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by sn41 8y ago
Theranos, from reading Bad Blood, seems to be fraudulent science with financial fraud as an inevitable effect. Also, it seems to be drawn out from 2011.
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by sn41 8y ago
I tried Pranayama for some time, but found it to be very complicated to follow for 20 minutes at a stretch. In contrast, the Wim Hof method was very easy to follow. The feeling of increased energy, and the absence of nasal congestion for a
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by sn41 8y ago
Here's a conjecture - "Sugar" is a product. There is an industry and a lobby for that. Fat is not really a single product (meat, edible oil, chocolate etc.), so probably there was no single lobby which could co-ordinate the e
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by sn41 8y ago
Not really, not at all. Software architecture is a lot about wisdom - how to anticipate future changes. Often user interfaces need to be carefully and gently designed so that the user has no surprises. Diligence from the user should not be
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by sn41 8y ago
Yep. A related story about the sleaze in Chicago - Around 10 years ago, I received a parking ticket on a street, at a part where they had no parking meters! Part of the street had meters, I pulled up to a slot and noticed it had no meter. O
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by sn41 8y ago
recommended for a related read : Robert Macfarlane, "The Old Ways" - a very lyrical book about tramping/hiking/roaming. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/560/56083/the-old-ways/97801...
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by sn41 8y ago
Many of these kind of personalities unthinkingly identify themselves on the "winning" side of an ideal corporate utopia. It seems that they do not envision the misery they will have to face when they are (likely) on the disenfranc
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by sn41 8y ago
True. To say nothing of the philosophy. Reading Plutarch's essays now. I find it soothing and inspirational.
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by sn41 8y ago
I have 1 desktop and 3 laptops. Sometimes it's good to have a large screen and a comfortable (ergonomic) keyboard. Rigging these to a MacBook with a USB-C can be done, but sometimes it's better to use a desktop.
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by sn41 8y ago
I am happy to say that my desktop from 2004 is still alive and kicking. Some websites are a drag, but some on-board replacements have kept the old warrior running. I hope one day we can keep our smartphones on life support for a long time.
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by sn41 8y ago
Is the food oily? I am more or less a vegetarian, and have always wondered why Chinese food is seemingly able to hold down obesity as compared to Indian food (I'm Indian) - well, modern Indian food at least. I am not sure whether the
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by sn41 8y ago
Yes, I prefer the term "rumor". But maybe that is not persuasive enough, hence the emphasis using "fake".
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by sn41 8y ago
I have worked both in academia and in the industry. Academia is heaven when compared to some of the serpentine performance evaluations in the industry. I have even seen people in the same team undermining each other's work because the
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by sn41 8y ago
Yes! Real programmers use "cat".
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by sn41 8y ago
Yes, I still use it when it comes to scripting, and you have to manipulate files that are nearly gigabytes in size. It is also less battery-consuming, when it comes down to it. Also, when I teach programming languages, ed is a useful enough
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by sn41 8y ago
Sure. But this was not the case with Szemeredi's work. It was recognised as great immediately, and Szemeredi was below 40 at the time. The problem was that his combinatorial approach was not considered to be deep enough to merit the me
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by sn41 8y ago
A great article. One of the prime examples of the disdain that mainstream mathematicians had for "Hungarian" style mathematics is the fact that Szemeredi did not get the Fields medal (apparently Erdos was very angry at this), des
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by sn41 8y ago
Passenger pigeons were still around in the 1890s, weren't they? Is their omission deliberate since their range seems to have been east of the Rockies?
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by sn41 8y ago
Perhaps this has been studied before, but this might be relevant in advertising as well. The book "Pre-suasion" by Robert Cialdini describes how for example, showing certain imagery before asking a person to make a choice produces
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by sn41 8y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted.
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by sn41 8y ago
Oh. my. Please do not play with people's lives based on an algorithm whose classification output we have no way of explaining.
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by sn41 8y ago
Some of the memos contain original mathematical research of high quality: for example, Gosper's algorithm for continued fraction arithmetic is original [1], even mathematicians like Lagrange did not mention anything about arithmetic op
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by sn41 8y ago
Does anybody know what are the major running costs involved in a university? What I found disturbing in the (public midwestern) university where I studied are the luxurious sports complexes that kept popping up, whereas many classrooms were
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by sn41 8y ago
Foreigner here ... can confirm this. The application process to US universities has gotten much better compared to 20 years ago. Back in the day, we needed to pay application fees+international postage. Now, the second part has gone away. T
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by sn41 8y ago
Yes, that's the one.
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by sn41 8y ago
Many jobs on offer in Singapore tend to be limited-time contractual. Also, there are no pensions. If you do get fired, it is not a large country with a lot of alternative opportunities.
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by sn41 8y ago
Thanks, this is news to me. I am not sure where I am with respect to this. What prevents the entire society deciding to use the land for some other purpose?
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by sn41 8y ago
They aren't good. Hence the dragnet approach of collecting all data, and then waiting for Google or some such entity to come up with the research for mining methodology.
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by sn41 8y ago
William Binney once said in an interview that one could also analyze which pair (or cluster) of cellphones went off together, and then analyze possible rendezvous. I think one way to circumvent this is to force all participants to keep the
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by sn41 8y ago
This may seem like a valid viewpoint, but it does not sound completely correct. I am not sure that we allow parcels of land to be private in the name of conservation. Perhaps ecologically sensitive parcels of land should not be private.

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