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by etal 16y ago
Complete abstinence from alcohol is also correlated with lower education level and poverty. People with less certainty and control over their lives are more likely to distrust alcohol, justifiably -- the risk that comes with it is more seri
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by etal 16y ago
This is neat for the explanation of griding and chunking alone. - Gridding is how I casually multiply things in my head already. I read left-to-right, so I usually start multiplying with the leftmost digits and track the zeros, then add thi
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by etal 16y ago
Right. I was once surprised to see how many high-ranking salespeople had technical degrees like engineering or a hard science. But it makes sense -- they just struck the right balance, with enough technical knowledge to be able to talk to a
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by etal 16y ago
With a few words switched, I find this a pretty accurate description of the PhD and postdoc years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman_years#Historic_roots
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by etal 16y ago
We might be agreeing here already, but my understanding was that the mindset Java fought against -- and finally won -- was: Interpreted, garbage-collected languages, or basically anything with a substantial runtime component, will be too sl
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by etal 16y ago
Not disagreeing with you. In fact, the first example is one reason why "print" was changed from a keyword to a function in Python 3: myfunc <- lambda x: (print x) or x*x # SyntaxError myfunc <- lambda x: print(x) or x*x # O
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by etal 16y ago
The "magic methods" wrapped in in double-underscores are special because other parts of the language's syntax rely on them always meaning the same thing. (Some room for programmer misbehavior here.) Example: If __len__ is defined on an obje
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by etal 16y ago
Thanks! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease Baumol's cost disease (also known as the Baumol Effect) [...] involves a rise of salaries in jobs that have experienced no increase of labor productivity in response to rising
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by etal 16y ago
Those sectors are also much harder to automate, relative to the rest of the economy, since people want individual attention from doctors and teachers. So as the cost of everything else drops thanks to improved automation and technology, the
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by etal 16y ago
Did you just subtract the values in the original chart from 100%? If so, that's not the actual employment level. Unemployment means seeking work but not finding it; it excludes everyone who is disabled, discouraged, or simply not looking fo
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by etal 16y ago
First, there are an awful lot of schools that offer semi-worthless MBA degrees as a profitable business. Much more so than in engineering or CS. Then, it's because business expertise and talent is hard to verify. Programming or engineering
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by etal 16y ago
For kicks, here it is in R: PlusRandom <- function(initial, steps) { if (initial > 1) steps else PlusRandom(initial + urand(1), steps + 1) } mean(replicate(100000, PlusRandom(0,0)) [1] 2.71872
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by etal 16y ago
Quick poll: When you were in school, especially college, were the best teachers young or old? There are young teachers with talent, but in my opinion, the most outstanding lecturers were older and had a depth and variety of experience that
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by etal 16y ago
Stand: http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/computerworkstations/positio... It takes a little while to get used to it, but once you're there, standing all day is just fine.
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by etal 16y ago
The point is that it's not an iOS feature, it's an iPhone feature. The original question is about the operating system, not the hardware. This distinction doesn't matter much for the iPhone, but it certainly does for Android devices.
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by etal 16y ago
Does iOS provide some special support for high-resolution screens that Android doesn't? If not, then that's a hardware feature that any rival could easily pick up. Remember how Motorola Droid first upped the ante on screen resolution at the
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by etal 16y ago
Java needs an environment that can generate, parse and rearrange Java code in a way that vimscript just isn't suited for. Even in Emacs it's a Herculean effort to make the editor understand Java at a deep enough level. Generally, if the lan
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by etal 16y ago
Yep, it's a bit of a rant, but an interesting one. Wozniak's an interesting person; I hope you've checked out Supermemo and its open-source counterpart, Mnemosyne. I've been taking a 20-45 minute nap in the afternoon for close to a year now
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by etal 16y ago
I was going to post Puredoxyk's rebuttal here too, but noprocrast kicked in. Thanks. The main weakness in Wozniak's argument/rant is that he assumes all people work the same way. For most people, monophasic or biphasic sleep is most comfo
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Polyphasic Sleep: Facts and Myths(supermemo.com)
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by etal 16y ago
That's evolution. Start with something that works, add something else that's available, try it out, then see what you can drop.
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by etal 16y ago
Those examples do fit: Tyrosine kinase inhibitors turn an always-on enzyme into an always-off one, when the normal behavior is for it to act as an on/off switch according to the cell's immediate environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Er
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by etal 16y ago
Does numpy's record array do what you want? http://www.scipy.org/RecordArrays It doesn't quite have first-class status in the library the way data.frame does in R, but it does let you index an array using strings.
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by etal 16y ago
It's handy for the same reason FreeDOS is handy -- eventually Microsoft will EOL the platform, but there will still be programs that you need to run (for whatever reason) that require that platform. You're right that there's no point in cha
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by etal 16y ago
Original post: http://blog.diegovalle.net/2010/06/statistical-analysis-and-... The author compares police records, death certificates, and the historical record of well-known massacres to identify inconsistencies regionally and over time.
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by etal 16y ago
Yes, charities and NGOs like the American Cancer Society fund grants, too. But basic research is usually way outside their core competency, so teaming up with universities is their best option. Companies team up with academic labs occasiona
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by etal 16y ago
Good point. I'm thinking of "dead labs", where a tenured professor runs out of grant money and can't secure any more, so students and lab staff gradually disappear on their own, since the only official long-term job is the PI's. One unprodu
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by etal 16y ago
Graduate assistantship stipends are probably an OK measure. At my school, funded psychology students get around $9000 or $10000 during the academic year, and have to work as a TA each semester (grading or teaching lab sessions). Genetics st
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by etal 16y ago
Oh my god, I hate journalists. 1. This is not an article about career opportunities for STEM (science, tech, engineering, math) majors -- of which there are plenty. This is about the very specific problem of there being a massive glut of
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by etal 16y ago
If there's a killer app on their platform, then Apple can't change their platform in a way that breaks the app. Consider the hoops Microsoft has had to go through with Windows and IE to avoid breaking important third-party products. Since t

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