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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I simply observed that I lose weight if I eat <3k kcal over long stretches. I think human metabolism has a very wide variance, though it's hard to find good quality studies about it.
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
> 2) American portion sizes for one meal could feed an entire African family for a week, American portions are obscene I don't get why people get so up in arms about this, especially as it's socially acceptable to take out left
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
I believe that you're right but also I wouldn't underestimate the chance that the decision came from some MBA instead of a "legion of scientists"
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
If you're looking for more a more traditional style I've heard good things about Michael Penn at https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelPennMath
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
> earth has likely never had as diverse an ecosystem as it has this millennium Don't worry, we can fix that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
It's unfortunate that holding down backspace does not keep deleting characters (or better yet delete word by word like Swiftkey does)
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
There's not many studies but they generally show that the brain reflects the gender (i.e. a trans woman's brain looks more like a cis woman's than a cis man's), see e.g. https://academic.oup.com/brain&#x2
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
Elusiveness is subjective, but there's certainly plenty of patterns to be found (though, to be fair, what constitutes a pattern might also be subjective). You should check out Terence Tao's blog [0], he's not only one of the
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
Plus Pythagoreans had a much more religious attitude towards number than any present-day mathematician. In fact I think it's almost misleading to remember them chiefly for their mathematical contributions (many of which are disputed
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
It's a different concept [0], regrettably the word "field" is vastly overworked in math (and physics) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(mathematics)
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
> don't think that imaginary or complex numbers have physical significance. Yeah I'd say that's the most common approach but I think it's misguided. Complex numbers aren't any less physical than any other number.
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by C-x_C-f 3y ago
> There really isn't anything weird or suspect about renormalization This is the first time I've heard anyone say that. To me, renormalization is extremely weird, if anything because it's so unrigorous and ad-hoc that I
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by C-x_C-f 4y ago
Do pseudorandom distributions have chopped tails? Wouldn't that go against the definition of pseudorandom?
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by C-x_C-f 4y ago
Late to the party but I think they're referring to the style guide of the New Yorker magazine [0] which calls for diaeresis marks. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker#Style
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by C-x_C-f 4y ago
If you're reserving 10 hours a week to set up distinct dog-and-pony shows for, say, 10 companies, that's 1 hour per company per week, so in this case it's 2 hours to write down about 16 "leadership principles," so
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by C-x_C-f 4y ago
> [An applicant prepared] for an interview with Amazon, he said, by spending the better part of two weeks writing down episodes from his life that matched the company’s guiding values, known internally as leadership principles. Does Amaz
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by C-x_C-f 4y ago
I didn't mean to say it was a grassroots effort, just that it brought people together without too much of an artificial facade. Sure, at the bottom it was an advertisement event, but it's still fun when everything is in the same p
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by C-x_C-f 4y ago
On the one hand I'm happy that gaming is gaining recognition in a way that makes it a more sustainable career option; on the other hand it's clear that once enough money starts flowing in, more or less organic & authentic comm
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by C-x_C-f 4y ago
> If the cow could speak, I believe their opinion would be otherwise. Except cows... Don't speak? That's kind of the whole point. We can't apply human value judgements to other species that work in a fundamentally differen
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by C-x_C-f 4y ago
A principal bundle is not itself a torsor (unless the base space is a point); only the fiber over each point is.
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by C-x_C-f 4y ago
This is always framed in terms of USA vs. China/Taiwan but what about Europe? AFAIK (I might know wrong) the consensus among macroeconomists is that "social market economies" like European ones are better suited (compared to
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by C-x_C-f 4y ago
I don't understand. If anything I would guess that our (human) perception of "weirdness" is not a good measure of the (dis)advantages of a particular attribute. Octopuses and angler fish are weird as hell (to me at least) but
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by C-x_C-f 5y ago
The website mentions some good courses, personally I love Richard Borcherds' YouTube channel[1] for both undergraduate and graduate courses. No frills, exceptionally clear, (mostly) bite-sized lectures that cover a good range of materi
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by C-x_C-f 5y ago
> For example, undergraduates who have taken it are generally explicitly prohibited in course descriptions from taking further undergraduate mathematics classes (because it would be free credit for retreading the same ground) and can onl
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by C-x_C-f 5y ago
Also it breaks IPA rendering for some reason. For example here [0] many of the diacritic marks (especially most of the less common ones) are off to the right. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alph
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by C-x_C-f 5y ago
Not taken from real life, just a nice whole number to simplify computations :)
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by C-x_C-f 5y ago
I wonder if this takes into account multitasking. If I poop for 1 hour while reading HN, I can't just add the two percentages separately or the total will exceed 100%, so I have to count the 1 hour twice to normalize. If I do this ever
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by C-x_C-f 5y ago
The ClearURLs addon [1] also gives you the in-browser option to copy "clean link location," as they call it. [1] https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon
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by C-x_C-f 5y ago
From the paper: > While human aptitude questions focus on a specific range of patterns that are relatively easy for people to identify, we also want to test the predictive abilities on the OEIS test set sequences which showcase more soph
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by C-x_C-f 5y ago
I feel the NYT article on this [1] has more info on the subject; it also includes the following: > The lawsuit notes that the line in the series saying that Ms. Gaprindashvili had never faced men had been changed from the book it was bas

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