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A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place
Explaining Y Combinator
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The most popular blog posts about science & space on Hacker News. 160 posts.
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What is an emotion? William James’s theory of how our bodies affect our feelings
“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.”
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Fractional Factorial Experiment Design: There Are Too Many Experiments to Do
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you had a bunch of parameters to tune for a better result, but there were just too many to exhaustively search all possibilities? I recently saw a …
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An intutive counterexample to the axiom of choice
Time for some hard-core geeking-out. This comment on HN by /u/jiggawatts struck me as a brilliant idea: it's an intuitive counter-example t...
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Nuclear power is too safe
If you don't pursue safety in a way that is cost effective, you are killing people.[David Okrent]
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Visualizing Neural Networks
A visual example-focused introduction to neural networks.
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GPT-2 as step toward general intelligence (2019)
A machine learning researcher writes me in response to yesterday’s post, saying:I still think GPT-2 is a brute-force statistical pattern matcher which blends up the internet and gives you bac…
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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
An allegory against complacency about aging and death.
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The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
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[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): “Clusterfake”
This is the introduction to a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In 2021, we and a team o…