tnecniv

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by tnecniv 3y ago
My guess is that it’s an open secret kind of thing. There’s not a big sign that says “nukes here!” but when you see stuff like the previous poster mentioned, you can guess what’s going on.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Yeah and the league hates it, so they deadened the ball two years back. Just enough that close homers would go for fly outs but not enough to change the math so players would change their approach. Also, if you’re Mookie Betts, you’re big o
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Yeah or the other way around. I thought I saw orcs kek’ing as an alliance character. They’d mangle text spoken in languages you didn’t know, and horde / alliance did not have any language overlap.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Kind of funny given the guy who invented pasteurization
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I think that was the original idea of the term in the West as well, we just got it distorted via sci-fi over time
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by tnecniv 3y ago
In hindsight, that’s because high school calculus doesn’t teach you how things work and just teaches you a bag of tricks so you can grind through problems. There’s a certain number of tricks you should know, I.e., you should be able to take
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by tnecniv 3y ago
In fact, a lot of such users would find the revolt offensive because it interrupts their regularly scheduled memes
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Or you get distracted and move on to a different project. Thats the biggest reason I never followed up on my future work ideas in papers.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I advise doing what the others said. Encourage him and have fun and don’t worry about whether or not a game gets made. When he’s playing games, you might point out how you think the developer implemented things (even simple things). I got i
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by tnecniv 3y ago
To be fair, that’s a common enough problem in games it’s developed a name: ludonarrative dissonance
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by tnecniv 3y ago
This phenomena gets more interesting when you considering increasingly global markets for things like TV and movies. For example, I read about ten years ago (so I don’t have the source, sorry), that humor in big Hollywood movies has been tr
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I don’t know if it’s true or a common myth, but US soldiers in the Battle of the Buldge would ask possible spies baseball questions. Even if you were an American that didn’t like baseball, it was absolutely massive back then and would know
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Actually religions, or at least the ones I know about in some detail, don’t model that much. For example, Christianity doesn’t really model the afterlife beyond being Heaven being in the presence of the Lord. I think Eastern religions are s
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I messed around with Go early on but haven’t touched it since (I mostly do numerical work these days) but this tracks with what I expected from the language. It felt reactionary to the C++ monster. It felt like the early goal was to make th
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Here, u is presumably utility and t is time
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by tnecniv 3y ago
That’s the programming part. As others have shared, the “Dynamic” part was made up by Bellman so it sounded important and politicians wouldn’t try to cut his funding. It’s often applied to dynamical systems, but that’s a coincidence.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I think that CS classes also teach it really poorly. I did not understand it at all until I took an optimal control class and it instantly made sense
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I also agree with one of the parents that Villevenue’s was sterile, however the book itself is kind of sterile — as lots of SF of the era was. The world building is incredible, and Villevenue captures all that well in the sets, costumes, an
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by tnecniv 3y ago
My memory in the naming traditions was also that men got their own names but daughters were just given the family name with a nickname to distinguish, which is incredibly dehumanizing.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I don’t know about fights like that but gladiators often didn’t fight to the death. It’s shockingly like major sports today — they sold commemorative cups and other art at the stadium for popular gladiators. Contestants dying was bad busine
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by tnecniv 3y ago
It’s certainly the best of the symbolic computational tools that I’ve tried. However, my problem with such tools is that that they work great for simple examples in my experience but scaling them to work with non-trivial systems is rough. I
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Eh I think there’s a good chance they’re less vocal about it. My father is a lawyer and he chose between going into a legal career and doing a PhD in philosophy. If you asked him, he’d tell you he wished he didn’t latter now that he’s neari
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by tnecniv 3y ago
When postdoc positions first were created, they were illusive and of high prestige. Then the idea got abused to add labor for professors to varying degrees depending on the field.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I just wanted to comment regarding the rule you mentioned and wanted to say that I was always told that, unofficially, you can always move up but only a tier at a time and you don’t want to move down if you can avoid it because then you lik
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by tnecniv 3y ago
When I was still a PhD student, my advisor lamented that he couldn’t find postdocs to hire because big tech was paying them more for the same role with minimal constraints. If that kept going for a while, I imagine it’d put pressure on at l
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by tnecniv 3y ago
That does always seem to work in the movies
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Coincidentally, I was rewatching the first season of True Detective last night and they were talking about this in the show. I almost turned it off because it was too real for me at the moment.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Well I should clarify. There are jobs that I can do certainly, but very few that I’ve thought would given me the internal satisfaction of what academia used to give me (and I think could give me again). Before I was hired as a postdoc I app
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Yeah I’m not sure I’d go the tenure route anyway. I’d rather do research than manage people doing research on my half-baked ideas. Fortunately, in my field, there’s options to publish as an industry research. Unfortunately, those jobs dried
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I started my postdoc in August, but the burnout started earlier, a few months before writing my dissertation. Congrats on finishing your degree (almost)! I also have kind of esoteric interests in my field but it mostly hasn’t bothered me. I

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