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by sn41 4y ago
Many have been asking for an intuitive explanation of martingales. The following is the historical context, which helps understand some of the motivation. suppose you have a fair coin, and you bet 1 dollar that it comes up heads. if it does
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by sn41 4y ago
Yes, the Arabs knew about the Vikings. Similarly old Sanskrit grammar texts in India refer to the Greeks. St. Thomas Aquinas extensively refers to Arab scholars like Avicenna and Averroes. The ancient world was more connected than we realis
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by sn41 4y ago
I'm in academia. This is unquestionably bad advice. Micromanagers in the academia are able to virtue signal a lot, sweating and wringing their hands about all sorts of trivial stuff, bloviating over email and acting tense. However, in
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by sn41 4y ago
I think you did not clarify the connection sufficiently. Sudha Murthy is the mother-in-law of Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister. She is quite an accomplished engineer, and also the wife of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy.
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by sn41 4y ago
It's an affected resident, not a random person, so it's quite relevant to the news at hand.
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by sn41 4y ago
There is a town called Elkader in Iowa. I thought it was something to do with Elks. In fact, someone else also made this error, since there are nearby towns called Elk Run etc. Turns out, it was named after the famous Algerian revolutionary
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by sn41 4y ago
One needs a stiff drink to cope with such bad news!
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by sn41 4y ago
Actually, I feel that the parsec syntax in Haskell, for example, is much more readable - using many, noneOf etc. The chapter of the book "Real World Haskell" builds a simple CSV parser: https://book.realworldhaskell.org
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by sn41 4y ago
Eww :) Pun intended! By the way, has anyone used the eaf-browser? I use the other eaf applications like PDF viewer, but for some reason, the eaf-browser seems to eat up a lot of resources.
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by sn41 4y ago
The point about innovation really struck a chord with me. I think most people really hate fundamental change which makes life more difficult. However, users do like convenience: if you make something that is quite onerous to do, but the new
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by sn41 4y ago
I have always noticed it, since I get a stiff back often. Office furniture has improved by a great deal.
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by sn41 4y ago
> I even stopped doing lab work to focus on my exam preparations. This is the main drawback of the qualifier circus. PhD students waste 2-3 years preparing for this arbitrary and nightmarish rite of passage, time that they could have sta
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by sn41 4y ago
If I am not mistaken, he is the researcher behind the actor model. He was also active on HN, I remember.
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by sn41 4y ago
As long as they don't forget to hitch a trailer once they uproot Mt. Fuji...
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by sn41 4y ago
You missed one more social aspect: give too many students an F in a course (for example, for cheating), and the instructors in the following year will let you know what they think.
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by sn41 4y ago
Hey, Thanks for following up! My Vitamin D level is deficient. I want to somehow address this as well, let's see what effect it has.
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by sn41 4y ago
Kelly criterion was originally invented by Daniel Bernoulli (using logarithmic utility) as a resolution to the St. Petersburg Paradox, IIRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
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by sn41 4y ago
How's it for edgy libertarians? (asking for someone I know)
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by sn41 4y ago
I agree, I should have used anonymous function specifically instead of a closure (for example, Ruby/Smalltalk closures are blocks, not functions.) Thanks for the correction.
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by sn41 4y ago
> that’s pretty much it. Only if you ignore 1. variadic arguments as in printf, 2. function pointers which are a very elementary (type-unsafe) form of closures, 3. a nice way of casting to void 4. setjmp and longjmp goodies (?) which al
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by sn41 4y ago
The first. If you have some advice on this, I'll be extremely glad to follow up on it!
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by sn41 4y ago
Great advice. I'll just pass it on to my autoimmune disorder to unclog my sinuses. /s
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by sn41 4y ago
I think Skolem's initial intent in showing the Lowenheim-Skolem theorem (that every structure which has an infinite model has a countably infinite model) was to develop a theory of reals which did not use uncountability.
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by sn41 4y ago
I personally would prefer a Journeyman exit degree option :)
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by sn41 4y ago
His parents are Stanford law professors, so they are smart and educated. But doesn't mean that their child has to listen to them or to behave in an ethical manner.
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by sn41 4y ago
Hey, as long as you're embarrassed , it should be fine. /s
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by sn41 4y ago
Not very surprising. The Vader-Obi Wan light saber fight in the Episode IV is also very closely modeled after Kendo [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendo
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by sn41 4y ago
Ruby has this. Can be surprising to read code ... "Wait.. What? Oh ok."
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by sn41 4y ago
I strongly miss such magazines. Yes, the web is a great resource for anything you want to know. But there is a curated completeness to such magazines, which I wish current websites had. Even popular magazines (I don't wish to name them
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by sn41 4y ago
Another point to add: rodents. This is an issue in large warehouses, in humid climates. Plastic is more resilient against rodents, since it is not edible.

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