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Re: 5 The Jefferson Bible [1] is excellent in this regard. He removes all miracles and most mentions if the supernatural in a cut & paste job of a King James version of the Bible. …

Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760

Deathmatch was always a blast! I remember playing with headphones on, the sound design was good enough to pinpoint where other players were hiding, and you could even shut off your…

Interstate 76 was an amazing game and lead to me having a chance to volunteer with Activision as an external tester. It was high school, and the chance to test games before they ca…

I recently came across Curio ( https://github.com/dabeaz/curio ) & really appreciated their FAQ section on contributing. I plan to use it in any future open source projects: Q: Can…

I’ve got a second grader and myself & other parents are wondering how useful a public school education will be in 10 years when they are graduating

Just attempting to do this will give them a hand in negotiating with FedEx and UPS.

The words being, "impossible, unless?" when someone says doing _something_ is impossible.

Should be pointed out that IIT != ITT. The author presumably refers to the Indian Institutes of Technology

No need for arsenic, sugar content in cereal is an unregulated public safety issue http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/06/sugar-rush...

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Lead Engineer | Howdy.AI | Austin, TX | Full-Time | ONSITE http://howdy.ai/jobs/engineer/ Howdy.AI is the maker of Botkit, an open-source node module for making Slack bots, as well…

I find using a photo from a UC Davis Occupy protest to be very misleading

Seems down at the moment. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oivr__r...

I was following usage as it was in the thread, though I agree that amateur is being thrown around this thread where novice is the word implied.

To be fair, working only from book knowledge and no experience is precisely what makes someone an amateur.

How feasible would it be to build a personal ALPR?

Do you have or did you follow a write up for this? I know I would be interested in reading how you set that up!

Hermann Park is within walking distance of my home in Houston. Living by such an amazing space has done wonders for my mood, and my opinion of Houston. The park is wonderfully anac…

Instead of explaining it, there can be steps taken to ensure a transition between prototype and product, such as prototyping in a language or for a stack that your company does not…

Your comment reminded me of Chris Dixon's idea that big things start out looking like a toy. http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...

I think the value of Slack is in how platform agnostic the whole experience is. I have use it on a Nexus 5, iPhone 5c, iPad, in a browser (both IE and Chrome on Windows) and as a n…

If you want to block all ads for any browser on OS X, I have to recommend GlimmerBlocker, the ad blocking proxy. http://glimmerblocker.org In addition to blocking ads at the respon…

I believe Dell's suppliers also used the demonstrated advantages of Dell's logistics to enter the market as competitors. Also in the pre-2000s run up, Dell's pricing was premium, a…