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by cultus 8y ago
Oh for sure. Indexed shifting, better alloys, for example. There have been some major innovations, but most of what has come out in the last 10 years in road bikes hasn't been great. Lots of new BB standards that all creak, thinner cha
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by cultus 8y ago
I can't find the source at the moment, but there was actually a test done where riders rode bikes of carbon vs. alloy or steel with the frame material obscured from view. They couldn't tell the difference. When everyone is telling
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by cultus 8y ago
The gullibility of cyclists is the industry's most valuable asset. In tests, cyclists cannot tell the difference between frame materials when the frame is covered. I think it is just really seductive to think you can get magically fast
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by cultus 8y ago
>I've known more people comfortable with SQL and thrown by typical programming languages than the reverse. Non-programmers often find SQL queries easier, and simple SQL queries are intuitive. Programmers, who are likely to do more c
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by cultus 8y ago
All those symbols are necessary for readable math though. For millenia people did math as you describe, and it worked very poorly compared to modern math notation. For example, how would you write something like a tensor H_i^{kl} (pretend
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by cultus 8y ago
The Shuttle was one of the finest examples of MI complex waste and negligence there has ever been.
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by cultus 8y ago
Very much agree. Programming notation, like math, is supposed to be easy to convey exact meaning, unlike human language. Every attempt there has been to make code look like English hasn't worked out well. SQL, for example, is incredi
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by cultus 8y ago
What a joke. "Scientific" studies like this are hugely damaging to the public's understanding of science and their health choices. Terrible for science as well, considering the vast majority of scientists don't even actu
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by cultus 8y ago
I think fission fragment rockets might be more promising. Doable with current tech, they can have exhaust velocities of a few percent the speed of light (specific impulse in the 6 figures), comparable or better than fusion engines. https:&
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by cultus 8y ago
The idea of a brain as doing Bayesian inference is pretty compelling. It makes sense evolution would eventually produce an an algorithm that approximates Bayesian inference, since the optimal decision is always found by maximizing expected
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by cultus 8y ago
In the US, stadiums are often funded by the taxpayers of the city/county. City governments (although often not the populace) are frequently obsessed with having pro sports teams. It's common to plow hundreds of millions of dollars
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by cultus 8y ago
Because of the tech industry. Boeing has move many, many thousands of high paying jobs elsewhere in recent years, despite the tax breaks. Thus, the tax breaks were colossal wastes of money.
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by cultus 8y ago
These tax breaks really anger me, especially because the actual benefits typically fail to offset the lost tax revenue. And of course you have this race to the bottom as you said. In Washington, we gave an $8.7 billion tax break to the aero
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by cultus 8y ago
You might be confusing "aptitude" with "spurious correlations."
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by cultus 8y ago
This looks like an incredibly poor-quality study. The effect size is small, and there are differing education levels, etc between groups. People should not be paying attention to single studies like this. It's just stupid clickbait fod
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by cultus 8y ago
Bicycles I think in general hit a high point in the late 1990s. Good aluminum frames and 8 or 9 speeds (as in number of cogs). Carbon frames are not suitable for the vast majority of riders. Any damage to carbon makes a bike unridable, and
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by cultus 8y ago
Mandatory sexual harassment training is usually ineffective [0]. The real purpose is to limit a company's legal exposure. Actually reducing sexual harassment or other negative behavior takes a deep change in a company's attitude a
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by cultus 8y ago
Replying to your lower comment: >You could argue that it's been in debated use, but not common use. Otherwise there wouldn't be a debate... This is just like people claiming "ain't" is improper English, or that y
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by cultus 8y ago
Why is it so upsetting to you that you would go so far as to avoid people that use 'they?'
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by cultus 8y ago
Looks like RMS wrote an essay on this. https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html 'They/them' has been used as a singular for many centuries. It's the least-worst option in English to ex
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by cultus 8y ago
So you think it is bad for folks in the FreeBSD project to not be able to freely insult others by misgendering them? Why is this such a problem for you? These code of conducts all boil down to "don't be a dick." It's too
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by cultus 8y ago
Any mention of Julia immediately degenerates into bikeshedding about indexing.
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by cultus 8y ago
I used it for non ML tasks in geophysics, which made my life a lot easier. However, I think most scientists and engineers aren't aware of it. It has been described as "criminally underused."
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by cultus 8y ago
Just use C++. Modern C++ is really quite nice, and definitely has by far the best numerical libraries of any statically typed lang. Plenty of ML packages (most of the big names are written in C++, after all). Eigen3 is also the best linear
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by cultus 8y ago
Not that Go is bad, but it does lack operator overloading, which can make numerical stuff kind of annoying.
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by cultus 8y ago
Some light category theory is pretty useful (functors, monads, lenses, etc). However, I think it often goes way overboard into premature abstraction territory with many functional programmers. The type tetris required to make some of this s
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by cultus 8y ago
It is less worse though. Cigar smokers do have quite a bit lower rates of lung cancer. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t...
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by cultus 8y ago
Cigar smokers typically don't inhale. It's more of a oral cancer risk.
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by cultus 8y ago
Yeah, that's a nonsensical "proof." > Still, an "idealized" ruler and compass does provide a framework for describing an algorithm which is not directly Turing computable. You could describe such an algorithm, bu
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by cultus 8y ago
The Galerkin method, which is the underlying concept that finite element analysis uses. Suppose you want to approximate the solution to a PDE with a finite sum of basis functions. The solution usually lives in an infinite dimensional Hilber

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