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by sykh 8y ago
To be specific it's Brownback and people who think like he does when it comes to economics. Such people are overwhelmingly Republican. I don't know the percentage of people who are Republican who think similarly though so I can&
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by sykh 8y ago
If I was given all the inputs to the system then yes. If it's known that increasing the energy in the system will lead to such events then yes. I may not predict it will occur at this date/time but one can know that such events
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by sykh 8y ago
Isn't the null hypothesis that there is nothing specific to attribute the rain? The person I responded to said that attributing this anomalous weather event to climate change was no different than claims that a cool summer disprove c
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by sykh 8y ago
The increase I spoke of was the increase in energy into the weather system from humans spewing greenhouse gasses into the amtmosphere for the last 200 years or so. How do you know the weather event in question is a random event? Are you f
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by sykh 8y ago
Do you create a statistical test and confidence interval for all of the things you believe to be true? I doubt it. Do you have expertise in all areas? I don’t. I rely on experts. Experts tell me that there is climate change. They tell
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by sykh 8y ago
Larry Page is the rule not the exception? I think you vastly overestimate the number of possible professors who became Larry Pagesque in the U.S. and vastly underestimate the number of potential professors who work for very low wages in th
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by sykh 8y ago
Your last sentence is false. The difference is one of probability. There’s a much greater chance being correct with the climate change attribution over the other one. We have to make conclusions and policies based on evidence and what is
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by sykh 8y ago
What is the goal of your comments? Are you trying to convince people that when there is an increase in anomalous weather patterns we shouldn’t say it’s due to climate change? At what point would you say these things are a result of climat
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by sykh 8y ago
When I lived in Berlin I never drove a car. Never needed one. Public transportation + walking was always a viable solution. Now I live in the U.S. and wish I could get by without having a car. My job is too far away and Uber/Lyft t
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by sykh 8y ago
In what follows I might be wrong on everything. It's just my opinion and I'm not an expert in these matters. The broader issue to me is the seeming inability of people to see any benefits from those in power with politics we don
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by sykh 8y ago
Perhaps you should reevaluate things. It appears your strong, anti-Trump feelings may be clouding your judgment. Trump is a terrible President. He is an emotionally insecure person. He is consumed with a fear of narcissistic injury. He
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by sykh 8y ago
Assuming this is true it does not negate what the person you responded to wrote. It is rational for a person to try to leave a country they feel is not safe.
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by sykh 8y ago
I think it is completely because of Trump. He is unpredictable. He is in charge of a nation with the capability to carry out his threats. He talked to North Korea in the sort of bombastic way they talked to the U.S. for decades. This wa
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by sykh 8y ago
As I understand the phrase, "99% accurate", this is correct. However, I gather that to statisticians this phrase could mean other things. I think the source of the ambiguity comes from whether or not everyone gets tested or some
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by sykh 8y ago
I guess I should say that everyone takes the test. I'm not a statistician, I'm a mathematician. The way I understand the phrase, "the test is 99% accurate" is that this means: assuming everyone were to be tested then 99
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by sykh 8y ago
I updated the problem. Sorry for the mistake.
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by sykh 8y ago
Sorry, you are correct. I'll update the problem.
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by sykh 8y ago
My favorite probability theory problem is related to this article. You have a test for a disease that is 99% accurate. This means that 99% of the time the test gives a correct result. You test positive for the disease and it is known that
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by sykh 8y ago
It’s not a redefining of terms. People abuse language and speak in ways that aren’t necessarily technically correct. For instance many times a person will say “fine” when asked how they are doing even if they really aren’t doing fine. He
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by sykh 8y ago
When someone says tuition is free or that healthcare is free what they mean is that using these services doesn’t cost out of pocket expenses and doesn’t lead to debt. In this sense those services are free.
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by sykh 8y ago
You make a good point but also make a broader, negative point against Google. OP's incorrectness is evidence that Google is obfuscating the purpose of their products. There’s a bewildering amount of names and products. At some point
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by sykh 8y ago
I don’t know the precise definition of overloaded. I was merely claiming that the use of = in an equation, like a polynomial equation, is very much different than the use of = in something like the statement of the distributive property of
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by sykh 8y ago
You wrote: This means that we have proven that x=0. Later you have x=2i or x=-2i. Persisting with the idea that you can view x as an element in the base ring and at the same time allowing its value to change or vary indicates you don’t r
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by sykh 8y ago
I believe you are the only person trained in mathematics in the world that thinks x^2+3x=0 is not a polynomial equation. You don’t understand the underlying algebraic theory. This is evidenced by your claim The "x" in the LHS is
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by sykh 8y ago
You are incorrect. This is not how mathematicians view a polynomial equation like the one I used as an example. That equation does have a solution.
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by sykh 8y ago
Each polynomial has only finitely many variables in it. If you were to work with uncountably many variables I assume one would impose a well ordering on those variables. I’ve never worked with a polynomial ring with uncountably many varia
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by sykh 8y ago
In your example of solving x^3+4x=0 you write ..x=0 is consistent.. You don't see the problem with this? Saying x=0 and that x is an element base ring means that x is the element 0. You can't later in your problem write ".
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Why? Suppose I don't know what R[x] or R(x) is. We certainly don't teach highschoolers what either of those are, and they seem to be able to do "algebra" just fine. We don’t teach high schoolers what is really going on
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by sykh 8y ago
One of the points of my original comment was that when it comes to equations the = does not mean equal in the sense of stating two objects are the same. In the context of an algebraic equation to solve the = sign is really a question. It’
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by sykh 8y ago
Only if you take x=(0,1,0,...) and adopt the convention that any member q of the base field Q is assumed to represent qx^0 = (q,0,0,...). That is to say, x+3 only meets the definition of a polynomial because you insist on interpenetrating

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