Gunax

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by Gunax 7y ago
There seems to be a culture of proud ignorance around math more-so than other subjects. While I am sure there is some engineering student out there griping about having to take a psychology course, they don't seem to complain as much a
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by Gunax 7y ago
Im my experience there is so much variation between countries, between different regions within the same country, between schools within the same region, between teachers within the same school and even students' subjective experience
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by Gunax 7y ago
While I am also appalled, I imagine everyone has some fundamental misunderstanding about something that is 'obvious' to everyone else. Something akin to 'today's 10,000"
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by Gunax 7y ago
I am not sure I understand how Facebook is even supposed to know about these things. Does this law really say that you cannot run advertisements if the business is facing insolvency? What constitutes insolvency, and how is Facebook supposed
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by Gunax 7y ago
I don't agree that wealth is the factor that should be measured instead of income. Income is the number that matters--wealth is just unspent income. I think wealth is just chosen because the differences are more dramatic.
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by Gunax 7y ago
What about accidents? I think morally we should agree that there is a difference between fraudulent pricing and price errors. Are you actually in violation if you accidentally advertise or label an incorrect price?
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by Gunax 7y ago
My experience in TripleByte is this: even though I passed their quiz and interview, and was referred to companies, I ended up getting only one interview and no offers through them. I happen to work in a bank doing boring banking-like things
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by Gunax 7y ago
Wait... those are the wrong things to say? They are practically textbook PR cliches. They are not necessarily what people would actually do, but they sound like the correct answer in interview-speak.
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I question if an IQ test would actually reveal anything about someone like von Neumann. He is quite literally 'off the chart'.
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by Gunax 7y ago
For an extended version, see this: SELF REFERENTIAL QUIZ http://faculty.uml.edu/jpropp/srat-Q.txt Soltion(s): https://faculty.uml.edu/jpropp/srat.html
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by Gunax 7y ago
Do you think that's a good practice? I have always been conflicted. For one, writing a new function isn't just for vanity--it changes the actual machine code generated (unless an optimizer is smart enough to fix it). I don't
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According to the SICP “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
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What are the monetary theories?
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by Gunax 7y ago
Are these the typical steps students go through? I would guess that most students know to convert it to a string and count the length, with a smaller group knowing about base 10 logs. I like the general idea of it--improving the algorithm i
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by Gunax 7y ago
The Manitoba legislature building offers guided tours in English and French at alternating times. Of course the French tour is probably empty >90% of the time, but it still has to be offered in equal frequency. It wouldn't be fair t
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by Gunax 7y ago
We are a bilingual country. The rest of Canada bends over backwards to offer services in French which are seldom utilized. I would not ask for English in Spain or China because it isn't an official language there. We have a national la
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by Gunax 7y ago
I am going to say something I know will be controversial: none of those should matter. For one, his ability to evade justice for 10 years should not allow him to get off easier. Nor should things like having a family. Why should I go to pri
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by Gunax 7y ago
I really, genuinely hope I am wrong and that this program works out. I am 100% on board for expanding it if the trials works. First, you risk creating formerly-homeless slums. Any landlord that accepts homeless ends up upsetting paying tena
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by Gunax 7y ago
I am the one who posted the comment you quoted. I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me. But I had heard of the Salt lake City program years ago, and expressed doubts about it online (unsurprisingly my opinions were
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Right. Clones are good for business, but long term can have disasterous consequences. There is a potential for human mono-culture just like in agriculture.
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by Gunax 7y ago
I don't think that's a good example. The medicines are only marginally better than the last, but are sold because they are profitable. But the whole debate around genetic engineering is that it isn't marginally better. The fe
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by Gunax 7y ago
> This is just sad. This is just stupid,” Brenner says. “Why do we let this go on?” Because this is practically textbook definition of a perverse incentive. What about healthy homeless people? Do they get homes? We are encouraging people
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by Gunax 7y ago
You probably work for a sane private corporation. From what I hear, lots of employers get royally screwed. Namely school districts and other small-gov employers. There is something about public schools that just love buying into high-fee 40
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by Gunax 7y ago
No generation of social security workers has ever funded itself--each generation has taken out more than it put in. SS is solvent because each subsequent generation has been larger and wealthier than the past. What we have done is voted in
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Someone is suffering. It's either the taxpayer or the receiver of the education.
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I know. It's just an analogy. You can replace it with a better one if you want. The general point I am making is: these are not trying to measure actual job tasks, but instead measuring something that (they hope) is closely related to,
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I understand. In a sense merge/quick are 'galactic algorithms' at the size. It's more just that I am concerned I would be cornered trying to remember what 'bubble sort' is. It's not difficult to write the
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I see. I would hope one would give a description of what bubble sort is during the question. It's definitely easy to implement, it just had me worried because I had never heard of it!
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Perhaps--but it's the analogy I came up with while writing this comment. If you can replace it with a better one, go ahead. Sometimes analogies are not really meant to be perfect, but just simpler methods of communicating information.
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I wish I got asked questions like this. Usually it's just 'How many years of experience do you have in XYZ?' and it's almost never enough. Doesn't matter if your experience is in something similar ('Oh you used

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