j2kun

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by j2kun 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. The parent comment was not about math notation, but naming mathematical concepts.
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by j2kun 10y ago
> But computer scientists, at least ones with a certain kind of systems background, have put a lot of work into designing abstract logical structures for human beings to use. They've learned a lot of rules about how to do this well.
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by j2kun 10y ago
we do have math typesetting you know... With a standard programming language for typesetting handled by all major browsers. Just head over to Mathoverflow and see it in action
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by j2kun 10y ago
What you wrote is very ambiguous
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by j2kun 10y ago
Part of this is because most mathematics is written for mathematicians, certainly not for non-engineers. Another hard part is that the concepts in mathematics are so abstract, and so unprecedented, that "reasonable" words that cou
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by j2kun 10y ago
You might be able to explain it, but it still shows that it's wrong. (Though I disagree that these shoes are gender neutral; only ~5% of the shoes in my household look like "gender-neutral" shoes, and they're all mine)
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by j2kun 10y ago
It exhibits gender disparities very nicely too. https://twitter.com/OdaRygh/status/798872670221856768
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by j2kun 10y ago
Of course people can write and wear whatever they like. I am simply explaining why it smells like crackpottery, since it seems you thought it was only due to that one sentence. And, for the record, anything aspiring to be a grand unified th
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by j2kun 10y ago
The nonstandard definitions and notation, the lack of proper typesetting, random clip-arty images, the precociousness of "Grand Unified" whatever, and the general pretense that this isn't covered in most intro algebra graduat
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by j2kun 10y ago
21 Inc. (where I work) has a very easy to use python library [1] allowing you to accept bitcoin payments via HTTP 402. But you can also just use the library to serve up a fresh payout address in plaintext on a website. If you like the CLI,
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by j2kun 10y ago
You can't think of any jobs that an education can provide?
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by j2kun 10y ago
That is the kind of negative stereotyping that we need to stop, now. Community colleges train people in most trades at a basic level, and they care more about your success in the workforce than most big colleges. I personally know many peop
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by j2kun 10y ago
The problem, then, is education and retraining. Send all these people to community college. It's dirt cheap and that's what they're there for.
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by j2kun 10y ago
IIRC manufacturing is like 3% of American jobs. Not sure why the American people care so much about it. It's gone and not coming back.
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by j2kun 10y ago
This is simply not true. The exit polls suggest it's middle and upper middle class who primarily voted for Trump.
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by j2kun 10y ago
But you trust them to keep your vote secret, you trust them to keep national secrets secret, etc. I get that this is a big single point of failure that would be really difficult to fix if it was leaked. But the general default trust in the
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by j2kun 10y ago
Is this just because you don't trust the government not to use your secret key for nefarious purposes? Because if that's the case I feel like you wouldn't participate in the civic system at all... Like forget signing your vot
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by j2kun 10y ago
As an eight year old getting into magic around the tempest days, part of the braininess was in the extensive vocabulary in the card names! My MtG circle was a seriously literate group of elementary school kids.
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by j2kun 10y ago
On days like this I dream of a world in which every citizen has a key pair assigned by the government for the purpose of interacting with the government. It could work like this: you get the private/public key pair provided in your pas
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by j2kun 10y ago
Speediness is an curious advantage, because to the contrary I only ever use handwriting when I want to deliberate and think as slowly as I write (doing math, writing short fiction, expanding a dense technical idea to a colleague). From that
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by j2kun 10y ago
I don't understand your example. If you abstract away the hard part of searching a database and sending an email (as most programming languages do), then every language is as easy as the snippets you posted. In python: messages =
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by j2kun 10y ago
Definitely the original is good, too, and my example was a fun addition, not a replacement of the original logo :)
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by j2kun 10y ago
So I've been playing with style transfer for about six months. I even combined it with another technique to actually get something that I liked enough to have printed on canvas ( https://github.com/j2kun/art-21-logo
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by j2kun 10y ago
As someone who has done this a few times, LongForm sounds like a great idea.
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by j2kun 10y ago
For in-editor git commands, I use vim-gitgutter. It's seriously cleaned up my commit history by letting me stage individual hunks of code, while still letting me implement changes in a stream-of-consciousness order. https://
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by j2kun 10y ago
> People coming in extremely late at night [...] while causing tons of noise These are all symptoms that proliferate in dense cities and college towns even without AirBnB. I live in the downtown of a small city, and can't escape lat
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by j2kun 10y ago
> Why should New Yorkers have to tolerate illegal hotels with arbitrary guests in such a densely packed city? Would you have the same argument if it were just friends inviting friends over every week? If not, why does the money make it d
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by j2kun 10y ago
You can publicly provide the link to the box, e.g., on a Twitter account using keybase for authenticity.
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by j2kun 10y ago
It would be lovely to have keybase integration! I've just copy/pasted my GPG public key and fingeprrint from the keybase website into the hawkpost settings, and it works great!
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by j2kun 10y ago
> Trying to turn around a failing technology company is almost always a futile task — just ask Marissa Mayer at Yahoo or whoever it is who now runs BlackBerry. It's amazing how one can respect the difficulty of a job while simultane

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