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by sn41 5y ago
Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son, Isaac, I think. (Ibrahim and Ismail in Islam?)
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by sn41 5y ago
>I work as a software engineer and in my own time, I learn Machine Learning as a hobby. But this is not the problem yet. I appreciate the humor ;)
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by sn41 5y ago
I suppose you have heard about the rule of 72 - it's quite useful for roughly figuring out doubling rate from compound interests, and vice versa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72 I guess doubling in 10 yea
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by sn41 5y ago
The earliest known proof of Pythagorean theorem is due to Euclid. It is strange at all that any credit is attributed to Pythagoras, since Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians and Chinese all had discovered this [1]. And Pythagoras did not prove
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by sn41 5y ago
That's really funny. It almost reads like The Onion.
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yes... A way to look at 2 way switches is to look at the connections of usual circuit setups to Boolean logic. Taking two on-off switches, - parallel is or - series is and We can see that a 2 way switch is xor (or xnor depending on the setu
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by sn41 5y ago
For some reason, last year I tried to rederive the circuit diagram for 3 way switches. I failed. It's actually a very clever idea, and higher numbers are fun to think about independently.
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by sn41 5y ago
Locus of control is indeed mentioned in the paper as one of the factors that might explain the development of grit.
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by sn41 5y ago
Thanks a lot for your effort. Especially the last feature. I had personally made some modifications to mupdf on my machine for doing this, and add annotations using shortcut keys. But MacOS Catalina somehow screwed up my GL, and it renders
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by sn41 5y ago
That's true. Moreover, it could be a gateway pet.
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by sn41 5y ago
This analogy is not really exact. One can argue that paper companies are not responsible for extremist views, since they do not have advertisement algorithms which elevate such pamphlets. Paper is a neutral platform in that sense. So are sm
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by sn41 5y ago
South Indian haystacks look very similar to these. In fact, in my childhood, I used to classify them as circular and squarish - these referred to the bases - with appropriately shaped tops.
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by sn41 5y ago
It matters which jurisdiction can order the data to be decrypted.
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Yeah, but geographically it is quite east of even Japan.
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by sn41 5y ago
99.4 percent conviction rate? That sounds very suspicious to me. Btw, strange that Japan is called as 'Western' - perhaps the better term is OECD? Same goes for NZ, I guess.
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by sn41 5y ago
You're wrong there I think. I personally was surprised by Chrome and the way it took off - initially when it started it looked like a me too product, it seemed pointless to repeat the good work at Firefox. And Android was also a good b
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by sn41 5y ago
PAC looks, imho, similar to convergence in probability [1]. I don't know if this similarity is exact. The contribution of PAC learning, to me, seems in showing that a large class of problems are PAC learnable, even though they are not
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by sn41 5y ago
I have read some material on how depression was viewed in history. There is at least some work in Christian theology on sloth/acedia which is not only laziness, but also has a lot of signs of what is called clinical depression [1]. Whi
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by sn41 5y ago
Yes, governments always fudge data to fit a narrative. The Covid pandemic has been a shameful example of that, worldwide.
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by sn41 5y ago
Lem's "His Master's Voice" is the closest in fiction to what academic research feels like. I would also add Fiasco to the list of great Lem works.
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by sn41 5y ago
Squeak gave me the greatest pleasure I had while programming. I was not a fan of IDEs till then, preferring vi at that point, with ctags. Sadly it is one of the places where computer science has gone backward, preferring more clunky systems
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by sn41 5y ago
Yes, this is the theme of the work by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I have even thought it somewhat similar to the state of mind that Cal Newport tries to promote in his book "Deep Work".
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by sn41 5y ago
I don't know the figures, but post 2008 elections, (as soon as Obama's inauguration got over) there was an immediate ramp up of tea party politics, which started occupying a lot of the air time on TV etc. I am not sure whether it
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by sn41 5y ago
I heartily welcome the trend, if it is long-term. Politics does not matter so much that it becomes difficult for family members to sit at a table for dinner. This is a problem not only in the US, but all over the world. We need to step bac
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by sn41 5y ago
Reminded me of good-old Troff pages.
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by sn41 5y ago
Thank you for this suggestion. As an Asian, I have always found the American fetish for "passion for work" disconcerting. My passion is for poetry and grammar. Unfortunately, in Asia, you really can't feed your family on this
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by sn41 5y ago
You are right. Great work! One somewhat related theoretical observation about concurrency is in some article by Dijkstra (I don't remember the reference right now): he says that debugging using traces (essentially printf) does not work
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Related: I am in academia, and literally these are the questions that I ask prospective PhD students : what was one hard thing you understood in your area of interest? What was unexpected? And what was the final enlightenment when finally t
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by sn41 5y ago
I think you are touching on the same point - that more than mere meritocracy, there is an aspect of social mobility. Children of highly educated parents know what to do to get to an Ivy League School, whereas kids from underprivileged bac
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by sn41 5y ago
It's an honor to receive a response from you. I agree on all points, especially the lack of combinators for strongly typed systems. (As I understand it, it is impossible to assign types to such terms.) My main point was that disrespect

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