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by currymesurprise 12y ago
That is the expected result for a sub-population that has a shorter lifespan. My sibling comment addresses deaths lagging over time. But even in the steady state of (say) 18% smokers, you expect more than 18% of deaths to be smokers beca
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by currymesurprise 13y ago
I believe the grandparent's comment was a bit misleading if not wrong. ( http://xkcd.com/386/ ..) In most dialects of English (notably British English), the short form of the subject is "maths". In Nort
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by currymesurprise 13y ago
I believe you have misunderstood your parent comment. The question "Do you actually believe suicide can be caused by someone playing dress up?" asks whether suicide can be caused by Richard Branson playing dress up. The questio
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by currymesurprise 13y ago
I believe the suggestion is to use the "From:" field of the email, which for a significant fraction (perhaps even majority) of people includes their name. I think it's an interesting idea.
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by currymesurprise 13y ago
I think you misunderstood your parent's comment. While the phrasing of the final sentence was awkward, the post was arguing for exactly the same thing as you.
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by currymesurprise 13y ago
As a correction to my sibling comment, orange _is_ counted as a color in English. The most widely-cited list of colors in English, as seen on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_... for exam
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by currymesurprise 13y ago
People actively look to credit other people's success to anything but their work all of the time. Just this week, such a webpage was heavily discussed on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546325 The s
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by currymesurprise 13y ago
More or less, yes, that is my implication. Luckily, my sibling comment provides some extra information. For the example of SHA-1 computation, you mention using FPGAs that finish in 400 clock cycles, which is at most an order of magnitude a
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by currymesurprise 13y ago
gwern, if you're reading, this section is misleading if not wrong ...: "But that doesn’t seem very true any more. Devices can differ dramatically now even in the same computers; to take the example of Bitcoin mining, my laptop’s C
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by currymesurprise 13y ago
Hi, thank you for your insightful comment. Can you provide a source for the sentence "The Federal government does (more than 90%, in point of fact), through the FHA."? I am unable to find any similar statistics. Thanks.
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by currymesurprise 13y ago
To be fair to mathematics, in your example the proper notation is df = (del f/del x) dx + (del f/del y) dy, which does not suggest the possibility of cancelation.
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by currymesurprise 14y ago
The Valiant-Vazirani theorem says that both Unique and Unambiguous SAT are NP-hard under randomized reductions. While this is not NP-hard under the usual definition, modern complexity theorists believe derandomization to be possible to a
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Math For Programmers(steve-yegge.blogspot.de)
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by currymesurprise 16y ago
People generally agree that there was not a malfunction in the electronics. But whatever happened with Woz's car? He claimed he could reproduce an uncontrolled acceleration bug in the electronics. (However, this is unrelated to the allege