joe_biden123

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by joe_biden123 6y ago
I remember reading an article about coding at nasa, like the code that ran the moon landing ship. I can't remember the link but you can probably find something. the way they code is very careful and deliberate. everyone has an office,
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by joe_biden123 6y ago
seaborn is nice because it let's you do plots with one line that would take a page of code in basic matplotlib, but if you need to change one specific thing it might become really hard. I honestly moved on to gui based plotting program
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by joe_biden123 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
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by joe_biden123 6y ago
the theory works for many kind of surpluses. if there are too many engineers and scientists and not enough jobs for them it's a problem. this also applies to any kind of elites: someone who considers himself above the general populatio
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by joe_biden123 6y ago
the education takes work and they are raised to believe they will be rewarded for it. "fancy education" isn't something useless. read the article. there are 25000+ layers formed every year who can't find a job. lawyers d
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by joe_biden123 6y ago
the important part is they are all "elites", and whether their work is productive or not is not that important. they are separated from the masses at lagre by something. it could be college education or senatorial status or a nobl
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by joe_biden123 6y ago
the beauty of turchin's equations is that they seem to be universal. what elites are doesn't depend much on details, except that they are possible to exist because there is a surplus produced by the peasants, slaves or in the mode
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by joe_biden123 6y ago
if you read turchin's paper his model has 3 parts. one accounts for elite competition, another for general/unskilled population wealth and a third one for the society's economy. elites aren't the only thing that produces