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zerostar07··on How to start a lab when funds are tight
You should also consider whether you need to start another lab.
zerostar07··on Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
yes and the lecticae, i believe they were popular in Rome because carriages were not allowed.
zerostar07··on Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
not novel enough; the romans did that thousands of years ago
zerostar07··on No Joke: The Onion Faces Layoffs by Univision, Says Report
Plot twist: The onion becomes the CIA project that fools people on using Facebook, another CIA project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0
zerostar07··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
if that were the definition of racism today, 99% of the articles written about it in the past 10 years is false. Racism today is defined by actions, not beliefs.
zerostar07··on A new $100M fund for women founders of color
While the goal is laudable, this is surely racist and sexist. The language-control group wants to avoid the label, because then those weaponized words will lose their impact. It remains racist and sexist for a good purpose.
zerostar07··on A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes
libertarians leave capitalism intact. You can say that government delegates is "a small number".
zerostar07··on The European Commission is polling if daylight savings should be abolished
trying to vote gives me 404 in 28 languages
zerostar07··on A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes
Or they could just declare them terrorists, easier imho.
zerostar07··on A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes
who is this "we" who believes such falsities?
zerostar07··on A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes
what makes you think they won't nuke those out of existence as soon as they become successful?
zerostar07··on A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes
By that standard we should have stuck with absolute monarchy. (you might want to think it over. I 'm sure the ancient romans said the same things, as did imperial russia)
zerostar07··on A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes
It's sad that libertarians / ancaps are bullied out of the real world to do their experiment. These kind of experiments should be done on land.
zerostar07··on Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags
> via outrage, fake news, etc

Also via politicizing their identity, their gender etc. Taken to the extreme, anything that has emotional impact can manipulate people. Taken to further extreme, such an argument means that democracy is useless and based on very flimsy and wrong assumptions about human nature. But we can be reasonable instead of extreme.

zerostar07··on Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags
that doesnt explain anything though, it just kicks the can a bit further down. He's not clear whether the problem is facebook, the fact that majority of voters are gullible idiots, or democracy itself?
zerostar07··on Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags
how dare he
zerostar07··on Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union
Sarcasm and humor are a big deal. They are active attempts to identify resonance with a crowd and common ground, and can be used to assess if there is a strong cultural basis in a community. In the internet it's become very hard to have cohesive communities, so sarcasm has to be labeled (perhaps hoping that it will help people learn to identify it without labels in the future - in vain, i think).
zerostar07··on Sex and Sexuality
> celebrated through marriage

Nothing spells celebration like the approval of the State and the Law does

zerostar07··on Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags
I wish facebook could be outright extinguished from the internet. Then a lot of people would realize that those barbarians were a kind of solution.
zerostar07··on Equivalence principle of general relativity holds even at gravitational extremes
why do they call it Principal?
zerostar07··on Thanks Economist, You Really Know What Has Gone Wrong with the Internet
The picture does not include the allow cookies bar at the top.
zerostar07··on The Surprising Power of Virtue Labeling
sounds like social media
zerostar07··on Please stop asking me to use the app
it's not common. most businesses do not wait years until they capriciously decide to make money. that's because most businesses are not funded by the silicon valley, it's float or die.
zerostar07··on Please stop asking me to use the app
Its a disease caused by the unhealthy VC-funded growth model. When major websites don't care about advertising income, the advertisers are left to become scammier and scammier as smaller websites don't have the power to wield positive change for their users.
zerostar07··on Please stop asking me to use the app
come on! sign up to our newsletter before you even see the content. what about a feedback survey or two after 3 seconds of visiting our sites? Help us get better
zerostar07··on Please stop asking me to use the app
Medium is ridiculous. only readable with reader mode.
zerostar07··on Keras vs PyTorch
While we are at it, which framework is the easiest to tweak at the low-level, e.g. create modified LSTMs etc ?
zerostar07··on Backpropagation algorithm visual explanation
math is generally written left-to-right
zerostar07··on Backpropagation algorithm visual explanation
E.g. in Feynman diagrams time flows forwards from left to right.
zerostar07··on Backpropagation algorithm visual explanation
forward and back usually refer to right- and leftwards in 2D so it should probably be drawn left-to-right
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