benrbray

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by benrbray 9y ago
One book I can think of that has a similar chapter/difficulty curve is Boyd & Vandenberghe's "Convex Optimization" book, http://stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/ .
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by benrbray 9y ago
No one is forcing you to keep using Windows. Plenty of people are happy enough with Linux.
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by benrbray 9y ago
Most people don't choose their working hours.
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by benrbray 9y ago
Yes! I've always thought that we have it backwards. Why do we give ourselves more daylight in the summer when the days are naturally longer? If anything we should move them forward in the winter when we actually need it. That or el
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by benrbray 9y ago
Honest question: We don't treat dairy cows particularly well while they're alive (for example), so if you care about animal suffering why are you a vegetarian and not a vegan? I'm neither, for the record.
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by benrbray 9y ago
Doesn't this attitude perpetuate the harmful stereotype that men are not in control of their own sexual urges? Shouldn't someone in a committed relationship be able to control themselves better? Do you really not trust yourself?
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by benrbray 9y ago
> If you link your Spotify account to Tinder I am shocked that this is a thing
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by benrbray 9y ago
Why?
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by benrbray 9y ago
snap your browser to the side of your screen, and voila! it's half the length of your screen now
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by benrbray 9y ago
By applying Lemma 4.9 of Lee 2014 to Corollary 6.2.11 of Simpson 1954, but substituting Tao 1977's simplified integral expression in the denominator, the result is obvious.
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by benrbray 9y ago
The empirical results aren't really the "point" of this paper.
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by benrbray 9y ago
I have had a personal email, two school emails (undergrad + grad), and three work emails (internships). Most of the Slack orgs I'm a part of restrict access to emails from a specific domain (@university.edu, @company.com), so each acc
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by benrbray 9y ago
Password managers don't help when you need to log in to a computer you don't own, e.g. a public computer at a library or office. Using password managers just makes it easier to lock yourself out when you need access most.
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by benrbray 9y ago
Overleaf has its advantages (e.g. better git integration) but I haven't heard much praise for their editor. In my own experience, the Overleaf editor is slower and more cumbersome to use than ShareLaTeX. It's much harder to rear
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by benrbray 9y ago
There's just something "off". Swing components don't behave like native components, even if they try to imitate the look. They also tend not to be as responsive and there are sometimes rendering issues (e.g. Swing butt
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by benrbray 12y ago
I made this same discovery a few months ago, and I decided on Mendeley myself. Many academics swear by it and I find it much more elegant and less clunky than Zotero. There's also Papers if you're looking to spend a bit of money,
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by benrbray 12y ago
(Peter Norvig's take on the matter, quoted from "Coders at Work" by Peter Seibel) Seibel: "As a programmer, do you consider yourself a scientist, an engineer, an artist, or a craftsman?" Norvig: "Well, I know w