anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: Mathematicians prove the triviality of English
That's a joke ... maybe to show how uncritically journalists will publish anything that comes across as "mathematical".
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anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: Scared of having a gap on your CV after that long trip? Fear no more
Don't think that is true anymore ... there are lots of qualified Malaysians, Indonesians, Indians and Pakistanis who will work for $10 an hour and be happy about it.
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: Scared of having a gap on your CV after that long trip? Fear no more
Didn't you also support Unicef in Kongo and helped fertilize endangered Rhinos in Tanzania? You must have forgotten about that - ah yeah, and the novels you wrote during your sabbatical while travelling down the Ganges on a house boat ...
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: The Decay of Twitter
> I really hope twitter somehow makes money. I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. Facebook, I'd rather see die in the hottest fires of all the hells.
Both are useful, but Twitter is sticking to its domain, while Facebook tries to lure the user into dependency on as many levels as possible.
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: Baidu found China’s “ghost cities” but is keeping their locations mostly secret
Maybe that is intended:
"China's replacement for Windows is an XP ripoff"
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/25/9396769/china-NeoKylin-ope...
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
Watch "The Act of Killing" and you'll know why this country is resistant to advice and doomed.
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: People in Sweden are hiding cash in their microwaves
Also Swede here ... I don't agree with the OP on his judgement of the article which is in my opinion pretty much spot on.
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: China to begin two-child policy
If you place all 7.3 billion people onto an area of the size of Austria, every one has more than 11m² to their own.
Of course this illustration is a simplification but it brings the world population back to perspective.
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: How an episode of the Simpsons is made
When they went from actually drawing the cartoon to computer-aided animation techniques the Simpsons lost something very essential and organic. I love the Simpsons up until about the fifth season. Beyond that I consider them progressively unwatchable.
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science
"Processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), based on sufficient evidence in
humans that the consumption of processed meat causes colorectal cancer."
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2015/pdfs/pr240_E.pdf
and here you find tobacco:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_1_carcinoge...
So processed meat IS ranking next to tobacco according to IARC.
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science
Is it really that bombastic? Lot of people are smoking and will readily justify it with anecdotal evidance proving that smoking isn't really that bad at all - "you know there was this 105 year old Japanese guy and they asked him how he got that old and he said he stopped smoking at the age of 99 ..."
Furthermore - people need those "comparisons" - only few will change their behavior based on purely statistical reasoning.
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science
Kinda funny how hard some people try to reject a finding which is as well supported as it is obvious ... red meat is bad. Same logic applies here as with cigarettes - you decide if you want to take the risk.
Beyond your personal consequences - meat and dairy industry is also directly destructive to the environment and society on a global level (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3302820/).
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: IARC Monographs evaluate consumption of red meat and processed meat [pdf]
"After thoroughly reviewing the accumulated scientific literature, a Working Group of 22 experts from 10
countries convened by the IARC Monographs Programme classified the consumption of red meat as
probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A), based on limited evidence that the consumption of red meat
causes cancer in humans and strong mechanistic evidence supporting a carcinogenic effect."
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: What a Deep Neural Network thinks about selfies
I would like to see a deep dream selfie ...
Feed it an initial picture (noise, clouds, a selfie) and then backwards manipulate the input to maximize the assessed quality of the "selfie".
I guess that would look pretty funny.
anunderachiever | 10 years ago | on: The Fats You Don’t Need to Fear, and the Carbs That You Do
> At 5pm I'm still at work, which means that whatever meal I'll have will be fast food and not a home cooked meal.
You can also take a "home cooked meal" with you to work - for lunch purposes.
> But even more problematic is that dinner is also the perfect opportunity to sit together with your family
It is an opportunity - why do you think it is the _perfect_ opportunity?
> The family dinner is a matter of cultural inheritance that we've been forgetting and ...
There are many ways to share time together - it's not necessary to eat while doing so.
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