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So, does it?

I don't think there's going to be a winter this time. The current boom may only take us so far, but there are a couple more booms on the horizon that in all likelihood will be cusp…

And all successful activists.

The complaints about "SJWs", while indelicately phrased, aren't completely off-base. Hacker News has gotten way more PC over the past 5 years, much to its detriment. I remember wha…

This technology isn't a luxury. The vigor of youth and the wisdom of age underlie all of human flourishing. Whatever meager good we manage to achieve in the world flows from these …

The Pythagorean comma is nothing to worry about -- it's tiny and more or less negligible. It's the syntonic comma that's the killer. The fifths in equal temperament are completely …

Optimized? A lot of those chairs look pretty uncomfortable.

Very interesting. What if you took a large set of musical notes on various instruments, with about a two-second duration, with the same pitch, same volume, and same sample rate, an…

This is true, but it's too easy to go from that to assuming that ALL our cognitive biases were selected for. Some of them just emerge because it's hard to design a brain that doesn…

Not me, I'm just linking this here. It was submitted the other day but didn't get much attention. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9092545

"When I'm hiring, I have an HR intern (or the external recruiter) strip anything that could indicate gender or race from the résumés before they get their initial evaluation. For t…

It was released two years later, but all the upgrades were to more peripheral features like the palette and various special effects. They're both chewing through the same amount of…

I don't care about the harm done to conservatives, I care about the harm done to liberals. Of course people like to hang out with people who see things their way, and there's nothi…

You're being discriminatory in a sense, but then being discriminatory is normal. It's just what people do, and the large-scale consequences can be trivial or important depending on…

I especially liked how he would give examples of similar techniques being used outside of chipmusic where similar constraints would come up, such as the bass player adding percussi…

That would take another few articles.

Don't have the study handy, but measures of working memory such as the OSPAN were found to predict proficiency in a programming course even better than an algebra test that partici…

"Leftist ideology used as a vehicle for tabloid clickbait" would be more accurate.

To be fair, Asians DO score higher than Europeans -- it isn't just some ploy to establish credibility. Anyone looking at SAT data can tell you that. I would frame your objection a …

The Space Invaders clone at the end of the video blew me away when he explained that it was running on the Z-machine. That is something I never would've thought I'd see.

But "ancient" astronomers would have been even less accurate, and headlines need words that people can instantly recognize.

I can see why he thought it was ill-posed -- it doesn't have a single solution if you think in fractions rather than dollars and cents.

Exactly. Proponents of the notion of learning styles have focused on individual differences, but it's somewhat of a red herring. The vast majority of people, whatever their strengt…

I wouldn't assume that's his actual karma score.

There's a difference between seeing lots of minorities around your town, and having minority friends. One of these things makes you more likely to post on Stormfront, the other mak…