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by jeffcoat 17y ago
Mercury's orbit is easily predicted from Newton's laws, but the prediction is -- just a tiny little bit -- Wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Per... No one gets younger by traveling faster, but one of the idea
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by jeffcoat 17y ago
This is the kind of comment that is both cheap and, at first glance, insightful ... and just annoying enough for me to defend the opposing point of view: "Behaving rationally by economic standards" is a fancy way of saying "trying to get wh
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by jeffcoat 17y ago
News aggregators are useful if they convince me to read something useful that I otherwise wouldn't have seen. A few seconds before I saw this question, I saw the link to "The Economics of Suicide". Surely a recipe for content-free emoting,
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by jeffcoat 17y ago
"markets can experience 25 standard deviation events" Maybe. But what's the probability that your model is just wrong?
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by jeffcoat 17y ago
I voted up this article -- because I think the underlying story is interesting -- but article itself is viciously anti-Wikipedia. I doubt the writing quality is particularly bad, though: I suspect the author is telling exactly the story he
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by jeffcoat 17y ago
Fen-hsiung Hsu's letter (the original post) has a ring of truth to me: it sounds like a sincere story of someone who doesn't know how to continue with a project that's personally important without the corporate backing that he started with.
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by jeffcoat 17y ago
I haven't heard the interview, but Pullum is a regular on Language Log; one recent post is a direct reply to the comments posted on fark.com: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1319
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by jeffcoat 18y ago
Well, yes: arguably, that very fact is one of the major wins you get from good abstractions.
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by jeffcoat 18y ago
And I got my first job out of college through a friend who had joined the company a year earlier. He knew me, had a decent sense of my ability from our classes together, and gave me a strong recommendation. Every job since has built off tha