Chinjut

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by Chinjut 10y ago
I got downvoted for that? (I was sincere in saying "good advice"; just giving context on my background in this conversation as well)
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Good advice, but bad news: Too late. (Well, I quit ABD (with a consolation Master's) and got a BigCorp job, but wasn't too thrilled with that, and since now I've got this monkey on my back, I keep trying to finish writing my
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Hm... are there any options other than hoping against all odds to successfully navigate the tenure-track rat-race, working for The Man as an anonymous cog at BigCorp, or starting a business and pouring myself into businessy businessperson b
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I don't think many women fit the image you have created. You seem to me unduly judgmental of people you don't actually know very well, if at all. I'll leave it at that.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
You consider having kids by IVF to be... a... hobby?
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by Chinjut 10y ago
A sufficiently advanced understanding of the finite difference operator might well be considered indistinguishable from understanding "calculus"...
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The article isn't making any claims about retiring to Manhattan causing increased lifespan. It isn't even intended as a scientific article at all. I suspect many here only read the headline? It's one man's personal essay
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by Chinjut 10y ago
What is the function called? And is there a Chrome equivalent, by any chance?
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Huh! I previously submitted this very same article (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493543 ) with zero uptick. I wonder why it's managed to do so well on this go-round. Perhaps the different host? Perhaps jus
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The submitter presumably thought some HN readers would find it interesting, and it turns out they were right.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Not just 20 year olds but everyone is affected by, and can't help but absorb a great deal of, the values of their culture. That's what it means to call it their culture.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Yes! This is the best, most on-the-mark account of the matter I've ever read. (Granted, I've read it before, but I'll say it again). Amazing how few people writing about the issue see, or at least note, this basic insight.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Yes, absolutely. It seems very few people commenting here actually read the article or are responding to it, beyond the title chosen here on Hacker News (which isn't even the title displayed on the article! The article's displayed
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When Billionaires Rule(jacobinmag.com)
2 points by Chinjut 10y ago|0 comments
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The link should've been to http://www.cnet.com/news/probing-ibms-nazi-connection/ . The claim about the IBM memo comes from Edwin Black, author of the book "IBM and the Holocaust". The reference to a
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How Peter Thiel Killed Gawker(jacobinmag.com)
2 points by Chinjut 10y ago|0 comments
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by Chinjut 10y ago
A meteor isn't going to hit the Earth because you asked someone something. The worst that can happen because you decide to ask someone something? You go up to say something to them, stutter a few times, throw up in your mouth a little,
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Depends on what sort of average. We might consider medians instead (with some way to make sense of these against the general backdrop of a non-continuous distribution).
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by Chinjut 10y ago
FWIW, this CEO happens to be a (rich) person of color. In our society, color is a handicap, but, if you do manage to get money... boy, oh boy, is money an aid.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I, uh, totally want my surgeon to have empathy when he or she is cutting my leg off.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
One can actually derive the Euler product for sine perfectly rigorously quite quickly, in just the manner Euler did! (Euler is often said to have glibly moved from "sin(x)/x has roots at nonzero integer multiples of π" to &qu
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by Chinjut 10y ago
I think everyone deserves sympathy, because everyone is a human being. Larry Page's life as a CEO is surely stressful and he deserves sympathy for it. But I bet there are plenty of "poor single mother"s and "40-something
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Just as well, "Pick 3 points comprising a line (in the four dimensional space over the three element field)"
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by Chinjut 10y ago
It should remind you of A Beautiful Mind. It's John Nash's doctoral thesis.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but could you expand those abbreviations?
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by Chinjut 10y ago
The point is presumably that the original, despite sounding wise, is actually bad advice which even Orwell didn't actually follow.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Do we not get a category if we take morphisms from A to B to be expressions of type B with a free variable of type A (thus, morphisms are non-closed terms), and composition of f with g to be substitution of g into the free variable in f? Th
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by Chinjut 10y ago
"cheese eating surrender monkey", at least, was coined by an American (Ken Keeler, for The Simpsons), though I gather, yeah, it became most popular in re-use in the UK.
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by Chinjut 10y ago
Every time one of these articles is posted, there are a number of comments about how we need to tighten the number of students accepted into PhD programs, to line up with the number of academic jobs realistically available to them. Of cours
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by Chinjut 10y ago
This is the terminology distinction fmap is noting with "We really don't have a good terminology for distinguishing between efficient constructive proofs (those corresponding to efficient algorithms) and inefficient ones...".

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