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by kaitai 6y ago
As I've said before, at what point can we just have an old-fashioned fight without throwing this snowflakey "cancel culture" criticism at it? I'm a strong advocate for free speech. The only way that free speech works is
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by kaitai 6y ago
The suburbs these days are incredibly multiracial and multi-ethnic -- please update your stereotypes :)
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It seems to me that children's stories have actually changed quite drastically over the years and between cultures and countries. I read my child many old children's stories (say, published between 1930-1960 in northern Europe) an
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For me I read the complex stuff because 1) math papers do put her to sleep, and 2) then I get time to read math papers. The kid will be fine. It's not as if you won't have conversations with simple words as well. Is my kid gonna u
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... for some definitions of functional... was it really so useful for one prof I had to read the pages from the book to us and not take questions? He did nothing else.
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by kaitai 6y ago
We are still humans interacting with and representing science/mathematics. Sure, 2+2=4, unless you're working base 3 or something, in which case you just have to be careful about your definitions. An easy caveat in hindsight but t
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by kaitai 6y ago
I have to fundamentally disagree, in that if "the concept of academic freedom is supposed to prevent individual researchers from having to in any way pay service, even lip service, to anything not directly related to their research&quo
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Oh for heaven's sake. If you're going to be ethically honest about this, note that he tweeted speculation about her porn habits. When is a person allowed to fight back? Is there a sufficiently "polite" way you'd lik
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These are all hard questions, but what I personally want to avoid is humanities people (or worse, business people) making all the decisions without tech people having input. Finance is a field where there were strong consequences for the mi
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I was a theoretical mathematician for a long time, and even there we had to talk about Broader Impacts for NSF grants, for instance. It wasn't really talking about applications for us, necessarily -- people touted the summer camps they
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...I'm devastated...
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As other commenters have pointed out, it's generally defined in the first days of the course. Speaking from my former job as "professor", the problem with cheating is that students are not benefitting from the work of others.
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Change teaching so that they don't need proctoring. I say that as a teacher. But that's a ton of work, hard to do uniformly, depends a lot on the teacher's training and the number of students, depends a lot on institutional s
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by kaitai 6y ago
This is a useful comment -- this is the sort of total derail that hijacks a discussion of (scrolls up) oh right, cameras and lenses, color filters, how we (hehe) filter the world to 'master the art of recording what we see'. It&#x
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by kaitai 6y ago
Yes -- this is exactly the reason to give it the similar name. (I know you're saying that, but I want to confirm.) It's one in a line of several journals that have undergone similar reconstitution. Compare for instance to AlCo (Al
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by kaitai 6y ago
If you have low-wage workers, it simply isn't practical to ask them to float you hundreds of dollars in shipping costs. It's great that as a consultant you can do that. It might be useful to realize that most Americans are in a ve
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by kaitai 6y ago
Air quality and health are quite significant in predicting COVID mortality on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, too. Environmental air quality -- socioeconomic status -- health outcomes (and more) are tied in a very complex network with
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One can install HRVs and ERVs with no centralized system. We have, oh, three heat sources and half an AC in our house (old house) and can install a freestanding HRV or ERV simply as an air exchange (bringing in fresh air and letting out sta
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by kaitai 6y ago
But this is silly. I was born with what I was born with. Why do I have to think about it? What choice did I have in it? Religion, I can choose. Politics, I can choose. Gender? That's not my choice. To the extent it's my identity,
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by kaitai 6y ago
I have used Julia a bit and really enjoyed it. The only reason I do not use it for work is lack of libraries. I know I could 'be the change I want to see in the world' and contribute, but given the pace of things at work I cannot
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by kaitai 6y ago
As someone who is now bouncing back & forth between Python and R on a weekly basis, I've been surprised (after making fun of R sometimes) how much I miss the piping when I leave R for Python. Pandas seems so inflexible by compariso
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by kaitai 6y ago
Most people in the US do not think this way, though. Most people in the US feel that if they have 2-3 nice cars and a big house in the suburbs they are upper middle class. (2-3 not-nice cars then lower middle class.) American define class b
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by kaitai 6y ago
But that's the thing -- I'm a woman in tech. How am I political? I'm just a sack of cells like you. Are you a political topic? To get back to the parent posters, that's why I keep coming back to HN despite the unfortunat
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by kaitai 6y ago
Here is where structures come into play, though. If you get Section 8 housing assistance in the US, it is illegal to house that relative who needs a hand without an extensive paperwork and approval, which you probably won't get. It i
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"The omitted research is clearly relevant" -- how do you know? Why do you get to decide? I wrote a paper recently in which I omitted most tangentially-related papers in mathematical physics, as they would not be mathematically acc
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by kaitai 6y ago
That's what the peer-review process is for, though -- for the peers to suggest that their papers get cited a few more times ;) Seriously. Choosing who to cite is a discussion and a battle. It's not done thoughtlessly.
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That's not true at all. You can say you'll (go to the media/refuse to sign off on the regulatory paperwork/refuse to change the code that way and they don't have anyone else who can do it/refuse to change the p
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by kaitai 6y ago
Well, I agree that if you're weak and need yes-men working for you, that's certainly the way to manage. Another way to do it is hire dumb & docile.
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by kaitai 6y ago
Won't address SpaceX though I know people there, but I too used to be on a track with an emphasis on individual accomplishment (academic mathematician) -- a lot about single-handed delivery. Sometime in my late 30s I realized that unfo
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by kaitai 6y ago
The pilots I know also like a lot of order in the rest of their lives (matching plates, keep their tools in order, just the sort of daily-life organization that is somewhat alien to me). Not to the point of clinically-diagnosed OCD, because

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