CogitoCogito

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by CogitoCogito 9y ago
Yes it certainly is. The Intercept should have taken such precautions, but it's not very smart to assume that they always will take those precautions. If you want to be safe as the leaker, you'll have to either do that sort of thi
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by CogitoCogito 9y ago
There's no evidence that it was The Intercept's actions that caused her to be found. I agree that they should be more careful (they should _always_ be more careful), but there are many ways the source could have been found indepen
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by CogitoCogito 9y ago
Yeah I think it's basically guaranteed that this is what we would hear regardless of how they found the leaker. Maybe this method was used, maybe they looked at printer looks, maybe they looked at access logs to the document, etc. Rega
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by CogitoCogito 9y ago
Thanks! It's definitely a long road. Unfortunately you'll realistically never be able to learn the basics as well as people who fused them into their heads well over the course of 12-15 years of education, but you what can do is &
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by CogitoCogito 9y ago
It's definitely true that there is no one size fits all. It's unfortunate that we can't truly tailor learning individually in a class setting (well maybe technology can successfully change this, but I still don't think i
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by CogitoCogito 9y ago
I see many parallels with the post and my own experience. I got my PhD in math and taught many college math courses during that time. I was always saddened at the number of students that essentially viewed math as just an exercise in the me
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by CogitoCogito 9y ago
He's on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beneater His videos are so great, I'm happy when I get my monthly emails that he's receiving money. It's a good reminder that I need to hop back on them!
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by CogitoCogito 9y ago
> It seriously creates notifications for actions done by oneself. That makes absolutely no sense at all whatsoever. Ironically I wish this feature existed on Github (does it???). To be more specific, I wish I could get emailed when I mak
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
Maybe the point from a user's perspective would be yours and from a developer's perspective would be his. Of course once the binary has been shipped to the user much can't be done there (except for things like hyperthreading
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
This is cynical and depressing, but it's less off the mark than people here seem to think. In a _well_ run company, this attitude doesn't make sense. But in a company that does not respect or have loyalty to its employees, this at
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
Assumed to be real by whom? Not all physicists believe the same thing. Also why is this unfortunate? Why does it matter if they do or do not "believe" it? Are they able to make useful predictions with their models? Are they able t
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
> An interesting idea that follows from this: what other kinds of "numbers" might we come up with if we relax our logical blinders? It depends on exactly what you mean by this, but I would argue that we do this absolutely every
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
What do you mean by this statement?
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
> Rationals are conintuous, but not a continuum. No. In fact, your claim is contradicted by your own link. As stated by Asaf Karagila in the comments: > Continuity is a property of functions. You seem to ask why the rational numbers a
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
The continuity of real numbers provides a clean theoretical basis for continuity of functions. I personally view it as more of a theoretical tool that seems to do pretty well and instead steer clear of the philosophical questions. One thing
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the problem would be that the second someone like Grover Norquist came out against it, you'd lose a huge amount of support. The fact that those very same people would love the system if they tried it (as the 99% ap
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
> I think that's useful, but I see no reason to expect a priori that the government would end up doing a better job with that than the private companies (like Intuit and H&R Block) whose revenue depends on doing that well. Intui
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
> (If you can't see that tau is conceptually a more fundamental quantity than pi, then you actually don't understand the point!) Well then I guess I don't understand the point. That claim is essentially equivalent saying t
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
Keeping the 2 around can be annoying in math for exactly the same reasons. Also by the way, 2 * Math.PI is only one character less than Math.TAU. Even if you were to bind it locally to pi and tau, then 2 * pi is 4 characters whereas tau is
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
That argument _may_ apply to very young learners. I.e. students in high school or younger. It certainly does _not_ apply to the people the original article is talking about (i.e. researchers). Anyone who can't handle the circumference
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by CogitoCogito 10y ago
Article is really good, but it's reference to the pi vs tau debate is kind of silly. It really isn't a big deal. When I did my math phd I wrote 2 pi all the time, but this didn't matter. The tiny convenience gained by cha