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by gaur 11y ago
What a waffle. Can anyone extract useful information from this meandering trainwreck of an article?
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by gaur 11y ago
Speaking of questionable EE conventions, why do electrical engineers seem to never use nanofarads? 10 nF capacitors are usually labeled as 10,000 pF or 0.01 µF, for seemingly no good reason. Also, the ohm symbol is frequently omitted from r
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by gaur 11y ago
> This means that, if you follow the rules of the SI, 1 Hz = 1/s = 1 radian/s I fail to see how this follows from the SI definition of either the hertz or the radian.
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by gaur 11y ago
> I'm also not sure why the OP thinks that calculating the normalizing constant is a huge issue. Most of the time you rarely need it since you're likely going to end up doing an MCMC or some other sampling method for the poster
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by gaur 11y ago
> but if they didn't do their multiple comparisons correction right (which I am in no position to determine), they're basically reading tea leaves. Please don't spread FUD about other people's research and then try to
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by gaur 11y ago
> This is also the first thing that came to my mind. How do the filter noise? Or are we missing something that is not described in the article? The mirrors are suspended from pendula: https://www.advancedligo.mit.edu/sus.
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by gaur 11y ago
Same for me. "Schemalessness" is even worse. I have no idea why this word caught on instead of "aschematic", which is much easier to parse.
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by gaur 11y ago
We're used to the theremin as a spooky background effect, but there are a few people who have used it as a serious musical instrument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSzTPGlNa5U https://www.ted.com/tal
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by gaur 11y ago
It's an inferior clone of Monotype Modern, just like Arial is an inferior clone of Helvetica. In terms of being easier to read, I find the extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes does not work well on a screen.
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by gaur 11y ago
> they all have reasonable need of an introduction to abstract algebra. Then the word "abstract" should appear in the title.
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by gaur 11y ago
Looks like Times to me. It's a standard mathematical font, and anyway is more pleasant and easier to read than the abominable Computer Modern fonts.
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by gaur 11y ago
Book titles like these are just more evidence that some mathematicians don't understand (or willfully misconstrue) the meaning of words like "basic" or "introduction". "Basic Algebra" means "material
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by gaur 11y ago
> The switch to metric has already taken place in science and engineering (where it's most harmful to have 2 systems), largely because of the horror stories from decades past mentioned in the article. A nontrivial fraction of scienc
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by gaur 11y ago
Infographics have not gone away. You can see one pretty much every day on the front page of the New York Times. You can see one at every subway station. What hopefully have gone away are the crappy infographics of a few years ago, which w
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by gaur 11y ago
I guess a hard-line frequentist (if such a person exists) would counter that you can't assign probabilities to hypotheses or fixed parameters. Then Bayes's theorem (and every other statement about probability) is true only when ap