TchoBeer

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by TchoBeer 5y ago
No, obviously not. We're talking about expected values though, so it's a useful thought experiment.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
If OP said "cacti is also accepted" I would agree. Instead OP said "cactuses is wrong" which is what I take issue with.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
A magic moment for me was writing a sorting algorithm that was horrifically inefficient (I think it was like bubble sort but worse), and then later finding out about recursive sorting and making what I now know to be merge sort. It was rea
514.
by TchoBeer 5y ago
>People probably read more books. There were fewer other demands on attention, whether YouTube, social media, online content generally, etc. I certainly read books far less than I used to. I'd imagine the number of books sold per ye
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Sure, in Latin. Cactus is (also) an English word and thus its plural is cactuses.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
If you permit me to be terribly econ 101 about this, if netflix had a perfectly elastic supply curve (because the marginal cost of an extra netflix subscriber is fixed and doesn't increase with high numbers of subscribers) then an incr
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
That's an awful thing to say. I think a better response would be "why are you proud of having less free time than me?" I remember in school people would often brag about how little sleep they got and when they said that to me
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
iirc, a macrostate has a canonical definition (something like energy, the number of particles, and the volume)
519.
by TchoBeer 5y ago
You could also consider a case where they send in a new contestant every time the Random Monty Hall picks a car, and the result is the same.
520.
by TchoBeer 5y ago
Isn't the same true of electromagnetism?
521.
by TchoBeer 5y ago
Something tells me Erdős wasn't immune to sexism and would've probably not been immune to being a bit sexist here too.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
It's great that you're so sure of yourself, just a shame that you're wrong. If the host picks randomly, your chances are in fact 50-50. Think of it this way: imagine every time the hosts picks the car the universe resets. Now
523.
by TchoBeer 5y ago
I don't understand how this could be. If you start over when the host picks the car, then isn't that the same as the host picking the goat every time, i.e. the same as the host knowing.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I know that's the reason, and it makes no sense. You'd think educators would know enough to know that they're both computers and having a QWERTY keyboard doesn't make it any easier to cheat.
525.
by TchoBeer 5y ago
I don't know if anything's changed, maybe schools are laxer than mine was, but they made me wipe my memory before taking standardized tests.
526.
by TchoBeer 5y ago
I remember sitting on the stairs during recess and figuring out how to use assembler language to get programs to run in any sort of reasonable amount of time. Probably nostalgia, but I think that was the best learning I've ever done.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Yeah, it's a shame that the standard never shifted towards QWERTY calculators and away from the TI81-type design
528.
by TchoBeer 5y ago
I don't understand the QWERTY thing. Don't they make TI calculators with QWERTY keyboards?
529.
by TchoBeer 5y ago
I remember making super slow programs in BASIC and then learning assembler language with my friends to make faster programs. A shame that children nowadays won't have that opportunity.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
If you turn off watch history is basically only suggests stuff based on subscriptions which is much better imo and I never need the history feature anyway.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
And do what with it?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>Consider all the implications that ubiquitous surveillance by unaccountable private entities carries I've legitimately never seen an implication other than "I'm uncomfortable with it" that isn't illegal. >Plu
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Now I can't tell if the commenter legitimately thinks that no scientific mind would dismiss conspiracy theories or if they're making fun of people who want scientists to entertain conspiracy theories.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
It is a very lazy and ultimately harmful way to introduce the concept of bias. There isn't really a perfectly pithy way to cover such a complex topic, but much better than winners writing history is writers writing history. This is m
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
As long as they're not doing anything illegal? No.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
As a former child, I don't think I've ever bought or considered buying something because of an ad.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Companies wouldn't stop paying for advertisement if we banned internet advertising, they'd have to spend more in other advertisement spaces and now those spaces aren't funding the search which we'd have to pay for.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Yeah I'd imagine it's pretty hard to compete for high quality free services which are used by billions of people. Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
From my experience that's a bit like what Cpython is
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I see, I was reading the numbers as a density (per nm^2)

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