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9 votes
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Catching sight of your self — Perception as the key to who we are
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A neurophilosophy of autonomous weapons and warfare
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What the problem of moral luck can teach us about lockdown rule-breakers
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The philosophy of cricket
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The Balearic Slingers | Units of History
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What is MasterClass actually selling?
8 votes -
Nine books on philosophy and race
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August 6th, 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
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The Amish keep to themselves. And they’re hiding a horrifying secret: "A year of reporting by Cosmo and Type Investigations reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse."
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Noticing patterns of oppression and faithfulness
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The world of Kaiserreich: Exploring the lore of an alternate WW1
3 votes -
The subtle linguistics of polite white supremacy
11 votes -
Samfundssind – A word buried in the history books helped Danes mobilise during the pandemic, flattening the curve and lifting community spirit
9 votes -
Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system
9 votes -
How compulsory unionization makes us more free
9 votes -
The meaning of death
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How the 1918 flu pandemic got meme-ified in jokes, songs, and poems
9 votes -
20th-century slavery was hiding in plain sight: The El Monte sweatshop case exposed a web of corruption, and the enslavement of more than seventy Los Angeles area garment workers
6 votes -
A survival guide for living in the simulation
9 votes -
Scaled-down hajj begins in coronavirus era – in pictures
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Logic
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Is religion a flawed play-style for humans and if so, why did it arise in the first place? (Feat. TierZoo)
2 votes -
How WW2 made Spain do everything later
4 votes -
The Turkish century; part 2: The journey of the Turkish Republic
4 votes -
Racism in the USA is higher among white Christians than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence
28 votes -
How do we diversify philosophy? Pluralism rather than inclusivism
6 votes -
Engineers of the soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China
9 votes -
Angrynomics: How reform of capitalism in the last twenty years reflects a failure of ideas
8 votes -
Reading and decoding from the perspective of someone with a learning disability
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At a loss for words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
2 votes -
Brett Wilson judges the case for laws for robots
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In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too
7 votes -
The Persian language and what makes it fascinating
5 votes -
The Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 BCE)
7 votes -
The Numidian Cavalry | Units of History
4 votes -
The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time – a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were first allowed to be ordained in 1960
8 votes -
How the Democratic party went from being the party of slavery and white supremacy to electing Barack Obama
5 votes -
How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
3 votes -
Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age
3 votes -
Hiroshima (1946)
5 votes -
How to think about individual vs group hereditarianism
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What online courses / MOOCs have you taken?
Not leaving the house much these days (due to social distancing and also insane heat in NYC right now) means I've got some time to kill that I'd like to spend productively. I took MIT 6.00.2x:...
Not leaving the house much these days (due to social distancing and also insane heat in NYC right now) means I've got some time to kill that I'd like to spend productively.
I took MIT 6.00.2x: Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science a few years back when I was refreshing my Python skills. I think it's been updated a bit since then. It was a high quality course and I enjoyed it, though there are so many Python-related courses these days, I can't guarantee it's the best.
I'm currently taking:
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Model Thinking on Coursera from the University of Michigan. I don't know where I saw this recommended (maybe on Tildes or Hacker News?) but it's quite good so far. Scott Page teaches about how to use various models (mental models, computational ones, etc.) for breaking down and analyzing various problems and systems. I've only just started but I quite like it.
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Testing and Monitoring Machine Learning Model Deployments on Udemy. Taking this along with a few coworkers since it's relevant to what I do. Only just starting but appears to be quite good and works through a well-documented example project on Github.
I've also come across a few that seem like they might be good courses for the future:
- Bayesian Methods for Hackers
- Probalistic graphical models on Coursera (3-part sequence, not free)
- Computational probability and inference
Now your turn: what have you taken? What did you like or not like, and why? What do you want to take?
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Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood
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Richard Rorty, cancel culture, political fallibilism, and achieving our country
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Conservative arguments for inheritance reform
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Cancel culture is the marketplace of ideas at work
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Major videogame developer partners with philosophy department
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The village that the Luftwaffe bombed by mistake
9 votes