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by jl2718 5y ago
The meme commands me to obey: Terry Tao once famously published a result with non-mathematicians Denton et al. , and was bombarded by responses (including my own first math paper) showing the result previously published in many different wa
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by jl2718 5y ago
Yes; a back door EXIT! Crypto exchanges are absolutely destroying the Ruble right now.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I had an office-mate who maintained the telescopes at CalTech, and this was also his personal opinion about Sagan.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Re: flashers. Point taken. Definitely no front flashers at night. I tend to think they might do something positive in bright daylight on long open roads, but I wouldn’t be the expert on other people seeing me.
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by jl2718 5y ago
5th grade social studies lesson from 2080: By the 2020’s western state power is no longer exercised through employment of a physical law enforcement corps. The middle class is sufficiently controlled by a centralized financial structure, bu
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by jl2718 5y ago
Getting the bike is not the biggest hurdle to becoming a biker. People give up for a few common reasons. 1. Flats [revised]: use quality tires and learn to change it and patch a tube. But I know you don’t want to do that before you start ri
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by jl2718 5y ago
What if you’re exactly like this guy, but with a small fraction of his raw intelligence? Does that work out or just annoy people? Asking for a friend…
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by jl2718 5y ago
“Adding the marshmallow test results to the index does virtually nothing to the prognosis, the study finds.” This does not mean that the test is not predictive. It means that the index (a bunch of measurements) contains statistical dependen
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by jl2718 5y ago
Unless I misunderstand you, I think you need to look into the “automatic market maker” concept. Their paper is the best source to cut through the chatter: https://uniswap.org/whitepaper.pdf
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by jl2718 5y ago
Uniswap is algorithmic liquidity. It doesn't "follow" anybody. It is true that the exchanges have more volume, but that is not necessarily 'real' volume. The operating model of a centralized exchange is that they ge
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by jl2718 5y ago
I found this to be quite accurate based on my experience, and I have written things very close to this to my personal contacts that are entering this phase. The most important thing to internalize, is that the baby is crying for a reason, a
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by jl2718 5y ago
“Tell me something that will get you banned” Ummm… no. I can tell you ‘about’ something that would. For instance, I would get banned for doxing you. The reason why I would get banned is that the information would be very valuable to someone
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by jl2718 5y ago
He says it’s about nebulous politicking, but I have just a hunch that it’s more about fundraising.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Exactly; the government pumped the stock market. Performance-based compensation is a concept based on monetary base stability. A CEO is demonstrably successful if they are able to allocate resources from their competitors, not from an infin
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by jl2718 5y ago
I’m unaware of the similarities actually.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I think of the sea of knowledge as a bunch of floating turds at first sight, which are intentionally provocative and noxious but easy to spot, mostly water below, which is the context of common knowledge and beliefs, which may be the unstat
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by jl2718 5y ago
I am exhausted by the use of powerpoint as a replacement for well-formed prose. I don’t even know if prose would be superior, but I find diagrams to be, almost always, completely meaningless, or at least far more economical to describe with
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by jl2718 5y ago
Do you seek the truth unconditionally, or only truth that fits within your pre-conceived notions of acceptability? Can you imagine a society where an objective truth was unacceptable, and denial of that truth was harmful to themselves or ot
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by jl2718 5y ago
I asked my doctor to delay cutting it for just a minute until it stopped pulsating. She went apoplectic. Observing his first 3 months, I strongly believe that he needed the iron. Next time, no doctors. The nurses were wonderful.
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by jl2718 5y ago
This brings up a funny memory. I had this idea in 4th grade when I learned about HIV but not how it was often acquired. Science teacher horrified at the suggestion of how to cure child Leukemia.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I think the key enabler for architecture diversity will be a jit-based OS kernel. Interpreters are an N-to-N problem, and build systems often fail. IR distributions seem most robust.
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by jl2718 5y ago
You’re drawing equivalence between government action and non-government action, and applying that equivalence to a case where the non-government action is directly opposing the government action. Further, you’re using a denunciation of the
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by jl2718 5y ago
This reads like a legal opinion brief. It’s all based on interpretation of existing law. Yours may be different, but about that quote specifically isolated, what exactly is wrong with it? What exactly is your position in opposition to that
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by jl2718 5y ago
Men, especially if you are one of the outcasts, you should laugh at this. You don’t need any of the things promised by the path that has failed you. The correct move is to reject them before they reject you. Their world is crumbling, and yo
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by jl2718 5y ago
Or they are pushing more compensation into cash because cash is a lot cheaper for them than equity. What I mean by that is that they have almost unlimited borrowing capacity at near-zero rates, versus a fixed amount of equity, and as long a
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by jl2718 5y ago
They are $150k on Alibaba. A free market price for an MRI would be maybe $50. Noninvasive diagnostics should not be regulated.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Is this really that much of a problem? Like, even if you only get 1 random bit out of 100, you just sample and hash 100 times as many samples. What can you do with quantum noise that you can’t do with thermal noise?
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by jl2718 5y ago
Yeah, that’s the point; it’s not a superpower. I happen to be a pretty handy as a plumber too, but not because I was born that way, and not because I had dreams of being a plumber; it’s because I’ve had to fix nearly everything in my house.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Okay, so basically, tell other people to code. Got it. The only special thing about someone who ‘can code’ versus someone who ‘cannot’ is their persistence to do whatever is necessary to solve the problem at hand. At some point that skill w
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by jl2718 5y ago
I have a weak intuition that adding lanes to Alma and El Camino made the traffic problem worse, independently of the possible increase in traffic in the road. This is because it became impossible to do left turns into or out of the road, no

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