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by mafribe 10y ago
Related is Tymoczko's geometry of musical chords [1] see also [2]. [1] http://dmitri.tymoczko.com/geometry-of-music.html [2] http://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/voiceleading.pdf [3] http:/&#x2F
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How long do you think it will take before "the whole thing" collapses? And what will come after the collapse?
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logic of the month club You make it sound as if theorists were inventing logics frivolously. We have known since the stone age (of computing) that we can reason about any computation using e.g. ZFC set theory, since we can formalis
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HN calling me every shitty name Could you link to that old post? It would be interesting to see who did the name calling.
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The show is called "Hajimete no Otsukai", see [1] for an example. Citylab had a text about it last year [2]. [1] http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkae7e_toshijima_webcam [2] http://www.citylab.com&
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I don't believe that air pollution in London in 2016 is anywhere near as bad as in the 1950s. Not by a long shot. Air Quality targets have become massively more demanding.
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Is $43k per story a normal salary for journalists in the US? If so, journalism is a more lucrative even today than I had imagined.
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I have suggested Odersky's introductory MOOC [1] to many of my students and they all thought it was great. It's heavily inspired by SICP, so it should be easy, given your background. [1] https://www.coursera.org/le
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It is unclear how advanced ancient Greek technology was. It is estimated that we currently know about 10% of ancient Greek scientific writing. And there is no reason to believe we have seen the top 10% of their science. For example there is
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A better question: "why didn't the industrial revolution happen in ancient Greece"? The ancient Greeks were scientifically much more advanced than ancient Rome, had steam engines, electricity, sophisticated automa
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24/7 does raise the bar a bit, but if you have three tunnels not two per line, the problem isn't all that bad. NY has three tunnels as far as I'm aware. In contrast, London's underground has only two which makes it rathe
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By way of comparison: Shanghai's subway was started in the 1980s and according to [1] is now "the world's largest rapid transit system by route length and second largest by number of stations [...] It also ranks second in the
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2+3 = 5
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There is considerable disagreement on how one's mothers should be treated, as you'd realise if you left your bubble. I recommend a holiday among the Taliban for contrast.
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A lot of contemporary SJWism follows Leninist, Trotskyite and Gramscian scripts. The boots on the grounds don't realise this, they are young and naive, but their leaders know exactly what they are doing.
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nasty behavior is pointed out This trivialises the discussion because there is no agreement on what is sexist, racist or otherwise nasty behaviour. For example a certain form of radical feminist thinks all heterosexual intercour
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Clinton is a normal politician. Isn't it problematic that being directly involved in the destruction of Irak, Libya, and probably Syria is considered normalcy?
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It's a form of learning. Children do this all the time. The social function is to find out what the social boundaries are. Simplifying a great deal, and summarising a century of social theory, what is stable in society are second-order
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The article makes a testable statement: "Think about your own 10 best memories of childhood, and chances are most of them involve free play outdoors [...] How many of them took place with a grown-up around?" Yup, that is correct
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The socialist tradition has a suitable term: "class traitor". The ruling class is ruling, in substantial parts because they are better at cooperating than other classes (and are good at seeding discord in other classes). One aspec
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A really well-make explanation of the "City of London" I recommend CGP Grey's videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
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Yes, C++ has a baroque syntax, and I wish lexing/parsing C++ on nobody.
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Speed and type-inference are the two hard things in compilation in my experience.
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I agree, it's a social construct. In my corner of science, publication in open journals and conferences is the norm. That's because a couple years ago senior researchers got together and said "let everything be open".
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When did it vote It's a shorthand for saying the government that was voted in by the people. Although in reality that is also a major simplification, because funding requirements are typically written by administrators in c
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prioritizing concerns ... impact factors Rest assured that researchers don't prioritise this because we want to, it's because society decided (by voting) that we have to if we want any sort of career progression, funding
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This is a really good question. As an old man in science who feels strongly that it was much better in the past (less admin, less evaluation BS, less pressure for funding etc), I do worry sometimes that the past wasn't better, and th
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Big breakthroughs too are really just a collection of small incremental steps -- but the observer isn't aware of the intermediate steps.
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I disagree; What do you disagree with? The factual claim? It's not relevant that some manage to discuss sexuality respectfully and productively. Most can't, as of October 2016. Claims of scientific misconduct (in a gen
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Sure, but a simplistic C++ compiler will still produce code of acceptable speed. The same is not true of simplistic compilers for languages like Javascript. Meta-tracing a la PyPy is such a revolution because it enables low-cost creation o

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