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by octonion 8y ago
The root cause is the destruction of unions and worker's rights. It has nothing to do with legal or illegal immigration.
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by octonion 8y ago
The politics and culture (which are intertwined). Even if one area or city is more liberal, you're still dealing with a conservative, and possibly racist, sexist and homophobic, state government.
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by octonion 8y ago
The cited study has an obvious and large flaw - a black child raised by an advantage white family is still black, and society will still treat them as a black child.
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by octonion 8y ago
Operator overloading?
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by octonion 8y ago
Many of the older games that have problems running under Steamplay also have problems running under Windows 10 (for similar reasons). Another group of games that don't currently run under Steamplay require some form of additional DRM.
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Recursively counting the number of Blackjack hands given the dealer's card(github.com)
4 points by octonion 8y ago|0 comments
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by octonion 8y ago
I have a similar GitHub repo, but with a more complicated example: https://github.com/octonion/puzzles/tree/master/blackjack
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by octonion 8y ago
Isn't Quillette a right-wing propaganda outlet? I have them blocked on Twitter.
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by octonion 8y ago
Really, it was all the New York Times & the US government had nothing to do with it? Go away, propaganda troll.
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by octonion 9y ago
They're two conspiracy-theory scumbags who should be booted off YouTube. It's a private company, not a common carrier.
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by octonion 9y ago
Have you tried Crystal? I've been very impressed by it.
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by octonion 9y ago
This is a disaster that nearly wiped away the island and left them entirely without power? How do you "prepare" for that, you racist troll?
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by octonion 9y ago
It's a research collaboration.
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by octonion 9y ago
No.
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by octonion 10y ago
Not being a racist jackass makes you "liberal"? Is that a "fact" or an "alternative fact"?
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The Impossible Dream: Computing e to 116000 Places on a Personal Computer (1980)(archive.org)
2 points by octonion 10y ago|0 comments
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What are the most beautiful Math Olympiad problems?(quora.com)
3 points by octonion 10y ago|0 comments
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by octonion 10y ago
95800^4 + 217519^4 + 414560^4 = 422481^4
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by octonion 10y ago
You can use the FIFA data in my soccer GitHub repo - https://github.com/octonion/soccer/tree/master/fifa
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by octonion 10y ago
What's a reference for the connection between Elo and Gaussian process classification that you mention?
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What Happens When Baseball-Stats Nerds Run a Pro Team?(nytimes.com)
4 points by octonion 10y ago|1 comments
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From conservation of energy to the principle of least action: A story line(eftaylor.com)
3 points by octonion 11y ago|1 comments
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by octonion 11y ago
Smallest positive m such that 77 divides m^2+7m+89 is greatly simplified by realizing (mod 77) m^2+7m+89=m^2+7m+12=(m+3)(m+4).
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by octonion 11y ago
This becomes much more transparent if you realize you're integrating Im(e^x * e^{ix}). And it's no longer a trick but a technique.
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by octonion 11y ago
This appears to be essentially equivalent to solving a linear system using the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%E2%80%93Penrose_pseudo...
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by octonion 11y ago
Not quite, because for equation balancing non-negative integers are required.
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An Enormous Number of Kilograms(angrystatistician.blogspot.com)
4 points by octonion 11y ago|0 comments
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New analysis shows over 99 percent of the women on Ashley Madison were fake(extremetech.com)
22 points by octonion 11y ago|1 comments
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by octonion 11y ago
Ah, yes, the masses are stupid parasites and the elite few (of whom of course the reader fantasizes he belongs to) are responsible for all that's good in the world. I wonder why people have a problem with it.
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by octonion 11y ago
That's a new phenomena, and wven so it can hardly be said to have "shaped America". If you disagree, in what ways has it done so?

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