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> You cannot choose your allegiance and stick with it. Exactly, yes. In mathematics we are also discoverers rather than inventors. I am just making the point that personality does play a role. Think of Newton's calculus vs. Leibniz&
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I think you commentary does apply indeed to Southern Africa. Steps after poverty: 1. Buy a GTI 2. Pay the installment at the end of the month 3. Have no money until next pay day There are even memes about it: salary R 18 000, debit order SM
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I understand that r^2 is in many ways already the best thing to do. What I mean is that I would always scratch myself in doubt (sometimes literally) with something as simple as the area of a flat surface. I just mean that physics and mathem
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> Physics is littered with mathematical formulations predicting new phenomenon (forces and particles). Sorry, I should have clarified: I mean I would spend all my days doubting the mathematics, rather than doubting the physical universe.
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As a mathematician, I will inherently be biased against dark matter and dark energy (if you're calculations don't fit, then your mathematics is not suitable, so change the math before you change the physical description). What is
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You need a way to reconcile the family side of things and the corporate side. It may be sad to lose the personal touch of a single owner single farm (I always say you know it's corporate when the owner doesn't personally sign off
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For those interested, there is a nice Vim plugin for R called Nvim-R.
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Holism has become something of an abomination. When Jan Smuts coined the term [1], he was unfortunately at a too immature scientific stage to pave the way for a careful and thorough academic field of study. Moreover, due to his political fu
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We have a renowned entomologist [1] here in South Africa too and I think that he has learnt too much from his insect friends. In fact, I think he models his behaviour according to insects of the blood sucking kind. I also think that he has
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None. The correction would not really warrant a short. And moreover it could take a long time to happen. I don't know enough about how people think about pigs to know whether to short and at what time.
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Does anyone know what the best knot is for stitching?
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Is there a formula to follow the checklist? Like some kind of directed graph in the background?
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Does PHP modify code client side like Javascript? IMO this is the inherent difficulty with Javascript. I would prefer that you have the "source code" as two separate things: the hard details of the page and the code to manipulate
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The rest of the market knows this and uses it to make money. I am not sure what you mean in terms of someone being right and someone being wrong. Edit: The point about future value of dividends is a common approach. My personal addition was
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The irony is that an increase in stock price is supposed to reflect future value (of dividends). In this case, the 72% does not accurately reflect the increase in value, unless they almost double their dividend for quite a few years after
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This is probably one of the best representative songs from the Jazz era. It is to me kind of like the "soundtrack before soundtracks". Music from the 1920s to 1940s are largely lost on anyone today (below the age of 80). But I hav
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Exactly! But it was slightly more esoteric and personal to dig it out of a second hand bookstore and decide to read it.
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> a lot of people with equipment sending deauthentication packages Why do they do that?
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> The industry doesn't seem to have learned from this. I think industries follow the money. If the end user doesn't absolutely demand security features, then there won't be such features. Typically people who obsess about
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A few years ago I read a National Geographic article about "microchips" that was written in I think 1983. It was probably one of the most useful articles on the topic that I've ever read. Unassuming, and full of direct explan
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I think you are right, yes. I asked the guide (a professor) about this at the time. When specifically asked about Australopithecus and its small size, and about the contemporary hominids at the time, the remark was along the lines of: &qu
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I went to the Sterkfontein Caves [1] [2] recently and the most poignant thing for me was the diminutive size of Australopithecus . While larger huminoid species [3] were evolving, our direct (well, disregarding cross breeding) ancestors we
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As a young kid, I was plagued by complicated questions, one of which was "Are humans special? (And if not, is all futile?)". At that time my argument was to point of the ways in which humans are better than machines. But I have to
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> twitter.com I found it funny that this appeared on Twitter, a website which always slows down my browser, especially in VMs.
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I didn't know that. Did you know this before or is it in the book?
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> And I’m not even that big a fan of him. We are but vessels for our claim to fame. You can see this with Nobel prize winners, rich tycoons, great writers, and so forth. Often in mathematics, a thing is not named after the person who dis
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What happens if you buy the book outside of the US?
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I wonder if maybe one can buy the book and print it yourself or through Blurb [1] and then just donate the amount? [1] https://www.blurb.com/
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine
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I think a Turing Machine is an infinite state automaton with the capability that you can remotely access state information. [1] Maybe someone can clarify whether this is correct. If you phrase it that way, then it seems more intuitive that

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