curiousgibbon

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by curiousgibbon 1y ago
Yes, processed meat alternatives tend to be significantly higher protein per unit mass than beans. But other metrics like protein per calorie can be useful.
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by curiousgibbon 1y ago
I see. But now you're in a weird state where you're saying (something a bit like) "at most n^2" to mean "not at most n". Which isn't particularly precise.
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by curiousgibbon 1y ago
It's entirely nonsensical to use O as a lower bound though. You could have two companies no growth whatsoever in value and correctly state that one has O(n) growth rate and the other has O(n^2) because a constant is both O(n) and O(n^2
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by curiousgibbon 1y ago
Yep
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by curiousgibbon 1y ago
This is one of the myriad situations where Omega should have been be used, not O. What are they teaching in schools these days?
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by curiousgibbon 2y ago
This seems like a new definition of entropy unrelated to existing notions of entropy relevant to language. I'm not sure I buy "entropy = 1/abstractness"...
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by curiousgibbon 2y ago
Have you heard of pandoc?
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by curiousgibbon 2y ago
I've never understood striking guidance either. It seems that over long enough distances everyone is a heel striker too, it's just more efficient. So I'd assume that any advice you hear is more pace-dependent than it appears.
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by curiousgibbon 2y ago
There are more accidents in the US than in civilized countries. Per mile.
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by curiousgibbon 2y ago
This is often user error. Many bike lights have a daytime mode that is far too bright for night. But winning the arms race is so important...
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
Some of the current players are already screwed. There is less water available than is desired. The government isn't supposed to come in and screw everything up they're supposed to spread the hurt around "fairly" or in s
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
Right, naively assuming the creation of a management class is a good thing doesn't sound wise.
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
Most academics didn't choose the career for the management side of their responsibilities. Perhaps concentrating those responsibilities in a few managerial types would free many people to do what they really want.
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
https://nrich.maths.org/frontpage British, run by some fantastic people from the University of Cambridge. Arguably there is no institution with a better reputation in this domain. I did some front end and back end work for
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
Warning: study is in mice and is quite specifically about schizophrenia. Your mileage may vary.
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
Is ultra-processed the right thing to target? European countries seem to go for labeling that indicates the balance of macronutrients and other important things like sodium. In the UK there's a traffic light system for fat, sugar (or m
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
Thomason is a phenomenal lecturer, and clearly a great mathematician. It was kind of crushing when he called my Part III essay "pedestrian".
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
I'm an academic. I think you make valid points but get the effect size wrong. It's entirely possible to contribute to academic fields without intimate knowledge of 50 years of past results. Breakthroughs come from hard work, inspi
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
An excellent question, it seems way outside my high school chemistry knowledge that you could calm water with a tiny amount of anything, be it alum or otherwise.
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
This sentence is... wow. "At least in America you can choose to go bankrupt in exchange for quality health care treatment." I'm so glad the founding fathers protected my right to bankrupt myself at the hands of an incredibly
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
The EU gets to decide their local tech market. Should apple stop selling phones there on principle?
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
In my field, which is not science, MDPI seems to publish many, many bad journals. They're embedded in the for-profit publishing corner of the science-industrial complex and I would consider the very real possibility this paper is part
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
Because in the US verbose, complex and bespoke signage is commonplace so clearly the powers that be do not have an intuitive grasp of this concept.
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
My take is that there's some vicious cycle going on with cheating. It's comparatively hard to cheat significantly in a pen-on-paper exam in a classroom proctored by vigilant humans. It's much easier to cheat on other forms of
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
Negative weight single source shortest paths in near-linear time: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03456 Obligatory Quanta link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-fast-algorithm-for-...
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
MS in computer science. The specific question I was surprised about was a O(log (m+n)) algorithm for finding the median of the union of two sorted arrays. This is in-scope for elite leetcoders and similar. The code ChatGPT generated had som
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
ChatGPT does not get full credit on the homework I create, even when the topic is some standard-ish algorithm with significant presence in the training data. Or maybe I'm just a bad prompt engineer.
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
The short answer is no. Notation varies from field to field and while there are broadly-agreed standards there are minor variations everywhere. Most people I know who do research mathematics do not believe that more rigorous formalization o
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
Yes, but I'm dubious of the value of a learning resource this indirect. I waded through about 5 versions of the complex numbers, each more natural than the last and gave up on the book because it didn't seem like any reason for th
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by curiousgibbon 3y ago
I haven't read much of the book but find the early material defining complex numbers as a sum type that's either R R I or R I R where R is some type representing the reals and I is some sort of unit type with one inhabitant rather

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