Chinjut

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by Chinjut 10y ago
Fine, it's not news, it's just a true story that deserves response and propagation. How about that?
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Ooh, that Eric Idle dig at the end...
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by Chinjut 10y ago
This argument that the Second Law is a simple logical consequence of basic probability always seems glib to me. Why would probability demand entropy increase as one extrapolates forward in time, but probability not similarly demand entropy
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by Chinjut 10y ago
This is a distinctively white Christian thing? Surely there have been, since ancient times, people in every corner of the world who believe the world is real (whatever it amounts to to believe this as opposed to not believing it) and recogn
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by Chinjut 10y ago
What does the word "pumpkins" mean in this context?
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The point is just that this is a map which faithfully represents relative areas? We've known how to do that for hundreds of years; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection#Equal-area . It's of note tha
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Also known as the "frequency illusion", though this is less picturesque
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Do we need more finance people? I wouldn't say we "need" much of anything; we could go any which way. So who says the invisible hand of the market is acting correctly if it makes your life dream of being a research professor
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I feel similarly, yet opposite, to you: Perhaps companies shouldn't care at all what people do with their lives outside of work. Perhaps. But, given that we have to hitch ourselves to one to make a living, they damn well better allow p
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I want desperately to live longer, or even to recapture youth, and yet, my worry: When finally science unlocks the secret of immortality, they'll just raise the retirement age correspondingly.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Who said anything about standard issue ad-driven, marketing-driven software engineering jobs? Wasn't the alternative in this case brain/epilepsy neurology research?
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by Chinjut 10y ago
In case it's not obvious to anyone else, the referenced "Mr Adams" is Douglas Adams (of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", etc., fame).
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by Chinjut 10y ago
This becomes the chilling effect that one must never criticize their former employers, regardless of what happened or how one feels; they are to be treated as above reproach. Which is exactly the worry.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
What is the value of bending ourselves to fit a confusingly designed old language, rather than bending the language to fit us? The very fact that articles like this have to be written indicates a failure of user interface design, which we n
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I'm not saying he was crushed for his individuality and truth-speaking then. As I said, I have no idea what he was like in the past, or the merits of his tenure case. I'm saying people, in this thread, are taking him to task for c
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I don't know and can't speak to the merits of this guy's research, but it distresses me to see so many people here taking him to task merely for daring to publicly voice criticisms of his employer. Not just advising him &quot
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Reading around the other posts by that "translator", they sound like a wonderful person with a perfectly balanced attitude towards people of color, immigrants, women, etc. (Illustrative excerpt: "Complex dialectic is best sav
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by Chinjut 10y ago
For what it's worth, this is a 3d version (finite volume, infinite surface are) of a phenomenon which might be more easily grasped in 2d (finite area, infinite perimeter). And this idea of finite area described by y = f(x) [between thi
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by Chinjut 10y ago
It's a story about students with some internal desire to be good at pottery, not just to get good grades. The grading system forces them over the hurdle of hesitation, to produce quantity without being paralyzed by anxieties over not b
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I think the answer is precisely the realization that heliocentrism is a convenient framework for specifying the correct relationships. If one formulated their geocentrism-with-epicycles model to be precisely equivalent to heliocentrism in a
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The converse is impossible in any context where the isoperimetric inequality is applicable.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The multiple mentions in the article of Madison Square Garden surprised me till I looked it up. In case anyone else is as confused as I was, it turns out the Madison Square Garden that existed then is not the same as the MSG that exists now
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Well, supposing one wanted "true" randomness and had access to a source of such, but still cared to be efficient about using it.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Any random number generator library worth its salt should have a properly implemented RandInt(1, J) function available, instead of just a RandInt(1, RAND_MAX) primitive. Behind the scenes, mind you, it's easy to implement such things f
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by Chinjut 10y ago
There are many skilled professions which are highly unionized; e.g., the various TV and film production unions. Which professions are and aren't unionized is, to a large extent, just a quirk of historical circumstance.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
> this particular study is fascinating simply because it IS a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers. Of course a libertarian think tank would argue for drug legalization; that's not surprising at all. (I say thi
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Yes. I would desperately prefer to take on a job with more leisure time, even with a harsh paycut, and yet, there is almost no way to express that desire within the market as it stands. So I take on a job with far more hours than I'd l
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Is it not relevant that there is a simple algorithm to enumerate the primes, or, even more so, determine whether a given value is prime?
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Er, how are those couple doodles examples of the empirically opposite problem? They have nothing to do with AI. (Also... is any representation of people of color an instance of anti-white bias? Because otherwise, I don't see what the p
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by Chinjut 10y ago
> Nope, they exactly allow the notes to show scale degree relationships. Without key signatures, music in any major scale other than C would be very confusing as the regular scale notes would be marked with accidentals. Presumably, the

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