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Surely it's going to far to conclude from this that Dunning-Kruger isn't real. Seems to me the strongest conclusion we can draw from this is that there are at least two possible ex…

My son is 12 and a half. I have recently handed him a copy of "Learn you a Haskell..." and a laptop running ghci. He has been making his way through the first couple of chapters wi…

Most of the comments on here seem to be talking about whether the name is good or not. For me, the question isn't what a 'monoid' is called, or whether it can be defined in a few l…

MarketWatch are a complete rag of a financial news site. As in this case, most of their headlines are sensationalist link-bait. I guess that makes me a fool for even reading the ar…

Did you read their article on bitcoin? In the first paragraph they pretty much claim that it was invented to let people buy porn anonymously over the internet. That article is not …