j7ake

56 ms·

661.
by j7ake 3y ago
Thanks for the response. Could you say whether for finite sets, my statement is correct? Also could you explain when measures and quantity are the same and when they are not?
662.
by j7ake 3y ago
Probability as a mathematical object is very simple: it’s the proportion of a quantity (measure) distributed over a set. Likelihoods are a product of one or more probabilities over a subset of the set, so they don’t necessarily sum up to 1
663.
by j7ake 3y ago
Nice quote here “If we focus on never making others feel inferior, there’s no limit to what can be achieved”. In light of how snarky people can be during interviews and evaluating others, it’s good to remember we are not better than one ano
664.
by j7ake 3y ago
Downloading everything you like is first tier. The second time you search for it, that thing gets put in another tier away from the vast sea of no longer useful things.
665.
by j7ake 3y ago
I find it good to have a two tier system: first tier are things you “like”. You thought it was cool but 90 percent of the time you will never look at it again. However, if you need to find it again a second or third time, then put some effo
666.
by j7ake 3y ago
The author has an insight here: the opposite of being indifferent to everything is not focus, it is being distracted by everything. Focus is a third state in between indifference and distraction: you have said no to everything except one th
667.
by j7ake 3y ago
Buy an extra computer that is blank and periodically restore your back ups into the extra computer.
668.
by j7ake 3y ago
In some more mature fields of engineering most of the practitioners are maintainers. Think of chemical engineering, each of the existing chemical plants are run by a team of engineers. Their job role is akin to “maintenance”, but they are s
669.
by j7ake 3y ago
3 devices sounds a lot, but what do people normally travel with? Probably 2, laptop and phone? Considering how light the iPad is it’s not a big addition to slip in an ipad in your bag. Sounds great you just use your thinkpad ubuntu, but wha
670.
by j7ake 3y ago
I was confused with the traveled distance vs jumping time plot. Intuitively there should be three points at which the traveled distance is zero: at the two max swing heights, and at the min swing height (assuming your legs touch the ground
671.
by j7ake 3y ago
Someone who uses vim daily will surely not struggle with vi.
672.
by j7ake 3y ago
Systems admin people who deal with computing clusters often use vim.
673.
by j7ake 3y ago
They should have made a list of concrete papers or companies that came from this project. It’s hard to parse from the text. But from their website it seems like they have 2200 journal publications associated with HBP, but would be nice to h
674.
by j7ake 3y ago
Especially these days, the bar for “knowing” Fourier transforms is simply a 7 minute video from 3blue1brown. The gap between knowers and doers will only get larger as math explainers improve their content.
675.
by j7ake 3y ago
Evaluating safety of self driving cars is not just a matter of comparing number of failures of number of accidents, or any one scalar number. Just to illustrate my point, imagine a case where self driving cars have same number of fatal deat
676.
by j7ake 3y ago
In Netherlands the ask culture is so strong that it is not appropriate to ask “how are you doing” to strangers, because you don’t actually want to know how they are doing.
677.
by j7ake 3y ago
And what’s the culture where you have guessed correctly what a guest wants, but the guest must say no several times before reluctantly accepting ?
678.
by j7ake 3y ago
I can’t believe someone would risk their bail by intimidating witnesses. Now instead of being able to prepare for the defence at home he has to sit in jail and wait. Wow…
679.
by j7ake 3y ago
Someone from Taiwan can read a HK newspaper no problem. The pinyin phonetic alphabet only works for mandarin, while a unified written script applies beyond mandarin. Learning written Chinese not only connects you across varying spoken Chine
680.
by j7ake 3y ago
Chinese writing is not phonetic, while a western alphabet would necessarily be phonetic. One may think that is a disadvantage for Chinese, but since there such a wide variety of spoken Chinese languages, Chinese writing acts as a unifying f
681.
by j7ake 3y ago
Fantastic analogy.
682.
by j7ake 3y ago
That won’t stop her from being a billionaire. She could have ownership of a company that would make her net worth orders of magnitude higher than any earnings cap. You cannot put a cap on a company’s worth, because it’s a guess. They can de
683.
by j7ake 3y ago
What coercive mechanism made people buy JK Rowlings books, and made her a billionaire? Who did JK Rowling exploit to funnel so much of those book sales towards herself? If someone buys a Harry Potter book, is she not entitled to a portion o
684.
by j7ake 3y ago
It’s the Bayesian way.
685.
by j7ake 3y ago
Most academic textbooks are not for general audience. If the main title and subtitle don’t make any sense to some people, then the author did not write the textbook for that audience.
686.
by j7ake 3y ago
The main article was about a person in academia, which works out fine to disappear for weeks at a time.
687.
by j7ake 3y ago
High performing people like Dijkstra was probably working 6 days and 1 meeting day. Not sure where you got the 4 days part from the article. 50 percent more deep thinking time will compound enormously over a career, especially in winner-tak
688.
by j7ake 3y ago
Yeah, young Japanese professionals can eat out every meal. Ramen is maybe 3 to 6 dollars.
689.
by j7ake 3y ago
Japanese people have ramen joints for quick and satisfying meals after a 16 hour day.
690.
by j7ake 3y ago
Feedly with keywords for your favorite topics or researchers works decently. I imagine this routine comes from people with research backgrounds, where browsing papers is the academic way of googling around for answers.

More ›