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Bill introduced to exempt Pope Leo from high US taxes(romereports.com)
3 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
I'm finding it a little harder to visualize rotation numbers, though. My best attempt at a description is to imagine continuously tracing the curve '\gamma(t)', going through every point that it passes through, while looking
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by nxobject 1y ago
If you're talking about C(p, s): consider how lines of latitude create a sequence of circles on Earth: the curve C(p, s) is the "circle of latitude" given by fixing p on S^2 as your North Pole, and 's' as (up to res
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by nxobject 1y ago
For background to sibling comments - AS/400 aka "System i" was historically a separate line of processors, but is now POWER running a software translation layer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i#TIMI
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by nxobject 1y ago
You're right – I apologize. (I thought MODE32 was licensed and bundled with early 68030 Macs, but upon double-checking it was pure Apple.)
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by nxobject 1y ago
I've done both – in my undergrad I staffed a drop-in help night for a required freshman comp class, and later on in grad school I made extra cash proctoring a "alternate testing center" for students needing retakes and ADA ac
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The Unusual Nonprofit That Helps ICE Spy on Wire Transfers(theintercept.com)
13 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
Pre-Jobs Apple did license a few Extensions from Connectix... Jobs-era Apple just didn't care, I guess.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Why would you assume I was angry? (Where is your snark coming from?) Drafting and redrafting a cumulative course paper, as well as iteratively honing a thesis, is a writing skill. I would argue it as important than demonstrating recall an
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by nxobject 1y ago
A call to action for anyone with a 5 1/4" floppy drive: > The only thing missing from Grigar's collection is a PC that reads five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks, she says. Despite their ubiquity, the machines are surprisi
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by nxobject 1y ago
Oh wow, thanks for pointing me to Lesa Hoffman's work! Back in my day I learned from Fitzmaurice, Laird, and Ware, more geared towards the health sciences (i.e. clinical trial data etc.) which I wasn't too fond of. [1] [1] https:
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by nxobject 1y ago
Sadly, I think that's what's going to be lost in the switch back to exams: the ability to assess someone's ability to iteratively solve a problem or craft a thesis.
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Even leaving AI aside, anyone writing anything nowadays is using Google and Wikipedia and word processors, so why constrain those? And the library, and inter-library loan (in my case), and talking to a professor with a draft...
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by nxobject 1y ago
As someone whose college papers always went through multiple drafts, I genuinely hope that the "joy" the author feels doesn't get in the way of teaching writing skills. And, as someone who got paid minimum wage to proctor tes
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by nxobject 1y ago
Also, very, VERY long histories of manufacturing there - TI has been in Arizona since 1969, for example.
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by nxobject 1y ago
> For example: "On a more contemporary note, these theoretical & empirical considerations also throw doubt on concerns about ‘algorithmic bias’ or inferences drawing on ‘protected classes’: not drawing on them may not be desirab
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by nxobject 1y ago
I just needed to stop and say: as a biostatistician, boy do I love a beautiful complex longitudinal design: I remember my old professor asking us how at this point we would decompose into cross-sectional and longitudinal effects, Lord'
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by nxobject 1y ago
“According to Tesla” is likely what is being probed here. I think that’s newsworthy.
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by nxobject 1y ago
> it is also why the United States explicitly protected it: to specifically prepare for (and protect the right to) violent revolution. How is the right to violent revolution prepared for and protected in the US?
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USCIS: The First A-File(uscis.gov)
4 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
I'm curious: did you have to tailor your dataset around instruction-following/reasoning capabilities as well? No conflict of interest myself – I'm interested in hobby programming for vintage computers – but my understanding c
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by nxobject 1y ago
Apple is similarly paranoid about single-sourcing -- off the top of my head I'm not sure whether their top-end M-class chips are currently fabbed by both TSMC and Samsung, or just TSMC>
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by nxobject 1y ago
Random question: where did the ARM core design come from?
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by nxobject 1y ago
I hope more programs use ".base" files for database views – it runs a lot of workflows in Notion that would benefit from a diversity of implementations.
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by nxobject 1y ago
A minor corollary to this is that, as the user types, IDEs should predictably try to make programs valid – e.g. via structured editing, balancing parens in Lisp like paredit, etc.
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by nxobject 1y ago
> engineering talent is not scattered by a breakup of Intel They'd be happy to nudge them from blue states (e.g. Hillsboro and Santa Clara) to red states.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Note that this makes USG the largest stockholder – BlackRock and Vanguard (as institutions, not funds) are about ~9%.
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by nxobject 1y ago
The achievement is massive - but if I understand what’s going on the title is misleading; I think it is more like running a patched macOS userland via chroot. From an outside point of view, the author is cryptic about context, but the tec
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Surely ADHD would not be cognizable where people don't have to spend 8hrs/day through their youth sitting in one place. Or, for that matter, in a society where people regulated their days by cues like the sky and the body, ra
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by nxobject 1y ago
What we need are "idea dice" or "concept dice" for CS – each side could have a vague architectural nudge like "parallelize", "interpret", "precompute", "predict and unwind", "

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