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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
OK, will do! Like I said, I think a lot of people will find this book quite helpful. :)
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Some comments/corrections on the first chapter, if you don't mind: 1. Theorem 2.4 is stated incorrectly. Given the context, I feel like this is worth correcting. Specifically, it says "degree n" rather than "degre
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-r...
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Note that that won't suffice for the purposes mentioned above, as oftentimes the annotation would, say, replace a specific word in the text; the replacing word by itself won't be very meaningful, as you won't know what it was
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I'm confused -- in what sense was this the "second half of Watergate"? I don't see any obvious relation to Watergate as it's usually known.
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreachable_code#goto_fail_bug
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Note that "domain" has been added on top of "kingdom" for quite some time now; that's probably why they went with "supra-kingdom", as this division seems to be above kingdom but below domain (since these c
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
An undergrad degree; his PhD was in a different field. So yes I'd call that "amateur".
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Note: Smallest known universal cover. It isn't proved optimal (and probably isn't). Also, the title here is a little confusing as this has nothing to do with universal covers in the usual (topological) sense; this is about Lebe
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The surreals have no relation to any of this. I'm guessing you've confused them with nonstandard natural numbers? In which case the answer is, well, what are we assuming? From the point of view of ZFC, of course there are no no
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Agreed. That said, if you're interested in pushing something that is better than IRV and that people will actually use , I'd suggest approval voting (or possibly range voting or STAR). I don't really expect the Scholze m
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
This piece seems to have been written by someone with no knowledge of voting methods other than first-past-the-post and IRV. Looking outside these two options there are clearly better ones, such as approval voting, which is even simpler.
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-inspection-para...
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Sorry, just a posting note: If you want your comments to display in the right order, it would make more sense to have your second comment be a reply to your first, rather than having them as sibling comments.
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
If you know a bit of math, you'll probably get a better understanding by just reading the first page of the paper[1] rather than reading this article. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02735
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
No, that's how rabies vaccines are typically used. You get them after (potential) exposure but before the disease kicks in. You can also get it in advance -- they last about 10 years -- but this isn't typically done, presumably
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Another precursor to logarithms was prosthaphaeresis[1], based on trigonometric functions. Of course, like the quarter-square method, this required lookup tables, not a nifty device. But even with logarithms, log tables were pretty common
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Mightn't this indicate that life on Mars is less , not more, likely than we thought? Respiration is complicated, so I would expect any life that might have existed on Mars to be anaerobic. If there's actually enough oxygen to s
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The word you're looking for is "priority".
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.unix.wizards/QX...
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-19-128
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
> trans women are "real" women. That's not a false claim but rather a meaningless one; if people are debating that they have other problems. But, I guess, less serious ones; everyone makes meaningless statements occasio
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
> But if your argument kind of hinges on the idea that these disciplines axiomatically believe in their righteousness due to their lack of scientific data But that's not my argument at all? My argument is that these disciplines hav
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
...yes? Although, perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but it seems to me that you've entirely mistaken what my complaint is; as best as I can tell you're trying to imply that my complaint is hypocritical by lacking large-scale sta
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
So, first off, "grievance studies" isn't my term. But as for evidence... well, I don't have statistics; it's more of a "look around you" thing. It's not clear to me why I would care about the number
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Huh? I'm not claiming that these topics should be off-limits; I'm saying that the actual existing departments presently studying them are rotten. In short I'm not sure we're disagreeing here. Edit: If you like, you can
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> Karl Steel, an associate professor of English at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, called the trio’s work "simply not rigorous research" and described three objections to it. It is t
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by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I think you're mistaken, largely in that you're construing the ideology being targeted too narrowly. Note the bit at the beginning about "critical constructivism" -- this is certainly not only about Social Justice; that
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This is where Terry Tao's comment from December seems relevant: https://galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/the-a...
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This is not "by definition". General rule: Uses of "by definition" outside of mathematics are almost always wrong. Good article on the subject: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9&#x2

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