Rerarom

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by Rerarom 6y ago
Why is a valedictorian 'named'? Aren't they the person with the highest gpa? (That's what I was, but not in the US)
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by Rerarom 6y ago
> Instead of telling the kids that these are bad words, we told them they are adult words. As in, when you are old enough you can curse all you want, but as a kid you can’t. For some reason, I believed this when I was a kid without anyon
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by Rerarom 6y ago
Yes, because if the problem was expressed purely formally from the start, there could not possibly be any controversy. The appeal of Monty Hall is precisely this interplay of natural and formal language.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
> There are no garage spaceships, automobile plants, novel surgical procedures (I hope), or nuclear reactors (excepting that wacko who tried to make one from material from hundreds of smoke detectors and turned his yard into a superfund
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by Rerarom 6y ago
Yitang Zhang didn't need money to burn. Neither did Linus Torvalds.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
Yes but funding in the 1960s was ridiculously large, because they wanted so hard to beat the Russians. (Maybe if this wasn't so, they would have built a much more robust architecture and slower, and we would have the first man on the M
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by Rerarom 6y ago
There was way more funding in the 1960s than there is now.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
Like when I asked my friend when we were kids: why don't you have money? And he said we have money, but it's for something else. I said well what could be more important than this? (Forgot what "this" was, most probably
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I love how people use "wildly" when "widely" would do.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I was half-joking, more like fed up with this overused "everyone can do it" mantra (e.g. I saw it several times in Andrew Ng's machine learning course, which turned me off the subject (not that I had been turned on too much i
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by Rerarom 6y ago
They don't stop because they are so used to fighting that they forget what they were fighting for.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
It's not, but it's enough to counter the point that they fight about nothing.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I was desperate as a student to get the professors to notice me but I never stooped so low as to ask an intentionally stupid question.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
That's why when stuff is being advertised as "everyone can do it", everyone gets excited but I run away. I don't want to be overcome by hard workers, so I am looking for stuff for which you truly have to be a genius to d
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by Rerarom 6y ago
No, they don't! They fight for something which everybody wants and few can attain: a secure and prestigious job with little responsibility.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
Not really, because you find the bug soon enough and that reinforces your self-importance.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I agree (I think Andrew Wiles said something like this but I can't find it now). When I was younger and my dream was to become a programmer, I imagined (probably rightfully so) my default state in life would be feeling very secure in t
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I think it would be a problem if it were the other way round.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
Is there any way to get rich easily if you jump in early and this gets big? (like with bitcoin)
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I like how they say that they're sorry they referred to them as people.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
Indeed, and conversely that's why to a researcher like me RE feels like the only branch of coding that actually achieves something (emotionally; intelectually I know of course that's not true). One of the reasons I was attracted t
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I remember reading the Typeclassopedia nine years ago and feeling really annoyed (in an OCD way) that monad is not a subclass of applicative.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
Try to understand them in Simula first, since that's where C++ drew its original inspiration from.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I think a lot of questions that people have about economics/finance/money are about the nitty-gritty mechanics, and a lot of answers are instead about the big picture / general laws. That's what leads people to say they
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I think we should have this thread more often.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
Yeah, but 5 heads followed by 1 tail is also a rare event. Basically, after drawing 5 heads you have a choice between two rare events which are equally probable. The same after drawing anything else, not just 5 heads.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
The connection between elementary particles and group representations. I get the math, I just don't see in what way it corresponds to reality (i.e. in addition to being a bijection).
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I hated that movie, it showed only the very poor and the very rich, while showing that they don't make up the whole world. I couldn't empathize with anyone.
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by Rerarom 6y ago
I've often wondered what the world would look like if languages were actually theoretically different not just practically. I.e. what if you actually needed Fortran to write a program designed for scientific computation, or Prolog for
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Saturnian Cosmology(saturniancosmology.org)
1 points by Rerarom 6y ago|1 comments

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