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by tnecniv 9y ago
Actually nobody who worked on the movie could decide on what Deckard is. The writers originally wanted to make it ambiguous, and Ridley Scott made his opinion known by adding the dream sequence in the directors cut. There are sequel books,
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> Otherwise, I think it is what it is, just like people don't get up in arms about Boxing. Doctors have warned about the long term health implications of boxing since the 50s, but nobody seems bothered by it. Boxing also isn't
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> Don't you think any kind of challenge in a team setting would have provided the same growth without the side effect of possibly irreversible brain damage? Different sports are different. I don't think that's hard to beli
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Well he's only a student so somewhere between $30k and $40k, maybe a touch more if he gets a fellowship. Also, how much professors make varies quite a bit. An engineering professor might make $100k from the university. If they are part
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I'm amazed he had time to play and do a PhD at MIT. I imagine even in the off season those guys are very busy.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I was reading a comment on a jazz album and it essentially said "expertly done but doesn't move the genre forward so meh." I think people forget that sometimes you just want a good, standard jazz album.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
There's a name for this phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Interestingly, only the US and Japan have gendered scouting organizations. (Might be wrong on this, it's been at least a decade since I learned that)
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Yes, they were at IAS at the same time, along with Weyl, Einstein, and Godel. I think he met the latter two a few times but did not work with them. He did discuss ideas with Weyl and von Neumann, though.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Hell, Shannon's masters thesis [1] is probably the most important masters thesis ever written and it cites six references. [1] https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11173/3454142...
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Won't the headgear just make your head a larger target to glancing blows, not the big direct hits? Also, the worst part of the headgear, in my opinion, is I find it way harder to breath when it's on and I can confirm that I'v
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Football does have lateral passing, but yes, tactically it is much rarer.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
That may be fair. I only read the first paper with the spaceships and mazes, which are much more traditional problems. It sounds like the second paper is the more interesting one from your description though, so I will give that a read.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
And public violence is a common sentiment over there, too. Not even in a joking way. If prompted, they will inform you that peaceful methods will never work and fighting in the streets is necessary to seize the means.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I agree. Besides (PO)MDPs, the control people also get into neural networks whenever they come in vogue. This thesis from 2000 was the first hit for "reinforcement learning control theory" from google: http://www.cs.col
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Moreover, data-driven control isn't a new concept. It's not my field so I can't comment on what's new here, but I've heard about learning dynamics and rewards in a control theory context plenty of times.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
There's only so much you can put in a blog or lecture series. Most college courses don't even cover a whole book (in STEM subjects).
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> or are the two genders equally represented among Math Elite and girls twice as likely to have strong verbal skills? Going straight by the numbers, it seems like the former. Assuming you define math elite to be PhDs holders, this AMS st
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by tnecniv 9y ago
This was also not a prolonged war (lasted about a year and a half). Japan had to commit all its forces to the (successful) campaign. Russia was forced to surrender due to internal conflict and a stagnant economy, but had much more manpower
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> It is one of those careers where you either make it before you are 25 or you are replaced. Unless you are some prodigy who started college early, you won't even have a PhD until you are 27 and many STEM fields tend to require mult
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by tnecniv 9y ago
He means put a bullet in the envelope as some vague threat.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
"By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race." -- Whitehead
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Alternatively, they might have looked at their publications / spoke with them and determined they have the research chops and want to figure out if they will destroy the code base or not in the process. It's unclear what problem t
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by tnecniv 9y ago
They're typically also (if done well) about making arguments using sources and thinking logically -- both valuable skills. "Real" math is also about those things, but it's typically not presented that way until it's
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I said meaningful :P
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by tnecniv 9y ago
But is raising graduation rates the goal or is raising the education level of the population the goal? If we wanted to raise graduation rates, we could just hand out degrees after two weeks and no exams.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> How sad to think that some people think that community college intermediate algebra is so abstract that people can't get it. I agree, but I don't think more motivation is a bad thing. I hated math (even as an engineer) despit
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by tnecniv 9y ago
How do you teach statistics in any meaningful way other than with algebra?
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I remembered when I joined, /r/marijuana was a default subreddit...
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I'm curious. What prompted you to write this? It's not everyday where someone sits down and says "I want to write a MILP modeling system"

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