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I understand where instructors are coming from when they encourage just paying attention and not taking notes. That's because students often just copy down exactly what is being wr…

Horrible PayPal customer service. This person should not be allowed on their Twitter account.

Articles like this always skip the most crucial point. Author talks about "outreach" and press coverage and such. But how is that done exactly? I realize this might be dependent on…

I wouldn't say they are facts, I would say they are "sentences with a specific semantic structure that can be found on a highly trusted webpage". And the most trusted web page happ…

Floridi agrees that that is bullshit, but it's not Google's job to dictate what information we read. Google's job is to give us the most relevant results, and as stated in the arti…

Was it overly optimistic of me to assume it was a joke?

Fatal? How could either of those problems lead to death?

This is what makes startups so special, and powerful. Everybody now knows (or should know) that the more modern type of developer environment - wear what you want, arrive when you …

On the other hand, if legitimate use is allowed, there are doctors out there who will give you a prescription for faked symptoms.

I agree with the others.. why is your writing so hard to parse? If you knew "a" girl, it doesn't necessarily mean she'd want to date you, or that you'd date her girlfriends (what i…

While I see where you're coming from I think your analogy is flawed and it doesn't quite apply here. As a martial artist and weight lifter that totally makes sense - practice, spar…

I think "write code and see if it works" may be tad more succinct and closer to reality than "build models, reason about them, find properties, then prove them, then rely on them. …

Like others have said, I find self-taught programmers (I'm a tutor, so I meet a lot of them) have an attitude of, "why should I care about time complexity?" They are motivated to g…

> that data and algorithms rule all Well actually they don't because they overrode the algorithm instead of letting it do its job. The culture at Uber is actually "greed".