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benkarst··on Ask HN: Is there a markup language for forms?
JSONForm (https://github.com/jsonform/jsonform) looks very promising. Thanks!
benkarst··on Ask HN: Ways to Improve Cognition?
I'm not a doctor but I've noticed some celebrities who are aging well participate in high-risk physical activities. This is true for some of my friends too.

Motorcycling (Keanu Reaves), martial arts (Joe Rogan), surfing (Anthony Keidis).

If you put your body at risk, your mind has no choice but to stay quick. Be careful though!

benkarst··on IMO Grand Challenge
Thought this was a link to great reddit and youtube comments.
benkarst··on Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar Removed from Facebook
Buzzfeed eliminating the competition.
benkarst··on At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power
Why do universities need to compete with big companies? The less they behave like corporations and more like places of learning, the better.
benkarst··on China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
Hmm, can we make the title more a little more click baity?
benkarst··on Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note
He should be on the pound coin!
benkarst··on Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second Crash
2 crashes. I didn't see the article mention how many successful deliveries there have been.
benkarst··on The Invention of Money
Marco Polo's stories are not regarded by scholars as authentic because in in his chronicles, he failed to mention tea, the Great Wall, the writing system, and other notable things about China at the time.

I'm surprised the New Yorker would use him as a reference.

benkarst··on Every Cancer Patient Is One in a Billion
Paywall :/
benkarst··on Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
Because of clickbait fake news...like this.
benkarst··on Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
I tried. No maps.
benkarst··on When you Google “Logic”
When Logic the Rapper is ranked higher than actual logic.
benkarst··on Why Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not
Why don't you spend 20 minutes reading my article that has a false premise?

-NY Times

benkarst··on The last thing libraries need is Silicon Valley “disruption.”
Libraries aren't so much about books, they're about a place where the homeless people can gather and read them.

Seriously, I love libraries. I think we should apply the same idea for gyms.

benkarst··on Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies
This is the beginning of the end for SF. Now that the techies are forced to experience the third world standards of the city, they will move to more habitable cities, like Detroit.
benkarst··on You don't need ML/AI, you need SQL
There's no logical equivalency between SQL and ML/AI.

SQL is a language that helps retrieve the data you're looking. ML/AI helps you predict the future (using past data).

Maybe this is directed towards product people? But it has SQL in the title so it can't be. I'm confused as to who the audience is here.

benkarst··on AI at Google: our principles
I agree. I'm encouraged that there are people who can see through the propaganda.
benkarst··on Philip Roth has died
If you read the article, he is defining this group of 'great white males' to be three writers who the literary world actually refer to as 'The Great Narcissists'.

https://www.dfwsociety.org/2017/12/02/call-for-papers-great-...

He specifically substituted 'narcissist' with 'white male' as if he's using it as a synonym.

benkarst··on Philip Roth has died
https://www.dfwsociety.org/2017/12/02/call-for-papers-great-...
benkarst··on Philip Roth has died
That he used the term "great white males" when he should have used "Great Male Narcissists". Would a high school newspaper even make a mistake such as this? It's either sloppy, malicious, or both.
benkarst··on Philip Roth has died
The author of the article does not use "great white males" as a personal pronoun. Nor does the article you linked include any mention of race.
benkarst··on Philip Roth has died
Silly me, I didn't know "white" is a term that describes age.
benkarst··on Philip Roth has died
The article called Roth "one of the last great white males". I had to read that five times to make sure that phrase was actually used. wtf. How is this okay on any level?
benkarst··on Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
What's theoretical about drone strikes?
benkarst··on Tiny, Perfect Staircases Made by French Woodworkers
I don't know why it's on hacker news but it's cool.
benkarst··on Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
Monetize and monopolize are synonymous in Silicon Valley. Read Thiel's Zero to One.
benkarst··on Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
Google wants to monopolize, not democratize, AI.

I wonder if Google tests for Doublethink skills before you can get hired there now.

benkarst··on Social Media: Making Us Dumber?
We are getting dumber. Social media is simply a mirror.
benkarst··on We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change
A blog post as an apology? I can picture the CEO in a meeting, "Hey if this doesn't work out, we can just draft a really sincere sounding letter to our creators."
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