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by pure-awesome 7y ago
> Finally, humans, while not optimally satisfying all the above tasks, do quite a decent job at these tasks, which is surprising if humans themselves were some sort of algorithm. Whilst I agree with everything in your comment before this
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
> they'd choose features that majority of customers are requesting Just an interesting Side-note: features customers REQUEST and features customers CARE ABOUT are not the same. People are great at telling what they like or don'
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
* If it's easier to see with poor vision, it's also easier to see with normal vision / projected on a projector / over someone's shoulder on their screen / on a phone or tablet. * Supporting screen-readers ofte
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Fair enough; I am glad that those are mentioned, at least. EDIT: I wouldn't say they're 100% accessibility, though. I think it actually supports my point that even when you aren't thinking about accessibility, the accessibili
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Not Greek, but here's an economics Stackexchange question which handles this: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27662/do-greeks... tl;dr of the accepted answer: It's not for tax evasion, it&#x
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I'm quite sad that accessibility is not mentioned at all, because I'd say it is THE CLASSIC feature that many users pine for but developers frequently overlook. Just to name a few of the major ones: * Screen-Reader Support * Alt-t
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
See my other response to rini17 for more info. But yeah, seems to me these "shifted geometric progressions" are actually just a special case of a more general concept of a "polynomial progression".
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
The abstract of the paper ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00309 ) says > Let P1, … , Pm ∈ Z[y] be polynomials with distinct degrees ... progressions of the form x, x+P1(y), … , x+Pm(y) Such progressions are a generalizat
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
It's a bit like the BeeLine reader that can make it easier to read text: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifj... But the advantage of the syntax highlighting is it also gives vert
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I like it. I often retweet specific paragraphs. I come across many such threads because of specific paragraphs others have retweeted. I also find I'm more likely to read almost everything, rather than skim like I would with many articl
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
When you say "weird definition", do you mean it's a strange concept, or a strange name for that concept? Edit: Or do you mean that "polynomial progression" has an existing definition, and this definition is equivale
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Has a Douglas Adams quality about it; if it's possible to write a book containing an infinite improbability drive, a restaurant at the end of the universe, and a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue, it's probably possible t
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
It's loading for me today (and wasn't yesterday). Try it again and see if it works better now.
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Possibly hugged to death. Try it again tomorrow.
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
This article references both: https://davidburr.co.uk/rooftops/winter18/files/basic-html/p...
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
You mean asking a legal professional?
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Scott Alexander wrote up a review of this book on Slatestarcodex. At over 11'000 words it's pretty hefty and goes quite in-depth. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
> Can anybody who is not into climbing even tell this is all fake? Yes, quite clearly from the following: > She made the first ascent of 8,832-meter K2 in China, the second highest mountain in the world, in 2009 and the third highest
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Ironically, the lights in these "green" houses will be anything but green precisely for the reason that greenhouses are called that in the first place! Most leaves are green. This is to say that green light is reflected, and it&#x
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
The proper formulation of the light-speed restriction is that no information can travel between two points in space faster than light-speed. The expansion of space itself doesn't violate that - you couldn't use it to communicate w
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Perhaps one can see them as simplified examples of the type of message you're aiming for, and it's left as an exercise to the reader to phrase it naturally.
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
For many terms of (programming) jargon, there's a strict academic definition, perhaps as defined in a paper in which the term was originally introduced, and the usage of the word in the broader (programming) community. The latter is th
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Honestly, usage of the word "sanction" should just be sanctioned.
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I'm surprised "original" didn't make the list. For example, consider "An original telling of the story" vs "The original telling of the story".
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
The name for this effect is Banner Blindness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I know you're just quoting Wikipedia here, but any idea what does "non-cognitive" mean in this context? What are some examples of cognitive and non-cognitive traits and why does grit fall into the latter category?
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
The way I understand the parent comment (and I am open to correction), the question is why do we specifically describe functional programming with terms such as 'beautiful' - why do we not use say 'beautiful' for paradig
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Wikipedia says > While it has been claimed that Born's law can be derived from the many-worlds interpretation, the existing proofs have been criticized as circular. So it seems you aren't alone in feeling this way. Edit: Forgot
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Ah, you're right; I didn't make the connection, thanks.
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
There's a book called "The Secret of Our Success" which covers this topic. https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Our-Success-Evolution-Domestic... I have not read the book, but I've read a pretty good summary an

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