gjm11

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In descending order (categories overlap, but I don't think there's _very_ much overlap between the ones listed here), roughly 430 mathematics, 260 philosophy, 260 science, 230 computing, 210 history, 110 "reference" (mea
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About 4100 books, of which about 1250 are fiction. Reference and recreation. It may be relevant for context that by HN standards I am Old -- a little over 50 -- so I've had some time to accumulate (a) books and (b) enough money to affo
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Well, if zozbot234 meant "systemic" then I have no idea how > Thinking you can even have a "systematic approach" to either explaining or mitigating something as complex as poverty, deprivation and marginalization can
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by gjm11 5y ago
What exactly does it mean, for you, to say that a person is responsible for a thing? To me it means things like: you can reasonably be blamed if it's bad and praised if it's good; you have/had the ability to influence it a lo
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Suppose some rich people actually got rich by dishonesty, exploitation and selfishness. Believing that rich people get rich because they deserve it will then mean either (1) believing that dishonesty, exploitation and selfishness are good o
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by gjm11 5y ago
Somewhere in this subthread, confusion has arisen between "systemic" (arising from, or affecting, a system as a whole) and "systematic" (methodical, using a fixed procedure, consistent). Saying that the causes of poverty
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The point of the article is that performance on modern hardware can be determined by things that are usually neglected in the performance analyses that tell us, e.g., that "bubblesort is usually the worst in every conceivable way"
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Suppose you think up something brilliant that could be a big improvement to secure communications for the next century. Isn't it reasonable to expect to benefit from it? The whole point of the patent system is to enable people to benef
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If the straightforwardly checkable claims in what DJB wrote are correct (which I have not checked) then I have trouble seeing how Peikert could be blameless, though he could certainly be less consciously and deliberately deceptive than DJ
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Brief-ish TLDR (note: I am summarizing what Daniel Bernstein says in the linked article, and make no comment on its correctness ; this is relevant because Bernstein makes some accusations about another academic) -- Back in 2016, Google beg
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The "someone is wrong on the internet" one: https://xkcd.com/386/ .
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The author doesn't say that you don't get the return on reading Moby Dick until you have paid the 16-hour price of reading it. What he actually says is subtly but importantly different: "Only once the second price is being
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I think that isn't the case. The simplices are pointier, which means that the "corner spheres" don't go so far into their corners. If I've done my calculations right, putting n+1 n-spheres in the corners of an n-sim
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The only thing wrong with Palatino is that it was never intended for typesetting body copy (substantial blocks of text) as opposed to display (headings, splash text on posters, etc.) and its proportions aren't quite right for that purp
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Someone else took a look at your [0] and reported that your description doesn't match what [0] actually says. So I thought I'd take a look at [1]. [1] is a letter to the British Journal of Psychiatry by one Gordon Parker. It does
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Just out of curiosity, was the phrasing of your letter (or email or whatever) to Stanford a deliberate echo of https://lettersofnote.com/2011/02/14/regarding-your-stupid-c... ?
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In mice. Who were fed diets that were > 2/3 sucrose.
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I think the point isn't subtleties about scaling with more hardware, but about the fact that the percentages mean very different things depending on whether they're describing times or rates. A 50% improvement in build time means
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I think both of the following things are true. 1. It is, in principle, good thinking to keep multiple competing hypotheses in mind, and allow each new piece of information you get to adjust your level of credence in each one, rather than pi
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It seems a pity for a definition of "arctic" not to mention the connection with bears. (Greek arktos means "bear". The Arctic is the north because the constellation called the Great Bear, or Ursa Major, is in the north
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I was curious and tried a bunch of other searches, with similarly disappointing results. My searches were a bit more esoteric than Closi's. "langlands program" (pure mathematics thing): yup, top result is indeed related to th
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Bollocks. What "takes a remarkable amount of privilege" is equating what has happened over the last two years to the awful, awful things that can actually flush two years (or more) of a person's life down the drain. Note that
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Earliest instance I can find (where it is presented as if original): https://squareallworthy.tumblr.com/post/163790039847/everyon...
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Words have meanings and connotations. When you use a dramatic-sounding word like "lockdown", there's an implicit bargain you're making. You get to have a stronger emotional effect on me, and in exchange I get to call bul
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D'oh! I am a moron. Thank you.
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Doesn't e.g. "a 73% relative risk of reinfection" mean being 0.73x as likely to be infected? These numbers show (as one would expect) that prior infection makes you less likely to get Omicron, and that prior infection with mo
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Pedantic note: Shalosh B. Ekhad. The middle initial is important, because the name derives from the fact that the original Shalosh B. Ekhad was an AT&T 3B1 computer. ("Shalosh" is the HEbrew name for the number 3, and "
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Visiting teddit.com takes me, via a series of redirects, to something serving up spammy-looking advertisements. Curiously, if I do the same with the Firefox dev tools open, that doesn't happen; instead I just get an empty page. Maybe t
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The thing at the bottom is not a York white rose. The design of the York rose is quite consistent. It isn't merely "a flower with white petals". In particular, these always have five petals; the one at the bottom has six. Not
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They did indeed mention 500TB. That doesn't mean they have actually stored 500TB anywhere, or that they have a system that's currently capable of storing 500TB anywhere, or even that they genuinely have good reason to think that

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