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by j2kun 6y ago
I'm responding to how this all aligns with Thoreau's concept of civil disobedience. Billionaires more interested in the expansion of their own business at the cost of the lives of their workers is the exact opposite of what Thorea
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by j2kun 6y ago
I recall the quote from Thoreau, saying we must also stand up to those "who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity." The point of the essay is to exhibit disobedience to government when that gove
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by j2kun 6y ago
Tags! I do wish I knew how to use that feature better...
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by j2kun 6y ago
This is why cooperatives are so much better for food service. Set up the incentives to align the success of the business and the honesty of the employees.
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Helm – DRM-free software synthesizer(tytel.org)
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by j2kun 7y ago
R + pandoc + yaml + markdown + quite a few custom build scripts... it seems like LaTeX is simpler in the end. Could you summarize "why not just use LaTeX?"
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by j2kun 7y ago
Why is this linking to the wayback machine? This blog post is live on the same website at the same url. https://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little...
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by j2kun 7y ago
This comment has prompted me to think more (and more clearly) about how I would evaluate the company I work for. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
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by j2kun 7y ago
Many people are complaining about some fines, but here are some others I see that are evidence of this working extremely well: - A police officer was fined for using his department's tools to get someone's private phone number for
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by j2kun 7y ago
It's funny, I had read that paper a few times while learning about bandit learning, and I never noticed their version, which funnily enough outperforms vanilla UCB1 in all of their tests!
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by j2kun 7y ago
UCB1 is really not that much more complicated than epsilon-greedy. Some slightly sloppy code I wrote a few years ago, maybe 20 lines of code: https://github.com/j2kun/ucb1/blob/master/ucb1.py#L7-L35 Sure
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by j2kun 7y ago
Are there other disciplines in which hierarchies have helped improve discourse?
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by j2kun 7y ago
> YouTube completely disabled all comments on videos featuring children, and deleted all existing comments. This sounds like a good mitigation step to me, considering that we're talking about child predators. The incentives are alig
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by j2kun 7y ago
> Having work life balance is somewhat of a luxury, Tell that to the history of labor unions
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by j2kun 8y ago
Interesting read! I would have liked more details about what specifically they found useful about artistic methods of inquiry. Hart writes that they were able to isolate certain patterns of thought; what were those?
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by j2kun 8y ago
The people I'm thinking of would read "Too Clever by Half" and think, "Obviously what I'm doing is a hole that needs to be filled [I won't admit it, but it's really because it would enrich me or make me mo
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by j2kun 8y ago
This is the kind of article that makes people who think they are geniuses (but have produced nothing useful) feel justified in hurting others to get what they want.
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by j2kun 8y ago
Cute, but it's still just asymptotic complexity... You can use asymptotic notation (big-O) to describe anything that grows. It doesn't have to be code runtime.
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by j2kun 8y ago
Yes, and also, they're just wrong about this "happening all the time." The tactic of shutting down the government for political gain is a recent (and clearly more common) strategy. Before the 90's turned politics into wa
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by j2kun 8y ago
Wait until the author hears about react-native-web-native, the go-to solution for using your react-native-web components in a native environment!
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by j2kun 8y ago
The only good quality of a hedge fund is promoting "market efficiency." I can understand how most people don't buy that as an excuse for the havoc they can wreak.
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by j2kun 8y ago
For others reading: TikZ can be made arbitrarily complex. I used it to make this trigonometry puzzle, for example: https://imgur.com/a/z0Pqnlk The downside is that LaTeX doesn't support many primitives that engine
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by j2kun 8y ago
/shrug misaligned incentives probably. Schools are also handing out CS degrees without students being all that good at writing programs either.
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by j2kun 8y ago
It's a good question, and sort of hard to balance. I don't have any formal training as a teacher, or really a _pedagogy_ per se. I did teach five years of discussion sections among calculus, python programming, and differential eq
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by j2kun 8y ago
I actually used to work for CreateSpace! I think they do a splendid job on the printing, and the royalties are much better than a publisher. I think I will write a longer blog post with more details.
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by j2kun 8y ago
Of course you're right about degree n vs. at most n, with many easy counterexamples (the list (1,1), (2,1), (3,1) being a simple one). If you'd like, please submit an erratum using the link at pimbook.org, and other readers can se
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by j2kun 8y ago
Let's get it started, and initial thoughts, questions, or suggestions can be in Github issues for now. https://github.com/pim-book/exercises
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by j2kun 8y ago
That's exactly how I felt. I didn't really discover math until college.
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by j2kun 8y ago
Would you read "A Mathematician's Introduction to Programming"?
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by j2kun 8y ago
It's funny, because I discuss Lamport's view in the book as well in a later chapter. I think some folks are annoyed that the first chapter is slow, but I promise it ramps up :)

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