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by sn41 4y ago
While I share the general concern about climate change, talk of population collapse in South Asia is all too familiar to be taken seriously at face value. In fact: life in South Asia has slowly been improving since Independence. Before inde
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by sn41 4y ago
Most of the comments here are about law enforcement. I would like to point out that it might be a boon for dictation software. This may make it easier to dictate text/code etc. in any environment.
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by sn41 4y ago
Right now, nuclear fusion reactors seems to be the thing that's ripe for investment. There are a lot of promising advances, maybe a Project Manhattan-style push might be worth trying.
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by sn41 4y ago
I think H. S. M. Coxeter's books are good sources for training in geometry, leading to ideas in groups. I haven't looked at this book by Stillwell, so I am not aware of the difficulty of problems presented in this book. There is a
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by sn41 4y ago
From the surname, Melkonian sounds ethnic Armenian. So it may not be a case of "a random American".
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by sn41 4y ago
I am not a professional writer, but among the paid tools I have used in the past, I find Scrivener to be pretty nice in helping me organize views. I however find its LaTeX support not very satisfactory, but probably that is not their main t
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by sn41 4y ago
This is a very thoughtful take on the issue. My personal experience corroborates with this - CS conferences have more of these culture issues than mathematics journals, where the reviews tend to more thoughtful, and at the same time, consi
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by sn41 4y ago
Peer review is useful, no doubt. It is only reviewer anonymity that probably should be re-examined.
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by sn41 4y ago
I've been in academic research for 22 years. Based on my experience, I'll go out on a limb and say that even single-blind reviews are to be discarded. This is leading to quite irresponsible reviews. Instead, authored and credited
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by sn41 4y ago
I think this article won the AMS Steele prize for exposition.
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by sn41 4y ago
Great suggestion, thanks!!! I'm about to teach simply-typed lambda calculus and fixed-point combinators in my class. This book is a great suggestion (as are all books by Smullyan). Shame that the pace of courses today and bite-size you
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by sn41 4y ago
yes... I come from the tropics. I have always fantasized abput escaping to Alaska where 'there would be no mosquitoes'. But then I saw Grizzly Man. More frightening than the bear was the fact that the couple were wearing nets to c
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by sn41 4y ago
Prague?
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by sn41 4y ago
Since you mention it as an excuse, what do you think the real issue is?
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by sn41 4y ago
The minimum wage of about $7.25 per hour, 40 hrs per week, 52 weeks comes to $15,080 which is around 12,000 GBP. So the pension is 2.5 times the minimum wage level. Please note: I am not attacking the article or the poor lady - I am just po
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by sn41 4y ago
yes, according to officialdata.org, 225 pounds in 1860 would be approximately 30,000 pounds today [1]. Admittedly, not enough for a family with seven children, but an annual income of 30,000 pounds is hardly "extreme penury" excep
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by sn41 4y ago
Because without Netflix, it would be a bit awkward. I've always felt that leaving Microsoft out was a bit problematic. But FAAMG does not sound very threatening.
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by sn41 4y ago
Snowcrash vibes. If you read an email too fast or too slow, you could be fired.
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by sn41 4y ago
Or, you know, lie on a couch. Actual leisure is not a sin!
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by sn41 4y ago
A lot of animals and birds have a quick dip and groom. There's a water lily pond outside our family home, where in the evening, magpie robins drink and have a dip - sometimes, multiple times.
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by sn41 4y ago
Hmm.. What's the difference between this and a homomorphism? Are there homomorphisms which are not isogenies? I'm still not very clear on this.
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by sn41 4y ago
Just a tangential request: is there any curated playlist consisting of such good podcasts? I have a difficult time discovering interesting podcasts. (Maybe that's an interesting project)
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by sn41 4y ago
Huh. It never occurred to me that Deckard could be a replicant. That truly did come out of left field :D But it makes sense.
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by sn41 4y ago
Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) anecdote about Diogenes the cynic: Diogenes was eating bread and lentils, when Aristippus told him that if he would only be subservient to the king, he would not have to live on bread and lentils. Diogenes re
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by sn41 4y ago
I eventually decided to do theoretical CS for my research, but all of these books showed me as a student what attention to detail really meant. In fact, the typesetting of these books also made me look into groff and play around with it. I
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by sn41 4y ago
Shame is the worst self-censor there is. I often talk to myself to ignore a sense of shame while imploring for a due payment etc. Things do work that way, but I admit, it's not a happy process.
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by sn41 4y ago
Many of the cliches about other movie industries were actually imported from early Hollywood. The large eyes in most anime is what happened when the Japanese adopted the style from the early Disney movies. Early Bollywood movie style was ju
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by sn41 4y ago
I wonder... SSRIs seemed to work for me in the short term, but over the long run, anhedonia has made a rather strong comeback. Most things don't seem worth pursuing - it's not actually despair, but a torpid languor.
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by sn41 4y ago
IMHO, the best cars in the world are still Toyotas - not the bleeding edge, mind you, just more reliability, overall "gets out of the way and does the job" in the most effective manner possible.
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by sn41 4y ago
I am really excited about this. I wanted to share a rather complicated walking route around a campus, and it was far from a rectangular grid. Just created the route and shared it with my friend. It's rather a shame that Google maps or

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