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My Favorite Liar (2008)
[the following recounts an exceptionally powerful teaching technique employed by an economics professor of mine at university; teaching fact-checking and skepticism by salting it into the content of his delivery]
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 1,047 posts.
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I was deceived about Covid vaccine safety
Covid vaccine injuries are being grossly underreported and censored: evidence from multiple, independent sources
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Exploring Mastodon
With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon
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Protect me from what I want
Over on Mastodon, there are many people who enjoy not being in the grip of software like Facebook or Twitter that single-mindedly tries to maximize “engagement”, which means the amount of time you stare at the screen so they can show you ads. These algorithms don’t care what they’re showing you and if it turns out…
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Negative incentives in academic research
In the first half of the XXth century, there were relatively few scientists, and these scientists were generally not lavishly funded. Yet it has been convincingly argued that these scientists were massively more productive. We face a major replication crisis where important results in fields such as psychology and…
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Post-Apocalyptic Programming
In a post-apocalyptic future with no internet or stackoverflow, let's try to build a programming environment from scratch.
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“Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years”
In 1970, Marvin Minsky, recipient of the Turing Award (“the Nobel Prize of Computing”), predicted that within “three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.”
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We're Drowning
Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, …
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Science Is Getting Harder
Evidence that discoveries are getting smaller on average
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Dutch antitrust authority fines Apple for fifth time
Domain registriert bei united-domains.de
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Zendesk to be acquired
A Zendesk é uma empresa de CRM que prioriza o atendimento e cria softwares eficientes e flexíveis para atender às necessidades de qualquer negócio. Saiba mais sobre nós
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Tools for thought as cultural practices, not computational objects
On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
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Adversarial Collaboration
[EDITOR'S NOTE: In marking this year's 25th anniversary of Edge , we are presenting original lectures from eminent scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who are changing the way we think about science and our place in the world.]
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The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
tl;dr A thumbs-up emoji appears each time you type a colon : in Google Docs, in french. I have just noticed that it is now possible to easily insert emojis in Google Docs! Good news? Not for french writers! This feature already exists in Outlook on the Web: when you
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Flurry of Calls Among Saudi Staff and Spy Coincided with 9/11 Hijackers’ Arrival
Future al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki also connected
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Phrases in computing that might need retiring
The upcoming issue of the SICPers newsletter is all about phrases that were introduced to computing to mean one thing, but seem to get used in practice to mean another. This annoys purists, pedants, and historians: it also annoys the kind of software engineer who dives into the literature to see how ideas were…
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You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
Us denizens of the Internet have become familiar with concepts that were foreign more than a decade ago, one of the most that causes the most influence is going viral. There’s so much variety on the web with content providing the impression that anything could essentially make you rich. However, hid
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Analyzing Carbon Dioxide levels while attending IETF-115 in London, UK
is it safe to travel these days?
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A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle
I was just reminded of an event I inadvertently caused. I found some screenshots I took of a few websites. The websites all touched on a joke I made. I wrote it on a subreddit dedicated to finding comedy in programming topics: /r/ProgrammerHumor.
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On the dangers of cryptocurrencies and the uselessness of blockchain
Earlier this month, I and others wrote a letter to Congress, basically saying that cryptocurrencies are an complete and total disaster, and urging them to regulate the space. Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. In response, Matthew Green has…
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Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars
All vehicles lose efficiency and range in very cold weather. Electric cars are no different. The good news, however, is that this range loss is temporary and not as limiting as many people may think.
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The magic of the Japanese convenience store sandwich
Why is the Japanese Convenience Store Sandwich so iconic? After eating (a lot of) them on my past trips I decided it was time to find out exactly why they are so moreish! There are
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Web 3.0 – The Great Con
I'll say it - web 3.0 is a meaningless buzzword, and blockchain and cryptocurrency is nothing more than a giant fraud.
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