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by rovolo 6y ago
> Even the description of the Laplacian is wrong. The value isn't the average of the points surrounding it. The description on page 7 is split into two parts. The first part describes the value of the Laplacian correctly: > It te
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by rovolo 6y ago
An '-ism' is an ideology which is used for organizing the world. The big difference is whether it's an individual ideology or a systemic ideology. 1 person renting out property = a rentier. Private ownership of land = cap
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by rovolo 6y ago
Their choice of 2005 is definitely the culprit (4 years after the dot-com crash), and it's only gotten more obvious in the years since this post. There's been 60% growth in the number of "Computer and information sciences&quo
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by rovolo 6y ago
I think you're referring to Manning and not Snowden in your first paragraph because you reference the 'Military Police', so you should s/he/she/.
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by rovolo 6y ago
From the wiki article and the linked news articles, the police picked him up at the scene of the crime. He also had smoke grenades (used in the attack) when they found him. > Authorities said he was not carrying identification at the tim
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by rovolo 6y ago
Getting killed while unarmed is the highest level of escalation. Those stories are highlighted because in those situations it's obvious that Black people are being mistreated by police, and that police will lie about the circumstances.
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by rovolo 6y ago
JFYI on color, Michael Jackson had vitiligo; patches of his skin were whitening on their own. He would use makeup to even out his skin color though. He also wore long sleeves and the single glove to cover up the patchy skin coloration.
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by rovolo 6y ago
US Immigration policy prefers high socioeconomic migrants (after the 1965 immigration reform bill). Since most Asians have immigrated to the US since 1965, of course Asians as a group will have higher economic status than the average Americ
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by rovolo 6y ago
Do you think that the feds would win politically from overriding local authorities to send in armed troops to evict thousands of people from a glorified festival? There was a ton of push-back on the feds clearing out sections of DC, and the
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by rovolo 6y ago
Protestors occupied the intersection of 11th and Pine (1 block from the police station) for multiple nights prior to the police abandoning the precinct. The police tried clearing people multiple nights with tear gas and flash-bangs, but the
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by rovolo 6y ago
When you say "[non-white/non-males] are presumed to be disadvantaged", have you talked to or listened to black or female academics? I follow ~4 black academics on twitter, and each of them have contributed to the #BlackintheI
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by rovolo 6y ago
Whoops, of course. It's easier to float in the ocean than in a lake.
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by rovolo 6y ago
As you said, it's the gradient which matters. The gradient determines how much the sea level changes over a distance. But, the sea level change is distinct from the tides. The difference in water level between two connected locations a
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by rovolo 6y ago
The interviewee is talking about ice on land (Greenland and Antarctica), not about ice in the ocean. If the ice on land melts, then those water molecules migrate away from Greenland because they drop to sea level. That loss of mass would ha
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by rovolo 6y ago
The Panama Canal has locks mainly to raise (by 26m) the water-level over the land. It's less work to flood the area than to dig a giant channel between the oceans. https://armyengineer.com/history/panama/engin
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by rovolo 6y ago
I think the Quillette piece is overstating its evidence to make a rhetorical point. 1) They're only measuring the last enforcement step. 2) n=22 is really small. 3) They're measuring (suspended|trump) and are asserting the relatio
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by rovolo 6y ago
The core concept kids need to know when adding fractions together is that the denominators need to be the same before you can add the numerators. Your use of units is on the right track, but I think you need to use units for both the top an
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by rovolo 6y ago
Yes, the Roman calendar called the month "Aprilis". 10/12 of the modern Gregorian names were present in the calendar used by the Roman Republic (~500 BCE). Mark Antony renamed the month of "Quintilis" to "Juliu
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by rovolo 6y ago
Yep, the read-only List<T> implementations definitely feel like a violation. For the benefit of people using older languages, I'd like to point out that newer languages tend to split collection interfaces into ReadOnly and ReadWr
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by rovolo 6y ago
Restating the figures isn't necessarily bad. The issue with mortality revisions is that they're always revised upward; whereas the economic revisions can go either way. Using date-of-death introduces a consistent bias where recent
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by rovolo 6y ago
> don't publish data for deaths on a date until all the deaths on that date have been reported Based on the animation I linked, it takes around 15 weeks for an apparent decrease in pneumonia deaths to rise to a normal number. 15 wee
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by rovolo 6y ago
I wasn't using euromomo as a source, I was using a thread on euromomo as an example of faulty interpretations of provisional date-of-death data.
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by rovolo 6y ago
I think that using date-of-report is better for lay-people. Pro/cons: - There's a one time spike when the methodology changes = The data lags reality on the ground (true for both date-of-report and date-of-death) + Past dates aren
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by rovolo 6y ago
I think that using date-of-report is better for lay-people. Pro/cons: - There's a one time spike when the methodology changes = The data lags reality on the ground (true for both date-of-report and date-of-death) + Past dates aren
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by rovolo 6y ago
I think you have one of the best use cases for rolling your own parser. Your tool's purpose is to read and parse arbitrary data (and then transform and display it). But, I think you're misinterpreting how much work the post is say
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by rovolo 6y ago
What if the value is an ID rather than an integer? CSV doesn't specify whether the data type is a string or a number. The schema needs to be inferred by the parser/user.
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by rovolo 6y ago
1) You wrote a general CSV input parser, but what about someone writing CSV output? The obvious way (write a ',' between each cell and a '\n' between each row) works most of the time, but it doesn't always work. The
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by rovolo 6y ago
Social constructs are real, but somewhat arbitrary. There's no genetic difference between Catholics and Protestants. If you were Catholic as a child, you could become Protestant as an adult. Religion is socially constructed, but its di
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by rovolo 6y ago
The "race condition" is that the random numbers fed to each thread are nondeterministic given a specific seed. Even though a specific run can't be reproduced due to the nondeterminism, the random values aren't causing ma
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by rovolo 6y ago
I have two comments on your takeaways: > Science isn't hard, it isn't magic, it's a systematic way of looking at the world through observation and falsification. That is all science is. Science is also being open to critiq

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