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by sfpotter 4y ago
I don't take the point of this book to be "how to implement an STL-like data structures and algorithms library in C"---although you were his coworker, so maybe you know better. I've always viewed it more as "how to
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I don't think this is the primary factor. As another commenter mentioned, Politico does indeed have a low incidence of the word "neoliberalism". Not all of Politico's contributors are involved in academic international r
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You aren't likely to find the word "neoliberalism" used in politico, I don't think. All sources of news have an inherent bias that will constrain the acceptable range of discourse, along with terminology used.
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What if you aren't good at anything? You might find it helpful to consider this possibility and make peace with it, since you have no real control over it. Most people are average at most things, and the willpower to change ones stars
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https://nhigham.com/2020/10/06/what-is-the-complex-step-appr...
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Clearly you think that the government should stay out of your business. I think the opposite. I am also an American citizen. There are a large number of Americans who believe that America is backwards in many ways. The fact that you live in
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I’m sorry you’re tired. Are you sure you aren’t tired from wrangling with your taxes?
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It makes me sad that all these spun cycles could have been put to use doing something productive if only the tax code were simplified and the IRS automatically pre-filled our taxes, as is done in other, saner countries.
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If it goes on, who knows? We might belong to a profession where people are known for their tact and sensitivity and keen ability to intuit someone else’s emotional state. People might say, “Those software engineers, they sure do know how to
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I thought defer and lambdas weren't making it to C23... https://thephd.dev/ever-closer-c23-improvements
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This really depends on what the goal is. If you want to work as a researcher, it is more appropriate to view a PhD at least as a apprenticeship which teaches you how to be a researcher. There are a lot of skills you pick up doing this that
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That is why businesses routinely encourage their workers to exchange salary information amongst themselves.
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Cognitive Ability Is Related to How Seriously You Take Studies Like This
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"The simple reason for this is that despite years of effort nobody has yet come close to building a quantum machine that is actually capable of solving practical problems. The current devices are so error-prone that any information one
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That wasn't the argument made in the article. There are reasons to believe that the technology is fundamentally unsound, and will never be able to scale or make money.
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Compile times like these are why I avoid C++ for numerical programming these days.
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Many other comments here don't seem to have spent much time reflecting on why his niece said this. Speaking as an actual math teacher, this is a very important thing for students to try to come to grips with. Memorization and "lea