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by protez 17y ago
What made you think that you need to learn something about them? No method is goal-independent.
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by protez 17y ago
please delete this shit.
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by protez 17y ago
Linear algebra matters since we always prefer linearity to any other forms because of its simplicity. If something isn't linear, we should transform it into a linear form for further examination. That's what calculus does. That's what analy
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by protez 17y ago
No statistical method can prove causality. Also, there's no scientific method to confirm any one of causal relationships, either. Causality exists only in human mind. There's no methodic way to discern semipermanent coincidence (or identica
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by protez 17y ago
What if there's nothing deterministic in this universe? The notion of determinism deduced from God, Nature, or whatever is the key behind the concept of free will. Otherwise, how can we identify free will, which is essentially a fancy term
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by protez 17y ago
Yes. You're right. Anyone can copy some webpages overnight and sell every kind of stuff tomorrow. That's the very nature of online retailers. However, because of that homogeneity, prominence is all that matters. People can remember only one
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by protez 17y ago
The authors get the pure profit of 35% from "revenue", not "profit." That seems huge. That means the profit of those authors may be better than Amazon, which has to cover the expenses on development, distribution, marketing, maintenance, or
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by protez 17y ago
Google needs to do it first with its Wave. If it succeeds, Wave may propagate as the harbinger of the end of working weeks. It's gonna be a real wave, who knows?
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by protez 17y ago
The essence of capitalism is free market. What is free market? It's a price mechanism that simply works far better than any other alternatives. There's no mathematical proof, but it's a matter of consensual observation. Maybe, it's worse th
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by protez 17y ago
Quote from the book: “In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities,” said Shunryu Suzuki, a Zen Buddhist priest, but “in the expert’s mind there are few.” We are all experts in our own world and the only way to get past that is to b
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by protez 17y ago
Thank u so much! It's a real gem!
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by protez 17y ago
It seems to be a flight from cash, in the prospect of Obama's bailouts and Fed's endless dollar printing. A railroad business makes perfect sense when the incoming inflation will give the definite advantage to the low-cost transportation ov