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You might be interested in this paper: "The Majority Illusion in Social Networks", https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03022 Abstract: Social behaviors are often contagious, spr…

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Who else read it "Wireguard" and worried :p ?

There is this survey from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15088840 Answers here: https://goo.gl/X45Dtt Maybe worth a re-post on HN.…

You know what minimalist phone I want to see? One that has calls, sms, an online chat and video app (like Whatsapp) and a navigation app (like Google Maps or Citymapper). No browser, no games, no soci…

How does one go about learning reverse engineering? Is it mostly by practicing? Are there any good up-to-date resources? I remember taking a reverse engineering course in the university where the prof…

Practically speaking, what would a therapiat tell me that I can't find or learn on my own?

> is not necessarily a performance improvement over a sync version that just starts more workers and has the OS kernel scheduler organise things Co-routines are not necessarily faster than threads,…

Does anyone have an idea about the advances in research about this topic i.e. human intelligence and how learning happens in the brain? I know Josh Tenenbaum from MIT [1] works on this, see for exampl…

> A 2017 study reported that believing in work-related conspiracies—such as the idea that managers make decisions to protect their own interests—causes individuals to feel less committed to their j…

In Python you can use class-like functions (source : https://charemza.name/blog/posts/python/state/you-might-not-... ) def MyClass(...) # Capitalised to make…

> 52% of respondents think “Hello, old friend” when they search for a coding solution online and find that the first result link is purple because they’ve already visited the link. It's amazin…

Interestingly, job priorities for men and women are not the same[1] : Men place higher importance on "Languages, frameworks, and other technologies I'd be working with", while for women…

The confusion comes from the fact that we attach the same label "3" to two different sets in the case of bottles, so we end up saying "one out of three plus one out of three". It s…

Many real world business processes assume a certain knowledge of the world and the relationships between entities, and not just a limited set of data points about the task at hand. Such kind of knowle…

> Treat people as individuals, not as representatives of some kind of meaningless tribe I dont't think that's how we make our day to day decisions. I usually treat people as individuals…

I agree with you that it is generally wrong, i.e. that other factors should come first. But what if the data suggests it? For example if is known that if you lend to someone from race X, there is 80…

> Depending upon your priorities, your ethical views will inevitably be incompatible with those of some other people in a manner no amount of reasoning will resolve. Believers in a strong central s…

What if it turns out there is reason people discriminate using those features (for example that people of race X tend to fail repaying their loans), and the classifier just learned that reason from th…

Well said. Let me plug Wittgenstein here: “For a large class of cases–though not for all–in which we employ the word “meaning” it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.…