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by smadge 9y ago
I think you are correct. Semantic web is a decent technology. It has some rough edges, but it has solved the technical aspect of the data interoperability problem. The only barrier is a social/political/business one: privatizing a
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by smadge 9y ago
You could possibly reinforce your biases and prejudices by "preprocessing" on the fly value judgements. On the other hand, you will never confront your biases and prejudices if you never attempt to reflect on then and what you sho
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by smadge 9y ago
I don't see how a permutation group lends itself well to a geometric or visual interpretation in general. From my understanding, a permutation is just a one-to-one and onto function from a set to itself. For a set of N elements there a
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by smadge 9y ago
To be honest, yes. The web was designed for hyperlinked documents. 90% of what I use the web for is still following links to pages with text and images. It is an unfortunate historical accident that people are trying to build thick client i
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by smadge 9y ago
Originally stylesheets were meant to be recommendations. It was envisioned that user agents, users, and web pages would have their own, separate stylesheets, and the user agent would negotiate between the different stylesheets to determine
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by smadge 9y ago
A survey "Discrete Mathematics" course is definitely a mishmash. But every topic in discrete mathematics is rich enough to study in it's own 4 credit 1 quarter undergraduate course: Set Theory, Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Fo
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by smadge 9y ago
Something about that rule seems extremely backwards to me. Might as well implement a Prolog or Scheme in a lower level language then do your compiler assignments in that. Reminds me of this quote "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fort
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No
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The problem is not the lack of personal responsibility of students in their decision to take out loans. The problem is the systemic failure to provide high quality education to those qualified to pursue it. Those who are qualified to pursue
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by smadge 9y ago
The thing about rational actors is that their options are severely limited by the market. The publishers only choice is to follow the money and play the game or perish. And of corse complain about it.
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by smadge 10y ago
There's a misunderstanding. I agree that there is no good definition of species. However, there is a good definition of clade, taxon, or monophyletic group. The author is suggesting that paraphyletic and polyphyletic taxonomical groups
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by smadge 10y ago
Well, the choice is between an arbitrary category with a complex definition that doesn't provide any insight to its evolution history, to one that is strictly defined by nature itself and provides lots of evolutionary insight. Generall
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Also, probably hybridization. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_speciation
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On Being a Fish(inference-review.com)
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True it's absolutely disgusting that prison rape is a punchline. There's not even a setup to the joke, just "you'll get raped in prison."
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I think that one important difference between natural and formal languages is that every time you use a natural language you are contributing to it's evolution. Reproducing a formal language is much more intentional and happens a lot l
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by smadge 10y ago
I agree! "Driving a mile is infinitely more expensive than staying where you are, from a fuel perspective"
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by smadge 10y ago
I've found that the units are often different even for very similar products. For instance, one container of black tea might be $X per pint, while the other is $Y per fluid ounce.
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by smadge 10y ago
I agree, a "higher order component" just isn't a monad. A HOC is just good old fashioned object composition. I think you are right to call it the decorator pattern. It annoys me how React ,and in general the entire javascript
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by smadge 10y ago
I think React is moving towards a simpler abstraction. There is nothing simpler than a function with the type Model -> View.
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You have the power and perhaps the ethical responsibility to push back and advocate for an open, accessible web.
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I'm sorry I caricatured your position. I think we agree that the assumption that "removing interviewer/managerial bias will result in a gender ratio of 50%" is false. The variability of sex differences in vocational inte
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by smadge 10y ago
Why are you answering nature vs nurture with (I paraphrase) "100% nature and anyone who says otherwise is an irrational charlatan"? This debate is cliched at this point. From the study you linked to: "As suggested by previous
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by smadge 10y ago
I read the entire article :) How much did you read? It wasn't even the alleged murder that incensed the mob, but the dubious claim of rape: "But Deeter’s death wasn’t the principal outrage that wagged on everyone’s tongues: His co
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by smadge 10y ago
innocent until proven guilty. lynching is never legitimate
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by smadge 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that "angelic voice" was 100% ok with lynching the other two innocent black men. Not exactly a voice of love speaking against hate.
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by smadge 10y ago
What terrible working conditions. Management monitors your off duty leisure activity and uses that to evaluate your on duty performance.
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by smadge 10y ago
Can you explain what you mean? As far as I know, normalizing is a nonsensical process for a document store. You can only normalize a relational schema.
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by smadge 10y ago
Similar to you, sometimes my coworkers and I will use the terms 'normalized' and 'denormalized' when talking about databases. It is usually in reference to and ideal schema versus a performant schema. We don't actua
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by smadge 10y ago
It would decouple your structure(html) from your display(css). The semantic class applied to your html could remain unchanged while you are changing the style. For example, you could switch from using a css library like tachyon, to swappin

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