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by imh 8y ago
I didn't think what you say is true, but it is. Here's what misled me: Go back to the 100 door version. You start out by opening 1 door, so it's 99/100 that the car is behind another door. If monty just happens to open 9
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by imh 8y ago
A generation growing up on this will probably be less likely to believe in a flat earth, since the intuition will develop from the time they first start looking at maps.
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Since most people seem to be missing some context and commenting about the headline, just be aware that the proposal is smaller. Most papers have a section that essentially says "This work is important because of XYZ. It will enable be
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by imh 8y ago
Chirikjian's book looks really cool! Its website says that in volume 1 "The author reviews stochastic processes and basic differential geometry in an accessible way for applied mathematicians, scientists, and engineers." And
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Its impossible to know bottom, but its possible to know "probably relatively low." During the big recession when work was harder to find, everyone knew prices were low and it would be a decent time to buy, it's just that fewe
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by imh 8y ago
Can you give any recommendations for a little bit of differential geometry?
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by imh 8y ago
Often I wish I could just sort by least 1-start reviews or least 1-2-star reviews. Most products you don't need an amazing version, you just need one that isn't crap.
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by imh 8y ago
If they do this for food, they should do it for coffee. Even more companies have free coffee than have free food. Just think of all the new cafes that could survive and the jobs that would add! \s
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by imh 8y ago
I love the premise behind data driven giving, but it's really hard. In tech, we are all used to running experiments to determine whether things really work. But experimental design is not trivial and really benefits from expensive spec
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by imh 8y ago
Not all companies, just most. I didn't believe it existed before I got to my current gig, but there are some silicon valley companies that pay well and treat workers well. It would take a hell of a lot for me to leave.
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[citation needed] is one of the best things that happened to wikipedia and it could stand to show up in more places. I'm amazed internet journalism doesn't use citations. It's not like there's a lack of space like print
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by imh 8y ago
Journalists love to argue that journalists should enjoy special first amendment rights, and a central theme of OP is the government prosecuting whistleblowers but not the media companies who publish the info. Even the most Snowden friendly
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by imh 8y ago
I can't think of a way to write this that doesn't come across as a little facetious, but I swear this is an honest question. Would the YIMBYs here be happy replacing the parks in SF (especially Golden Gate Park) with high density
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by imh 8y ago
This fits very well with my experience. Moving job to job, I've been in plenty of places with different expectations around hours. If anything, hours with my butt in the chair seems anticorrelated with my productivity per week.
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by imh 8y ago
>A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved. >This paper represents one small step for an economist in the direction of the theory of interstellar trade. >These complications make the t
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by imh 8y ago
I'd guess that additional funding is harder if you don't meet goals. A lot of this seems to be pushing towards better measurements and priority alignment in the first place.
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by imh 8y ago
They knowingly take a well understood risk, yes, but that doesn't make it ok. It's also well understood that walking around certain parts of town dressed certain ways is dangerous, but it doesn't make mugging me ok when I do.
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by imh 8y ago
>Somehow, after all of this, fans of the thread still remained adamant that no wrong had been committed. “We do it everyday to celebrities. No difference. Outrage culture is so dumb,” wrote one Instagram user below a BuzzFeed News post o
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by imh 8y ago
I clicked into one of the featured seeds, then clicked to open the seed in colab. https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/magenta/music_va... Then I click the first little play button for "Setup Environme
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by imh 8y ago
>Could not access the resources needed to display output. This is probably because third-party cookies are not allowed by your browser. :(
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by imh 8y ago
True. Causation is less useful for fundamental physics than it is for the other sciences. The intent of my comment is that even if causation is nonsensical at the physical level, it may be usefully and sensibly defined at higher other level
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by imh 8y ago
Typically, stats seems to have different usage and teaching by field. Psychologists have their flavor, physicists another. Econometricians, epidemiologists, nutritionists, etc, all different. They're pretty much all asking causal quest
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by imh 8y ago
It may be wrong in the sense that free will is wrong, but a lack of free will doesn't stop me from making decisions. Causality is all about counterfactuals, and the admission is right there in the name counter-factual. We are already a
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by imh 8y ago
>We’ll be ‘randomly choosing’ lots of points on spheres of various dimensions. Whenever we do this, I mean that they’re chosen independently, and uniformly with respect to the unique rotation-invariant Borel measure that’s a probability
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by imh 8y ago
Peano numbers are kind of a classic first typelevel programming example. Maybe it's their unofficial Hello World. Booleans and natural numbers are usually the start, but natural numbers are complex enough to show the pain points.
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I posted these exactly because of the same sort of distinctions as you made. The parent comment showed what's at the top of an algorithmically curated list. The commenter stated "If you mainly get your news from social media, you
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by imh 8y ago
If your property taxes were 10x what they were 20 years ago, would you still be able to afford it? Rr if they 10x in the next 20 years? That's what happened to the first San Francisco home I looked up on redfin to ballpark figures for.
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by imh 8y ago
For comparison, here's the top ten from the last 24 hours of r/news and r/politics: r/news: >U.S. Court: Detroit students have no right to access to literacy >Man’s life ‘destroyed’ following classmate’s false rape
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by imh 8y ago
Real estate doesn't require road maintenance, cars do. I agree that people have to pay the government to maintain these, but homes do remain relatively unique among people's possessions as a thing that you own, but have to pay ong
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I think of prop 13 as rent stabilization for a thing you've actually bought. If you buy a new $1.5M home around here, you're paying around $19K (1.25%) per year to the government in taxes. It's almost $1600 / month in ta

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