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by dventimi 3y ago
No, that article is referring to COLD dark matter, which is responsible for structure formation but does not encompass all possible species of dark matter. There are others. "Warm" dark matter is one of them and neutrinos are an e
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by dventimi 3y ago
Nobody has a perfect understanding of which phenomena won't answer to experiment, not even you.
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MOND doesn't explain galaxy formation.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Boom no. Dark Matter is already known to exist: neutrinos, for instance
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by dventimi 3y ago
What's your alternative hypothesis to explain large scale structure formation?
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by dventimi 3y ago
There optical telegraph and its semaphores featured crucially in Alexandre Dumas's 1845 book "The Count of Monte Cristo" and were depicted in multiple film versions.
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by dventimi 3y ago
> Yes kids in school put pen to paper for algebra, but they also often do this in programming classes, for no useful reason other than to demonstrate knowledge It's not just kids in school who are putting pen to paper when it comes
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by dventimi 3y ago
> Instead, people would have asked you why that is the relevant question. And I would have answered that question, like already did in this thread. > You somehow think it doesn't count If you want credit for using algebraic reaso
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by dventimi 3y ago
And yet putting pen to paper to reduce and solve equations, solve sets of simultaneous equations, factor expressions, and find roots is what I did in algebra and what my daughter's doing in algebra. Personally, I don't believe tha
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by dventimi 3y ago
The Chapo Traphouse podcast did an entertaining miniseries on the 30 Years War (including the defenestration of Prague) in their Hell on Earth series: https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/podcast/
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by dventimi 3y ago
There's no need to infer what I mean from my comments because I'll say explicitly what I mean. I mean literally putting pen or pencil to paper, or chalk to a chalkboard, or marker to whiteboard, because if we're talking about
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by dventimi 3y ago
Personally, I believe our transport needs present many problems, with many factors, requiring many solutions. I wouldn't expect any one thing to be "the right solution." Autonomous vehicles offer productivity gains, safety ga
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by dventimi 3y ago
I should've asked who doesn't use algebra.
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by dventimi 3y ago
I said something about STEM because math is right in the name and it's not controversial to expect those professions most likely to use it.
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by dventimi 3y ago
I guess I must be the only one in a STEM field not using algebra, trigonometry, or calculus in my job. Evidently, everyone else is putting pen to paper routinely to reduce equations, compute geometric relations, and find integrals.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Ever use it for a job?
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by dventimi 3y ago
No, that's arithmetic.
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by dventimi 3y ago
It's been ten years since I moved into software engineering. It's been five years since I moved into data science and then machine learning. No. At no point in that interval did I ever sit down with pen and paper and "do alge
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by dventimi 3y ago
Who here has used middle or high school algebra as an adult within the last year? Personally, I haven't used algebra, calculus, or trigonometry one bit, not once, either in a personal or professional setting, in at least the last five
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Or add a comment to HN, which is what they just did
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If I'm forced back into the office I'm going to stare accusing daggers at every manager and demand to know, "Did you do this?"
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by dventimi 3y ago
Thank you. I thought it was just me having this same experience. Ok, so not only is this article a pedantic waste of time, but also evidently it hasn't undergone routine fact checking.
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by dventimi 3y ago
Judging by the comments here, I guess I'm the only one guilty of traveling in the way the author describes, for the reasons the author describes, and having the experience the author describes. Evidently, everyone else is traveling the
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by dventimi 3y ago
I must've missed the part where the author emphasizes expectations as being the problem. What I thought was being described was a divergence of expectations from outcomes, as a matter of fact rather than as a matter of moral judgment.
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by dventimi 3y ago
The OP didn't write about a UI and we don't know what their needs are, so for all we know they're writing a Python-based back-end API in REST or GraphQL which is being consumed by a mobile UI or a SPA UI in React or Vue.js or
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by dventimi 3y ago
Yes. Write your entire application in SQL, IF it's the kind of application for which this can be done. Is the application a flight simulator or a game engine or resource manager or a distributed task scheduler? No, that's proba
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by dventimi 3y ago
Well written article, but this is HN so naturally I have a, "Why don't you just..." You know your situation better than anyone else, so take it with a grain of salt. But, why don't you just not use a general-purpose lang
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What's a good alternative? No, really. Conda has caused me so much pain.
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by dventimi 4y ago
Not challenging your experience but genuinely trying to learn from it, in broad strokes what kinds of things were you doing in these stored procedures?
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by dventimi 4y ago
I don't consider querying a relational database, transforming its data, or validating its state transitions to be general programs. I consider those to be special purpose programs, which benefit from special purpose tools tailored for

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