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by data_hope 10y ago
I don't even...
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by data_hope 10y ago
> he wants mathematics to be about textual rules that is a princial problem with his blog post. In a way he is also kind of right - although I don't agree with his conclusion. E[X^2] is not the most precise notation. I have occasion
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by data_hope 10y ago
https://github.com/dropbox/pyston seems to be option 3
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by data_hope 10y ago
This can be good advice for some. It might not be choice for someone with depression. Deeper problems are not solved by a vacation.
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by data_hope 10y ago
Another issue: In my experience, in north america, navigation is more focused on compass points (take Road XYZ north, southwest, etc) whereas in Europe it is more focused on semantic directions (turn right on highway towards Groningen). The
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Learning Haskell by Type Signatures(holger-peters.de)
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by data_hope 11y ago
from my experience, gramatical gender is always more difficult than no gener, even when you have a native tongue that employs a grammatical gender. In romance langauges, the moon is feminine ("la lune"), in german it is masculine
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by data_hope 11y ago
and the realities of the job economy is exactly why "not PC"? of course physical labor does not pay as much, as long as the pool of workers is significantly larger. Doesn't mean that some folks would choose another career pat
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by data_hope 11y ago
not everything has to be binary. In fact outside of math and deterministic CS, we hardly have the comfort of being clearly wrong or right. https://www.cs.rit.edu/~rlaz/prec20092/slides/BayesianDecisi...
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by data_hope 11y ago
uh, this is a very pessimistic view on history rewriting. Much more common probably is the fact that one tries to persist very gradually local changes, and once the dust has settled, submit a much coarser commit. Because most of the time al
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by data_hope 11y ago
Original author of the blog post here. I find it interesting that your takeaway from my blog post is that I am writing unfavorable over smalltalk. I quite liked it. I think I mentioned that I was checking out Smalltalk, didn't claim to
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by data_hope 11y ago
In my experience, people in science who are not statisticians have not completely understood the p value. Typically people are clueless on p-Values and the statistical power and how they relate.