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Duolingo user here with a 4 year streak. Duolingo is not a language teaching platform at its core. It’s a gaming platform with language as its gaming skill. Duolingo at some point …

Add a few more that others may not mention: Brahms symphony 4 - 1st movement Brahms symphony 3 - 3rd movement Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 Jazz Duke Ellington & John Coltrane In a…

Bummer! Here’s a photo I captured from their very early days [0]. If I recall it’s a composite (stack) of nearly 100 photos. my goal was to show an industrial startup in one image.…

OT - 3b1b did an interesting video on the epidemic modeling [0] that shaped my thinking a bit on the lockdown and caused me to lose a few friends to argue against the prolonged loc…

Awni Hannun of Apple AI research team has a deep dive thread on X [0] with some additional info and answers some of the questions [0] https://x.com/awnihannun/status/17321844434510…

Curious how many here have actually read this bill? If you’ve read it and you still support it (as a US citizen) I’m going to be so heartbroken by today’s tech community. This is a…

With GPT-4, I'm thinking if Duolingo has fundamentally been reduced to a game. The key network effect left is pretty much a leaderboard that fuels their daily retention. So any exi…

The cynical me thinks this is also a pre-election (“wish selection”) PR to help promote the case for Gavin Newsom as president. You can imagine a talking point like “under my leade…

We spent $6 trillion on the “War on terror” [0] We do know we’ve had mini ice age as a result of "Grand Solar Minimum" [1] (in addition to volcanic activities) which means reducing…

Different (maybe controversial)take. You should be given the choice to be grandfathered into the version of TOS upon first using that service. I think with social media where value…

I totally agree on the syntax, Haskell is far cleaner. I’m not sure what the reasoning was here. I hope the author or others can shed some light.

The same polarizing media conveniently blamed Facebook and Twitter (though to a lesser extent) for all the polarization that they have been fomenting for years. I guess that move w…

Anyone knows how much more efficiency is gained (due to reduced weight) once a jetliner consumes 50% of its fuel? Curious if for flying it’ll be more practical to use electricity f…

Yang is underestimating the network effect of the two parties. I thought running for mayor of NY City was kind of odd. His lack of experience really showed after his initial name I…

I took a mook Erlang class and after that, I couldn’t really get into elixir. Erlang just felt a lot more expressive

Many Americans still do not realize Trump won riding on $5 billions in free media advertising[1] Hillary also edged Bernie in the primaries receiving over $740m over sanders $320m …

Frontline (PBS)in partnership with Forbidden Stories are doing a report [1] on NSO hacking the phone of Khashoggi’s fiancé and other journalist and activists around the world. Look…

From the AP version (h/t @tareqak) [0], "identification of anyone engaged in foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity". Key phrase, state-sanctioned . This has less to do …

It’ll be great if you had an “about us” section there so I could easily see who is behind it, instead having to google it. Your backgrounds [1] seem very solid so why not showcase …

is that because the limitation of his testing insurgents?

IMO this is what causing this huge self-promotion trend. 1 - it's become so much easier and accessible, with twitter, blog, FB, IG, YT. 2 - your ability to promote yourself has gre…

His lens tests are excellent. The lens rentals blog is the best place to find them [0]. If you're in market for high quality lenses, lens rental blog is a great resource. I also li…

Have many of us have become the useful idiots of the corporate media overloads? I know it's fashionable to blame Facebook for the divisiveness, but I'm old enough to recall Obama's…