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More details on the Walter Lewin case(insidehighered.com)
3 points by enupten 11y ago|0 comments
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by enupten 11y ago
Yes, but only in an alternate world where China smuggled white slaves, repressed them for 400 years, and who then went on to become naturalised citizens. The stupidity!
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by enupten 11y ago
I don't think the "racism" faced by Indians is any less than Blacks. That said, I think given the task they're faced with, they tend to form very expansive support networks, which are useful for career-wise. See, https:
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by enupten 12y ago
Yeah, but this is so boring and oh-so-run-of-the-mill. (If the mafiosi could read the following paper before rushing to click down-vote, then I'd be much obliged. http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarimY&#x2F
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by enupten 12y ago
Toronto is probably much better than Harvard (atleast in Engr/CS).
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by enupten 12y ago
It's far more likely that it'll be the "intellectual" jobs that'll be automated away.
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by enupten 12y ago
I didn't think children inherited their parents' debt ?
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by enupten 12y ago
Indeed. I think it's actually a double whammy. Businesses in the US have cheap access to capital, and the diplomatic might - not to mention "bankruptcy protection" - of the USG behind them, while the common folk not. I wonder
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by enupten 12y ago
What never fails to surprise me is our proclivity to think of things in terms of a simple order. Surely, the there is enough diversity in humanity to disallow for so one-dimensional a topology. (I say this after having been subject to years
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by enupten 12y ago
In more ways than one, http://alchemy.cs.washington.edu/
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by enupten 12y ago
I wonder if kids 30y from now look upon this as the new Prolog.
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by enupten 12y ago
I'm not entirely sure what the whole hullabaloo is all about. I mean, the Govt should restrict itself to recognizing unions for finance/medical purposes, and possibly regulate adoption. The Republicans (modulo Ron Paul ?), who are
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by enupten 12y ago
Is there really any "security" lost ? I mean, last I checked, the NSA had little to show for all the snooping around (other than possible economic benefits).
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by enupten 12y ago
Well, it's not just the US; the Chinese are doing it too.
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by enupten 12y ago
Meh. Still doesn't come anywhere close to Emacs and Org-mode.
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by enupten 12y ago
I had like one grade where it was taught, but I mean, it would've been so much cooler to talk of things in Matrix-algebra land in terms of graphs. I think Bourbakian formalism should be kept where it belongs : > upper undergrad. Mat
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by enupten 12y ago
Indeed, and thankfully, this unlike the Arab countries in Middle east, where it's more-or-less routine. I think it is made worse by the fact that no one gives a shit for the people who don't speak English in India.
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by enupten 12y ago
Indeed, \max \{X_i\} has a very skewed distribution.
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by enupten 12y ago
Also see, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a... , and a counter-view, http://www.nature.com/news/reproducibility-the-risks-of-the-...
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by enupten 12y ago
In my neck of the woods, people are perhaps less gullible, too.
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by enupten 12y ago
Isn't the cheap oil the result of the Saudis arm-twisting the Russians and Iranians ? P.S: Shell is starting an exploration of oil in the Arctic, after Obama's executive order. I don't think the bit about investment in new ri
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by enupten 12y ago
Not using it to prepare for the post-oil world is way way worse. I don't think current social - no it's not just political - structures allow for hitting the brake pedal before it is too late. https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by enupten 12y ago
For the downvote mafia: running out of oil is way more dangerous for the civilization.
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by enupten 12y ago
Running out of Lithium is the least of our problems.
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by enupten 12y ago
Ethanol wouldn't work because, it usually has a <1 EROI, and requires way too much land. Hydrogen might work as way for storing energy; I don't think there are limits on producing Hydrogen, given the energy. I don't know i
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by enupten 12y ago
I don't think the Internet is doing anything good. If you have a wide reading, you'll quickly realize that you can easily predict the positions taken by articles, by simply looking at the outlet publishing it. No one cares for the
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by enupten 12y ago
Agreed. I think CL is still an awesome platform. There are however things which can't be affected by packages, without a total rewrite (like Shen). Things like parametric-typing, and adding synergistic mechanisms with define-compiler-m
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by enupten 12y ago
Rather, "don't care to understand".
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by enupten 12y ago
"This doesn't bode well for the political debate" ...which is precisely why all this (the "zeitgeist" ?) is so worrying.
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by enupten 12y ago
Hmm, this reminds me of, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOvEwtDycs

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