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by mbustamanter 4y ago
My trick was searching +"index of" on Google or something like that, I could find all sorts of books that way. What were your tricks?
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While agreeing on the cost of living, I have to say that the number of engineers will not be growing too much (I say this as a latin american engineer): Most latin american countries are below the replacement level fertility of 2.1, especia
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Even more, several aviation reports use both. METARs use feet for cloud altitude and meters for visibility.
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Can I ask you a couple of questions? I am in a patricular situation, I'm a mathematician who does FEM and I think my training has been too abstract. My most recent work involves programming custom code in C++ for the study of bucklin
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Exactly 6 six years ago I was there taking a course on Real Analysis by Gustavo Moreira.
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Anything that isn't scalable. Taleb writes at length about this difference in The Black Swan , categorizing professions in which there are winner-take-all effects (Extremistan) and low variance, stable, one-sample-is-representative on
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Amor Fati – Safe Haven Investing (2019) [pdf](universa.net)
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by mbustamanter 4y ago
https://archive.is/NeU6q
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How to Legally Own Another Person (2016)(medium.com)
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Latest UN projection was adjusted so that by the end of century they would 100 million less people, again from a downward adjustment three years ago. They will experience a modernization unlike the world has ever seen thanks to globalizat
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Learning tensor calculus. It's extremely powerful: it is easier to derive relationships in physics (continuum mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity), mathematics (differential geometry, linear algebra, integral calculus in several vari
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Are Cities Sustainable?(georgejnasr.wpcomstaging.com)
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Opacity: What We Do Not See – A Philosophical Notebook by N. N. Taleb(fooledbyrandomness.com)
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I grew up in Santiago, Chile, a city with a population of 7M and lived and went to school in the very center of it. Today I have nothing that resembles a social life and school was torture (never bullied, just bored to tears). I was only in
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Why Business Data Science Irritates Me(shakoist.substack.com)
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Taleb's got lots of very critical thoughts on banking in general and bailouts in particular [0]. In a reddit thread he said he's got no banker friends (considers it unethical). He champions free markets with skin in the game const
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by mbustamanter 4y ago
Interesting is that the children of immigrants adopt the reproductive habits of the native population, so their total fertility rate as a group drops below replacement from one generation to the next (unless very religious, but they see a d
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Dutch Disease(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mbustamanter 4y ago
Please do, I've been interested in this field for a long time (if you don't want to share it there is my contact info in my profile).
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7M men aged 25-54 in the USA are not working(twitter.com)
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https://archive.is/MpnGG EDIT: Mentioned in the article is the reduction of cohort size, which will be a worsening problem in the coming decades. Related articles [0], [1], [2]. [0] https://www.latimes.com/c
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Can't imagine the fate of all the fish, what a tragedy.
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https://archive.is/r05hh
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Self-deception: maybe why you're still grey after practicing every day(codeforces.com)
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Shop Class as Soulcraft (2006)(thenewatlantis.com)
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If you earn an american salary, by that I mean from an american company and in USD, you'll have no problem living comfortably in an upscale neighborhood i.e. the safest and with lots of amenities. The reason is, not only you are paid i
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by mbustamanter 4y ago
1. Finish my academic duties (masters degree). 2. Get a job, start a small side business, grow my online presence. 3. Get the hell out of Latin America, this continent is far too violent.
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Fictions is, in my opinion, the best. Second that comes close is The Aleph. They can be found in a single volume, at least in Spanish.
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Interesting, do you have a source where I can get deeper into the application of splines to reilroads? Specifically, how to arrive at the jerk minimization problem. All things railroads are too descriptive with little engineering/physi
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Boeing Saves Millions in Manufacturing Costs with Titanium 3D Printing (2017)(protolabs.com)
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