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541.
by chongli 1y ago
No it measures CPU speed, memory, etc under the assumption that scaling these provide some kind of tangible benefit to warrant the idea that we’re getting “more computer for less money” but these benefits are clearly nowhere even close to a
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by chongli 1y ago
How many average home computer users are 1000X more productive with a computer today than they were with a 1980s computer? The CPI is the consumer price index . It doesn’t cover business uses of computers which take more advantage of the i
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by chongli 1y ago
The CPI is misleading because it does silly things such as counting increases in CPU speed as “getting more computing for your money.” If all you use your computer for is word processing then you’re really not getting 1000x “more computing”
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by chongli 1y ago
The problem with computational photography is that it uses software to make photos "look good" for everyday users. That may be an advantage for those users but it is basically a non-starter for a photographer because it makes it a
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by chongli 1y ago
Jewellery stores have started supplying certificates of pedigree with diamonds they sell. This helps to reassure the customer that the diamond is not second-hand. No one wants to buy used diamonds.
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by chongli 1y ago
Not to mention that inches are not a measure of angle, they’re a measure of length. I would prefer a proper measure of angle such as arcseconds. With some dirty math (taking 31.5 inches as an arc segment of earth’s polar circumference) yiel
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by chongli 1y ago
Yes perhaps I should not have focused on immigrants when the overall question I want to ask is if this effect is driven by religious subgroups/subcultures which include both immigrants from religious countries as well as people from re
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by chongli 1y ago
I do appreciate their citations but the spin is a bit much. I’m still very skeptical about the interpretation of a “return to religiosity” rather than religious immigrants continuing their religious observances in their new home countries.
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by chongli 1y ago
That story is trying to paint this as a revival of Christianity but looking at the Pew report and the data paints a different picture. Conservative Muslim countries show a pattern of overwhelming male dominance in religious service attendan
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by chongli 1y ago
Just start ex instead. Command-based line editing without the hassle of a cursor.
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by chongli 1y ago
Yes exactly. It all has to do with the thermal conductivity of the meat. Meat tends to be a fairly good insulator which means it takes a long time for heat to conduct through a thick piece of meat (such as a large roast or a pork shoulder).
552.
by chongli 1y ago
All sports are an acquired taste. The more you put in, the more you get out.
553.
by chongli 1y ago
American football rules have the clock stop every time play stops, unlike association football which runs the clock continuously. This means that for 11 minutes of gameplay there is a lot of other stuff going on with a lot of commentary and
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by chongli 1y ago
It’s not strange at all. People want to see records broken. Levelling the playing field works against that goal. Sports is an aspirational medium of entertainment. People want to see excellence. They want to see dynasties. Too much fairness
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by chongli 1y ago
“Challenging underdog” isn’t a term I’d have applied to Apple since the early days of the iPhone. They’ve been very big and very “big business” for a long time now, and I’ve called myself an Apple fan since the 1990s. They are a very differ
556.
by chongli 1y ago
It’s called sour grapes or more charitably: people adjust their expectations according to their opportunities. It’s entirely rational to cease wanting what you cannot have.
557.
by chongli 1y ago
I no longer walk to school! When I walk into a store or into work I always watch where I step, regardless of the season or the weather. I’m especially cautious walking around my back yard after a rain!
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by chongli 1y ago
Here in Ontario English we call that pizza deluxe!
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by chongli 1y ago
Wow! I remember getting soakers as a kid! I had no idea it was a Canadianism!
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by chongli 1y ago
would do 80%+ of what human beings use computers for. Outside of the internet. The internet is what 80% of people use computers for. They probably spend more than 80% of their computing time on it. Furthermore, for business use you need
561.
by chongli 1y ago
Old cars are wonderful except for one thing: safety. Modern cars are just so much safer with crumple zones and airbags. I would never want to use an old car as a daily driver.
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by chongli 1y ago
the notion of a continuous function arose from a desire to explicitly classify functions whose graph "looks smooth and unbroken" This notion falls down when you get to topology where you have continuous functions on topological
563.
by chongli 1y ago
I hadn’t seen that. Thanks!
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by chongli 1y ago
I do want to learn theorem proving in Lean just for a hobby at some point. I haven't found a great resource for it though.
565.
by chongli 1y ago
I can't learn math the way you described at all: when things are described by definitions, my eyes glaze over, and nothing is retained. I think the way you are describing filters out a large percentage of people who would enjoy knowin
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by chongli 1y ago
I see this a lot with math concepts as they begin to get more abstract: strange visualizations to try to build intuition. I think this is ultimately a dead-end approach which misleads rather than enlightens. To me, the proper way of continu
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by chongli 1y ago
Very misleading since monoids include a binary operator and the algebraic definition of commutative would imply that A * B = B * A. Clearly this is false if A and B are strings and * is concatenation (which forms a monoid with the empty st
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by chongli 1y ago
I think you mean associative. Neither monads nor monoids are commutative.
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by chongli 1y ago
That’s where you have stakeholders within a company and you require sign-off for decisions that affect them.
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by chongli 1y ago
One of my favourite examples of games that are hard to train an AI on is The Legend of Zelda for NES. Many other games of the NES era have (at least in the short term) a goal function which almost perfectly corresponds to some simple memory

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