DavidSJ

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by DavidSJ 7y ago
There have only been a handful of such reports with COVID-19, and they’re probably false test results.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
The current behavior is not simple and consistent. If it were, then *.jpg would “expand” to the empty list of arguments, rather than remain unchanged, in the degenerate case of no match.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
You normally wouldn’t discount linearly. But that doesn’t mean you can’t put a price on it. There’s a limit to how much you’d pay for insurance, for example. Some risk is part of life.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
I think this answer misses the point, which is that this information is only a weak predictor of the problems you describe, thus must be discounted accordingly.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Note that there are some rule sets in which suicide is legal, so long as it doesn’t violate a generalized ko rule (no repeated board positions, considering whose turn it is as part of the position).
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
This isn’t Certhas’s personal theory. It’s part of standard cosmology, called the metric expansion of space . That term should get you pointed in the right direction if you want to learn more about the evidence for it.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Huh? Paul Dirac did it quite some time ago. I guess he meant general, not special, relativity.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
So far you're the only username from the 2010's thread to have also made predictions in this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025787 How do you feel you did?
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Indeed, it's only 1/38 bad.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Gerald Edelman called consciousness the remembered present.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Or we could flip your question around: Considering what a neuron actually does, shouldn't the default position be that the brain is a computer?
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Maybe Tartaglia just didn’t like quadratics. He did, after all, find the cubic formula. ;)
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Interestingly, the etymology seems to go: 1. ἄλογος (alogos, Greek for unsayable or unreasonable) 2. irrationalis (Latin translation of ἄλογος) 3. rationalis (Latin backformation) 4. irrational/rational (English translation) 5. ratio (
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
I was confused by this article. It says that for every k, then all sufficiently large sets have an arithmetic progression of length k. But suppose we set k = 3, and take the set {1, 2, 4, 8, ..., 2^n}. Then no matter how big n is, we have n
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Criticism does not imply surprise. For if it did, we’d have to assume that you are surprised by behavior you yourself describe as constant. And I don’t believe you are.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Can you expand on why you think his Wikipedia article refutes what I said?
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
_Never At Rest_ by Richard Westfall is the authoritative biography on him.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Isaac Newton spent most of his life pursuing alchemy and obscure theological ideas, and found it a real nuisance whenever anyone pestered him about math or physics.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
You know, I originally read this title to be referring to the marine mammal, and it didn't really seem that discordant to me, given the absurdities in the cryptocurrency world.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Free speech, as a value, is a broader concept than mere lack of government restraint on speech. It can also pertain to the exchange of ideas in certain private forums. And by the way, the First Amendment disallows not only prior restraint,
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
If you do a Hohmann transfer — the most basic sort, used by most Δv calculations — from Earth to the Sun, yes. But if you give yourself solar escape velocity (a savings of about 59% in your hyperbolic Earth escape velocity, which works out
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
I think it was an argument by analogy, not a slippery slope argument. Although I suppose the distinction between the two is a bit ... slippery.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Einstein developing general relativity exists in both the past and future light cone of Gödel being a child. Happy? :)
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
A while back I was working at a web startup (since folded), and management decided they wanted to inflate the usage numbers reported on the home page. I was asked to write the code for it. I refused, telling my boss that I didn’t want to li
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
There’s a tradeoff between rigor and output. Except in toy or very niche problems, I’m not aware of formal verification striking a good balance between the two, although perhaps I’m just ignorant. But it seems to me that code review and som
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
That’s what I was referring to in my second paragraph. :)
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Maybe this sounds harsh, but: Who cares? If researchers are producing crap to get published, why should we mind if they stop producing that crap when journals raise the standards of publication?
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Right, that's what I meant by code review in the first paragraph: internal review within the research group. Agreed also that they should use version control and other standard practices, etc.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
To reduce the occurrence of future similar programming errors, the Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Center has instituted a new standard operating procedure for checking randomization assignment to be followed in all trial analyses. To ensure t
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Exactly twice as much energy. √2 as much velocity.

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