danharaj

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by danharaj 6y ago
It's my heartfelt opinion that Beyond The Sword is the peak of the series by a large margin. Cool though.
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by danharaj 6y ago
I am aware of a few trading firms that are phasing in nix to handle their dependency clusterfucks.
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by danharaj 6y ago
It feels like a combination of a visceral nightmare and a panic attack, if you've had one of those.
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by danharaj 6y ago
Your brain is very good at compensating for noise and delay in a feedback loop it controls so it's hard to say one way or another. Maybe it feels like a difference in expression instead of a change in delay? A better experiment would b
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by danharaj 6y ago
It's not the transmission through the cable that matters, it's the fact that you're using a long cable to put things far enough apart that the speed of sound matters.
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by danharaj 6y ago
All communication has a normative component. The normativity of a description is what it considers relevant and what it considers irrelevant.
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by danharaj 6y ago
> The cost would be non-zero, so it won't be done. There is a also cost to not doing it but your analysis implies that we shouldn't care about it, because it's not a cost accounted for by industrial practice.
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by danharaj 6y ago
Those poor capitalists and their empire just didn't have the means to let the filthy unwashed poor of Ireland eat. It was done out of economic necessity.
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by danharaj 6y ago
Oh neat! One of these takes place in Virginia Woolf's book Orlando and I wasn't sure which parts were historical and which were fanciful.
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by danharaj 6y ago
At a high enough density, crowds act like fluids. At a high enough speed, so does a person.
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by danharaj 6y ago
Maybe they're all working in sweatshops or mining cobalt.
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by danharaj 6y ago
I don't bother with his pop books and I read his tweets for amusement (and hard calculus problems). His papers and technical write-ups are worth something. Like I'm sure if he had an editor they would hate his latest book- it&#x27
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by danharaj 6y ago
It's simple and demonstrates that the Nash equilibria of a game can deviate from the strategies that produce the best payoff. I think most pop sci corollaries people try to draw from it are overreaches at best.
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by danharaj 6y ago
As I have mentioned in another thread, when you're dealing with an extreme process with exponential growth and a large absence of information, """"fear"""", also known as respecting your fucking
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by danharaj 6y ago
One risk is self limiting whereas the other is self propagating with unknown long term consequences.
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by danharaj 6y ago
There are hard limits to predicting the future when it involves fat tailed processes. Like pandemics, unsurprisingly. The law of large numbers gets less and less useful, for example, as you examine alpha stable distributions that have heavi
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by danharaj 6y ago
the paper by Persi Diaconis you linked to was so fun that I want to learn about markov chain mixing now.
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by danharaj 6y ago
Thought about it, and it was definitely the original paper in some journal volume. I remember the pictures, and the ones I drew myself :) Found it here: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kochsc/MilnorThurston.pdf
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by danharaj 6y ago
Yea! And here's a metaphor to... baking!! The moment this metaphor clicked for me reading a musty textbook with yellowing pages was delightful, I can go back to that moment just by thinking about it. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by danharaj 6y ago
Not to shit on all of your middlebrow dismissals but mathematicians are known to steal language from other fields as metaphors for mathematical phenomena. Sometimes these metaphors are very rigorous and precise and sometimes they're fa
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by danharaj 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
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by danharaj 6y ago
Are they wrong? No one is saying that it is unnatural or baffling that people are leaving the city, are they? What are the implications of the data they are reporting on? Do you think it's class warfare to even acknowledge that peopl
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by danharaj 6y ago
What exactly are you insinuating?
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by danharaj 6y ago
Thank you! My question was deliberately vague but you hit all the points I cared about and gave me keywords to read further about.
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by danharaj 6y ago
What are these differences between social democratic capitalism and laissez-faire capitalism that are so fundamental that Marx would not recognize the former as capitalism? We still have class relations defined by how we participate in econ
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by danharaj 6y ago
Marx was specifically drawing from proletariat uprisings that were happening around him. To name one particularly famous one, The Paris Commune. Marx was trying to explain the tumultuous political situation of 1800's Europe. You also h
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by danharaj 6y ago
Maybe the FBI should stop making them first.
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by danharaj 6y ago
I think it would be fun to futz around with persistent memory but AFAIK it would mean working specifically with Intel tech. Will there be a point in time when I will be able to program against something that's not Optane as well with t
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by danharaj 6y ago
They don't follow warm air and pressure differentials, they are warm air and pressure differentials. A monsoon knocks down trees because a monsoon knocks down trees. Whatever God is, if it is to be God, it must be utterly transcenden
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by danharaj 6y ago
Why do monsoons knock down trees? God shouldn't be thought of like a very powerful human.

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