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>[..] Since slaves did all the manual labor, the rich folks had plenty of time to contemplate their navels, and to ponder about the meaning of life. Hence Western Philosophy, with its many pseudo-questions was developed in the hands of P
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>To me it seems like the paper isn't really offering a fundamentally new explanation of how these traits arise, it's just providing a sophisticated analysis of the dynamics. MIT Tech Review has often news about fascinating rese
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Redistricting: Drawing the Line(arxiv.org)
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Voting in agreeable societies (2008)(arxiv.org)
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Similar situation in Finland (except olives in plastic pouches I have yet to see).
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This paper on arXiv about the proposed measure (efficiency gap) is worth reading: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10812 I still have not about EG, but in general I agree with some of the sentiment of the paper I linked: the
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Found via Andrew Gelman's blog, which also has more comments and links to papers: http://andrewgelman.com/2017/06/19/not-everyones-aware-falsi... It's a bit annoying that half of the discussion appa
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Verisimilitude, Belief, and Progress in Psychological Science(daniellakens.blogspot.com)
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By the 1960s and 1970s, the Soviet children's fiction was maybe more recognizable as such. Eduard Uspensky's [1] works are quite widely translated into Finnish (looking at the local library catalog, with remarkable number of repri
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Now this is an interesting development! We shall observe what comes of it, though. Meanwhile, a group of Finnish researchers are organizing a review boycott [1] against Elsevier, one of the reasons being Elsevier's unyielding oppositio
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Some previous discussion on HN about Elsevier's policies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13161538 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187315
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No Deal, No Review – No to Elsevier's Unfair Deals(nodealnoreview.org)
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All the trigonometry symbols look too much alike. (Small round things with small scribbles of size of the ant's leg attached to them). Likewise, base-8 numerals look fun. However, one benefit of the regular numbers is that they look bo
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Twitter, but for Math, with Toots(blogs.ams.org)
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The hardware limitations and the "danger of server maintenance" points are valid. Only that >That ever-so-slight delay between hitting a key and having it appear on screen will eventually wear you down. You don't need to r
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>the desktop is already dying. I once heard a joke that the Year of the Linux Desktop will be when the Linux users are the only desktop users left.
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Yes, detexify is amazing! That's probablly how I got the idea in the first place... "Imagine if detexify would automatically read all of my math writing, not symbol by symbol what I draw with mouse."
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Convolutional neural network on-a-chip promises always-on face recognition(eedesignnewseurope.com)
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I've been using LaTeX for about 5 years now. I don't recommend picking up TeX notation for reading maths in plaintext. It's the nicest way to produce nice looking mathematics PDFs or MathJax, if you have a powerful text edito
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Ah, but that brings us to what I took as the main give-away the post: the fundamental mistake is talking about mathematical aptitude in terms of a gift that one either has or has not, because it hurts the motivation of everyone who is not i
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The Math Gift Myth(devlinsangle.blogspot.com)
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Some leftists critical of the USSR described the Soviet system as "state capitalism": the state is the only capitalist in the system.
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I don't know much about the Roman history, but a thought: There's a difference between crossing a sea and traveling on the sea skirting the coast (keeping the coastline always in sight). Shipping large amounts of grain from Egypt
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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Some Open Questions(offconvex.org)
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Randomness is Weird(euler.genepeer.com)
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Nice visualization! This provides me an opportunity to go on a random tangent on PCA: The post considers PCA from visualization perspective, but the exactly same thing can also be viewed as a method for reducing number of dimensions in the
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Honesty and transparency are not enough(andrewgelman.com)
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>Everything else basically just boils down to "they get to show you better ads" which honestly seems like a win-win to me. I am not really sure if targeted ads, targeted news, targeted posts, targeted everything in social med
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However, Alan Moore and David Lloyd did not choose that V wears Guy Fawkes mask by coincidence.
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The article is very interesting, but did anyone else found the surface stylistic choices ... more than a little weird? "The world had not yet turned." "The details of the Trinidad project finally unlocked the mystery that was

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