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by swatow 12y ago
I understand that, and agree to some extent, and yet universities don't claim to give preference to East Asians or South Asians (actually they discriminate against these groups, but that is another matter). Usually universities would
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by swatow 12y ago
Actually I've heard from sources I consider reliable, that there is a specific number, that people know, that you have to donate to guarantee entry of you child. It's really the logical conclusion of considering these factors in
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by swatow 12y ago
I thought that affirmative action was a well established part of almost all university admissions. Seems disingenuous of them to put minority in scare quotes, when affirmative action is not something that universities are coy about talking
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by swatow 12y ago
I'm somewhat new to the field, so this might not be properly phrased, but isn't totality an inherent part of full dependent types?
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by swatow 12y ago
I already made an explicit exception for dependent type theory: >Yes, in some cases deep math is applicable to CS, e.g. dependent type theory Homotopy type theory is an extension/variation of dependent type theory.
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by swatow 12y ago
no, according to the theory, "psychology" plays no role. People are assumed to have some information (signals) that inform them about the stock price. The efficient market hypothesis assumes that the stock price equals the expec
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by swatow 12y ago
I wasn't initially attempting to shut the poster down because they weren't a professional. In later posts I did devolve into saying "well you're not there, man ". What I was initially criticizing was the false hu
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by swatow 12y ago
see my other reply in this thread for deep vs shallow math. Yes, in some cases deep math is applicable to CS, e.g. dependent type theory, or the theory or Restricted Boltzman Machines applied to Deep Belief Networks. In many cases, my orig
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by swatow 12y ago
I can't continue a discussion with someone with your attitude. You're not reading what I'm writing carefully, or providing meaningful answers yourself. You've just classified me as someone who needs to be talked down t
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by swatow 12y ago
If anything it focuses more on the latter. Moving towards equilibrium isn't actually a meaningful concept in most of economics, since equilibrium is just the technical term for what happens when everyone acts in their own interest (e.
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by swatow 12y ago
>E.g. lots of people use node.js because its in a language they're familiar with and it fills a niche (lightweight process that can accept and process many incoming requests). I use Erlang for those needs, which actually existed bef
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by swatow 12y ago
Here's my take on PHP: - It was the only way to throw together a webapp easily for a long time. - It is actually pretty efficient for this purpose. - Much later Python and Node became viable alternatives. - As soon as they did, people
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by swatow 12y ago
Reading in context, I was talking about languages holistically. You can't entirely separate a language from its context, e.g. JS is the only scripting language that runs in browser (as I highlighted in my original post). And do people
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by swatow 12y ago
The efficient market hypothesis states the value of a stock is the expected future dividends given all public information (or all private information, if you prefer the strong form). This is a good example of how academic economics think be
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by swatow 12y ago
I'm not arguing against your right to complain that software is bad from the user's perspective. But that wasn't your point. You claimed there was something wrong with the software industry, that their failure to produce be
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by swatow 12y ago
is there something particular about Number3s that applies to this discussion? In general I like it when people explain to me what I don't know. Unfortunately I don't have time to watch the whole show. To answer you question, an
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by swatow 12y ago
This is partly what I'm arguing against (along with the premature belief that we already have a good enough model). I don't see any reason why there would ever be a model that didn't look like our existing models (say in eco
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by swatow 12y ago
As practical matter, Idris is a new experimental language while Haskell is a mature, stable language with a useful standard library. But fundamentally Idris is theoretically more advanced than Haskell. The core differences are 1. Idris fun
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by swatow 12y ago
When I mentioned I wouldn't be continuing with Economics after I graduated, one professor asked my why. I said that I had wanted to find a theory with the same mathematical elegance as classical economics (i.e. general equilibrium the
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by swatow 12y ago
For me it's the assumption that if since a particular circumstance triggered an interesting social interaction, that the lack of that circumstance would mean that no interesting social interaction would occur. At the base, it's th
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by swatow 12y ago
Regarding enterprise software, as a user you can say what you thin about the software, but how can you make claims about how things might be better? You could only make that sort of claim if you understood something about what it was like
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by swatow 12y ago
It's false humility in the sense that you emphasize that you are not a professional, and then go on to precisely attack professionals for their judgement in what languages and frameworks to use and comment on. I can't comment on e
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by swatow 12y ago
could you explain how the study you quoted relates to the study in the article? I don't see any clear relation.
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by swatow 12y ago
I understand the concern. For reference, what are the worst patents that Facebook owns? Do they own patents that should not have been granted?
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by swatow 12y ago
It's just my own view that I developed based on everything I've experienced. It can't be boiled down to a single assumption, or a single piece of empirical evidence. I studied economics so I'm very influenced by econom
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by swatow 12y ago
Software isn't a game, it's an industry. People use particular languages, frameworks, etc. because it makes them more productive. As a professional, I also can't follow every single trend (e.g. I've got no idea what Ch
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by swatow 12y ago
disclaimer: I've never written a line of Perl. When I look at the programming world, my primary instinct is that if something is popular, then there must be something good about it. Take JavaScript. In spite of its limitations as a l
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by swatow 12y ago
>Every year at my school I did exactly that. Once I actually turned in my solutions and my math teacher was quite upset because she didn't know what I'd do for the rest of the year in her class. She thought I was being arrogan
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by swatow 12y ago
>People hate direct taxes on themselves and don't notice indirect taxes they pay. I think this is the key. And any restriction can be an indirect tax, e.g. the requirement to serve the whole city, not just the areas that the ISP ch
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by swatow 12y ago
For some context, that is 1/27 of Facebook's monthly users, or 1/10 of Google Plus'. EDIT: was "1/270 of Facebook's monthly users", now corrected.

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