throwlaplace

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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>That is not because it's cheap to live in London (it's not) but rather because it's very very cheap to hire developers there. lol those are exactly the same thing
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
lol what kind of person doubles down on a mistake/error/bias after being shown that error? do you really want me to now go and show you how many academics there are that publish papers using latex? or even publish papers in latex
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
there are plenty of people that appreciate "dry academic papers" - they're called academics. there are also plenty of blogs written by academic types that aim for minimalism.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
hmm i wish i weren't so shit at webdev or i would take this and turn plug it into jekyll's markdown compiler. i guess it shouldn't be that hard.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
Lol you linked the article that this hn post is a link to
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
this is his article in the princeton companion to mathematics https://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Timot... a great (even if expensive) math book
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>will drive down wages everywhere to the level of the cheapest locations where talent can be found god forbid we earn the same as everyone else with our skills instead of an arbitrarily inflated quantity thanks to luck of the draw wrt la
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
you're a white guy that moved from slovenia with a degree already and $3000 in cash. slovenia isn't moldova or romania or ukraine - gdp per capita ppp is 36k. your $3000 is twice the median savings of black people and hispanics in
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>In the five centuries between Caesar's conquest and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the Gaulish language and cultural identity underwent a syncretism with the Roman culture of the new governing class, and evolved into a h
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
this is like people comparing the indigenous african slave trade to the triangle trade - completely facile. >Rome colonised southern europe colonization in the ancient world wasn't rapacious like it was in the new world. conquered p
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>"moved off their land" "Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides ... they ceased to procreate. As for the newly born, t
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
this is the most pointless comment genre on hn. who really has a problem disambiguating when searching with other keywords? it's not like search engine are hashtables. have you ever been unable to find the right thing after adding at m
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
i don't know if you missed it but there was a 2 month worldwide lockdown just recently. when is the last time there was a lockdown for flu? even if the curves are shifted versions of each other up until now do you really think that loc
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
small tails. maybe. it could be anything though with the right parameters.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>Secondarily, the fact that the polynomial is described as cubic, when it appears to be quadratic. wut. a quadratic only has one inflection point. that plotted curve clearly has 2.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-daily-covid-cases-p... there you go (may 9) df=pd.read_csv("~/Downloads/total-daily-covid-cases-per-million.csv") df.sort_values(['Date', &#x
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>Forces are physical things Me thinks thou doth protest too much https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_work#Principle_of_vi... Me also thinks you have no clue what you're talking about
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
indeed why shouldn't i?
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
Right and wrong are the rules we play by that "they" set so that we police ourselves
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
i'm successful now. i'd be more successful if i cheated/lied. why shouldn't i?
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
anyone else ever think to themselves that there's no point in being honest when it's seemingly so easy to get ahead by being dishonest? like what is even the point of working hard and playing by all of the rules when people like t
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
Grad. In undergrad I had less than zero clue.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
Where did I say blame? I essentially said we should take responsibility for our part. So far I've seen many people say things like "it's not my problem I only do as I'm told" absolving themselves of the responsibili
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
i'm constantly so frustrated by the lack of imagination of people on this forum. employees of some company consented more or less just as much as we did - they consented by staying in the employ and we consented by voting/not voti
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
brilliant! talk about civil disobedience if like hundreds of thousands applied
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds' -Robert Oppenheimer we did this to ourselves. we built these tools that are now at the disposal of people with malicious intentions. in another thread about surveillance of WFH empl
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>If I may, how did you prep for those chats? What did you .. say when you got there? Read some of their papers and bring followups to their conclusions? like I said the way to approach this is to try to identify with the person you'
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
I was a physics undergrad too. At the time I thought getting into a top school was about being a genius. Now that I'm at a top school (for CS) that I got into through networking I wish someone had told me back then because I might&#x27
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
easiest way to jump tiers is networking i.e. person to person conversations with PIs. if you're able to represent yourself well and describe your own research articulately and authoritatively it'll make up for a great deal of the

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