mikorym

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by mikorym 7y ago
RSS and IRC I think have that timeless quality that may mean that it will not die out, and hopefully have perennial resurgences. Not just the irritation of FB style notifications and dark patterns, but also speed and uniform customisation
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think we need to make peace with "achieving" later in life than our renaissance ancestors. The same holds for the Fields Medal (with an age limit of 40): many gre at mathematicians will only achieve much later than that.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think your argument makes some sense logically, but I conjecture that a workaround would be by means of two criteria: 1) being an (extreme) minority and 2) having some kind of historical status (in contrast to minorities that are newer to
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by mikorym 7y ago
The comment is not about obsolescence, it is about depth of study.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I used this tool a couple of times to get research PDFs onto my kindle and even emailed the author (he responded quickly) about how to stop diagrams from splitting; it's pretty cool to see these old school kind of programmers vs. the p
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by mikorym 7y ago
I don't agree with that last statement at all. Americans have seen too little hardship to have an idea what "social collapse" and "toxic political discord" is.
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Climate Scientist on Writing IPCC Reports as Convening Lead Author(arstechnica.com)
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by mikorym 7y ago
most widely eaten != most eaten by weight The article does not disprove the (somewhat vaguely) stated hypothesis.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Jane Goodall has created quite a bunch of problems for Africans and I certainly won't class her as "hypersane".
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by mikorym 7y ago
This reminds me about my own name. Everyone always gets it wrong (including people from where I am from). Except the Dutch. They always get it right, every single time! There was also a meme about a person that wrote on her ID application &
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by mikorym 7y ago
I have a acquaintance that swears by Clojure (for data modelling of sorts) and specifically that I should also use it (due to my category theoretic background).
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by mikorym 7y ago
I once googled "functional programming for category theorists" and obviously got instead to "category theory for programmers" (incidentally I use Milewski's book in this reverse way). I still have a rudimentary unde
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by mikorym 7y ago
Do you think this is at least partly due to one usually being frustrated by your "official" work? Or would you prefer something like Java? I can imagine other people's code in Python frustrating myself, but if it is only my o
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by mikorym 7y ago
The wording is a bit tricky, so one has to pay attention. 1) they are talking specifically about neonicotinoid pesticides and 2) this is because this is one of the pesticides that are known to have a disproportionately detrimental affect on
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by mikorym 7y ago
I may be misinformed, but when those Estonian programmers wrote Skype it was at the time both decentrialised and encrypted by default. Is that not the case anymore? A pre-emtive apology if I remember the story incorrectly.
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by mikorym 7y ago
This is good point, and without trying to debate anything, regex is something of an art form for some people and I guess as many people are averse to it as there are high school people hating Shakespear. But to give a bit of substance, you
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by mikorym 7y ago
So, should it not be worth millions? Is calculus not worth millions?
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by mikorym 7y ago
And if you are not in the US, EU, or an Asian developed country, your stability of funding is pretty much at a level where you are taking an unnecessary and big risk by going into academia as a livelihood.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Are there any other sites of note (apart from LWN)? Looking at LJ I feel that it's the kind of site I should have had in my bookmarks...
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by mikorym 7y ago
I always think of cURL [1] in these circumstances. The list of companies that uses his tool is amazing (but expected). Even BMW is there (of course) [2]. If you had to valuate cURL I guess it would be worth much more than "top" (1
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by mikorym 7y ago
Efficiency of solar conversion is only important in so far as where solar energy is a limiting factor. In our case, it is not. There is plenty solar energy that reaches the earth and that we are not using.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I guess I can't.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Mathematicians have for a couple of years now started to rely on preprints on ArXiv and this is a successful change in culture. However, the related problem of research not being read (and the more subjective "not being worth read&quot
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by mikorym 7y ago
You should have charged him for slaying the dragon in his PC.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Was your argument about biomagnification or energy? Because the latter is a less convincing argument: Plants are inefficient energy converters already.
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by mikorym 7y ago
> $75k... not much has changed I don't understand this nuance. Is it standard to be paid $75k? Sounds like a lot to me.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Johannesburg is said to have the second most amount of trees after Berlin, and all of the trees (in contrast to Berlin) were planted. It's a pity that politics take precedence over an unassuming fact like this.
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by mikorym 7y ago
The (well off) CEO of a company I work for went through something similar. Life can get really hard no matter who you are. We are guests to the world on borrowed time and life is precious and fleeting.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Thanks for this reply. The next question I guess is whether we do this because of experience or because of debate? Your examples of CISC instructions are specialised, as one would expect, so maybe the earlier generations of engineers simply
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by mikorym 7y ago
Silly question (not much low level knowledge): which is the architecture that is today "virtually the same" for all CPUs?

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