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This is so camp.

Kierkegaard found an application for the three-em dash here: “I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed an…

Stuff like this is why I read HN

I sympathize with this. I wonder if the author might find it helpful to reimagine the thinking they do as coming up with good questions, rather than good answers. I was inspired to…

What browser use agent are they using here?

If you've ever taken a depression screener at a wellness visit, that's a consequence of this work. This paper describes how unreliable psychiatric diagnosis used to be. There were …

I shared this with my partner who works in palliative care. He said that it’s rare to hear people expressing deathbed regrets like this. What he hears more of is people saying that…

Does anyone know how are these patterns were intended to be applied? It seems like they might be block printed, but the fact that they're called "dyeing patterns" makes me think of…

International students often end up subsidizing US students. Restricting student visas might end up actually increasing tuition. Also, I disagree that $1m/year for the president of…

Oh man, I’ve been tricked so many times by the names of packages and frameworks… and here I did it to others. Sorry!

The interface looks similar to the Windows phone, which isn't a bad thing IMO

If researchers were unable to trust their collaborators, it would mean that they would have to master and oversee every step of every process. This would stop interdisciplinary res…

I would’ve preferred a less editorialized article about this. In particular, this article has left me wondering who’s actually written fraudulent articles and whose biggest mistake…

I tried to learn Shavian and struggled with it because of its phonetic nature. Every time I wanted to spell something, I had to think about how I pronounce the word.

The excellent new book, "Modeling Social Behavior" by Paul Smaldino, starts with a quote from Jakob von Uexküll that I've abbreviated a bit here: "An unbroken description of realit…

Pretty sure that's the wrong link.

It seems like the Bayesian capability is the main differentiator from PyWhy. Is that correct?