish was more common is some type of therapy for treating death anxiety. I read somewhere that LSD can reduce the fear of death[0]. I can think of few things I’d like more in life than not…

What would be the best way to understand the relation between amplitudes and probabilities in the “non-quantum” world? In your NYT piece you say that it would be weird to give a “sq(-1) probability of…

I'd be really interested in seeing examples of the most dynamic websites can get with HTML only. Penalties for using CSS but that's fine, too. Does anyone have pointers?

Is there any license that makes software free (as in beer) for contributors/maintainers and paid for everyone else? This way it would be possible to alleviate the free riding problem while provid…

Interesting! Can someone provide some source for this “science backed” bit? I’m a bit skeptical, but willing to give a try if the science is convincing

While I agree that being taxed on inflation is unfair, it would not be that hard to discount inflation when assessing taxes. Surely a tax system could accommodate that.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t inheriting by averaging the parents’ matrices only work in single layer perceptrons? Anyway, nice exercise! :)

I second this feeling. I'm not a native English speaker but I often see myself hoping that it becomes ever more prevalent. Unfortunately there's a lot of resistance to accepting it as the of…

Honest answer: yes, being indoctrinated is pretty different than having your muscles literally controlled by a third party, if only for the illusion of agency

This should be a WTO principle or something: you’re only allowed to sell products/services to foreign countries thay you allow to circulate internally and on similar conditions.