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jamesb93··on 1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scientific Fraud
Is this fraudulent stats?
jamesb93··on Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
As soon as a git repo involves jupyter notebooks I move on. They're ugly, they don't let me learn how the code works properly and in general looks awful. Why not just give me some code to run??
jamesb93··on For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people
Sounds like you had a tightness you weren't managing or your form was incorrect. I'd hedge your elbow position was off or your hands were too close.
jamesb93··on Are our brains Bayesian? (2016)
Musicologists have been asking this question from a phenomenological angle for some time. It's quite interesting how listening and perception in the English language have almost no distinction from each other. Our ears listen always, but our brain perceives is about as far as we get. In French musicology and music psychology, there is much more desperation between modes of listening and they all have their own definitions.
jamesb93··on 42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings
You should be more specific here. IN AMERICA. Developed countries dont have this issue.
jamesb93··on Building a better gov.uk, step by step
If you're on a government website giving feedback that it's boring you really need to evaluate your priorities. It's a website for utility.
jamesb93··on Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system
Just checked them out. They're pricing is super competitive too.

Do they have the 'un-delete' feature that Dropbox has?

jamesb93··on Firefox: The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement with the Web [pdf]
I think I would just rather have advertisers barrage me and I'll continue to block them.
jamesb93··on Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
Maps is insanely laggy on my Xiaomi Redmi note 4x. THis is with the performance kernel configuration on with GPU running 100%. Its just horribly optimised and has so much clutter now.

Does anyone know a decent alternative? (please don't say waze)

jamesb93··on Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
aer you saying chrome or ff uses less?
jamesb93··on Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
Are you against using Safari? It really is great on Mac.
jamesb93··on Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic
Its actually not that complicated. Don't use plastic.
jamesb93··on How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)
You fail to understand that crawling the web is 0.5% of the picture. Google has the best treatment of that data to serve ads, personalise experience and that's what their value is. You think making a bit crawler would nullify google, but you'd have to do the other 99.95% to be better (which costs money most people don't have).
jamesb93··on Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results
Wow... I always hated how sometimes the results for really niche things would not be found by DDG so I swapped back to evil corp search. I can't believe I haven't used these !g commands before! Thanks
jamesb93··on Snapchat's decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns
I agree...
jamesb93··on Snapchat's decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns
What I don't understand about snapchat is its functionally useless. Me and a small group of friends send funny images and like the silly bitmoji's but we never have a proper conversation on there or exchange anything of value. I don't really see it as a true social media.
jamesb93··on Snapchat's decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns
I really find Mastodon really empty. I had a look and the first things that popped up into my federated feed were escorts.
jamesb93··on How I Automated My Job
Just in most cases its not necessarily better to have written the script. You could learn the script in a situation in which the time payoff isnt so terrible.
jamesb93··on Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless
They already do this on Qatar.
jamesb93··on The Decline of the MacBook Pro
Yep. My partner has had Windows laptops where the hardware is just junk too. I had my previous Macbook Pro for 7 years and just upgraded the internals. The Touch Pad is still today unmatched on that thing (except by my new macbook pro) and the hardware was always top notch in terms of its integration with the OS. In my niche field of audio programming Mac is basically required as most commerical software is released to be used by live musicians who also use Mac. Can you guess why? Superior audio drivers with minimal latency. To get something comparable on windows you have to use an external audio interface which is fine, but on windows is generally more buggy. Mac definitely still has the strangehold for audio on 'just works'.
jamesb93··on Half of all adults in the world have less than $2,300 in wealth (2016)
You are assuming they are poor because of choice and not because of systemic abject poverty. Yeah its easy to save 60000 dollars a year if you make 200000 p/a but the likelihood of someone in a lower-class robo job saving significant amounts of money is very low.
jamesb93··on US government to use facial recognition technology at Mexico border crossing
Except real life isn't as simple as even the largest repos of code. There are edge cases that deal with morality and ethics rather than if and for statements.
jamesb93··on Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store
But its incredibly easy to install system wide adblockers on Android. Just get adaway from f-droid.
jamesb93··on The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
This just seems like a crazy amount of micro-management when often the answer is to just set a goal and complete it. Categorising and reducing tasks in this way is surely not healthy long term. Sorry! No more shallow work today. Can't do that. It simply can't work for most people.
jamesb93··on How Posture Makes Us Human
Perhaps those people perceive their back to be straight when it has been curved for years. Their sense of normal is warped and they dont have the feedback system to correct it without first adjusting their proprioception of where they are in relation to their body (and how parts of their body are in relation to each other).
jamesb93··on Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar
You should always tune to clean. If you have any sort of distortion (particularly digital) you start to introduce aliasing and will have the pitch detection algorithm locking on to frequencies that have wrapped around the nyquist.
jamesb93··on Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
They also outright get rid of questions that people provide good and helpful answers to. I once asked a question about a specific ML technique in regards to implementing in a specific c++ API. Higher ups said that the question was far too broad and against the guidelines, despite receiving at least 5 good answers to my questions before they got to it. They effectively shut up good conversation for the sake of a rule book they probably didn't write.
jamesb93··on YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
This is what I did to get my BA only 2 years ago. We had exam essays and prepared essays. It very quickly weeds out the people who don't know what they're talking about.
jamesb93··on Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users
I wish that someone would just do this. Signal could have been great but the usability is crap in comparison to Telegram
jamesb93··on TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client
And you're very welcome to use something that fits your threat model.
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