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LetThereBeNick

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    Comment #24306945

    >I’m so sick of people on either “side” faking data to prove their presuppositions on this. I don’t think this research is carried out with ulterior motives. Scientists make mistak…

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    Comment #24278312

    My Citi card comes with a desktop app that can generate new numbers for online payments all the time. Beyond one-time use, I can generate a number that will work only with ‘x’ comp…

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    Comment #24077186

    Filtering the noise: "ScreenShot & Screen Capture Elite", “Weather forecast for Chrome™", "GTA 5 Grand Theft Auto", "Sports Cars", "Suga", "Avengers Endgame", "Bts Suga", “Video Do…

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    Comment #24010966

    “contentment content,” i.e. stuff put online just because it makes the creator happy

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    Comment #23970272

    A common human fallacy is to pick a single misstep and over-generalize it into a larger pattern of... oh God, I’m doing it now, aren’t I?

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    Comment #23944498

    I agree. The only incentive to write neat code is to save yourself the pain and suffering of having to go back through it yourself to fix or add things. I am currently doing data a…

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    Comment #23923572

    I wonder how long it will take for “B cells” to become a buzzword.

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    Comment #23896885

    “Euthanize” implies an often tough decision to end a condition of prolonged suffering that has little hope for improvement. “Kill” does not imply any such decision

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    Comment #23722543

    Does “uses the Bing API” mean that the search results are all fetched from Bing? As in DDG doesn’t have it’s own search algorithm? I’m surprised

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    Comment #23522728

    > The ASD and ADHD diagnostic criteria are still too broad and imprecise. One analogy has stuck with me. Defining mental disorders is like drawing up the constellations. The indivi…

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    Comment #23522628

    With that attitude I would like to pledge my undying allegiance to you

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    Comment #23522618

    Neuromorphic chips could lower the computational costs and make continuous retraining feasible

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    Comment #23522611

    It sounds like you are ready to program an NLP to generate these articles

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    Comment #23522582

    Unlike in the past, it’s impossible to read every paper in one’s field. Since tools like PubMed, ISI, and Scopus all use a proprietary algorithm to rank search results, I appreciat…

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    Comment #22501445

    All information requires a physical substrate. This should not be surprise to anyone who doesn’t believe in magic

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    Comment #22501430

    The only time it can see my browsing it when I’m on a .amazon.com/ domain

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    Comment #22401855

    I’ve been happy with the “ReviewMeta” chrome extension, which evaluates the product reviews on any amazon site, and displays a score indicating how likely it is the ratings have be…

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    Comment #22278430

    “Ctrl+Alt+P” does it for me. Right click a paint shortcut > Properties > Shortcut > type “P” :)