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The accusation sounded credible - his main idea seemed to be that GE oversold insurance schemes that were detrimental to GE if the average lifespan increased. Which it has. On the other hand, there were some conflict of interest issues - I
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I want people who work in fast food restaurants to be paid well enough so that their kids don't live miserable lives. I also want interstellar travel to be practicable as soon as possible. I would want assistive technology and robotics
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Related: poppy seeds are used in Indian cuisine [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_seed#Indian_cuisine
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“India is Indira and Indira is India” is just a sign of the tendency towards personality cults that the polity suffer from. In fact, it was not Indira who coined the slogan, but rather a particularly oily sycophant, D. K. Barooah [1]. In fa
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I think refusal to adopt this methodology to hold on to power, and refusal to toe the line, was what made Stalin so mad with Josef Tito in Yugoslavia. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split
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Prisoners handling radioactive material without protective material and gear, was also done in the Gulag system - e.g. Butugychag in Magadan, Siberia [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butugychag
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This is also a very simple form of using the idea of a "prefix-free code" from information theory and coding. (the codes {0,10,110,1110,11110,...,111111} is a prefix-free set). I think there's also the idea that the code can
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You could try programming in the Caribbean. Nice beach shack, a couple of manuals and offline copy of stackoverflow perhaps.... I heard that Travis Kalanick coded the initial code base of Uber in Varkala beach in Kerala[1],[2]. [1] https:&
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by sn41 6y ago
Not a biography, but a collection of memorial articles and reminisces: https://www.elsevier.com/books/landau-the-physicist-and-the-... Also, I found the autobiography by Sagdeev (one of the <50 who finished the &quo
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Making a timetable for the next day helps, I have found. The downside is that I tend to say no to anything that deviates from the timetable.
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I wonder why we still have capital letters. I understand that Latin had more angular letters to inscribe on marble, compared to the more rounded lower case letters for day-to-day writing. Now that we have the technology to do rounded inscri
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You can always cut off one room without encasing the entire space. Just for occasions when you need the extra safety.
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I think that a proper understanding, and awareness of the import of, of nil, null, None and other empty/bottom types and values is a very pressing need in programming languages and databases (see the intricate discussion on SQL NULL [1
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by sn41 6y ago
That sounds more palatable. But usually in the context of issues like the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, lack of corporate accountability is not an easy thing to digest. Especially these days, if corporations are "people having opinions", as
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Jitendra Malik, Computer Vision fame, calls it "the fallacy of the successful first step". Look ma, I can leap! It's only a matter of time till we get to the moon.
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by sn41 6y ago
I think shareholder supremacy is from Milton Friedman, who promoted the idea of the share price as the important thing to observe, leading to the use and misuse of strategies like stock buybacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by sn41 6y ago
Try somewhat off-beat American novels: 1. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurty 2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers 3. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole They are great novels, and sadly, are less known than they shou
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The problem with Ever Given was exactly the "sail area", since it was a big boat [1]. You can check videos of container ships in storms on Youtube. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/sai
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by sn41 6y ago
Historically, isn't that a "stormier" route? As the euphemism "Cape of Good Hope" replaced the "Cape of Storms". Also, I think shipping is about to get more expensive, I guess.
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There are moderate tools like multi-round double blind reviews to resolve such issues. A tool which was used to resolve issues among chemists and biologists is now running rampant over fields which do not have a high volume of citations. Ma
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Strassen has shown that the bound is higher than n^2 using a tensor rank bound. [1] The exact exponent bound is usually called omega in the literature, and there are good estimates for the value of omega. It is also related to other quantit
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People have to fight for survival. University administrators who have not done any serious research in their lives impose unrealistic goals on academics, without realizing that academics is also a game of influence and networking. Sometimes
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H-index should go away, it cannot be fixed. Traditionally, academics have been encouraged to publish in prestigious venues. Metrics like H-index do not take this into account.
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Corruption is incentive-based. There is always an incentive to lower effort. Indeed to a certain extent it may be essential for survival. It seems it can only be counterbalanced by the constraints imposed by ethics (i.e. guilt and shame) an
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I tried Stoicism earnestly for some time, reading Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. What I found was actually a "nonchalance" enveloping me, where I lost any willpower or determination or urgency to do anything. It sure felt good. Bu
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Graham Greene is my favorite writer. Somewhere in his autobiographies (perhaps "A sort of life") he mentions a Swiss teacher who counted words in a sentence always trying to reduce them. Greene says it had tremendous influence on
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by sn41 6y ago
There are metacircular interpreters, like in Scheme (see SICP [1]). But this is rare, compared to bootstrapping compilers. [1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
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That's neat :)
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In ancient Indian mathematics, people would compose poetry based on tables of numbers, so that things such as sine tables, and the value of pi up to certain number of decimal places, were easier to remember [1]. A delightful example given i
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It is not finance. There are a lot of motivations which are based on ego or prestige. Scholarship is unfortunately often based on competition - but the standards of winning are different from that of oil tycoons. Boiling everything down to

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