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> "I, of course, aware of the many hours I have idled away doing nothing, demur." Tip #1: don't use garden path sentences.

People keep saying this everywhere in the thread, but it doesn't reflect my lived experience at all. I remember being a kid of about 7 and noticing that a friend was doing some "su…

Think of each layer as an opportunity to perform a level of abstraction or categorization. Concepts are built out of smaller concepts which are built out of smaller concepts; lots …

Ah, one of those rare articles that give the impression of being illuminating while leaving people not familiar with the topic far more confused than they were coming in.

Agreed. As a stick driver, I spend more energy stopping and starting at a stop sign than a bike rider does, no exaggeration.

Google Glass was always too expensive and feature-poor, and there was never at any point a concerted marketing campaigned designed to make you Go Buy It Now. It wasn't the social a…

Yup. This reminds me of the novel The Diamond Age in which the poor tend not to be able to read, but instead navigate the technological world exclusively using pictograms which des…

Indeed, it seemed like the author was trying to obfuscate that Tumblr had a childish company culture and a barely-innovative and questionably valuable product.

How could it not be? The brain operates by machine learning. It just so happens that the machine is made of meat.

Maybe. Probably. But if the charismatic leader leads the team to five explicit, obvious fuckups in a row, they might learn to shut their mouth for a while.

"fiscal waterboarding"

I mean, that's going to vary person-to-person. When I query my emotional sense of Clinton, I get back stuff like: liar, unhealthy, bloodthirsty, fake, robotic. Admittedly, probably…

Nate Silver is what would happen if a really smart Vulcan came to Earth and tried to understand and predict human behavior.

Humans ruin everything.

Water wet, more at eleven

I still chuckle to recall my friends in grad school who TA'ed being told by professors, quote, "Don't fuck your students."