mturmon

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by mturmon 4y ago
Oops, you forgot to count 1.5 Relatedly, last night I tried to think about sqrt(2), but I couldn't get up that high! I got stuck trying to remember the 43'd irrational number after zero.
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by mturmon 4y ago
It's tough. I used to work in an area of applied probability where some statistical-mechanics principles were applicable. I'd read papers where authors were making analogies of a large neural network to a stat-mech system, using a
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by mturmon 4y ago
That David Deutsch web-link is not saying what you think it's saying.
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by mturmon 4y ago
Perhaps you're just kidding around, but of course that's not good enough for a definition. It doesn't handle continuous random quantities. It doesn't even handle situations with a discrete outcome but where counting the
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by mturmon 4y ago
Uh, that’s 140 objects (the number of bits), not 2^140 objects. Rookie numbers.
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by mturmon 4y ago
Thank you!
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by mturmon 4y ago
Agree, and it's worth it to point out this lazy and insidious usage of "we". Here's Christopher Hitchens on this habit, in the first paragraphs of an early essay called "The `We' Fallacy": > Lionel Tri
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by mturmon 4y ago
Prosecuting the PI for fraud might be possible. I'm not able to google for cases where that has been done, but I'll bet it's occurred before. I'm doubtful that the student could be prosecuted. One basis for a fraud claim
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by mturmon 4y ago
The best pages are terse. My favorite snippet: Sharp and newline surround comments. I think from a old awk man page?
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by mturmon 4y ago
This is an unhelpful comment. Gender != sexuality. Also, from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : > Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents, and internet tropes.
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by mturmon 4y ago
About books on gender roles: People are going through puberty at 14, and this is when questions about gender come up in a very pressing way. If you're trans, you might be disturbed by these changes and want some background information.
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by mturmon 4y ago
Sure, both “big” and “top”. Some commenters seem to expect institutions like Caltech (“top” but not “big”) to have a presence in a demographic survey like this.
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by mturmon 4y ago
I agree! Alas, there are a lot of comments nearby (not necessarily children of yours) from people who didn't notice this, and are working out their elitism thing. (Those damn elite professors who went to grad school in Madison!) These
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by mturmon 4y ago
Thank you for these links! I do a lot of scientific computation using MC and MCMC. It’s great to read that history and see the care they invested in their flow diagrams, the versions that got more capable, etc.
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by mturmon 4y ago
I think you have inadvertently supplied the reductio ad absurdum of your line of reasoning on sustainability.
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by mturmon 4y ago
> Patagonia will continue to contribute to fast-fashion... OK, this is just wrong. "Fast fashion" has a meaning -- it's about duplicating high fashion or celebrity fashion cheaply and quickly and mass-marketing it with a l
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by mturmon 4y ago
I'm doubtful of this claim. My guess is that the 1.234E-8 type notation originates in floating-point input and output on computers. My (c) 1977 version of K&R C explains printf() around page 145, and it supports the %f notation for
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by mturmon 4y ago
So, I could be charitably described as mid-career, and I had this discussion a few times a couple decades ago -- in which I took the position you have. It's not an unreasonable position. I was a PC member for what is now called NeurIPS
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by mturmon 4y ago
You seem to be talking about a different kind of peer review.
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by mturmon 4y ago
"Atchafalaya" is one of four articles compiled into a book, The Control of Nature , that is also excellent. One other of the four that I remember from that book is about how erosion shapes the Los Angeles basin -- "Los Angel
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by mturmon 4y ago
The casually-made claim: > "How can a human designer compete?" and the (related, but as noted by @marc_io nearby, quite different) claim: > "inevitable that this would impact on the demand for human artists, and I think
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by mturmon 4y ago
Since it’s a weekend, if people have time, here’s the classic narrative summary by John McPhee of the Mississippi delta and the role of the Corps: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
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by mturmon 4y ago
The DAVINCI upcoming Venus mission (2031) has a descent stage, but surface operations are not part of the prime mission. Just taking pictures and readings on gas composition as it goes down towards the surface https://www.nasa.go
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by mturmon 4y ago
This silly report by a Fox news outlet in Rockford, Illinois is doing mix-n-match on current headlines and wants very badly to own the libs. Trying to turn this to a positive discussion purpose seems like extra work. Here's a try: wher
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by mturmon 4y ago
I think there's a lot of historical support for this view. Here's a summary from 1998: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russ...
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by mturmon 4y ago
/s, I assume? (you never know!) Having read a couple of Cold War histories, most recently Tony Judt's excellent Postwar , I learned that what's often missing from American pop-level summaries is the work put in by the people
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by mturmon 4y ago
First, this is a California law so the grid source mix in California rather than the “world” scenario in the Volvo report seems relevant. (That report gives 3 scenarios, but your commments seem derived from their “world” fuel scenario which
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by mturmon 4y ago
The link supplied by @ZeroGravitas above does prominently include the lifecycle analysis you seek.
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by mturmon 4y ago
The link from UCS supplied below by @ZeroGravitas seems superior to the one from Volvo that you give, and your summary of the link you give is not evenhanded. In particular: The EV/ICE comparison in both documents relies heavily on the
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by mturmon 4y ago
The FOV really is quite large -- the documents give it at 7900 square degrees. If you take that to be a square patch, it's about 90x90 degrees! And you can't have it all. I had assumed atmospheric path length would be a problem as

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