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by laingc 8y ago
I use Twitter in an almost identical fashion, and I experience absolutely no toxicity, trolling, or other bad behaviour. Twitter is, like many things, what you make of it.
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They would count as public disclosure, so could be used to invalidate a patent.
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by laingc 8y ago
I think Krylov subspace methods are particularly sophisticated and elegant, and they come with the added advantage of being best-in-class.
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by laingc 8y ago
Yeah, I don’t think it’s historically accurate to compare the contributions of the EU and NATO to peace and security in Europe. These are entirely the work of NATO. The EU is made possible by the Pax Americana.
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by laingc 8y ago
> As long as the rules are the same for all competition in a market will still happen. Sure, but in continental law the rules aren't the same for everyone. The laws are defined such that technical breaches are almost impossible to a
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by laingc 8y ago
I'm also not a fan of the EU, and I'm very much not a fan of the GDPR. It's a poorly thought-out law, written along the lines of Continental civil law jurisprudence, which I personally believe is inherently inferior to common
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by laingc 8y ago
I made a comment on HN some time ago now that I didn't see much PyTorch being used in the wild or in research, and so was pessimistic about its wide adoption. Happily, I was thoroughly mistaken, and PyTorch has gone from strength to st
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by laingc 8y ago
I wrote a doctorate in Applied Mathematics. The process totally transformed how I think about problems, helped me develop a lot more mathematical maturity, and got me my first job in a then obscure field called "machine learning".
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by laingc 8y ago
Scholze has a strong accent, but speaks flawless, sophisticated English.
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by laingc 8y ago
This might be the case in the US, but be aware that most advocates of flat taxes globally - including almost all economists who do so - advocate precisely for removing deductions. In New Zealand, for example, all prominent advocates of flat
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by laingc 8y ago
Anecdotal evidence only, but I don’t know any privacy lawyers, in-house counsel, or other knowledgeable people who think the GDPR is a good law. It is an extremely ill-conceived EU regulation, and is a good example of exactly the kind of un
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by laingc 8y ago
I don’t want to jump on top of a pedant pile, because I think it’s really cool that you’re out there making useful stuff. The group where I did my PhD was a Numerical Relativity group and I now work in Machine Learning, so I can appreciate
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by laingc 8y ago
Pytorch, by a mile. If I had to summarise the frameworks in a few words, they would be: Keras for speed, Tensorflow for production, Pytorch for research.
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Yep, and compared to Munich, the startups I've seen in Berlin are extremely unimpressive.
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An anecdote from the other side: I have personally met several such people in former Soviet republics, such as Latvia, and believe that it is not at all uncommon.
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by laingc 8y ago
€30k buys you a hell of a lot more in the Czech Republic than in Hamburg or Munich.
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I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I think you've missed the question that GP was asking. > are there many examples of planned efforts like this actually working, where some group is able to attract top talent in some in
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by laingc 9y ago
That seems odd to me. I don't think I've read any ring/algebra/module theory text that doesn't explicitly denote equivalence classes with, for example, square brackets.
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by laingc 9y ago
I completely agree; Tesla’s marketing modus operandi is to fudge statistics. In my view, they are consistently on the wrong side of the marketing puffery | misrepresentation borderline. I do take issue, however, with your claim that Teslas
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by laingc 9y ago
If it’s outside their jurisdiction, they can claim whatever applicability they like: the law is simply not enforceable outside that jurisdiction.
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Halfway there, then.
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I’m not American, but I do listen to quite a few NPR podcasts and enjoy them a lot. Your claim that NPR isn’t biased is quite frankly ludicrous. Their programming features a clear and unmistakeable liberal* bias, and the fact that you seem
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by laingc 9y ago
Compared with other countries I’ve lived in, Germany is a dream for cyclists. Of course, I haven’t cycled in very many countries even within Europe, so it may well be that Germany is not so great in the grand scheme of things - I couldn’t t
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by laingc 9y ago
I’m not sure about the explicit training, but drivers in Germany are generally pretty excellent when it comes to dealing with cyclists.
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That’s only income tax, not the total tax burden. My total tax burden in Germany (Munich) was around 65%-ish, depending on exactly how aggressively you want to factor corporate taxes into consumer prices.
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by laingc 9y ago
Actually, the UK government has a very good solution to the Irish border issue, which the Irish are in favour of. It is the EU that will not allow it.
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by laingc 9y ago
You’ve run away with this a bit too far. Firstly, I am staunchly anti-Stalinist, anti-communist, and anti-socialist. I’ve been to former Soviet states and seen the devastation that Stalin and his ilk wrought. Secondly, the library is a word
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by laingc 9y ago
It’s a word play on “Stalingrad”. It’s kind of funny.
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I certainly value British manufactures more highly than many continental ones, German, Swiss, and some Scandinavian ones being the exceptions.
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This sort of sentiment is just absolutely outrageously incorrect. Go and look at any proper study or report on house prices, and you will find who it exception that it is land use regulations that are responsible. Sam Francisco is a prime e

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