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They should welcome online trolling, abuse, and personal attacks? Nobody should welcome it, but -- as it comes with the territory -- they need to ignore it. She works on what is historically and cross-culturally arguably the mo
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only an incredibly insular community Or a community that has had previous success with adversarial labelling.
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reminds me of the Eastern European That's interesting, but maybe not so surprising, because the techniques that people like Fiske use stem (at least in parts) from the communist tradition of undermining and taking over ins
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Fiske's Wikipedia article reads like PR material. It should be edited to be more somber, and reflect the extant criticisms of her research performance. I suspect that that would lead to an edit war though. Psychophysics and psycho
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I'm pretty sure it's the hardest language to implement Harder than languages that require JIT compilers to achieve reasonable performance? Even scalac and ghc are pretty complex beasts in order to Scala and Haskell re
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What has happened down here is the winds have changed(andrewgelman.com)
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It's quite popular in the NGO/SJW world to do informal "manus manum lavat" deals to gain credibility: you help us with our current campaign, we put your name on our future publications.
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This sentence -- not to mention the rare pepe collection at the end -- made me pause a bit and wonder if the paper isn't a particularly elaborate chan troll. Clearly "rare pepe" is a chan in-joke.
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It's probably a matter of taste. Once you understand the maths clearly, it becomes much easier to understand the failures of the past. For example, reading Newton and Leibniz on calculus makes it clear that it was epsilon/delta wa
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What you do is called "whataboutism" [1] as the scientific value (or otherwise) of evolutionary psychology doesn't affect the lack of methodological self-awareness of Hall, Phillips and Williams, in particular the complete ab
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https://hbr.org/2015/03/the-5-biases-pushing-women-out-of-st... How is that a serious contribution to the discussion? The authors Hall, Phillips and Williams don't for a second reflect on their own con
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There has not been a draft in 50 years. There are plenty of countries with draft. And in virtually all of them it's men that have to go, while women can relax.
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Typical bicyle helmets don't help much with a face-first landing on the tarmac, your chin takes most of the pounding. I can confidently say that from repeated ... 'experiments'. In contrast, a motorcyle helmet that also wraps
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Program verification We really tried. It's hard, and verification of even simple programs easily hits the worst cases in automation. It will take another decade before program verification is digestible by mainstream programme
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regress [...] has also been considerable. Thanks to Moore's law, most programmers even get away with it. And if they don't ... they do big data.
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Good points. ML originally had Lisp-like macros, not sure about hygiene. Note also that one doesn't always want hygiene in meta-programming, although it is nice to have the option of hygienic macro expansion. I explicitly restricted th
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If somebody had found himself in Edinburgh in 1986 and bumped into a tall gentleman called Robin, who was a bit familiar with this new-fangled thing called computers, and had asked Robin, what kind of programming language should one learn t
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Rust has gotten too fancy Could you identify a simple Rust core that has all the good parts while avoiding the complexity you mention? What is superfluous in Rust? By "templates" you mean macros? If so, how should a langu
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It should be easy to verify/falsify the corporate donations listed under TARP.
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You still have not explained why anyone should trust the Bahraini security forces. Some Wikipedia articles are more trustworthy than others. I certainly trust the Wikipedia articles I have written. The Bell Pottinger article was presumably
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Neither the Bahraini security forces nor Wikipedia is a credible source. As a Wikipedia editor I've seen enough edit wars. It is also well documented that all sides in the middle eastern conflicts invest heavily in propaganda. Here is
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2 minutes with Wikipedia: Wikipedia is not a credible source in such matters. Many of the claims are clearly dubious, e.g. "Bahraini security forces [...] arrested a number of suspects linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard
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When has that been the case? The Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s was started by Iraq.
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What you need to do is produce a programming language L such that the existence of incompressibility of strings becomes false, e.g. contradict Theorem 2.2.1 of Li & Vitanyi.
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It might be interesting for you to contemplate Schmidthuber's "speed prior". http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/speedprior.html
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How many times do you want people to tell you that everybody knows that Kolmogorov complexity (KC) is only defined up to a constant? This does not affect the results that people use KC for, like the incompressibility of most strings.
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Saudi Arabia might export an extremist [...] but they don't advocate terror Some contradiction right there. Iran is probably the world's largest [...] militarily expansionist. Iran has invaded which count
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Houthis have long been accused of being proxies for Iran Since when is it illegal to have allies, and to receive weapons from allies?
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Thanks for reminding me of the O(log(n)) algorithm. I had forgotten about it. Just added this algorithm to the lecture slides. I <3 the internet. I start with the recursive algorithm because it follows directly from the definition F(n+2)
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Is your use of "armchair logic" a criticism of the theory that Io is volcanic largely because of tidal energy? I often wonder about the results of planetary geology. Even the interior of the earth is still not very well understood

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