jbandela1

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by jbandela1 10mo ago
I think the biggest mistake people make when thinking about mathematics is that it is fundamentally about numbers. It’s not. Mathematics is fundamentally about relations. Even numbers are just a type of relation (see Peano numbers). It give
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by jbandela1 10mo ago
This is one of the areas where memorization/deep familiarity with material is important. Sometimes, when I have a difficult problem, I will spend time reading up as much on the principles of the problem and then go to bed. Sometimes, I
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by jbandela1 10mo ago
Actually we have the descendants of both with us now and they are roughly the same size in terms of spectatorship Circus Maximus - Nascar - 250,000 spectators Coliseum - Football - 50,000 - 80,000 spectators
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by jbandela1 1y ago
Brings back memories. But with a focus more on C++ features. I started with Visual C++ 1.0. There were no templates. Visual C++ 2.0 had templates. There was by Visual C++ 3.0. They went to 4.0 to sync the MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes)
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by jbandela1 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4 Is a fun presentation by Matthew Kulukundis (designer of Google's Hash Table) with Hyrum Wright offering objections from the crowd (Hyrum's law) about the design and rol
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by jbandela1 2y ago
I think that is what this article is addressing. You can never have a thorough protocol that always works. Doctors need to be trained in the limits of protocol. This is why the humanities are important. Doctors should not just be unthinking
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by jbandela1 2y ago
> Several years ago, I was involved in a case that illuminates the difficult position many doctors today find themselves in. The patient was pregnant, close to delivery, and experiencing dangerous declines in her baby’s heart rate. She h
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by jbandela1 2y ago
Apart from networking, the hourglass design is common throughout Electricity is an hourglass. Coal plants, solar panels, gas turbines, wind turbines, nuclear power plants all produce electricity. This is then consumed by electric cars, comp
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by jbandela1 2y ago
I personally find software development to be enchanting and am often thankful to have a job like this. I get to make in the comfort of my home creations where I am only limited by my knowledge, imagination, and attention. I can experiment e
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by jbandela1 2y ago
What is really interesting is looking at the meta analysis cited in the Vox article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3932762/ This reaches the conclusion that beta blockers are harmful. However,
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by jbandela1 2y ago
The code presented has problems, but they are not the problems the author thinks it is. The code is listed as c++. However, it is using a style that will result in problems. First thing that jumped out at me is using const char* for strings
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by jbandela1 2y ago
> Except they don’t. American Airlines, Delta, and United are running out of flight numbers, and nobody knows what to do about it. All of the above mentioned airlines are the size they are because of mergers. Why don’t they use the IATA
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by jbandela1 2y ago
Especially when teaching children, limiting abstractions is helpful. A 5 year old can tell you what: 10 PRINT “HELLO” 20 GOTO 10 Does. You can basically look at each line In isolation and figure out what is going on. There is
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by jbandela1 2y ago
> “By pinpointing AP-1 as a master controller linked to aging across cell types, we can now study the effects of drugs that reduce its activity to extend quality of life,” he said [2]. Targeting AP-1 and its associated pathways could lea
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by jbandela1 2y ago
Reposting my previous comment: What technology has brought is choice and options: A woman can choose to decouple having sex with getting pregnant. A person can choose to live hundreds of miles away from their family yet still visit them eve
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by jbandela1 2y ago
Apparently, instead of batteries the original idea was to have them be part of a brain based neural net which makes a lot more sense than batteries. But this was felt to be too complicated.
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by jbandela1 2y ago
Most of the reasons for doing and the advice also applies to personal programming projects: * Don’t begin with a ship in a bottle. * Have a ‘learner’s mind.’ * Aim for meaningful rather than perfect The cool thing with programming is that y
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by jbandela1 2y ago
One issue is that this is mixing civilizations where we have a written historical record with civilizations where we don't have that and rely on archeology alone. The problem with that, is that the historical record allows much finer g
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by jbandela1 2y ago
I think part of the reason is that people understand that while in games such as chess, etc the entire state of the “universe” of the problem is provided to the algorithm, in the real world, they don’t have that confidence. There are all so
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by jbandela1 2y ago
> 3. And then write programs with vectors and maps. But the maps this time are absl::flat_hash_map (or another C++ alternative hash map such as Folly F14, etc) instead of std::map (or even std::unordered_map).
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by jbandela1 2y ago
> One can roughly divide mathematical education into three stages: Similarly with programming. 1. Write programs that you think are cool 2. Learn about data structures and algorithms and complexity and software organization. 3. Write pro
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by jbandela1 2y ago
This actually makes me a bit concerned about long term, general Ozempic use. This to me at least makes one suspicious that this pathway is very deep in the reward subsystems of the brain, and is not just specific to say appetite and food. W
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by jbandela1 2y ago
1453: Printing press will erode human creativity one pressed page at a time. Every copy of every page in a book was unique reflecting the humanity of the scribe copying the work. Now we will just get mass produce pressed drivel. 1822: Photo
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by jbandela1 2y ago
That is true that it was originally for cardiovascular issues. However, it seems that there was at least theoretical consideration that it could be used to treat ED A nice overview is here: https://www.nature.com/articles&#x
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by jbandela1 2y ago
> The distinction between history and prehistory has been dissolving for some time The difference between history and prehistory is like having the source code with comments (history) versus the compiled binary (prehistory). Now the comm
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by jbandela1 2y ago
> When told of my upcoming case, I had mixed feelings. On the one hand, being in perfect health, unaccustomed to suffering and therefore easily disconcerted by the thought of death, I was horrified. My attitude toward death was like that
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by jbandela1 2y ago
All models are wrong. Some are useful. Determine what level of the model is useful for what you want to do.
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by jbandela1 2y ago
Reminder to consider shielding and stray signals when interpreting an EEG. You can get an EEG trace from a blob of Jello: https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/06/archives/jello-test-finds...
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by jbandela1 2y ago
I think “clever” is more related to unfamiliarity. There is actually a lot of cleverness going on that people just become familiar with. Structured programming is actually very clever if you think about it. Function calls are, when you look

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