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by ajarmst 6y ago
For non-mathematicians (although some post-secondary maths is probably required), I'd also recommend Spivak's "Category Theory for the Sciences" (MIT Press, 2014) and Milewski's "Category Theory for Programmers
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by ajarmst 6y ago
This attitude is how we ended up with Active Directory. One assumes that the author doesn't spend much time in a command-line environment. The option to set defaults for one's normal working environment is obviously of value, and
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I'm not sure it remains possible to 'tarnish' a brand when the general public have the attention span of a weasel on crack.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Driven away by nausea at "future-forward investment in e-mobility" in the second 'graph.
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The crucial difference is that the mRNA virus, when finally scrutinized, was shown to be effective with effects that could be consistently replicated and there was a theoretical explanation consistent with other things we've observed a
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Exactly. The fact that reported positive results always seem to be at the limits of detectability, whatever the equipment used, is a huge red flag that the results are probably artifacts.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I get what you’re saying, but I was reporting Mahafee said about the response of scientists to the first press conference. They were not claiming that their new type of deuterium fusion didn’t have the same relationship between generated he
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I don't find this argument convincing: "This is fusion." "It can't be fusion. We've got a pretty good understanding of how fusion works, and this is missing some key features. Notably, neutron flux consistent w
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by ajarmst 6y ago
James Mahaffey, Atomic Adventures (Pegasus:2018 Reprint): 'A couple of things about the announced phenomenon bothered me greatly. Both Pons and Fleischmann had claimed over and over that their apparatus was producing “tremendous” heat
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by ajarmst 6y ago
In Atomic Adventures, James Mahaffey (who I unreservedly recommend) outlines the history, claims and problems with Cold Fusion. He was a member of one of the first teams to try to replicate the results, and points out that (from the point
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by ajarmst 6y ago
My father believed strongly in this. I first learned to program in my early teens (at the time there were precisely two computers in a 300 km range of where we lived, my father was an operator on one of them). The ‘computer’ I learned on w
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by ajarmst 6y ago
At my institution, our students take a series of courses on programming a simple microcontroller (and were doing so long before IoT/Arduino made that fashionable again). We worked with the HC11 until a few years ago when we moved to t
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I’ve always disliked the tendency to describe this otherwise amusing anecdote as a ‘strike’ or ‘mutiny.’ By definition, the captain of a ship—-or commander of a mission—-can’t ‘mutiny.’ They may be held responsible for their actions, court
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Stay tuned for the first computer virus aimed at hacking its user.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
"[I]t already broke backwards compatibility several times". There's your answer. I've got three decades worth of style files, personal macros, and workflow invested in the way I use LaTeX, numbering in the thousands of
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Here's the World Nuclear Association on some of Schneider's most recent FUD: https://www.world-nuclear.org/press/press-statements/combatt... .
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Glenn's thesis in the referenced interview is that conservatives are the true liberals, not the ones who now call themselves liberals. This respondent has been encouraged to find ways to work together with other conservatives and co
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Conspiracy theories are a well-documented psychological and social phenomena that generate self-validating beliefs that are remarkably resilient in the face of contradictory evidence and experience. Or at least that's what the secret
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Here's Glen on the Daily Caller praising Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon as exemplary socialists. The accompanying article covers a lot of the main concerns about Greenwald's behaviour in the last few months. A few minutes on his
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Mycle Schneider isn’t a trustworthy source. He’s an anti-nuclear activist with a clear agenda and a history of misrepresenting or obfuscating facts about the industry and its inherent danger.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
The decision to disable comments is not one that requires an explanation to anyone who has used the internet in the last decade. I’m still amazed that this site hasn’t yet turned into a garbage fire.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Whether or not Ivermectin turns out to be an effective treatment is irrelevant to the assessment of whether this particular study is good evidence for that or even a good example of a metastudy. Nor, of course, does the existnce of good-qua
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by ajarmst 6y ago
The juxtaposition of "meta analysis" and "real-time" is problematic. The point of a meta analysis isn't merely to rapidly aggregate lots of data from multiple studies. It's also an analysis of the quality and
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Because emacs supports 5 mode keys plus shift, the idea (and non-tongue-in-cheek use) of foot pedals has been around for a while. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FootSwitches )
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Funny aside: for my sins, I own a complete more-than-a-ventury old set of leather-bound Jane Austen works, because I was the family member who was ‘into books’. I’ve promised myself to make sure they go to someone who will enjoy them when
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I agree on all of that, but advancing age has forced me to qualify it. I now own more books that I want to read than my expected life span and average reading speed can support. I don’t regret a single moment spent reading crap genre mind
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by ajarmst 6y ago
My daughter is at the learning algebra stage. I note that the way they teach kids to parse algebraic notation is by building an infix operation tree. If they’d just take the natural next step of discussing postfix (and prefix) traversal, e
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Well, it’s easier to build because it has a terse syntax that requires fewer symbols, doesn’t need precedence and associativity rules, and has no ambiguous instructions. It’s easier to use for the same reasons.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I was exaggerating for effect, but yeah. The existence of a polynomial time prime factoring suggests the existence of a useful predictive pattern in the distribution of primes. That would break the Twin Prime Conjecture and possibly refute
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Good points. Thanks. This isn’t really my area (I start to glaze over around when ‘fiat’ is the main topic), so I’m sure I’m ignorant of some subtleties.

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