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by graphpapa 6y ago
If 5% anticipate divorce in that way, it can’t prove your point “no one is anticipating or looking forward to their own divorce”. That’s one in twenty.
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Great article
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by graphpapa 6y ago
“Here’s something that isn’t meant for your use case, but just ignore most stuff” Vs. “This does exactly what you want” Of course, there are advantages to learning with the same tool you could also go on to use professionally.
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Still seems like a good idea, even so.
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by graphpapa 6y ago
I’m just doing a module in formal languages & automata now but hadn’t yet made the connection that they were related to regular expressions. Neat! Great read, very clearly explained & what a nice programming project too, writing a s
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by graphpapa 6y ago
This is fun, but the fashion police descend undeterred
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Idk about that
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by graphpapa 6y ago
This makes it sound like plant based diets are much crueler than they make out to be - but that harm is surely still an order of magnitude reduced compared to farming animals? One is collateral damage (mice sucked up etc.) but the other is
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by graphpapa 6y ago
This sounds like a great setup thanks for making me aware of Thes these tools; noteplan & kiwi
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by graphpapa 6y ago
I think the right type of thing are the sorts of questions that get put in buzzfeed lists like “10 questions to find out if your date is the one” and “how compatible are you? 25 questions to predict relationship success with your partner” t
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by graphpapa 6y ago
This is nice, it’s more like how I see the fret board in my head
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by graphpapa 6y ago
This deserves its own blog post
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Anything that forces you to tell stories; creative writing, making videos, theatre, improv perhaps. I think it’s the _telling_ that matters, more than the story. - and I think practice will be much more effective than theory for that. Build
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by graphpapa 6y ago
You can find videos of people’s improvement with practice on YouTube. This is one example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eTX9LxZ9YUQ Definite improvement
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by graphpapa 6y ago
SSC also uses the a whalefall event as a very effective analogy in this older post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ Which was the first thing to come to mind when I saw this
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by graphpapa 6y ago
There are two red circles, but there is nothing identifiable to the untrained eye contained within them.
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Ahhhh so that’s what happened!
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Your website is amazing and full of very interesting projects, looks like a lot of fun.
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Strikes me as very Douglas Adams in its absurdity
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Much less whimsical
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Such beautiful diagrams.
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by graphpapa 6y ago
I do something halfway in between - i routinely get frustrated with everything that’s not relevant to my present concerns, and just throw it into a folder called ‘archive’ and then move THAT into the big central archive folder. I never real
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Guessing the latter. It’s a common expression in uk english, not sure about elsewhere.
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by graphpapa 6y ago
Your very articulate derision - of your own ability to articulate yourself - gave me a good laugh.
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by graphpapa 6y ago
I would consider this greatly valuable
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by graphpapa 7y ago
If you think of it like a bunch of cells like minesweeper, where the temperature differential is a function of #of neighbouring air cells - corners are going to cool much faster!
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by graphpapa 7y ago
Thank you I’ll give it a try
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by graphpapa 7y ago
This looks like it addresses the exact problem I have had with getting started with c++. I only wish it had more of a ‘landing page’ layout; ie. a brief summary, a working example I can try right away, and THEN a long explanation I can peru
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by graphpapa 7y ago
13000m ~> 20000km Order of 200000: 10^4 Order of 5: 1^0 Conclusion: difference in order of magnitudes = 4 (not 1000)
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by graphpapa 7y ago
(The worst sort of isomorphism)

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