m_dupont

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by m_dupont 2mo ago
One of my favourite tweets, which unfortunately I can't find again was: "My ethics teacher has gotten his sons girlfriend pregnant. I think about this often" Reply: "To be fair, you have to be really good a ethics to get
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by m_dupont 2mo ago
I think of it like so: All the great people in history who would be regarded as ethical never took an ethics course. Its hard to know whether an ethics course makes people behave ethically, but its clearly not a necessary requirement to eth
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by m_dupont 3mo ago
I'm also loving their phrase "on a nonlinear battlefield" ... not sure what a linear battlefield would be
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by m_dupont 3mo ago
I lived in Germany for seven years and by the end I was fluent. B1 is a very low bar to pass, I know because I've done it. Sorry to say, but the rule is fair. If you want to be a permanent resident, put in a little bit of effort to int
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by m_dupont 4mo ago
I had a flipped classroom for my topology lecture. It was one of my absolute favorites. We had no lectures, the teacher just gave us a short, concise textbook to read a chapter of every week. In class time was devoted to discussing and prob
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by m_dupont 9mo ago
I say this with the best of intentions: that cynicism of yours will keep you lonely
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by m_dupont 10mo ago
Very interesting article. This makes me wonder: Would it be possible to implement an equivalent to Shor's algorithm on a p-computer. Maybe the quantumness isn't necessary at all
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by m_dupont 1y ago
I think there is some room for debate here about the political bias of wikipedia, and there is some evidence to suggest a left wing bias. However this article is pretty venomous and the author doesn't even make an attempt at masking
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by m_dupont 1y ago
you're not, the proof is a famous error known as zenos paradox. Its only an apparent paradox, and indeed it's been disproven by observing that things do in fact move
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by m_dupont 1y ago
very clear and detailed answer. thankyou very much
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by m_dupont 1y ago
To their credit, the paper is unexpectedly fun. I'm not understanding the "separation power" thing, what does that imply?
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by m_dupont 1y ago
If chat control gets passed it will also be a law, passed by legislation. The point is that laws can be unjust.
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by m_dupont 1y ago
May or may not be true but it's completely unrelated to tech, science or startups. This should be moderated
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by m_dupont 1y ago
Small piece of product feeback related to grammar: The landing page asks, how are you feeling? For which the possible responses are "Anxiety", "Procrastination" ... "Overwhelm". When a person says, I a X, X is
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by m_dupont 1y ago
I have some more tips, specifically pertaining to Germany and your requirements: > Language: In Germany you can get around no problem with 0 German. Me personally I downloaded Duolinguo the day before my flight and I did just fine learni
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by m_dupont 1y ago
My Qualifications: I moved to Germany for 7 years I can only add my voice to what others have said: Just apply to universities and get your student visa. In general it is very difficult applying to jobs in countries from abroad, and in many
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by m_dupont 1y ago
The link between DEI and the rest of the content of the article is not well-articulated at all. Leaving aside whether one agrees with the premise, his argumentation is disjointed at best. He is attributing various symptoms of these tech lea
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by m_dupont 2y ago
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by m_dupont 2y ago
Okay we are are getting a little lost in definitions here, but nonetheless. You can solve the above by remembering that the dirac delta is the limit of a series of functions. If you take your delta to be lim a -> 0 N(0, a) where N() is t
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by m_dupont 2y ago
I don't disagree with what you've said about distributions, however I don't think that the fact that these shells are created from dirac delta functions is sufficient to call them topological defects. Topological defects are
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by m_dupont 2y ago
Also, strictly speaking these aren't topological defects. They are massless spherical shells, i.e. a sphere embedded in 3d space and thus can be continuously deformed to a point by sending the radius to zero. Spheres are literally th
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by m_dupont 2y ago
Agreed. This paper is pretty much pointless. Its extremely implausible, putting it generously, that such fine-tuned structures could even form. They mention at the end "this paper does not attempt to tackle the problem of structure for
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by m_dupont 2y ago
Good article, doesn't belong on hackernews.
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by m_dupont 3y ago
I tried some of the positions in this article while trying to get used to sleeping on the floor in an attempt to fix my back pain. These hurt like hell
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by m_dupont 3y ago
I live here as a nomad. Job market is pretty bad. Haven't seen any official statistics but I've heard many locals anecdotally say that the pay even for people with econ / engineering degrees is pretty bad. Lots of young peopl
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by m_dupont 3y ago
I mean sure, but the chances of that ever being enforced are close to 0. I'm a full time digital nomad for over a year in various latin american countries, always on tourist visas. Nobody notices or cares. The only time I ever had an i
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by m_dupont 3y ago
I think his point is more like the following: every day we have the chance to observe thousands of thousands of circumcised men and we have been doing this for thousands of men, and so far, nobody has noticed any emotional issues with them.
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by m_dupont 3y ago
Morality of the procedure aside, this is a very low quality study. The most glaring omission is that they didnt account for possible confounding due to religious/political beliefs. To be fair, they acknowledge that this is a limitation
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by m_dupont 3y ago
I see articles like this a lot and I haven't yet thought of a way to categorize them properly. I think the author is simply being melodromatic and faulting companies like apple for not designing user interfaces that are perfect. His co
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by m_dupont 3y ago
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