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by gjm11 5y ago
I can think of two reasons for political stickers and posters, neither of which is among the ones listed in the article linked here. 1. Putting them up cements the loyalty of the person putting them up. You're less likely to consider s
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by gjm11 5y ago
I'm pretty sure what they mean is "No idea could be further from the truth than the idea that consuming information is the same thing as acquiring knowledge". In which case, unless I misunderstand badly Koshkin's implied
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by gjm11 5y ago
I think the seated woman is Pauline Neville-Jones, who was leading the UK's delegation. She was a senior civil servant (director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) rather than a world leader. I think the woman in green leaning ove
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by gjm11 5y ago
I think you're overstating the case. I agree that he overestimated the damage Brexit would cause, and has continued to do so. The bit about Donald Trump is very misleading. The quotation is from a paragraph that begins "As for my
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by gjm11 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that if I found a book I'd just bought was an autographed first edition, I'd keep it unless I had cashflow problems: unless there's some sort of temporary fad going on, its present value is a pretty good
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by gjm11 5y ago
I think this is wrong, because it can happen that Aunt May believes "Spider-Man fights crime" (she's read lots of newspaper articles saying so) without there being any specific entity that she believes to be Spider-Man. That
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by gjm11 5y ago
Peter Parker = Spider-Man, but "Peter Parker" != "Spider-Man". It may or may not be true that 12345x54321 = 670592745. (I either put in the correct number there, or changed one digit in the middle at random.) Let's
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by gjm11 5y ago
My reading of the joke was that it wasn't about Aquinas's question/answers/objections/resolution style, but just suggesting that Aquinas got a lot of things wrong but got them wrong very clearly , making him a usef
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by gjm11 5y ago
Papadimitriou was not Gates's MSc thesis supervisor. Gates never did an MSc (nor indeed completed his BSc -- he dropped out of college to found some computer company or other). What did happen is that Papadimitriou and Gates were co-au
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by gjm11 5y ago
It sure looks like 12 is the right number and is indeed 16 minus 4. http://public.callutheran.edu/~reinhart/CSC521MSCS/Week7/Con... "For a fully configured CM-1, the network is a 12-cube connecting 4,096
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by gjm11 5y ago
Surely "27-dimensional" must be wrong? 65536 is 2^16; what would an extra 11 dimensions be for? (The OP says 12-dimensional; the Wikipedia page says 12-dimensional in one place and 20-dimensional in another; the latter seems like
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by gjm11 5y ago
I didn't say anything that depends on the continuum hypothesis. (I mean, I guess exactly which ordinal I'm referring to when I say "the first ordinal of size 2^aleph-0" depends on CH, but unless I'm confused I did
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by gjm11 5y ago
D'oh! Of course you're right. What I should have said: The first ordinal of cardinality 2^aleph_0 -- call it alpha -- appears on day alpha. (But I definitely didn't mean to say that anything appears "on day aleph-1"
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by gjm11 5y ago
Yes, it's true. Each ordinal appears at the day with its number; e.g., omega (first infinite ordinal, kinda corresponds to aleph-zero) appears on day omega, 2^omega appears on day 2^omega, etc., etc. There is a day for each ordinal .
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by gjm11 5y ago
Oh, I see. That interpretation didn't occur to me because at that point I hadn't noticed that you think of ordinal preferences as what voters fundamentally have, and of scores / approval as being derived from those. Again, I
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by gjm11 5y ago
Note that that's gperciva not cperciva . I believe the person's name is Graham Percival, and I am fairly sure Colin Percival is still called Colin Percival. They may well be related, but I'm pretty sure that's a bona
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by gjm11 5y ago
> when you construct a measure designed around their shared features dragonwriter thinks the metric being used in the article linked here was cherry-picked because it favours particular voting systems that the author likes for other re
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by gjm11 5y ago
Note that what the article says is "known as grawlix" isn't the asterisk but using symbols to replace letters when expurgating naughty words. So "$#!+" would be a grawlix, at least if it's a replacement for a
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by gjm11 5y ago
It seems particularly unfortunate for most of the documentation of something that is supposedly a Javascript library to assume you are using something that is not actually quite Javascript .
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by gjm11 5y ago
It seems as if everyone in that thread is too polite to make what seems to me to be the obvious comment: This all seems like exactly the behaviour you would expect if having D3 users is not profitable and having Observable users is profi
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by gjm11 5y ago
It might be worth mentioning that the title "Ars Conjectandi" is taken (clearly deliberately) from a much earlier (1713) work of the same title by Jacob Bernoulli, about combinatorics and probability. That title may well be a no
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by gjm11 5y ago
If Firefox is not free software because it is able to run un-free binary blobs on your computer, then the same is true of (e.g.) Linux.
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by gjm11 5y ago
Or, alternatively, skip the video if you're going to read the article anyway. In case you're thinking, as I did, "maybe the video will show the thing actually running in real time to transform video", nope: the video i
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by gjm11 5y ago
Very likely there's no connection at all (or at least none known) between whatever he was working on and ECC. Just as there's no particular connection between RSA cryptography (which makes use of prime numbers hundreds of digits l
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by gjm11 5y ago
How much would you bet that human interviewers' opinions of a candidate after a video interview wouldn't be affected if they were visibly in a room full of books? Or if they wore glasses, or had a painting hanging on the wall, o
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by gjm11 5y ago
The author of the OP is a Jewish atheist, so indeed probably hasn't attended a lot of Christian church services. I think "you may need to shop around" is too strong. A churchgoer may care about other things besides whether th
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by gjm11 5y ago
And if you enjoyed the Cluss Test, you might like http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/The_Gostak .
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by gjm11 5y ago
Or you might blame SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1 on the other guy.
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by gjm11 5y ago
When I see this sort of thing I always want to know something that is seldom made clear: what is actually implemented so far? . The video begins "This is Atlas, a concept for a new engineering IDE". (To me, that strongly suggests
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by gjm11 5y ago
What a lens does is fully reversible if you have phases as well as amplitudes at infinitely high resolution . Unfortunately, you don't. You have a sensor that captures only amplitudes, on a spatially quantized grid, with some noise. I

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