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by maus42 10y ago
Literally or literally? And that depends on your definition of slavery. It did not always mean every and all things involuntary, it used to mean trading people as property who did not have the same rights as a free citizen. Afterthought. I
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by maus42 10y ago
The traditional definition for a slave is a human who is treated as (usually tradable) property for their labor. I always like to point out that the predecessor to the Western civilization, the ancient Mediterranean, including Greek city st
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by maus42 10y ago
Well, in WW2 US had a draft too...
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by maus42 10y ago
Concept of "reserve officer" in a context of conscript force is not limited to Singapore.
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by maus42 10y ago
>'if this isn't for you then you can go home' Instead of practical motivators like weekend holidays and such, in more philosophical sense some of the better arguments in my opinion: 1. "So you don't feel like doi
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by maus42 10y ago
During the Cold War, Sweden had one the most formidable air forces in the European theater (supported by homegrown industrial base), whatever passes for a navy in Baltic Sea and large not that badly armed conscript force, together probably
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by maus42 10y ago
Yes. I also have major in a math-y subject, with extensive minor in CS, but all the jobs seem to be in building shiny webapps with the latest JS framework to sell people stuff or services. Data Science that is much talked about seems to mos
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by maus42 10y ago
I suspect you've got the cause and effect backwards. More likely, because he found that niche where he does not have to learn to moderate, he does not.
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by maus42 10y ago
Fascinating stuff. I've now done maths for some years now and this is the first time I even hear about sheafs. Makes one wonder what else you may have missed just because it's not something profs at your programme are interested i
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by maus42 10y ago
I think this is a good observation and deserves more attention. Everybody loves Orwell, on both sides of the Great American Culture War. During the election campaign I saw my US friends to compare Trump speeches to Two Minutes of Hate from
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by maus42 10y ago
>stale coffee I'd say consuming stale coffee is totally fine. The only certain way (that I'm aware of) to get coffee that won't be stale is to grind the beans just before use, and I certainly do not have patience for tha
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by maus42 10y ago
It might be groundbreaking if no one else had the idea to use even plain old SVD to look at the problem. (And it would still look like a new method to some particular scientific subfield if the Silicon Valley ads and marketing people never
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by maus42 10y ago
I once worked at a largish corp with large *nix user contingent. We had Dell laptops and docks and I don't remember having problems you described. However, the IT support had a list of 'recommended' distros (Ubuntu LTS if mem
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by maus42 10y ago
>[...] Five months into it and I was fully hooked. I had complete farmer empathy. I set a goal—some level, some league that seemed just on the edge of “enough.” Make it over that line and I’d pull the plug. What makes Clash of Clans so t
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Back-Propagation, an Introduction, by Sanjeev Arora and Tengyu Ma(offconvex.org)
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by maus42 10y ago
> Nobody will go to jail for Wells Fargo fraud either. True. Also remember many people who tried to bowl a whistle on the fraud can't now get employed in the banking because Wells Fargo blacklisted them...
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Survey research, network sampling, and Charles Dickens’ coincidences(andrewgelman.com)
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by maus42 10y ago
There's only a dozen or so notes thus far, but it looks like it potentially could be very useful repository. Found via Terence Tao's blog [1]. [1] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/12/17/ams-open-m
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AMS Open Math Notes(ams.org)
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by maus42 10y ago
The blog post reiterates what everybody probably already knows; similar content gets posted on HN semi-regularly. On the other hand, I've also heard that most of interns' / junior devs' first projects end up shelved (i.e
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by maus42 10y ago
I'd characterize it as "very long pauses between replies that are less awkward than one would expect".
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by maus42 10y ago
I know a person who works in atmospheric physics group. All the heavy physics simulation and modeling happens in Fortran, and then they do the "lighter" analysis, summary statistics, plots, visualizations, etc with a Python-based
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by maus42 10y ago
You don't need to be an overlay journal to be an open access journal. In machine learning (that maybe is something many here are more interested in than the quite abstract math stuff of Discrete Analysis), JMLR has been around for a qu
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by maus42 10y ago
>a bigger number Well, there's an order of magnitude or two children going to regular schools... One needs a bit more statistics to back or disprove any argument.
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by maus42 10y ago
Agreed. The article is mostly about parthenogenetic reproduction and curious evolutionary history of a certain lizard species. addendum. The subtitle ("What we can learn about evolution from species who thrive without sexual reproducti
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by maus42 10y ago
Depends on your definition of 'fluent'. To speak like a native, you probably need to spend several years in a community where your target language is spoken as primary language. However, you don't need to be fully fluent to p
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by maus42 10y ago
Tyler Cowen blogs on Marginal Revolution about winners and their work: Hart: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/10/oli... , Holmström: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalr
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Scientific Background on Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences [pdf](nobelprize.org)
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by maus42 10y ago
>I've worked on this problem before I suppose it helps if you're already familiar with the problem domain. Nevertheless, it's very cool indeed.
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by maus42 10y ago
Some of that is just bad material (#3, shapes that should be shaded are not shaded). Others try to explain how at least I do arithmetic mentally (the particular example 7 + 7 feels silly because the answer was drilled to my brain in primary

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