mr_tyzic | 3 years ago | on: A Brief History of Just-In-Time (2003) [pdf]
I'd add "compilers", but that would spoil the Hawking joke.
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mr_tyzic | 3 years ago | on: Data Science in Context – Peter Norvig's New Book
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mr_tyzic | 7 years ago | on: Vladimir Lukyanov's hydraulic computer
Hydraulic integrator would be a better translation.
mr_tyzic | 9 years ago | on: Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Humana Merger
Ayn Rand sure did though.
mr_tyzic | 9 years ago | on: California Hits the Brakes on High-Speed Rail
> It's ludicrous that we in this country can't have modern infrastructure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkf2MQdqz-o is a survey of American domestic and foreign policy that goes into this question. The speaker is a distinguished US diplomat of the post-war era, who also served as Nixon's Mandarin interpreter when he first went to China. His short answer is that for interlocking reasons that make it hard to change, military spending is the only kind of stimulus spending that's politically feasible in the US, and infrastructure spending hasn't yet been able to break that lock, though it needs to.
mr_tyzic | 9 years ago | on: Mentoring in Gaza's first hackathon
The answer of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, which few (in the West at least) would now argue was wrong.
mr_tyzic | 9 years ago | on: Mentoring in Gaza's first hackathon
The point is that all the same arguments were brought up against the previous anti-apartheid movement (the one in South Africa) at the time, and today almost no one would argue that those sanctions (and boycotts and divestments) weren't justified. Least of all on the basis that they "hurt, not help" the oppressed population. So this objection to the same tactics now is unconvincing.
mr_tyzic | 9 years ago | on: Mentoring in Gaza's first hackathon
> Ironically movements like the BDS actually cause Palestinians who work for Israeli companies to loose their jobs.
This argument was often made against anti-apartheid sanctions on South Africa. The answer was that it was for the oppressed population to decide.
mr_tyzic | 9 years ago | on: Medical research: If depression were cancer (2014)
By that argument, if you're grieving the loss of a loved one, deciding whether to marry, struggling to write a novel, or even fixing a bug in a computer program, you have a disease. All those presumably have some biochemical correlate.
mr_tyzic | 9 years ago | on: Medical research: If depression were cancer (2014)
No proof, but I meant an implicit "even if you assume that" at the start of the comment.
mr_tyzic | 9 years ago | on: Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round
It's an investor's job to be so foolish.
mr_tyzic | 9 years ago | on: Medical research: If depression were cancer (2014)
Everything in the mind is biologically mediated. That doesn't make every mind problem a disease.
mr_tyzic | 10 years ago | on: Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak
In terms of their reporting, sure they are. They're at the liberal end of the spectrum but well within what Murray is talking about.
mr_tyzic | 10 years ago | on: The US Air Force's plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon (2000)
mr_tyzic | 10 years ago | on: Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive
You present that as an objection, but merely repeat what he said.
mr_tyzic | 10 years ago | on: There is no shortage of STEM workers
But there are many more low-quality ones to complain about how the shortage is a myth.
mr_tyzic | 10 years ago | on: When a Self-Declared Genius Asks You to Read His Masterpiece
Maybe because something like this comes up a lot.
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