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That's all fine and dandy, but conceptually it's wrong to say the average of an array is 0, and can and will lead to wrong results in a variety of cases. I'm sure you can think of …

And it's not like any other language you can choose from for working in the browser is perfect.

But maybe bringing fruits up it's irrelevant in some context, depending on what we're talking about. This is one of these contexts. The very same phrase you quoted from the article…

The irrationality studied by Dan Ariely et al it's not comparable _at all_ with the freudian irrationality. The former brings to the forefront our fauly heuristics and biases. The …

Agree with the attention to details. Details are crucial. But in my experience there is a kind of so-called "perfectionists" that won't work well in complex enviroments where: 1. t…

> If you need to a 'chill' with the original researcher to get critical details, that's not science anymore. Certainly there is always the possibility that there was some details m…

Agreed. I guess everything is subjective, but when I read the article state: > While the [ctrl-r] method is more powerful, when doing some redundant task, it’s much easier to remem…

Let me tell you a story. When I do frontend nowadays, I mostly develop with angular js. People like to complain about angular and having to know so many libraries, and frameworks, …

Curious. What do you suggest?

I think that those are valid names in a good context. e.g. if you have a function like "substring", then you can name "str" as the parameter and "result" the variable where you acc…

Probably because the author doesn't use them and thus has no idea of what their problems are, so they seem "perfect" from a distance.

I would think that in 2016 this should be something everybody knows....

ok, but we were talking about alphaGo here, and what does it represent as an example of progress in AI.

It's progress, very neat progress, but it's not even progress in the sense that there are new kind of problems being solved. AI for Go and similar games has existed for a zillion t…