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by nocipher 15y ago
Feminism was born out of women recognizing a discrepancy between what women attained and what men attained. It's not that suddenly women became motivated to reach higher level of achievement but merely that they noticed that men had more th
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by nocipher 15y ago
The generalizations aren't interesting though because they provide no fodder, no argument. Even without picking apart an argument line-by-line, your conclusions should be supported. Your response actually raises interesting points, but then
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by nocipher 15y ago
"Secondly, the author doesn't make a convincing argument that the fact that the reason why men get all the risk and all the reward is because of something innate, instead of a self-perpetuating social system that actively encourages one gen
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by nocipher 15y ago
You fail to provide a compelling defense of your argument. One of the major points of the article was in direct opposition to your first sentence. It was supported by arguing that biology forces women to be more important for reproduction a
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by nocipher 15y ago
It is not the presence of an internal heuristic that makes an algorithm greedy, it is the choosing of locally optimal solutions. For your claim to hold, you would need to demonstrate that people make locally optimal solutions, at least in t
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by nocipher 15y ago
An infinite family seems to refer to an infinite collection of solutions that are all related in some sense. An isolate or sporadic solution is a solution that is unique and unrelated to other solutions. They are both terms used to categori
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by nocipher 15y ago
I disagree. By "math community" I refer specifically to those people who create new mathematics, i.e. mathematicians. That is not at all as inclusive as you argue. Math notation comes from mathematicians and is designed to facilitate commun
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by nocipher 15y ago
The problem is that the mathematical notation, while not perfect, works really well for those adept with its use. It's an efficient shorthand. For explaining things in depth we have pictures and and natural language. I fail to see how creat
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by nocipher 15y ago
The best way I've found to read math texts is to take it concept by concept. Line by line is too mechanical. Approach each concept and get a "gist" for what is trying to be accomplished. Once you understand where they are starting from for
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by nocipher 15y ago
Most math concepts -are- fairly easy to explain and, from the sounds of it, you don't actually want a math book. You want a book that gives you the executive summary or a run-down of specific tools for specific situations. The flaw is not i
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by nocipher 15y ago
I partially believe that CCP will end up being okay after the dust settles just because I have never known of any gaming community to have a truly successful protest. The sad part is that the precedence this sets is antithesis to good custo
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by nocipher 15y ago
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by nocipher 15y ago
"Children of alumni received an advantage. Minorities (except Asians) and athletes received an even bigger advantage..." You completely ignored the context of the statement. Instead, you created a strawman argument and ignored that other gr
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by nocipher 15y ago
I am working on: - Learning Russian with a friend - Expanding my background in the core areas of Mathematics - Reacquainting myself with graphics programming and implementing at least part of a game engine. - Finding a Thesis topic...
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by nocipher 16y ago
I didn't even know it existed. Thanks for the tip; I'll check it out.
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by nocipher 16y ago
The more fundamental reason, I believe, is that it is often hard to just hack something together in Lisp. This mostly due to the library issues and a lack of users creating good documentation and guides. For example, a few weeks ago I wante
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by nocipher 16y ago
Calculation is important for understanding math. It should not be the only thing taught, but it should definitely be in the curriculum, and in a substantial amount, at least in the first few years. I think it lays a lot of ground work for f
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by nocipher 16y ago
I fail to see how it changes things in a fundamental way. Having your name on a paper is supposed to mean that you contributed to the results of that paper. This is how you build up your reputation: you publish lots of relevant results. Thi
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by nocipher 16y ago
Statistically, you do not need a certain percentage of the population you are surveying to obtain good results. There are other factors used to determine the required sample size to achieve results with a given level of confidence. See the
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by nocipher 16y ago
As someone who recently graduated with a bachelor's at a large state university, I find that this article exaggerates most of its points. "Now, what do students get for their money? they[sic] get herded in like cattle into 500 person classr
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by nocipher 16y ago
I never thought of it like that. Maybe technology does necessitate rights management. Even so, copying is trivial and available to everyone. It is not feasible to have the granular control necessary to prevent widespread copying and this is
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by nocipher 16y ago
People usually try to skirt this issue. The proponents of copyright laws stubbornly call anyone who would infringe a thief while those on the other side of the argument aptly point out the fallacy of such analogies. The truth of the matter
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by nocipher 16y ago
I'm not sure if it's an oversight or intentional but you didn't mention Lisp, which is, for many "snobs", the language of choice.
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by nocipher 16y ago
I think you misunderstand. Your point is that computer science, as a field, has done many things to attract women and that it has still been unsuccessful. Furthermore, since so much effort has been put forth in this pursuit, the computer sc
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by nocipher 16y ago
The term "hacker" is usually associated with technology and, sometimes, more specifically, with programming, but I don't think that captures the essence of what a hacker is. A hacker is just someone who likes to tinker with things. The term
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by nocipher 16y ago
I prefer to write it out with pen and paper. After all, most of what you do when you code is come up with a solution to a problem and then implement it. It's a lot easier to play with your solution when you're still forming it than after yo
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by nocipher 16y ago
There is some truth in the article. Coding is easy. It's all the other aspects of software development that are difficult. I know that the biggest hurdle for any programming project I've ever been involved in is deciding what will be the di
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by nocipher 16y ago
It's always nice when you finally understand "magic".