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by jiiam 10y ago
In the comments to the linked article there's a nice explanation by Terry Tao of why this is not so spectacular, in the sense that our intuition with probabilities here relies on Fubini's theorem, which in this case do not apply d
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by jiiam 10y ago
A dear friend who works in harmonic analysis once added: "Don't even try to tackle a problem on which Terry Tao is already working"
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by jiiam 10y ago
Maybe I'm being pedantic in interpreting the semantic of what you wrote, but the fact that a certain feature is recognized as sexually attractive and produces a release of hormones does not imply that there is any special physical wiri
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by jiiam 10y ago
The author of the audit claims to be working on competing software, so I wonder if there is any alternative to bitmessage that achieves some anonymity. Regardless of implementation details, the purpose of bitmessage is interesting and any s
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by jiiam 10y ago
Thanks. The problem is that opening a terminal is always a pain since spotlight sends me to the one already open. I know that I should set up a shortcut to open a terminal...
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by jiiam 10y ago
This simply means that Apple would rather outsource the job and make some small developer happy and a few users (like me) unhappy, rather than improve their highly praised interface. By the way, there is an ecosystem of excellent small util
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by jiiam 10y ago
> Reverse scrolling? It's an option on the touchpad / mouse settings to scroll naturally/unnaturally Yes, but do you want to have different setting for your trackpad and mouse at the same time? You need a third party softw
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by jiiam 10y ago
Funny that I had to activate javascript in order to see the previews, so, although you don't need JS in real life, you need it to convince people to stop using it. Kinda like when Dante wrote in Latin about the utility of the Italian l
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by jiiam 10y ago
> Apple wins this battle every time. Welcome to the ecosystem. :) Yes, that's true, but we can also start being sincere about the fact that the whole story is BS. I've been recently assigned a mac by my university (never used o
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by jiiam 10y ago
Seems nice but the fact that it's not open source is a strong deterrent to start using it until there's a community using it.
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by jiiam 10y ago
It's not that it is inherently better, is that a good open source software has fewer chances of becoming an abandonware (and can brought back to life if need be)
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by jiiam 10y ago
I don't think I have the expertise to make the comparison to the historical events you cited, but I believe that, regardless of whether we consider those justified or not (I admit that I tend to say no, but would gladly listen to argum
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by jiiam 10y ago
> its job is to protect American citizens and their interests Are you implying that you can dispense with human rights when it comes to foreign civilians? I am also very frightened by the fact that you are, apparently, condoning it to &q
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by jiiam 10y ago
Are you implying that foreign civilian lives are not worth of the same consideration given to american citizens? Because drone strikes often have civilian casualties, and civilians in the interested zones live in fear of being killed by ame
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by jiiam 10y ago
Even in the case that the target of drone strikes were threats, often times these attacks lead to a number of civilian casualties that, I think, could be in no way justified.
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by jiiam 10y ago
It's still better than letting anyone with just basic knowledge in. I mean, if a cop can learn to pass those tests, surely a committed pedophile can, with the twist that the pedophile would not find the whole process disgusting. In a w
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by jiiam 10y ago
What I'm saying is that there is no strange mathematical result whatsoever related to the sum of the positive integers, which should be the only meaning reserved to 1+2+3+... There are stuff like this https://en.wikipedia.or
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by jiiam 10y ago
With all due respect, you are not really saying that the series 1+2+3+... converges to -1/12 with the obvious metric, are you? Because that's the only reasonable way to interpret 1+2+3+... = -1/12 (and it is false). The fact
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by jiiam 10y ago
No. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline... EDIT: Some further elaboration: I'm sick of the question. The answer is: not in any sense that would be meaningful to the people to whom
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by jiiam 10y ago
I'm not familiar with the US system, so I have to ask: are you saying that nowhere during his training a cop is evaluated by a psychiatrist before receiving his badge?
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by jiiam 10y ago
> I assume that police officers don't go into an encounter intending to shoot someone so it's important to get at the root cause. I fail to see any evidence to justify (or at least motivate) that assumption.
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by jiiam 10y ago
We have them in the bathrooms of our math department too (on classrooms' floors). Guess math students have heroin problems.
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by jiiam 10y ago
I think that there's a lot of bigotry to eradicate in the business of engagement. If, in order to get married, you need to give an impression of wealth you are essentially condoning a modern wife-buying practice. With the caveat that y
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by jiiam 10y ago
In light of the article cited here, the following extract of the original article contains some lies, i.e. that diamonds are value-holding assets. As a bonus, you also get some sexism for free: " The woman expects the man to give her s
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by jiiam 10y ago
Fair enough. But, speaking as a researcher, I often find myself reading through hundreds of lines of code and rebuilding routines from scratch in order to reproduce and expand on what others did in their works. However, I was very harsh, an
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by jiiam 10y ago
Good. * Rant mode: On Maybe in 30 years they will also learn a true programming language and stop producing undocumented, unusable, unportable, underdeveloped libraries for research level tools and technologies. Outside the world of Neural
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by jiiam 10y ago
It's good to raise awareness, especially on the users of the play store (I mean, the developers). For example I learned a lot from this video: in case I decided to sell an app on any store, I'd better contact my lawyer to get advi
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by jiiam 10y ago
Nice, but IMO it falls, as the Bullet Journal, into the category of beauty over result. I just think that simpler, less structured systems provide comparable results in terms of getting things done, while wasting less effort on the nonessen
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by jiiam 10y ago
What about, instead of "I have a boyfriend", tell them you are uncomfortable and would rather them stop talking/harassing/being around you? Of course, I might be minimizing and, in fact, the molester might not be a rapis
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by jiiam 10y ago
For example me. Sorry buddy but I'm not going to mess with my browser config (mostly out of laziness), I'm waiting for a downloadable version.

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