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by sobriquet9 2y ago
In USSR, nobody was rich.
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by sobriquet9 2y ago
> every policy that wants to promote equality should revolve solely around class. That was the case in USSR. There were university admission quotas for workers, peasants, etc. In practice, they resulted in discrimination agains Jewish ap
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Why estimate PDF through histogram then convert to CDF, when one can estimate CDF directly? Doing so also avoids having to choose bin width that can have substantial impact.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Are you saying there is some classified science also called history that makes quantitative, testable, falsifiable predictions? Maybe so, but I have no clearance and have not seen it. And it would be completely different from history I stud
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Weather forecasts can easily be compared to actuals, and distribution of residuals can be calculated. That’s how weather forecast models are quantitatively evaluated. A seven day weather forecast has 95% confidence interval of around plus-m
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
If history was about making the connections, those connections could be used to make predictions that could be tested.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
History is not abstract. It does not give you generalizations, abstractions and models, just historical facts. Many of those facts are useful in understanding why things around you are the way they are. The attempts to make history more &qu
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Because history, biology, or foreign languages have easier to understand practical uses. Many math teachers do not know math, and cannot answer the question "what will I need it for?"
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Transmitting and receiving antennas work the same way. Flip the sign of time in Maxwell’s equations, and radio waves will run perfectly backwards.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Because to make good, personalized recommendations they need to know what you don't know, and there isn't a good source of information about it. For example, if you have not seen The Shawshank Redemption, chances are you will like
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
No, it's not paired to the phone, and there is no Garmin app on the phone either.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
You can fire half the commercial pilots, and planes will continue to fly without a hitch. Why have two pilots, when one will do. Trucks have one driver and work just fine. Eventually some planes will crash, but it's ok as long as it ha
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
From cold start. Most starts are not cold. The phone knows where it is, approximately, what time it is (within a second or so, from built-in RTC), and orbital parameters of the satellites overhead (maybe without the latest corrections). My
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
That's not a solution, but more like lots of different solutions, many too complicated to understand . I would suggest split conformal first.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
If you keep doing that for a long time, actuals will fall within the error bars about 95% of the time.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Conformal prediction solves that problem. Split conformal and Jackknife+ are two simplest examples.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
The muzzle is outside the enclosed space, so I don't think it should be particulatly bad.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Not the only problem. Internal combustion engines use oxygen from the air, so vehicles do not have to carry it. The reduction in mass is substantial, and directly translates to less tire and road wear. EVs carry all their chemistry all the
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Of all the apps that I ran, only one banking app has failed in Lockdown mode. Everything else works just fine.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
A lot of that footage is originated on smartphones, GoPro, drone cameras, etc. where hardware and power limitations do not allow one to run expensive encoding algorithms.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Second hand on Grand Seiko quartz watches moves once per second, but makes two jumps. You can see it in slow motion video, but not with a naked eye.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
That's correct, at some point magic license "xUSSR регистрация" (ex-USSR registration) allowed you to register for free. Quoting from memory, the exact text may have been slightly different. The idea was to let people from fo
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Calculus is not heavy math. It describes everyday physics - coordinate, velocity, acceleration, curvature. Stuff you can touch. And it describes unrelated abstract concepts like PDF and CDF, in a way you can intuitively understand by rearra
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
If you are talking about CRUD, sure. But there is software in self-driving cars, 3D printers, drones, etc. that uses vector calculus and differential equations heavily. Same with applied statistics. For example, if your software has anythin
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
It's only true for integration, and not even all of it. Differentiation can be done mechanically, and killer app of calculus (finding maximum) only requires differentiation.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
I don't get why calculus is considered to be so hard that a new education path around it should be built. Sure, if you do rigorous development from axioms up it might be, but that's not the way one should start. After all, we teac
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
If you have no money to bet, the example is not applicable.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
Kelly criterion defines the optimum ratio.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
If you have nothing in your checking account, it does not mean your wealth is zero. In real life you can earn more money, in the given example you can't.
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by sobriquet9 3y ago
> The only solution: eat the rich. The only? Maybe not bet 100% of your wealth every time? That's what Kelly criterion is about.

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