TheTrotters

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by TheTrotters 6y ago
By that logic an empty plot of land in Manhattan would have no value.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Rote memorization is of course not enough but you need to remember relevant theorems. It's necessary but not sufficient for deeper understanding. What would it even mean to "understand" a theorem but to be unable to state it
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
By that same logic Jeff Bezos is just a tool I use to get some obscure math textbook written in English shipped to my apartment in Eastern Europe overnight.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Life pro tip: e-mail them your request to cancel and write that you’re deaf so you can’t call costumer service.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
On the other hand we can't just notice an inequality of outcomes and assert that it's caused by discrimination.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
That's plainly false. Those who tried to find Scott Alexander's real name could find it. But those who tried to find information about their doctor or colleague Scott Siskind most likely wouldn't find out that he writes a pop
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
This is the kind of bad faith hit piece that one would expect from NYT on this subject.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
I hate this attitude. It punishes students (and self-learners) who want to be as good as possible and who’d use solutions to get fast feedback. The right thing to do is to publish detailed solutions to textbook problems and create new probl
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
This futile quest for cosmic justice is making people believe that discrimination is, somehow, equality. Many blacks have slaves as their ancestors. Some immigrated more recently. Jews have had it uphill for most of the past two millennia.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
NB: They sold 25M shares at ~$20/share. That's probably much more than what they paid for these shares but it's nowhere near where GME was over the past few days.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Some mentioned to me recently that most teenagers may have never used a non-touch phone. It's obvious to them that iPhones and iPads are around and work the way they do. But I still remember first using the iPhone 3G in 2008 and how it
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Amazon has a special place in my heart. I'm from Poland and currently live here (though I've spent a few years in USA and NL). Thanks to Amazon I can order virtually any book and have it delivered in a few days. I've been doi
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
I have made at least 200 orders from Amazon (USA, UK, and DE) and I've never had this issue.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
And it's so satisfying to something that gives you physical feedback (doing dishes, vacuuming). Most of my day is spend doing math or programming so all my works takes place on a computer, a piece of paper, or in my head.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Taubes’ argument is that what you said is a tautology. Losing weight is synonymous with consuming fewer calories than you burn. The question is what causes you to consume less than you burn?
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
I'm trying to do the same since late 2018. But I think most household will be using USB-A, USB-C, HDMI, and possibly lightning for years and years. My sister bought noise-cancelling Bose headphones last year and they still had micro-US
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Yes! Apple sells ~18-21 million Macs a year. Out of those no MacBook Air, no iMac, no Mac mini, no iMac Pro, no Mac Pro, and some models of 13" MacBook Pro have the Touch Bar. Apple never went all-in on it. Though I'm happy if the
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
I'd be shocked if they went back to USB-A. And, honestly, I'm glad with their push for USB-C, no audio jack etc. Most companies are stuck in the status quo due to the chicken-and-egg problem but Apple is willing to be the first mo
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Among the general public? Definitely. Social and networking skills also matter within your professional community but they are not a substitute for publishing in top journals/conferences.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
And in time-sensitive situations getting something "ultimately right" is akin to getting it wrong.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Quietly? I remember reading multiple articles about it.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Why are they better than one place that has everything? (Asking in good faith)
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Yeah, and the claim that inflation has been at 10-12% per year for the past 5 years is so ridiculous that it can be discarded without any analysis. If they claimed that inflation is, say, 3.5% instead of ~2% then we could look at their argu
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
>Second, and the big point that the article missed entirely, is that real gdp per capita HAS been declining, reflecting that decrease in standard of living that one would expect to see if inflation were understated. Not true. See https:
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
"Taking responsibility for what you say" often equals being attacked or ostracized for deviating from the Correct Opinion. Anonymity is often required for freedom of expression. Give a person a mask and he'll tell you the tru
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
I just came across this site, they seem to have books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bourbaki&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Newton and Leibniz discovered calculus at roughly the some time as well and we typically see it as a huge leap.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
It's great for math, for example. It's spacing + testing effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing_effect Suppose you can solve some problem or prove some theorem today. Then you try to do it again next w
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Anki. Spaced repetition + testing effect made learning (math, in my case) much better and more efficient.
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by TheTrotters 6y ago
Soviet era math problem books? Buy a few reams of paper too!

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