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by ced 19y ago
That's not what he said. There's a world from "the publication system could be improved" to suggesting that academia is corrupt.
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by ced 19y ago
Ever thought about doing a controlled experiment about it? I.e.: showing high points for a post to half the users, and low points to the other half.
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by ced 19y ago
Maybe they vote because they want the story to stay on top a while, either to convince others (Ron Paul) or because they want to see the discussion. Reddit is like a reality show. You might vote for the candidate you liked best, but you mig
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by ced 19y ago
> so I would feel like I made the correct decision It's not just about feeling. If Google had tanked, you would be more justified (in a statistical sense) to think that you're smart and to engage into more financial transaction.
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by ced 19y ago
I'd be happy to read what you have to say, here or by email.
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by ced 19y ago
I dropped out of grad school for the reasons you mentioned, so I won't argue with you there. Best of luck finding a job.
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by ced 19y ago
That's not what I said. I said outside of academia which you switched to non-research . There's plenty of research done outside, from Boeing air tunnels to biotechnology to (some) computer technology startups. Plus, there are definitely
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by ced 19y ago
In that spirit, maybe you can't fail, but will you terminate ?
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by ced 19y ago
A hard science education is a great preparation for a ton of intellectual jobs. I think this exodus from academia shows that the modern world "industry" now offers problems just as complicated as solving Schrodinger's equation.
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by ced 19y ago
Thanks a lot for the citation tracking. From the passages you quote, maybe he does deny progress in some sense, so you were right... Still, his position seems at least defensible, and anyway, that topic wasn't central to the theme of the bo
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by ced 19y ago
Right, it's the Structure of scientific revolutions . How is the book mistaken? Did you read it? Can you condense what you think is wrong? I don't think he denies scientific progress. He addressed that point in the post-scriptum, if I reme
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by ced 19y ago
The Nature of Scientific Revolutions develops that idea a lot more, for anyone interested.
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by ced 19y ago
There was a quote, which I can't find exactly so I'll paraphrase: Languages evolve not by accumulating new features, but by removing the restrictions that make those features seem necessary As far as I know, Arc does little to remove rest
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by ced 19y ago
In my experience (and my teacher's), vocabulary is the biggest obstacle to understanding and being understood. I'm learning Turkish now, and I'm trying to do 40 words/day. It turns out, in the languages I know, you can usually follow Subjec
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by ced 19y ago
How many went to MIT/Stanford?
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by ced 19y ago
Well, hacker is part of the issue. I guess he hacked the check system, but not the market in any meaningful way. Like I said, he followed his gut, which is a strategy employed by millions, with comparable results. The misleading part of the
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by ced 19y ago
He failed. Misleading title. He essentially took huge, undeducated gambles. Does anyone remember the name of the strategy that involves doubling your bet at every step, so that you could always with a single win end up "positive"? (assuming
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by ced 19y ago
> Considering how often HOF is used, the impact is huge. Well, yes, that would be the point :) I think I understand what you mean, but I don't see how this is more dangerous/worrying than what is already there. Ok, so (funcall fn (+ 1 2
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by ced 19y ago
Thanks a lot for the comments. You seem to know much more about these things than I do, so I don't have much to add. 2. call-it: What's the problem with not knowing (+ 1 2) until run-time? Efficiency? Then I would argue that expressive powe
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by ced 19y ago
1. But what do you gain from having cons cells limited to 2 elements? I contrast cons cell list mostly to Python lists, which just seem to me to be a better abstraction... Do you think in terms of 2-element pairs or in term of lists? I gu
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by ced 19y ago
So, is this the right thread to talk about actual language design? 1. I think using cons to represent lists is an ugly hack. I mean, why should a cons only hold 2 elements? Why not generalize them to n elements, and call them lists? 2. Has
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by ced 19y ago
> People whine and whine about responsibility for energy, while everyone chooses the cheapest energy available. This is a feature not a bug I'm not sure I get what you mean. Is it that self-interest leading people to buy the cheapest
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by ced 19y ago
I think it's possible to start with Shroedinger's equation as an axiom, and then quickly move on to probabilities. Griffith's table of content goes: 1.1 Shroedinger's equation 1.2 The statistical interpretation 1.3 Probabilities 1.4 Normali
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by ced 19y ago
I had to use Griffith's book, and he certainly didn't follow the historical approach. He writes out Schrodinger's equation on the first page, before moving on to "simple" examples (the infinite well). The hydrogen atom is covered after a 10
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by ced 19y ago
Curious: Why?
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by ced 19y ago
OLPC SimCity is based on the X11 TCL/Tk version of SimCity for Unix developed and adapted to the OLPC by Don Hopkins, and the GPL open source code will soon be released under the name "Micropolis" from http://games.slashdot.org/article.p
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by ced 19y ago
This will merely reflect reputation. How many people in academia have been at Harvard long enough to have an actual opinion? Question: if China built the best university in the world today, how long would it take to reach number 1 on the li
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by ced 19y ago
I think the conclusion is that you really want to do a startup, and not have a baby. If your gut says so, you don't have to rationalize it, especially with such dubious arguments... Please, don't compute a baby's expectation value ever agai
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by ced 19y ago
Bah, dying in games is not any worse than losing a point in a sport, or chess. Kasparov sent a "suicide pawn" to be massacred by the "enemy queen". It has really nothing to do with the individual act of suicide bombing. The interesting thin
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by ced 19y ago
Pythagoras theorem only holds in Euclidean geometry (or so, Wikipedia says). The computer world has no notion of space, so there's no a priori reason for choosing Pythagoras over other norms%. Has anyone here experimented with alternatives?

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