demonshalo

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by demonshalo 10y ago
>Actually our society has decided that that is not the case. Yet society could easily have decided the other way around. I bet you wouldn't be calling the majority rule moral at that point. The argument of "social morality&quot
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by demonshalo 10y ago
> we solve the freed up resources by not hiring people when someone retires... If we define technology as doing more with less, automation then because the greatest technological feat of humanity. > Today western society is build arou
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by demonshalo 10y ago
> It's a fight for a fundamental right to privacy. Where did this right come from? and since when is this a thing? Don't mean to be condescending but "the right to privacy" isn't really a thing in this particular
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by demonshalo 10y ago
> Everyone is striving for what's called maximum information density, communicating as much data with as few words as possible, and they do so in the jargon of their respective fields of interest. The problem is, those that are not
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by demonshalo 10y ago
Thank you! I am 100% certain that had authors of a lot of papers that I have read included some examples and perhaps even calculation results, I would have understood and perhaps even been able to reason about some of their publications a w
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by demonshalo 10y ago
what the f... is this sorcery?! this thing exists? O_o If anything, this should be promoted and slapped on every page as a big green button!
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by demonshalo 10y ago
a-fucking-men! Same thing happened to me. I picked up math at 25 after not having done a single math related thing in almost 10 years. I picked it up after realizing that a lot of the things that I do on daily basis are heavily related to c
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by demonshalo 10y ago
>I once heard maths described as something like "a person sees a category of something that exhibit a certain behaviour and then abstracts away the specifics to be left with a set of "general principles" that let the somet
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by demonshalo 10y ago
>in effect what you are asking for is magic, a stone floating in the air with nothing to support it. Isn't that how we all learn math? in fact, isn't that how we all learn anything really? When you are in 2nd grade, you don&#x2
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by demonshalo 10y ago
Sure. But I hope that you can see how little access the average person have to mathematical concepts unless he/she have had years of formal training. Khan academy, Numberphiles and the likes have done wonders for lots of us out here. B
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by demonshalo 10y ago
you STILL dont get it!
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by demonshalo 10y ago
You still don't get it... You are arguing against something I did not say!
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by demonshalo 10y ago
Be kind and do this for me: Think of yourself as Sara, an average person in society. Put yourself in her shoes. Now click on the following link and scroll down for a bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization Scr
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by demonshalo 10y ago
> When taking a math exam, you can not contest having "misunderstood the question". The question is precise. By saying you "misunderstood it", you acknowledge that you don't understand the topic well enough to pa
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by demonshalo 10y ago
> I would argue the opposite. If more problems could be as well posed as mathematical problems, we wouldn't have people bullshitting their way through arguments that are in dire need of some scientifical rigor (see climate science,
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by demonshalo 10y ago
> it might take you a few years. My complaint was not about these questions. These are M.Sc. exam questions and it should take you years of study to undertand and be able to solve them. My complain was about math communication in general
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by demonshalo 10y ago
I understand that and agree 100%. However, what I was trying to say is that for a non-technical person who is trying to understand a concept rather than solving a problem, accuracy is not the main concern. Sometimes you just need to underst
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by demonshalo 10y ago
Why is it that I find these questions always posed in a way that is MEANT TO make me NOT understand them? Granted, math is not my topic. However, I am interested and want to learn. I don't mean to be a dick, but I just simply find it f
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by demonshalo 10y ago
weed cures my depression. so why deprive myself of something I enjoy doing?
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by demonshalo 10y ago
reverse this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqjhYmDDWlI
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by demonshalo 10y ago
Depends on how you define capitalism. You'd most likely love Peter Theil's book 0 to 1. Recommended read if you got time!
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by demonshalo 10y ago
yes
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by demonshalo 10y ago
Don't think u can recognize a trolling post when you see one! :D
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by demonshalo 10y ago
I would personally recommend you follow https://twitter.com/ArgBlatteTalar . He breaks down all the hypocrisy regarding this particular topic in his videos on YouTube. Sources for his video material can be found in the descr
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by demonshalo 10y ago
Problem most often is that after you take cover, you forget to ask that question.
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by demonshalo 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_contradiction
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by demonshalo 10y ago
> Democracy means ownership and accountability, along with shared governance. yeaaaaa no! that's not what democracy means. > Ownership is also about economics. It is about who benefits. Right now, Facebook is in the process of ab
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by demonshalo 10y ago
I lack the words to describe how bad that quote is!
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by demonshalo 10y ago
> If it takes off, it will kill journalism, at least on the Internet. I don't think I'm exaggerating much. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the like would suddenly have a tremendous pressure to write clickbaity arti
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by demonshalo 10y ago
I think the best way to start is tackling a specific problem. Ex. Try building a summarizer for any given piece of text. Start by using traditional statistical methods first in order to understand what works and what doesn't. From ther

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