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You got many rational reasons for starting learning Python with Python 2: - It is easier syntax and string-handling for beginners. Else, look for someone who started learning Pytho…

> Maintaining a Python 2 and 3 compatible codebase in a PITA. I maintain multiple Py 2-3 compatible codebases, both academically and commercially. It's not hard, because I develop …

As someone who asked the same question a few years back (and gladly received the answer: Python 2), I'd suggest you learn both. Does not matter which language you start in, as long…

And, to an extend, I sympathize with the viewpoints of the singularity adherents. Collective intelligence is a version of Conway's Game of Life, with more complicated rules. It is …

Super Intelligence is the information theoretical variant of the perpetuum mobile. Like the article made so aptly clear: No matter the performance of the machine, if its input is n…

The author makes mention of being able to flick through hundreds of patients to find "the saddest case". (I think this is really only telling of how the author views the world). Th…

I used to donate regularly to Watsi, but recently I have churned, as they have de-emphasized the p2p aspect over universal healthcare. They now seem to be in an awkward split betwe…