kaitai

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by kaitai 11y ago
The father is an anti-Islamist. Anti. It means opposite. The guy is sufficiently anti-Islamist to go run for president of Sudan. That takes some dedication. Muslim != Islamist, just as Christian != Westboro Baptist.
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by kaitai 11y ago
I had some friends who used college as a placeholder time to work on their entrepreneurship or other endeavors while getting mediocre grades.
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by kaitai 11y ago
Who don't have as many PhDs per capita as Nigerian Americans (tops in the US!).
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by kaitai 11y ago
People are fighting for As, and maybe working their butts off, but they could be doing a lot less, getting their straight Cs, and not get kicked out. It is easy to be mediocre and stay in Harvard if you already got in. (What gets people kic
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by kaitai 11y ago
Treating a graph as a collection of points is certainly more correct and better if the condition you are trying to satisfy gives a non-continuous set of points. If you can only deal with continuous functions you will be lost in these more i
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by kaitai 11y ago
It might be true... but ask an American 17-year-old with collegiate aspirations what he or she will take in college. "Calculus!" What else? Blank stare. What other math exists? This number theory you speak of... as far as an avera
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by kaitai 11y ago
I teach a class that is about 80% Chinese students who have come to the US. Many have much better technical skills but I do see gaps in these concepts like graphs as the locus of points satisfying a logical claim, the equivalence of various
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by kaitai 11y ago
I guess I'd agree that it's personal anecdote but not that it's untrue. I have run inconsistently for years and just haven't gotten faster. Maybe I've cracked the code now with low-heart-rate training and sprints, b
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by kaitai 11y ago
Lots of people contribute to Sage. If anyone here is interested, check out the many SageDays happening across the US and the world. http://wiki.sagemath.org/Workshops
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by kaitai 11y ago
This sounds a lot like black-and-white thinking or all-or-nothing thinking (psychology). "If I ask a woman in a hackerspace ``want to chat?'' then .... Jezebel will print horrible articles about men." "If I don&#x27
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by kaitai 11y ago
Definitely worth mentioning, as well as the evidence that high CO2 levels tend to promote weed growth and decrease effectiveness of agricultural herbicides [1] and promotes growth of lower-quality versions of food crops [2]. Even in my gard
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by kaitai 11y ago
Major ag and commodities companies are already buying land in Canada and Australia with this expectation.
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by kaitai 11y ago
There are a couple cities moving now, more or less; mostly cities in Syria trying to move to Germany as far as I can tell. Don't see how that movement is worse than energy controls? Imagine Bangladesh trying to move its cities. There a
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by kaitai 11y ago
Read the comments here: lots of guys are very frustrated about women interacting with their fellow human beings and letting them know how they feel. Sometimes it's just less tiring to work on the hacking without having to do the intera
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by kaitai 11y ago
But then the answer is, "Nope, working hard!" spurious bullshit avoided, algorithm deployed successfully.
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by kaitai 11y ago
A great algorithmic approach. If you don't like "Do you have a second to chat?" consider "Want to talk about what you're working on?"
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by kaitai 11y ago
That's one of the creepy, energy-intensive things about being in a group that has historically experienced stereotyping. You wonder, Did I get that because I am a .... or because he's just that way? It's hard to discard the t
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by kaitai 11y ago
I wish I could upvote this multiple times! Providing "public code" and data for arXiv papers would be fabulous.
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by kaitai 11y ago
This is another great idea. AWS is not so expensive for the types of calculations SMC is doing, and distributing computation costs to users is very reasonable. Another item people might start writing into their grants: x dollars in computat
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by kaitai 11y ago
It would be great to get these paid users writing a line for SMC expenses into their NSF grants. For instance, you could charge $400 for a year's worth of supported SMC for a group (PI and her grad students, postdocs), or $200 for an R
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by kaitai 11y ago
One thing it seems most of the comments replying to are missing is that women are trained, in the US, to be "nice", emotionally observant, and socially fluent. Even throwing innate differences to the wind, watch family interaction
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by kaitai 11y ago
It is quite important for medical school. Doctors give poor care when they say, "You don't have a problem," rather than, "Science does not know how to deal with this problem." Examples of this include "compleme
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by kaitai 11y ago
It does have to do with the story. Part of the article discusses Freddie Gray, who is inextricably linked with the recent stories of police shooting black men. Baltimore is also quite famous for its racial problems. It's a surreal plac
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by kaitai 11y ago
But what is "mathematical intelligence" or "math talent"? There's a big chunk of my family that didn't get any formal education in mathematics or anything else until very recently, and one of my most recent anc
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by kaitai 11y ago
A lot of the people teaching Java Programming 101 at Podunk Directional University are making the world a better place. Compare that to actually doing Java programming 101, for instance: teaching is about a lot more than communicating the
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by kaitai 11y ago
Your "city of cities" comment is right on, but I'd argue about the bus lines being perfectly usable. I tried to go from Pasadena to the Getty Museum once. It took 3 hours due to the wheel-spoke setup of the bus lines -- I had
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by kaitai 11y ago
For anyone who's considering the bike commute but thinking "I will sweat so much!" do check out panniers. The OP says he only likes panniers for grocery shopping, and it's true a lot of panniers are basically buckets you
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by kaitai 11y ago
On the other hand, local libraries can't keep books forever -- there are space issues. At some point a librarian needs to be able to justify new purchases for the science section and so some books need to go. To play devil's advoc
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by kaitai 11y ago
You keep claiming that heated oil is a greater killer than heated Teflon. Do you have any sources where people can examine the evidence, or any evidence that you can present directly? I just can't find any evidence at all for your clai
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by kaitai 11y ago
I love my Griswold.

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