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by snakeboy 8y ago
> Movements like the Yellow Vest protesters in France, for instance, have a bigger and easier target to attack because the country’s economic and political power is concentrated in Paris. In this case, wouldn't this be a feature of
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by snakeboy 8y ago
The wikipedia page for Markov chains is really one of the best wikipedia pages I've ever seen for a technical topic. Covers a ton of ground, and gives concrete examples to motivate the ideas.
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by snakeboy 8y ago
The adoption of slavery can reduce employment rate to 0 quite effectively.
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by snakeboy 8y ago
Nah, it's generally not very economical to do so. They serve primarily as a evening/weekend social hub, much like a restaurant. If you want to get plastered, you're much better off doing that in a private residence, in my e
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by snakeboy 8y ago
> And that NYC was too tainted by its banking culture and the drive to make money. Doesn't this imply fairly clearly that he believes the Bay Area is not plagued by these two things?
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by snakeboy 8y ago
It looks like a typo. "You're right" was intended, not "Your right".
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by snakeboy 8y ago
I enjoyed one of the replies, > The reason balance of the system is important: if it's going to be used for payments, you don't want to have large changes in the value of the coins. It would lead to distortions, I believe, by c
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by snakeboy 8y ago
"This is a nice neighborhood you've got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it..."
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by snakeboy 8y ago
Haha, were those 'folks around' you on the west coast, perhaps?
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by snakeboy 8y ago
I find it a bit humorous that Peter Thiel is "bullish" on life-extension research while fervently backing a party that is doing everything in its power to make Earth uninhabitable in the near future.
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by snakeboy 8y ago
I think they meant that he can argue for those principles rationally, even though he has an ideological bias towards them.
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by snakeboy 8y ago
This scene would actually make a really cool test case!
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by snakeboy 8y ago
Nocedal & Wright [1] is generally considered the definitive text for reference, at least. Very clear and complete from what I recall. [1] https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387303031
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by snakeboy 8y ago
In my college experience, it would take approximately 6-8 hours for a game. Usually about 6-7 hours deep, there would be 3-4 players remaining, and 2-3 of those would join forces to eliminate the weakest player and call it a night.
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by snakeboy 8y ago
"Data Scientist" should do the trick.
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by snakeboy 8y ago
Good article! This part makes me laugh though >Here's something that, as a kid, I couldn't get anyone to explain to me: "Why can't you signal using an entangled pair of photons that both start out polarized up-down?
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by snakeboy 8y ago
The above poster explicitly responded to one specific line of skepticism and is not telling them to give up all skepticism. You are the only one trying to make this about "PC thinking".
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by snakeboy 8y ago
I'll second Tom Holland. I read "Rubicon" not too long ago. I would recommend pairing it with Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast series on the era for an extremely cohesive and engaging account of the Roman republic&
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by snakeboy 8y ago
Unfortunately commercial-grade non-invasive EEG headsets can only reliably respond to things like intense emotional changes and the difference between sleep/awake state, but not much more than that. Awhile ago I had some moderate succ
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by snakeboy 8y ago
Last May I bought a 2015 Macbook Pro 13" on sale for $1100 from Best Buy. Humorously it had a higher user review score on their website than the 2016 model (4.6/5 vs 4.5/5) and was ~$1300 cheaper. From everything I've h
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by snakeboy 8y ago
> According to Reid, she was the victim of “hackers”: somehow, nefarious disinformation agents managed to hack not her blog (which is now deleted), but rather the Wayback Machine and its digital archive. They penetrated the Wayback Machi
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Claims Her Website Was Hacked, Bigoted Anti-LGBT Content Added(theintercept.com)
3 points by snakeboy 8y ago|1 comments
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I know Booz Allen Hamilton launched a company-wide initiative with General Assembly for a data science course [1]. From my limited understanding of the content, I believe it is aimed at providing a very rudimentary introduction to the fiel
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by snakeboy 9y ago
That is what he implied.
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by snakeboy 9y ago
Yes, last year at my university we used Baby Rudin for the undergraduate real analysis sequence, and Tao's books for the graduate level sequence.
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by snakeboy 9y ago
Especially since the cabin footage shows the person in the vehicle was only glancing at the road every several seconds.
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by snakeboy 9y ago
I finally got back into RSS and started using Digg Reader less than a week before getting the notification it was shutting down. Sigh... What even are the options for free RSS readers these days?
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by snakeboy 9y ago
However in this setup, anyone can bring a smartphone in and take a picture of the screen when it displays anything that separates your id from a fake one. Sounds like you might be on the right track if you can get over that hurdle somehow.
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by snakeboy 9y ago
Can you elaborate? Do you mean the advantages given to the benefactors of inherited wealth cause society to suffer?
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In addition, driving in the comfort of your own car with your own music is genuinely more enjoyable than working in a greasy fast food kitchen.

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