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by j7ake 3y ago
As one increases more dimensions, it becomes increasingly likely that at least one of them will be an "extreme" value (i.e. point is at the edge of the hypercube ). In the random() * random() * random() ... , once you draw at leas
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by j7ake 3y ago
I think there is a link with curse of dimensionality here. As you add more randoms, most of the points lie close to the surface. This is also the case in high dimensional spheres: most of volume lie near the surface of the hyper sphere.
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by j7ake 3y ago
One thing I noticed is that certain “slippery/slimey” textures are not as appreciated in American culture compared to Asian. Eg, chicken feet, sea cucumber, tendon. It is as if Americans like very crispy or very creamy, but not much in
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by j7ake 3y ago
This means delaying starting a family, and those previous years 10 years is vital for fertility as well, which discriminates against women.
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by j7ake 3y ago
R is king for analysis of tabular data e.g. data exploration, model fitting, and visualizations where all the code can be contained in one .R file. R not as good as other languages for production-level work though or for analyzing non-tabul
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by j7ake 3y ago
I am curious now, what do you use instead of lapply (or other *apply variants)?
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by j7ake 3y ago
The parallel code structure looks very different from the standard for loops in python. So there is a lot of rewriting to get things to work on parallel in python compared to R. In R you just replace lapply with mclapply.
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by j7ake 3y ago
R is hard to parallelise compared to python? lapply(list, DoSomething) To parallelise to 16 cores , rewrite as mclapply(list, DoSomething, mc.cores = 16) What’s the equivalent in python ?
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by j7ake 3y ago
Casio W-736H: they are indeed clunky though.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Still wearing my Casio vibration alarms. 10 year battery life can’t be beat.
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by j7ake 3y ago
The best use case IMO for iPad is sheet music. Playing or sight reading is great on iPad, almost as good as paper.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Correct. The conservatory music exams require scales to be played from first level to last level. However each level demands faster tempo, evenness in volume, and a smooth “pulse” (like BB gun pellets hitting a wall)
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by j7ake 3y ago
The nuance here is that sometimes work from home is more productive, sometimes office is more productive. When initially figuring out what the “problem” actually is then it is better when people are together. When the problem has been well
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by j7ake 3y ago
Adobe keeps me subscribed because there is a small window in which you can cancel without paying a hefty penalty. And I miss that small window every time.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Not only was there neglect, but I also noticed they had no kids (not sure by choice or whatever). Hamming definitely made lots of sacrifices to become famous. Although if you noticed his achievements, they were actually all done early in hi
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by j7ake 3y ago
Anybody got a link to the article ? Or can summarise what the chord identification strategy is ?
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by j7ake 3y ago
This is amazing. I would love to see more of these projects.
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by j7ake 4y ago
This is false. He wrote something about aperiodic Crystal.
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by j7ake 4y ago
What many don’t realise in academia is that your reputation is more important than your results. The two are of course related but those who are dishonest mistakenly think their results are more important.
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by j7ake 4y ago
In academia, how long one takes to move is a function of seniority. Months at the junior level, but famous scientists moving can take years.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Celebrity within their industry, or at least within their organisation.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Yes but simply stating rent prices gives no context for whether it is expensive or not. Average net income in Austria is probably less than 2000 usd.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Their compensation doesn’t come from assuming more risk. They are essentially celebrities with a personal brand that corporations will hire to have the celebrity’s name as head the org. A good celebrity can bring fresh energy and new atmosp
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by j7ake 4y ago
If the problem is people gaining through rent seeking, then attack rent seeking itself, rather than rich people in general. There are poor people who make money through rent seeking too, by playing zero sum games. These zero summers should
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by j7ake 4y ago
I am a visual person. A good strategy for me is to plot the integrand to gain insight to the problem.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Who did JK Rowling underpay to get to the top ? People can make money through success in positive sum games, which wouldn’t require exploiting other people.
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by j7ake 4y ago
A better way to frame the question of “what do you do for a living” is “what do you for leisure?” Or “how have you been spending your free time lately ?” Or “what have you been up to lately?”
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by j7ake 4y ago
Has anybody switched from R (tidyverse and ggplot2) to python and found they can be equally or more productive in tabular data wrangling, data exploration and visualisations? Still using R because I find python cannot do exploratory data an
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by j7ake 4y ago
I think the claim that PhDs and postdocs are fungible is what enables credit to be concentrated to the PI. In top places though, it’s often the case that trainees have an idea, get shut down by PI, trainee demonstrates project can work, the
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by j7ake 4y ago
Yeah it seems natural to divide the credit evenly, just as midfielders and strikers and coaches get equal credit for winning a game.

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