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Comment · 9 years ago
While that may be true, I think what this boils down to is a form of prosecutorial discretion, where the discretion is in the hands of the ruling party.
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Comment · 10 years ago
There's a lot of prep/clean-up I just don't want to deal with. I've tried this method before, and it just didn't work out.

All the washing of things you have to use in intermediate steps really adds up. And unless you eat chicken breast for every non-breakfast meal, 10 cooked chicken breasts will get gross in the fridge pretty quickly, so you'll probably want to do something like 3 breasts at a time if you're only eating one meal with chicken breasts per day. This means doing meal prep twice in the week, as opposed to once. If you don't refrigerate them, then you have to wait for the breasts to thaw, which is time I don't want to spend every day, multiple times a day potentially.

I have a busy schedule, and every hour counts some weeks, so the time saved after buying canned chicken breast really adds up.

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Comment · 10 years ago
This is just a nit, but Andrej Karpathy was never a professor at Stanford; he received his PhD from Stanford and now works at OpenAI.
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Comment · 10 years ago
Philosophy/(Pure) Math double major here.

I would argue that my Math degree made me a "better" writer than my Philosophy degree did. Writing quality in philosophy is generally much poorer than other disciplines; you pretty much have to use passive voice everywhere, which is the first thing your college writing lab will tell you not to do.

On the other hand, in my Math classes, I had to turn in 5-10 pages of proofs every week/every other day for problem set work. It was this work that taught me how to write clearly and parsimoniously, much more so than my Philosophy courses.

Of course, YMMV.

Comment · 10 years ago
Coincidentally enough, this was a submitted puzzler to the NPR syndicated show "Car Talk," except there were 10 men in a line wearing black or white hats. The goal was to determine the optimal strategy for guessing hat colors.
Comment · 10 years ago
In fact, that's what NVIDIA did at my alma mater, Grinnell College. I believe the intent was for courses like the OS course to be taught using CUDA (at least to some degree). I don't think that has panned out, but now a tiny liberal arts college has a ton of GPUs to use.
Comment · 10 years ago
I can't remember where I heard this, but I think the whole listicle thing generating a profit so that they could produce actually good journalism was always the plan.

I mean, I sometimes hear from their foreign correspondents on NPR or podcasts I'm interested in. They do have some great journalists on staff.

Comment · 10 years ago
This argument, to me, seems like a lot of inside baseball. I think people attuned to the political conversation vastly overestimate how much political coverage the average voter consumes.

Occam's Razor might suggest people are voting for Clinton and Trump due to name recognition and previous primary results.

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