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by lupire 2y ago
??? "Mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley and physicist Gabe Perez-Giz offer ambitious content ... Previous host Kelsey Houston-Edwards "
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by lupire 2y ago
This topic is probably the worst possible topic for Quanta. The book, as I understand it, is about the life changing power of mathematical thinking. Quanta's mission is to make deep mathematics and mathematicians a "sexy" &q
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by lupire 2y ago
What in the Universe is an entropy generator?
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by lupire 2y ago
A fair coin is just a coin. There is no such thing as an unfair coin, unless its third side is so huge that it can't be reasonably called a coin.
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by lupire 2y ago
It's easy. All you need to do is rotate (yaw) your hand when flipping so that the coin spins but never actually flips, or a little slower so it flips only once. A watchful eye can detect it happening, though. You can preview the effect
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by lupire 2y ago
That has been known for decades. It's not the lesson of this paper.
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by lupire 2y ago
Is this different from retention policy at any other business with competent lawyers?
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by lupire 2y ago
Seinfeld did an episode about this issue in the 1990s. ("Skin cancer, eesh"
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by lupire 2y ago
Yes, but stay aware that IPA is for pronunciations. A word doesn't have unique pronunciation. (Speaker, Word) pair has pronunciation, and even those are not unique. (Speaker, Word, Utterane) Triple has a pronunciation.
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by lupire 2y ago
The same applies to CS, so you're missing something else -- skilled tutors and the campus experience.
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by lupire 2y ago
You are comparing mathematicians to programmers. A more fair comparison is engineering or applied math major, not pure math at MIT.
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by lupire 2y ago
Yeah, but a new generation is coming of age, whose teachers only learned these ideas through books, not experience. They are rediscovering computer science one blog post or tweet at a time, because books and classes are obsolete.
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by lupire 2y ago
That's like teaching physics via car repair. You'll learn a few ideas, but not much of the science. It's practical and productive and profitable, which is great, but not really the original goal.
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by lupire 2y ago
OP Rudy Rucker also wrote the book Infinity and the Mind , on the same shelf in Barnes and Noble, another late 20th Century pop math book for nerds, with off the beaten path mathematical content and a not quite accurate perspective on the
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by lupire 2y ago
Duocultures, not monoculture. Every shard speaks Common Tongue, the inoffensive moderate conversation that is acceptable everywhere. Each shard also has its own local flavor, with local axioms and heresies.
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by lupire 2y ago
Yeah that's how education works. Someone working at billion dollar VC funded outfit should understand the cause of making smart but speculative bets.
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by lupire 2y ago
I don't suppose you got a good job because you had the leisure to spend 4 years in college? Or 4 years in high school?
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by lupire 2y ago
Probably. Poaching an employee from somewhere else still creates an opening that can't be filled.
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by lupire 2y ago
Are you claiming the government requires you to lie to applicants to the "ghost" job? Do you have evidence for that claim? How did you hire the H1-B in The first place if you have direct direct personal evidence that citizen labor
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by lupire 2y ago
That's a low bar for "hard".
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by lupire 2y ago
What do you think that is wrong? H1B devs at FAANG companies are paid far more.
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by lupire 2y ago
We should put all those corporate interviewer experts to work by having a government immigration commission that holds H1B arbitration interviews, where a visa applicant competes with an unemployed citizen.
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by lupire 2y ago
You guys need to agree on a definition of context and a definition of culture before this thread can make any sense.
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by lupire 2y ago
Even so "Pinker is wrong" does not mean "opposite of Pinker is right". It means "we don't know." Proving that humanity was better at some specific era in history is a very tall order. Discrediting one clai
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by lupire 2y ago
What is morality but a simplified approximation of realpolitik?
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by lupire 2y ago
Why did you say "Modern China" instead of "Modern USA" or some other country?
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by lupire 2y ago
You might do well to read about the fundamentals of political philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
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by lupire 2y ago
A fax machine is not a seriously useful alternative to online information sharing, storage, and retrieval.
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by lupire 2y ago
One of Hofstadter's old books also talks about this.
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by lupire 2y ago
Apple and Google are largely alternatives. Almost everyone in USA uses at least one of those two in an extremely dependent way.

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