hermannj314

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by hermannj314 15y ago
Given 28 and male it is equally likely he died of road fatality, suicide, poisoning or a violent act. They are all pretty close and then it just drops off to very rare stuff. So it is probably not wise to speculate at all.
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by hermannj314 15y ago
Ok, I realized that I wrote something like this without seeing your post first. The poster is a quant working with Scala so I am certain I have just misunderstood something. Nevertheless, my humble bachelor's degree has led me to the same
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by hermannj314 15y ago
Can you elaborate on your code? Why are you summing the 3 parallel queues total time of processing together? Those processes occur in parallel, so I am uncertain what the sum of times is supposed to represent. Total time to clear all line
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by hermannj314 15y ago
Is that harder to prove in a class-action suit? Unconscionability is probably an easier road than duress. I am neither a lawyer nor a dentist.
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by hermannj314 15y ago
I have two children. One of my children is a son born on a Tuesday. Of course, my wife is still pregnant with the 2nd, but she will be thrilled to know there is a better than average chance she is having a girl!
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by hermannj314 15y ago
1. Some people don't realize what information Facebook is collecting, and some of those people would object if they did know. 2. Some people don't realize the way Facebook is using the information they collect, and some of those people woul
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by hermannj314 15y ago
It killed the mood when he searched for ,(null) in Google Maps, but otherwise pretty freaky.
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by hermannj314 15y ago
When my daughter was one years old she thought the box that the iPad came in was a broken iPad. I didn't jump to any conclusions about the superfluousness of packaging or my daughter's inability to understand a world with boxes. I did, howe
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by hermannj314 15y ago
Yeah, if you choose hourly (I did) then your boss just cuts your hours in half. But then later I lost a whole day of pay when I called in sick, but I don't really see how I couldn't make up that time seeing as I was only working 20 hours a
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by hermannj314 15y ago
"be the change you want to see in the world" The author is fighting an uphill battle on this one, but I appreciate her ideal. Never underestimate the power your words have on shaping a child's life.
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by hermannj314 15y ago
I considered the burden of carrying the umbrella as the cost (loss).
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by hermannj314 15y ago
I told my daughter to bring her umbrella to school today because the weather report called for rain. But it didn't rain. I am, by definition, stupid because I caused a loss for another person and derived no gain. So it seems odd to have a
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by hermannj314 15y ago
I live in Europe, but absolutely "need" to watch American television. My only option is Hulu via a US VPN or Usenet. Currently, I choose the Usenet route. I would be glad to pay for some 3rd option. I have disposable income to give away
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by hermannj314 15y ago
I agree that efficient code is usually more complex and for some god forsaken reason it tends to be the least commented. If you think to yourself, "wow! I'm really proud of that, very clever" please for the love of God leave a comment. I fi
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by hermannj314 15y ago
Not to diverge too much from the topic. At JFK, the first class passengers have a priority queue through the security system as well. I flew through JFK once on a Holiday (4th of July) and TSA was so understaffed that they barely had enou
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by hermannj314 15y ago
I don't see how your conclusion follows: lots of important things happen without anonymity. Most civils rights leaders demonstrated openly and without the veil of anonymity. I'm not saying anonymity is never important, I'm just saying it
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by hermannj314 15y ago
Recipe for success = just add women. Mad Men for the win. I knew replacing our secretaries with computers would destroy America. Your team doesn't need more developers, you need a Peggy Olson.
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by hermannj314 15y ago
Possibly a counterpoint, but I have no study to back this up. In the whole "deliberate practice" paradigm, they often say that immediacy of feedback strongly correlates with continued improvement. But maybe that presupposes you've develop
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by hermannj314 15y ago
I haven't memorized Taylor series for all known functions, so I occasionally have to reach for a calculator. I guess I am mentally weak and the sine of a broken education system. Oh wait? We've arbitrarily choosen multiplication tables an
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by hermannj314 15y ago
I think the phrase "By the same unflinching logic..." gives some insight into the mood of the author. I'm surprised they didn't drop in a "it's a well known law of the universe that 20% of women have 80% of the babies..." Pareto adds credi
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by hermannj314 15y ago
I played around with this idea. First transforming the visual representation of the chess board and then seeing how I would describe the moves of the pieces and whether it was more / less intuitive. It is easy to view the board as 64 conse
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by hermannj314 15y ago
Anyone ever tried playing chess in one dimension? I bet that would melt your brain. Ok, that actually sounds like it might be fun to mock-up.
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by hermannj314 15y ago
The problem isn't the voters, the problem is the process. There is no way that basing a representative democracy on geographical cohorts can be optimal. I assume it is based originally on logistical constraints, but today is something we j
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by hermannj314 15y ago
Let's say you find out how to make planes safer. You can cut fatalities in half or something. And let's say doing that will drive up the cost of air travel by $100/ticket. Well, you did a good job and saved X lives, but you ended up kill
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by hermannj314 15y ago
From the perspective portrayed in this article, the auditor seems misinformed about fundamentals in his industry and his response to being called on this seemed superficial and borderline childish. It must be difficult to be ridiculed in a
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by hermannj314 15y ago
When I saw the title, this (or something like it) is what I thought the article was going to be about.