mikorym

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by mikorym 7y ago
In SA salary before tax is used. So you lose from there between 20%–45%.
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> We tend to use products, integrate systems and do custom dev. As a young South African, this reality is something of a let down. In the US, it's like you have a country with (if you normalise to mean) 30 cities the size of JHB eco
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Why does she do that? I would guess for performance. So you would be side-stepping some of the compilation?
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Why are there so many hex numbers used? Are they pointers, variables, for calculation...?
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I am always surprised to hear how much programmers get paid in the US (third world disclaimer: It's a lot!). > Average pay for manufacturing engineers is about $78k This is more on par with pay for (top) programmers or engineers tha
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R Shiny is another example of a reactive programming mess. I spent about 7 or 8 hours of trying to write a reactive program but for which the use case was actually straightforward (and I would have preferred to write it imperatively). My us
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Sorry, I misread; monads were only introduced later. The above paper introduced the field of category theory itself.
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> A monad is a concept that belongs to a branch of mathematics called category theory, where it was introduced in the 1960s. No. [1] [1] General Theory of Natural Equivalences , Mac Lane and Eilenberg, 1945. https://www.ams.o
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According to one of my lecturers, who knows both Haskell and is a Category Theorist, and according to some of my fellow students at the time, monads in functional programming should not be seen as strict versions of the category theoretical
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Could you give an example of a Bayesian statistical calculation that does not intersect with frequentist statistics (i.e., your first type)?
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Are all priors an application of Bayes's theorem? It is confusing to me that there is talk of Bayesian statistics vs. frequentist statistics when both are often used in conjunction. The classic example of a medical test with false posi
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Yes, if you use OpenSSL it will ask if you want to encrypt with a password. You can verify this by just opening the file in a text editor and you'll see that the contents are obfuscated via that password.
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> Sci-hub's ideology is just continuation of this approach. Actually, that was the point of what I was saying—the mathematicians had to be inventive and thus passed around preprints that they knew would also be read in the West.
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> If any iOS 13 devices hears them Even devices turned off.
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> The first is "python3-dateutil," which imitated the popular "dateutil" library. The second is "jeIlyfish" (the first L is an I), which mimicked the "jellyfish" library.
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[2] Also the 1970 Fields medal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Novikov_(mathematician)
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This makes sense if you take into account the newer iteration of Find My, which has been discussed technically on HN before.
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Not sure what you are saying. Mathematicians were not even allowed to travel abroad [1] and any "concessions" were essentially as it pleased the USSR state. Only from 1990 was movement free in the true sense of the word. [1] An ex
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Lynx also has the -vikeys flag.
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Yes. I'm saying restrictive to describe the effect on academic papers. The effect on (oppression of) the academics themselves was much worse.
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I am not an expert on the topic, but I believe that in the former Soviet Union it was common between mathematicians to pass around preprints (a la arXiv). These then perculated through to the West. I think it had to do with the USSR and the
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> catch a pattern by figuring how to avoid it In my own research, the main focus is to take a (usually known) property and to rephrase it so that the new statement is self-dual. The analogy would be that you "understand a pattern on
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The mean value theorem also guarantees existence (of a parallel line tangent).
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It's a cool story. I wish you all the best. I remember how, as a 10 year old playing Diablo 2, my knowledge of obscure weapon names and adjectives for armour in the English vocabulary was probably much better than that of adults. And w
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And maybe this is the problem—that we live under the pretense of these people "contributing to society", rather than the ordinary Joe.
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>> crop yields remain constant > some, not all... Good that you made this correction. In 1960 the average yield for tomatoes was 50 ton/ha or less in the area where I am from. [1] In 2019, the yield was 100 ton/ha, but in
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I don't want to sound like I am trolling or something. However, I find it hard to take anything Mark Zuckerberg does seriously. For that matter, I am so biased that I have no interest in these interviews at all (maybe to your detriment
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Were you the guy with that interesting story some time ago about the autonomous bot you made/improved upon?
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> I would first outline the history of VPNs as a vector for malware/adware and explain to them the supreme level of trust you must have with a VPN provider I'm not your great-grandfather, but I also didn't really know (or
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Since the real solution to the problem ended up being a hardware solution (a rate limiter) I have trouble believing the culprit is the "guy who wrote the code". Boeing is having these same question asked about them and I wouldn&#x

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