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To put this in perspective, it has happened before along similar lines in different produce types. For example, almost all of the vineyards in Europe were wiped out in the 19th century [1]. This is why the oldest vineyards in the world are
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I wrote a couple of VBA scripts for Excel that has probably saved my team 100 hours. Prior to that, we would have templates being opened and copied over. As much as developers often don't like Excel, the problem that Excel has always d
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Does this mean that you use a monad instead of a function?
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If I am not mistaken, Dijkstra advocated for Haskell to be used as a language of instruction at universities. There is an essay somewhere online about it. What I could find is this: [1]. Edit: Indeed, the PDF that is linked to in [1] looks
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As far as I know, the last operational Cheetahs were sold by the SANDF to similar contractors. If you look in the article, you'll see: > Kirlin says that he looked at all the aircraft his competitors have bought, especially the Mira
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Perhaps for young people it's actually necessary to mention JSON and YAML as you people tend to read the news rather than history or best practises textbooks?
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There is another point too, which also to some extend goes against your point—that we model epidemiology in standard ways, and that in order to use those standard ways we need the parameters in the set of differential equations. And these d
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Well, if you want to move something to Southern Africa, I can help with that.
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Maybe one can approach this from the other side. Knowing electromagnetism today, what is the most complete and simple framework for modelling it? The set of equations from Maxwell's book are to me a heterogeneous presentation . If the
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I guess this description is subjective in terms of wholes or parts, but to me the each of the equations in isolation makes sense too. They all handle separate parts of electricity and of magnetism. For me, personally, I find it difficult to
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No, that and pharmacies are the only shops that are open. You do get limited with the amount of people inside stores at any point in time. Also, you have to go to shops close to you, otherwise you'll get stopped by the police. I think
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I am sorry to sound like I am being obstinate, but my opinion about this is that as a society, since the early 90s, we have put way to much focus on "tech" than we have put on plain old mathematics or foundational science. I don&#
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South African here. We are 60m people (plus quite a few immigrants that are not counted) and we have a complete lockdown.
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I would add that, unlike Newton: 3. Maxwell's equations are difficult to view as a whole since they are 6 or 7 separate things that should each be understood individually. This is true of Newton's 3 laws too, but they are easy e
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This statement that you made—about side effects requiring monads—do you know a proof for that? I come from the other side, Milewski's book is to me "Functional Programming for Category Theorists".
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One trick for those that are not as advanced as you are: For whatever wheat you are using, add boiling water instead of cool water. I've found this trick worked (a few years ago now) for a couple of trials where I wanted to use just fl
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My definition is this: Political—Promoting the influence of a group of people x on some group of people y , often in an insistent manner and often without the critical evaluation of subject matter. Apolitical—Being opposed, for most x
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I wonder if he means what I think he means, which is that a concept that is for some field all-encompassing in your mind takes 400 pages to write down in a way that translates your ideas. University group theory is like that, when the real
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My issue with the USDA-certified organic label is not that their label is not well-defined, but rather that the definition is not necessarily in line with 1) what you expect healthy food to be or 2) what the most sustainable approach would
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Linked to via two degrees is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%E2%80%93Riemann%E... . I don't know German, but it would be really interesting to know what the text says.
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I think the discussion is becoming complicated, but I think my key points are this: 1. One can be apolitical by being socially apathetic towards the influences of other people. This describes myself: I am alabellist and as a general courtes
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I think permaculture has more to do with culture than it has to do with agriculture. What I mean by this is that agriculture has become, nowadays, the increasingly scientific study of how how to produce the highest yields for crop types tha
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I don't regard being antimilitary as being political at all. Maybe the working definition of politics is different, but if you are not involved in a political party that tries to exercise influence and prescription to others, then I wo
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I also think one should be careful not to make it seem like he was part of any kind of political scene. He did write some texts outside of mathematics that could be seen as anarchist in the apolitical sense, for example the "Survivre&q
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And for the more nonlay audience, Grothendieck's real pull is the persistence with which he applied category theoretic techniques successfully. Usually one would qualify this to algebraic geometry, but I think his approach can be follo
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IMHO those you mention who make money are, in this case, qualified further to a category of products that in essence are not complicated. Video conferencing is not complicated until you have scaling problems. Similarly, Facebook was not com
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Do robocallers spoof the number that gets displayed? I haven't personally seen that.
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I think the progression here is "Zoom has privacy concerns" -> "Zoom operates like macOS malware" -> "Zoom gets trolled".
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So, to put your summary in a diagram: p_1 p_2 o_1 -----> o_2 -----> o_3 v_1 v_2 p : the product v : the vessel o : the state, usually implies a location Operations is largely o , Supply ch
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I think you underappreciate one point here: We can still have long term alternatives to Zoom (and we can have them now). Google and Uber are already difficult to replace or to otherwise challange.

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