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by cokernel 10y ago
The "note to the reader" clarifies things a bit -- he's aiming for requiring "no more mathematical knowledge than might be acquired from an undergraduate degree at an ordinary British university". Though he does no
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by cokernel 10y ago
I'd be interested in a citation for this, if you have one handy. I've read that he wrote about this in a letter but I haven't been able to find it. The closest I've been able to find is (via WP): > The word [orangut
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by cokernel 10y ago
Could you clarify the source of the 60ms figure for the iPad Pro? The review you cite says: > After a few trials I measured an approximate latency for the iPad Pro of roughly 49ms or 3 frames of delay
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by cokernel 10y ago
I do not take a position on the accusation. The purpose of the comment to which you are responding is to support emmelaich's assertion that the accusation is mentioned in the article.
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by cokernel 10y ago
From paragraph 7: "He has been accused of taking credit for other people’s research and even using multiple aliases on Wikipedia to make it look as if people are agreeing with his posts."
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by cokernel 10y ago
It's not a good sign that it's classified as math.GM. One would normally expect a real proof to be classified more finely. To be fair, the lack of proper classification does not strictly imply that it's not a real proof.
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by cokernel 10y ago
There's a parody article from 2003 talking about this: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/12/valve_unified_theory.html Is that what you had in mind?
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by cokernel 10y ago
The article links to multiple studies, for example: * Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/21/11/1716 * Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior:
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by cokernel 10y ago
It's tricky to win at SOLITUDE when the first deuce played to a foundation just disappears.
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by cokernel 10y ago
There's no contradiction; it's just not an entry-level job. (Someone could get work experience then a degree, or a degree then work experience, or both simultaneously.)
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by cokernel 10y ago
> punchcard error that leaves a man officially dead This sounds similar to the Terry Gilliam film _Brazil_. "When a fly gets jammed in a printer and results in the incarceration and accidental death during interrogation of cobbler A
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by cokernel 10y ago
Thanks. I'm guessing that "Publication type: Application" in the header is the clue I should have noticed.
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by cokernel 10y ago
It appears that there is a patent (filed 2002, published 2003) on "blended toothpaste formulas and method for manufacture", claiming in part "A toothpaste as defined in claim 1 wherein the stimulant is caffeine". https:
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by cokernel 10y ago
Futurama had caffeinated bacon and baconated grapefruit.
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by cokernel 10y ago
The ISS Source article appears to be a copy of the UCR press release: https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/39030
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by cokernel 10y ago
Here's a single mention of the DNC leaks on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/politics/dnc-wikileaks-emails/ Here's a single mention of the DNC leaks on Politico: http://www.po
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by cokernel 10y ago
As the article points out, there is evidence from Norwegian experiments that "[t]eaching children to read first in their own dialects and then gradually introducing the standard language can speed and improve the acquisition of reading
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by cokernel 10y ago
I believe the article links directly to a PDF copy of the USA v. Matish decision housed by the EFF: https://www.eff.org/files/2016/06/23/matish_suppression_edva...
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by cokernel 10y ago
Riley v. California: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-132_8l9c.pdf
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by cokernel 10y ago
I think our experiences may differ. Just looking through stories I've seen on the front page recently, there's the following: * A slave in Scotland * They knew it was round, damn it * Two hundred terabyte proof is largest ever (g
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by cokernel 10y ago
This essay is about the need to think and argue mindfully rather than "with glib allusion". It's disappointing that the early comments here were all focused on issues irrelevant to the content of the essay, issues that moreov
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by cokernel 10y ago
This is part of a three-part series of posts, one focused on education, one on work, and one on marriage. The author talks about marriage here: http://www.demos.org/blog/12/4/15/promoting-marriage-has-fa
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Promoting Marriage Has Failed and Is Unnecessary to Cut Poverty (2015)(demos.org)
29 points by cokernel 10y ago|39 comments
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The Periodic Table of Finite Simple Groups (2012)(irandrus.wordpress.com)
4 points by cokernel 10y ago|0 comments
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by cokernel 10y ago
Here's Ivan Andrus's (the creator's) explanation of it: https://irandrus.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/the-periodic-table... It's worth taking a look. (Well, I make no guarantees.)
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by cokernel 10y ago
It's possible that a mathematician with philosophical commitments is more likely to be a Platonist than a formalist, but I suspect that most mathematicians are neither ("Philosophy is for the philosophers"). The so-called &q
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by cokernel 10y ago
Could you clarify who "Captain Obvious" is?
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by cokernel 10y ago
A disclaimer: I am not currently a fictionalist, but I find it remarkably interesting to consider. Fictionalists are not making claims about mathematical truth; they are making claims about philosophical truth. When Colyvan (who I believe
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by cokernel 10y ago
I suspect that there is a tendency for people to use the term "tl;dr" when what they're looking for is "abstract". But I don't know if that's what EliRivers had in mind.
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by cokernel 11y ago
I thought the point of the post was that it was "antidemocratic, immoral and plain evil" for developers to contribute to the success of an environment with such user-hostile terms. Am I reading too much into it?

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