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by pishpash 5y ago
Many public schools take local college credits. There is always a path.
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by pishpash 5y ago
It's pretty simple: - calculus if you want to do engineering - discrete mathematics if you want to do CS You can teach these in university, it's not a problem. Calculus doesn't need to be taught in high school to everyone but
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by pishpash 5y ago
Calculus without analysis, so the mechanical rules and recipes of real analysis of well behaved scalar functions that an engineering course might use (and that were used by the developers of Newtonian mechanics in the pre-modern era), limit
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by pishpash 5y ago
That's a totally different argument. I mean, did arithmetic "algebra" prepare you for abstract algebra or even linear algebra in college?
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by pishpash 5y ago
Why is this surprising? Overnight rates are still 0.25%, and 1-month bills are 0.46%. Online savings accounts are at 0.6-0.65% now and have not fallen below 0.5% the whole pandemic. The oddity is why they've not fallen to 0% before, bu
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by pishpash 5y ago
But TFP is not output. Exponential output growth can come directly from exponential input growth, which would be a trivial obvervation.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Why is not a scientific question. Perhaps you mean, what is the cause of the Big Bang. Since nothing that could have caused the Big Bang is observable, it falls outside physics, but there are some mathematical theories around it.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Why is TFP assumed exponential by default? What's the theory behind that? A time lag in the transfer between exponential input growth (e.g. population) and exponential output growth?
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by pishpash 5y ago
Similarly, as miracles go, the universe is a good one. Embellishments are unnecessary.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Depends on how you average. How religious do you need to be to be considered among "religious people"?
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by pishpash 5y ago
If the federal legislature is not elected on a platform having to do with quality-of-life issues then obviously they will not work on that or be held accountable to it.
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by pishpash 5y ago
More work for lawyers and not a problem: cost of doing business that will be passed on to you.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Presumably this friction is built into the price of the service and disclosed. The known friction should stop you from signing up knowing the cost of cancelling (if it's too much).
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by pishpash 5y ago
They'll say that you signed a contract agreeing to cancel by their preferred method, so your attempt to cancel over email is not in good faith.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Don't make this specific mistake is a very meaningful and useful lesson.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Agreed, the swipe at Microsoft (with links he saved from who knows when!) was especially gratuitous. He mad. Don't write something public when bitter should be a lesson right after don't be on autopilot.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Or how about an OS-level software mute? Like you have for muting the speaker.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Or maybe you are a non-average beneficiary of the system and don't recognize the problems and dangers of a one-party state. Would not be the first time.
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by pishpash 5y ago
It's a switch from inference to direct collection of intent from the user.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Probably because most of the "windows in the application" these days is just the web browser.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Because they are platforms on which open-source (including dependencies all the way down) is not the norm? They do have app stores.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Has this paper actually found anything meaningful or just engaged in sophistry? So instead of using a Turing machine to compute the Kolmogorov complexity where you face the halting problem and uncomputability, they use a time-bounded Turing
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by pishpash 5y ago
As in the above comment, the K constant actually bears on low-complexity strings, not high-complexity ones. It says low-complexity strings in any language are always reasonably low-complexity (within +K) in other languages, but since K can
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by pishpash 5y ago
1+K, 10+K, ... are merely upper bounds on the Kolmogorov complexities in L2, but the actual complexities can be lower, by an arbitrary amount for some strings. Furthermore, what's considered complex in L1 and L2 can be very different,
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by pishpash 5y ago
K can be arbitrarily large though.
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by pishpash 5y ago
"...their paper even provides a specific way to make one. The one-way function that they describe in their paper is too complicated to use..." So can someone briefly describe the construction?
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by pishpash 5y ago
It's not an approximation, it defines a variant version of the problem that makes sense in the context of practical computation.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Is the aggregate number reported, i.e. aggregated across all surgeons for procedure Y?
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by pishpash 5y ago
You can forbid insurance from using that data by policy. It sounds like the same argument against measuring teacher performance because "toxic".
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by pishpash 5y ago
> I think these government ones are more about keeping a consistent style and look across departmental websites, than advertising a product for general use. And how long will this last? Until the next administration who hates the associa

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