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by ouid 4y ago
Preliminary complaint: Anything that can be "transferred to" from mathematics becomes mathematics, thereby removing it from contention. I think this take would have benefit from some mathematical experience. Mathematicians are m
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by ouid 4y ago
The transference of mathematical skill is only "unsettled" in the sense that it is unclear what would it would be transferred to. It is already an entire epistemological category. How much more transference is required?
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by ouid 4y ago
I don't know a single person in this "cabal of smart people" who has a single nice thing to say about the K-12 mathematics curriculum. They largely consider it a travesty, and have vaguely apocalyptic things to say.
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by ouid 4y ago
the combinatorial object "the n-cube" is just length n bitstrings, neighbor means one bit flip away. It can be thought of as being embedded in the geometric n cube. the recursive matrices as they are defined are, if you ignore the
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by ouid 4y ago
typical Quanta though. I am pretty close to no longer clicking on their links.
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by ouid 4y ago
big O assumes no such thing. big O is just an equivalence relation on functions.
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by ouid 4y ago
heres a non-constructive solution for the medium puzzle. the commutator of a row move a and a column move b (defined [a,b]=aba^-1b^-1). is a three cycle. it is not hard two see that any three cycle is conjugate to either a commutator or a p
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by ouid 4y ago
well definitely not. Today the correct thing to do with brand confidence is cut costs and cash in on consumer trust.
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by ouid 4y ago
HCOL is the law of rents catching up. If your right to exist in a place can be captured, then it will eventually cost you your entire productive output.
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by ouid 4y ago
It was both designed as a luxury experience and to take as little time as possible. These goals are fundamentally at odds.
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by ouid 4y ago
I'm not really sure why you would trust this claim from China. Its not impossible, but its also not impossible to lie about
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by ouid 4y ago
If it helps you, inflation is also not caused by mRNA vaccines.
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by ouid 4y ago
Honestly, I think you should be protected from these companies against your will.
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by ouid 4y ago
the density of intelligent life cannot be bounded from below with only the one point of data that we have.
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by ouid 4y ago
Particle counts increased what looks like quadratically with power/weight and volume increased linearly with power/weight. The number of virions in these particles was not measured. So I think we have an upper bound of cubic growt
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by ouid 4y ago
You should not get a ticket for accidentally driving over the speed limit (unless you are driving over every plausible speed limit), but a corporation should. This is not an arbitrary distinction, and equivocating as you have hurts your arg
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by ouid 4y ago
Unlike in most cases, where there is a conflation of fissile and radioctive substances, I believe that the parent comment was actually referring the the problem that occurs when you allow people to get their hands on too much enriched urani
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by ouid 4y ago
oh, what do you consider your phone's lifetime?
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by ouid 4y ago
thats very funny, good one. if you want be to believe you though, you'll have to convince apple to guve me a way to switch back if you are lying or deluded
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by ouid 4y ago
>If it were possible for iPhones to be more easily repairable, without sacrificing their appearance, dimensions, performance, water-and-dust resistance, and cost, Apple would make them more easily repairable. That iPhones are not easily
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by ouid 4y ago
This is absolutely not why. There is no incentive for universities to tell employers what they think of the students attending them, and the intercollegiate talent transfer is 99% recommendations and research experience. Students don't
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by ouid 4y ago
>One possible explanation for the complexity and heft of Apple’s self repair toolkit is that iPhones are intricate devices, ... There is nothing Apple can do to make such repairs quick or easy. ESH, The tools are not to fix the phone, th
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by ouid 4y ago
I would start by taking the answers given here with a hefty portion of salt. It is fairly shameful to answer this question with authority, so largely you are selecting for shamelessness among the answerers. I am revealing my own shamelessne
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by ouid 4y ago
Adblock is no longer enough. It is time for contentblock.
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by ouid 4y ago
what kind of person who comments on hackernews doesnt do unpaid tech support for family members? yes, i do, and the thing that i mostly find is people paying for "legitimate products" that their computers can do for free with esse
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by ouid 4y ago
>at a country scale agent-based simulation becomes less interesting, because individual agents don't influence much, only their collective behavior is big enough to matter This is very untrue, which is why this problem is infeasible
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by ouid 4y ago
The objective of computer security seems to have shifted from preventing someone else from running unauthoirzed software on your computer to preventing you from running unauthorized software on your computer. I would not describe this as se
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by ouid 4y ago
I think that the parlance has ruined the discourse here. There's nothing "pure" about simple majority direct democracy. We should say that a pure democracy is one in which all governance is established with unanimous support.
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by ouid 4y ago
There's a LOT of money to be made telling poor people that rich people are good. Given how much we have collectively been paid to find a good argument for enriching the rich, I don't find any of the arguments to be anywhere close
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by ouid 4y ago
I am aware that it is highly ambiguous, that is why I chose it. People who believe whatever they want are more of a problem than people who believe whatever. People who believe whatever they want can be manipulated by people who know what t

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