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by graycat 4y ago
Your remarks about my post have to do with females, that is gender. Today that is a touchy, sensitive, politicized subject. You seem to be saying that, in dealing with people, should get more information. In a sense, you are correct: That
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by graycat 4y ago
(1) People. I paid full tuition in my course to get some understanding of people. Dad had some understanding, and Mom was really good at it, but neither tried very hard to teach me. In particular: [i] Boys and girls, men and women are very
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by graycat 4y ago
I don't think we are on the same page: There have to be some uncountably infinitely many statistical tests can apply to six numbers, and given any list of 6 numbers it will have to fail, be very "suspicious", according to som
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by graycat 4y ago
For any six numbers that can exist or be drawn, once they are drawn can find something about them that is improbable. Sooooo, that found something improbable about the numbers, once they have been drawn, means essentially nothing.
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by graycat 4y ago
Sure, I'm a native born US citizen, and I love, adore, honor, respect ... thank lucky stars for our Constitution. I have a copy on my main computer and search its contents frequently, especially while reading the news. So, as a simple
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by graycat 4y ago
> A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth The lights -- nice source of data! So, this claim is about "dictators" and "economic growth". So, I think of a joke, although with maybe some t
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by graycat 4y ago
All fine except for the goal of searching for the life. Or as I tried to make clear, first have to find some radical, new physics. If I make the $billions, glad to fund that.
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by graycat 4y ago
Apparently there is high interest in finding life elsewhere in our galaxy, or in other galaxies. Since a lot of such interest is resulting in US federal government funding and I am a US citizen, I have standing, if only as a taxpayer, in th
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by graycat 4y ago
Here "Why adults still dream about school", The Atlantic and many of the comments in this thread touch on some serious points about life and education. Here I hope to give some examples for some lessons that might help others.
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by graycat 4y ago
When I was a math major in college and in some of the years later, I went through such questions and responses. If you like digging into the issues and work of G. Cantor, B. Russell, J. von Neumann, K. Godel, P. Cohen, etc., fine. But here
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by graycat 4y ago
I had a revision of that post, but I had it ready only just after the end of the 2 hour window for revisions. The course pressed hard on the students to devote, what was it, 4 hours of time a week in group sessions with more hours in inde
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by graycat 4y ago
Just looked at the "Course Description" of the "Syllabus" as at https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms... The course takes itself very seriously and seems to ask each student t
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by graycat 4y ago
A click-bait headline? From about 1917 in Arabia in the classic movie Lawrence of Arabia , a newsman talking to the prince: "You want your story told, and I desperately want a story to tell." Gee, there may not be enough plasti
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by graycat 4y ago
From all I can tell about what physicists mean, their use of correlation is inappropriate. It appears that their math of correlation is correct for the math of correlation, all independent of any connections with physics. But from all I
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by graycat 4y ago
I just looked at the article of OP (original post) of this thread, Costas Paris, "Ocean Shipping Rates Have Plunged 60% This Year", WSJ, Sept. 5, 2022 7:03 am ET, https://www.wsj.com/articles/ocean-shipping-
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by graycat 4y ago
I was thrilled by the article, e.g., how much analytical content it had. Apparently you weren't.
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by graycat 4y ago
It's been some weeks since I read the article, but one of the pieces of content was how cheap 1 Kg of fentanyl was in Mexico and how much, from memory, something over $10 million, 1 Kg sold for on US streets. That was some really good
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by graycat 4y ago
I just joined it. Apparently they don't create or really publish any content but just give summaries of and links to content. Maybe one advantage is that apparently they curate the content they provide links to. That could be
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by graycat 4y ago
According to the bank, the issue was being sure about his identity . Well, with a check, the check itself is identity enough. And with a check, the bank may be legally required to pay it with the funds in the account.
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by graycat 4y ago
There were some good analytical pieces on (A) the fact that we are and have been in a recession and (B) fentanyl and some of its money flows. And there were many more. Besides, the site is nearly all "that kind of analytical journal
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by graycat 4y ago
For my main bank account, I have a debit card, sure, but also an old fashioned checkbook. If I write a check, there may be no issue of proving identity to get the check cashed. If so, then go to another bank, open an account, and make a
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by graycat 4y ago
For your > So where do you get that kind of analytical journalism then if not in MaiNsTReAm mEDiA? Part of my discussion was to explain that "that kind of analytical journalism" is not available in the MSM. Soooo, can't g
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by graycat 4y ago
That's a good example of why I'm reluctant to read and rarely read such articles, the WSJ, or the MSM (mainstream media). Also a good example of why, for such a topic, I want to see well done graphs over time. And the graphs shoul
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by graycat 4y ago
Supposedly one of the really big, important things could do with a quantum computer (QC) is quickly solve to optimality instances of NP-complete optimization problems, e.g., problems in scheduling, resource allocation, logistics, etc. whic
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by graycat 4y ago
My understanding is that TSMC is busy building factories in the US. Easy to suspect that this is (1) to keep up production in the event that China takes over Taiwan, (2) to tell China now that even if they do take over Taiwan TSMC producti
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by graycat 4y ago
It's not clear that the assumption (Y,Y,N), etc. is possible.
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by graycat 4y ago
Fundamental, foundational, unavoidable, overwhelming, invincible but just dirt simple truth: Please sit down for this. And may I have the envelope, please? Drum roll? ===>>> In computing, meaning is crucial. Computer source cod
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by graycat 4y ago
> In that case do not do a Ph.d in math at all. Do it within an engineering department instead, much more funding and you get paid accordingly. The math I listed can be one heck of an advantage in doing research in engineering and other
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by graycat 4y ago
The bomb. The hydrogen bomb. It's about the bomb! Due to the bomb, US academics got a big dose of money aimed at: Making sure the US is never behind in anything in math, science, or even medicine in any way that could hurt US nationa
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by graycat 4y ago
Still easier: (1) Pick a practical problem in physical science, engineering, medicine, some other field, e.g., ecology, or business, a problem not yet solved. (2) Get a good solution to this practical problem, mostly using math, hopefully a

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