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by sn41 6y ago
It will be also great if you can briefly outline some of the things you tell them. I can't imagine the responsibility on the shoulders of a person who is trying to save a life at the other end of the line. Thank you for your service.
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by sn41 6y ago
Thanks, this makes sense.
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by sn41 6y ago
Maximum entropy, I think? I've wondered about this. How can something which is having a cold death (zero kelvin) also have maximum entropy? But I am not at all an expert.
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by sn41 6y ago
Please take a look at Lisp macros. I finally got it at some point. It is a way of generating code on the fly. After I understood under what circumstances macros can abbreviate code, every other language will look unnecessarily verbose. This
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by sn41 6y ago
Windows phone had the most sensible mobile UI I have used. Not all decisions made by a losing brand are wrong. I comparison, Android UI seems ill-thought out.
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by sn41 6y ago
But brooding for a long time is not really healthy. I don't know the exact issue on which you got mocked, but there are these unproductive loops of thought into which you can slip into, spending many days. It takes some other pressing
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by sn41 6y ago
This separation of "sense of being" from thought also has been expressed in the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Sri Ramana Maharishi and Nisargadatta Maharaj. The writings of Nisargadatta are especially helpful in shedding more l
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by sn41 6y ago
You are right, the past may not indicate the future. In any case, mass higher education is a new thing, probably only from the late 19th century. It may also happen that the scale of university education will go down, while universities sur
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by sn41 6y ago
There is one thing that my friend's father said to me once, about these analogies between universities and businesses. A typical business lasts in the order of 20-30 years, a couple of generations if lucky. Most famous universities hav
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by sn41 6y ago
Truly great work. I hope this prospers and catches on.
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by sn41 6y ago
Did you mean to type dnsundoku ?
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by sn41 6y ago
I agree with the first paragraph. The second and third paragraphs are alarming. Anti-elitism is never a good thing in actual technical fields. Of course, the lead may be from outside CS, but to say that there is not a single CS person or an
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by sn41 6y ago
I was trying avoid library incompatibilities. Pulled everything from the repository and recompile with the latest libraries. I also tried a couple of different libraries. I gave up after a week or so. (What I did not do was to compile the
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by sn41 6y ago
There was something in macos Catalina that broke mupdf on my macbook pro. The view would occupy the lower left corner of the window, and something was clipping the view to the lower quadrant. I tried installing from source, changing the gl
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by sn41 6y ago
I agree, but the problem is that "ordinary rulefollowing" is not clearly defined by Google. Perhaps it was that innocent park frisbee party video with a Metallica sound played in the background by some other party there... and not
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by sn41 6y ago
Underrated comment. If the government freezes your bank account, at least you can take them to court. If Google mistakenly disables your account, there does not seem to be any legal recourse. Considering the extent to which people depend on
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by sn41 6y ago
That's what it was 15 years back. I was slightly concerned when Google Mail and Chat were integrated. Look where we are now. Right from "The battle of the red cliffs", we will never learn the disadvantage of lashing too many
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by sn41 6y ago
It has become regional news in local regional newspapers in South India. It's that big.
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by sn41 6y ago
Toby Esterhazy does mention that he tried his hand at playing the English gentleman, and was quite done with it. I would like to have known some more background of Toby. Especially, how Hungarians came to Britain in the mid 20th century. No
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by sn41 6y ago
Highly highly recommend the old BBC series (Granada television?) of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Smiley's People", starring the inimitable Sir Alec Guinness as George Smiley. Some of it is on YouTube. To get
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by sn41 6y ago
I know some ergodic theory, but am not an economist. I cannot verify the veracity of the argument, but the argument itself is new, and not reducible to distinguishing between expected utility and expected value. My comment is based on a Na
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by sn41 6y ago
Not commenting on this particular scenario. But one reason for the continued existence of absurd laws impossible to comply with, is to selectively apply it against inconvenient people.
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by sn41 6y ago
It seems that Jewel wrote this in a letter warning him about his addiction. “When you look around and realize that every single person around you is on your payroll, then you are in trouble." [1] Not only in this particular tragedy, th
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by sn41 6y ago
I had the same issue due to excessive coffee drinking. Stopping cold for 2-3 weeks helps to bring back some of the effectiveness later. But any regular dose even after this is rapidly tolerance-building.
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by sn41 6y ago
Try no-equipment exercises. Pushups and Hindu squats are excellent cardio-core strength combination which I use when I travel. But take care of your knees when you do these. For the long term, consult a doctor and a trainer when you adopt a
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by sn41 6y ago
I will not say I don't know why you are downvoted, since such remarks get downvoted here. But can't we look at an alternative model where some such standardized test is used to test basic competence, and then trainees get 2 week t
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by sn41 6y ago
A lot can be done to fix things. Prompt prosecution against management, including manslaughter charges where applicable. This no longer "wink, wink, nudge nudge" stretching the rules that is prevalent. Hundreds have already lost t
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by sn41 6y ago
Yeah. Sucks that it does not ship to India. Feels like the 80s again, where you tell your relatives and friends to get one for you when they return from abroad. plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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by sn41 6y ago
In order to discriminate between the output of an RNG and the digits of PI, you are right that they have the same Kolmogorov Complexity to within additive constants. However, you can ask for resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity. Suppose y
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by sn41 6y ago
In a very old interview, Eduard Artemyev, one of the pioneers of electronic music, says how Jugalbandi inspired his soundtrack of the sci-fi movie Stalker (1). I think it is the Stalker meditation theme, which distinctly has a Persian oud&#

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