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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Presumably the subjects in the study had no prior relationship so hierarchical structure shouldn’t have played a significant role.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
If you find success doing this with pandoc, please consider writing another blog post! I’ve had a ton of similar issues in this space and reading your solutions has given me a bunch of ideas.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Nice work. There is not enough support for stuff like this. I’ve wanted forever to have a nice way to convert latex files to html. I wish I could use latex for my static site instead of markdown and I’ve tried a few things but nothing is c
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
That seems like a legitimate question although you’ve rephrased it somewhat uncharitably.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
To make this more explicit, mathematics (even at the primary school level) is arguably more about “proving” things than it is about computation. Obviously you’re not writing proofs in 3rd grade, but the emphasis should be on students being
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Huh? Obviously if you dismiss all of the bad anecdotes and none of the good ones, you’re only going to have good anecdotes My mom’s brother went into psychosis during an acid trip and eventually schizophrenia. He killed himself when he was
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
The fact that psilocybin can potentially have positive therapeutic effects in controlled environments does not mean people “microdosing” experience those effects.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
It’s pretty weird reading that Atlantic article in a world with covid.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
So what? After you’ve become the fed chair you’re no longer allowed to make money? Suddenly the pool of people who will ever agree to take the job gets smaller and it will be held by much wealthier people on average. Or I suppose you could
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Generally believed by whom? People on the internet? Is there real evidence of paid speeches being bribery? As others have said about 100k-500k is the going rate for corporate speeches from athletes, actors, etc.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
I don’t think Hobbes’ view of the state of nature has much to do with why it’s taught at all, nor do I think it is the main thing students takeaway from the book. Most of these schools are also going to emphasize that Hobbes lived during a
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
If it’s end-to-end encrypted, why would intercepting the message be an issue?
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
I think you’re misunderstanding the author. The sentence after the one you quoted is > Most of these companies have solid internship programs, and almost all E3 (entry-level) positions are offered to returning interns. The author is sa
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
The content of the boards exam is actually quite comparable to the content of these interviews. They both cover general knowledge and fundamental concepts that very few working programmers or doctors will ever use, but absolutely should kno
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
> Is the product good? Yes or folks wouldn't buy it. This would indicate that there is no monopoly.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
That comparison could just as easily be said to belittle what actual forced labor is. I don’t think it’s helpful to compare which atrocity is worse. There are many societies that have had lots of norms or laws protecting slaves from various
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
It’s not slavery. They’re similar atrocities though. It would be weird to refer to the people in Auchwitz-II as slaves.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
I feel the exact opposite. If someone emails me, I’m likely to not see it, but if someone @s me on slack there’s no chance I miss it. The whole upside of slack for me is that it makes it easier for me not to miss the things I absolutely nee
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Quantum computers can see information about more than one word with just a single “look.” You’re right to think this is impossible though. Grover’s algorithm was one of the first examples of something that clearly could not ever exist class
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
That’s how it works in the U.S. as well. The political parties are made up of coalitions of voters and over time certain groups shift or change affiliation.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
You only know that there will be a red spot on the wall based on your past experiences with the physical world. Why should we believe our experiences in the past are at all relevant to the future? We haven’t lived in the future. The laws of
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Do you have a source for the 2:1 ratio in Seattle? I ask not because I think it’s false, but because I was looking for similar data earlier and couldn’t find it.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
As someone who has only loosely dabbled with emacs and org, is there a reason that an org equivalent couldn’t exist in vim? I know there’s vimwiki and stuff but I mean is there a reason that the full functionality of orgmode couldn’t be por
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Yep. People can complain about Nvidia’s refusal to comply to standards as much as they want, but at the end of the day, there is never going to be widespread adoption of Wayland until Nvidia hardware is fully supported.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Is wlroots still incompatible with Nvidia hardware?
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Matrix multiplication is the composition of linear maps . It’s sometimes lost in the more computational approach, but we can think of this geometrically. If you know the first matrix rotates the plan by some amount, and the 2nd rotates i
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
Absolutely you should not use 3B1B as a replacement for reading a textbook and doing problems. However, I don’t think you that means you should skip watching 3B1B videos at all. In fact, Grant repeats quite often in his videos that they’re
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
It didn’t work out so well for the Athenians... My naive guess (as someone who is not at all a historian) would be that democratic states historically tended to have more functional economies and thus won wars more often. On the other hand,
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
I don’t think the article ever suggests that you shouldn’t work on side projects if it’s something you enjoy as a creative outlet. It’s saying that you shouldn’t work on side projects as a way to advance your career.
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by jordan_curve 6y ago
I’d just make a slight correction in case anyone was confused. The book actually only has two chapters, one on the Lebesgue Measure and one on Abstract Measures. When the person above me said skim the first few chapters they meant sections

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