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by sgillen 6y ago
Yes. The White House has made this a very explicit part of their agenda since day one.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Emacs maybe? Joking... mostly
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by sgillen 6y ago
Definitely, I worry about this a lot. I do wonder about some of the close call stories that are out there. It seems like in its in Russia’s best interest to project an image that they are willing to launch without hesitation. So I wonder if
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by sgillen 6y ago
Check out galios, laid the foundations for two a whole fields of math and then died at age 20 in a duel.
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by sgillen 6y ago
I think it’s mostly a numbers game, more PhDs, roughly the same number of research position. This means most scientists don’t know most other scientists in their field, and so the metrics people use to select become more important. That and
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by sgillen 6y ago
Sure, although in that case why not use the GUI?
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by sgillen 6y ago
Yeah I’m not actually stoked on big keys, just being snarky.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Well, at least people are used to downloading Mb of junk when they browse the internet these days anyway...
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by sgillen 6y ago
ESL is an excellent reference, if you are looking for an introduction instead I can recommend “An introduction to statistical learning” by (most of?) the same authors.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Reviews seem like the biggest need. “The culture in the X department is terrible, everyone works 80 hours a week and is miserable” “Night life is great at least, the grad students usually go out for student nights at blah blah after seminar
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by sgillen 6y ago
Yeah I was playing devils advocate I guess, I do agree with you. The best equipped people to investigate the false alarms is probably the fire department itself, and they are already the ones doing the investigating.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Not necessarily what OP is proposing. It could be a group if people fielding calls to the department who rapidly investigate all calls, and get the fire department there for real fires. They could also provide some first responder care... m
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by sgillen 6y ago
One can believe it test scores correlate with innate intelligence and also think that they are a flawed measurement tool
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by sgillen 6y ago
Honestly not trying to be snarky. If what you quoted is the dog whistle, what is the decoded message that the in crowd would be hearing?
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by sgillen 6y ago
Don't underestimate useful things, tricks, and theorems though ;)
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by sgillen 6y ago
I’m not sure Huawei is a small value oddball anymore.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Yes but actual racists have since actually started using the symbol, which has the added advantage of them being able to laugh at the mainstream media, and for adding plausible deniability. Though certainly there are non explicitly racists
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by sgillen 6y ago
Not a book, but I’ve been really liking this blog post. https://technicshistory.com/the-backbone/
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by sgillen 6y ago
Speaking as someone else who does scientific computing all day, taking away vectorized operations would kill my performance completely.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Yes although I think most people equate the subjective being right with their beliefs being inline with the (supposedly) objective truth.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Not incompatible to view belief as an optimization while also realizing our measurement of the truth function is biased and noisy (with everyone measuring getting different biases).
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by sgillen 6y ago
Not sure I agree, though maybe if we change ourselves enough we can no longer call ourselves mammals.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Of course! I meant my comment to be tongue in cheek, but saying that some numbers are uncomputable is not incompatible with symbolic math on a computer. Note that for example Pi is computable, despite having an infinite decimal expansion.
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by sgillen 6y ago
As long as all those reals are computable ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number
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by sgillen 6y ago
But would it be impossible to have artificial “skin in the game”? Is there no robot body that could serve this purpose?
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by sgillen 6y ago
why are three dogs surprising? should we expect a lot more
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by sgillen 6y ago
Yeah I actually agree with you. If the goal was to get more people to use desktop linux / PCs making them more like and iPhone would be good. But I don’t think that’s a good goal to have.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Yes but I believe that most causal non techy users just wont put up with it or at least would much prefer a GUI.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Yup was just about to say this. That being said I usually avoid doing this even though I do a lot of numerical work. They are usually more of a pain to type out, and I don’t trust that they will show up properly on every text editor that it
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by sgillen 6y ago
This bothers me to no end too. But I’ve given up in every trying to fix it, it’s entered the public lexicon, if you want to talk about actual exponential growth you need to be more specific now.

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