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by topaz0 5y ago
The world is very large. Possibly most of it has moved on from Java, but I am frequently surprised by how often I encounter it in scientific applications. For example, ImageJ and micro-manager are very important players in the microscopy wo
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by topaz0 5y ago
From the essay: >> Saying “colleges shouldn’t disinvite speakers because of controversy” is a good specific action item; we can debate it. Saying “Ken, stop piling on 20-follower Twitter accounts when they say stupid things” is an act
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by topaz0 5y ago
Maybe this a good place to start: https://www.science.org/content/article/michigan-s-surprisin...
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by topaz0 5y ago
And the surface area to volume ratio grows without bound
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by topaz0 5y ago
To be clear, I mean to say that they are intent on misunderstanding one proposal from the talk, which is a small piece of what the talk is about. They take that one piece and make unflattering assumptions about its context -- assumptions wh
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by topaz0 5y ago
I agree that DEI programs rarely take this form, but there are places where this is really the model, including in my program. Even then I would not claim that it is practiced perfectly, but it seems to do a pretty good job of emphasizing t
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by topaz0 5y ago
This is a great way of thinking about diversity. As a physics phd student myself I have observed this a lot -- that the students who put together a fantastic dissertation project are often not the ones who come in with a great transcript or
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by topaz0 5y ago
And the companies should be taxed enough to pay for it. But in this country it's hard to make the case for that I'd think.
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by topaz0 5y ago
I think the linked piece makes an important point, but I disagree that that point is relevant here. "Your argument pattern-matches to tu quoque" is probably an unhelpful thing to say, but what GP says is more like: "Your poin
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by topaz0 5y ago
I know the article doesn't really talk much about dark mode in the end, but the title in context does sort of imply that Dark mode is Millennial mode. I whole-heartedly agree. I never got the hype.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Maybe you're not the target audience. I quite enjoyed it.
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by topaz0 5y ago
It should be, although I have had recent experiences where I give all relevant information at the beginning of the exchange but they still ask for it piece by piece because that's what's in their script. Possibly this is because t
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by topaz0 5y ago
I've also experienced this. I wonder if this phenomenon leads to an overwhelming selection bias in what questions actually get to stackoverflow or irc or slack or whatever. It could be that the majority of people are good at asking goo
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by topaz0 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity Anecdotally, I started encountering this terminology about 5 years ago I think. The linked wikipedia says it was coined in 1999.
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by topaz0 5y ago
The CPUSA? You've got to be kidding me.
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by topaz0 5y ago
That may have been the case for the original poster, but the discussion has been about tracking generally.
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by topaz0 5y ago
This seems to have a good explainer: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/probing-question-wha...
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by topaz0 5y ago
We called this "nuts". Same idea, but only 4 solitaire-style piles and 11 in the "nuts pile". First to clear the nuts pile gets bonus 10 points, Kings played on the table count for 5. Otherwise all the same.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Aren't comments closed after a couple weeks anyway?
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by topaz0 5y ago
Fair enough!
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I'm familiar with (and partial to) the geometric algebra literature, but I think it's a bit disingenuous/clickbaity to say that it implies imaginary numbers aren't real. I think of it as meaning that the algebra of the i
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by topaz0 5y ago
On the other hand, it is extremely configurable, whatever else you might think about it.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Right -- you need to run the argument again.
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by topaz0 5y ago
It seems that a lot of commenters here have not read the post, and are simply posting their own opinions about how to answer the question in the title. If that is you, and you are interested in the question, I recommend reading it in full -
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by topaz0 5y ago
You may not have read very far into the post, because I think it deals quite well with these issues, if not in the same terms.
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by topaz0 5y ago
It is easy to generalize, but it is not being generalized here.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Your assertions are simply not true in the context of complex analysis. It is common to use "inverse" to refer to the multiplicative inverse as shorthand (though potentially confusing). a a^-1 = 1 is absolutely and uncontroversial
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by topaz0 5y ago
"I would just" [do this slightly more complicated transformation] really misses the point. Nobody disputes the fact that you could turn any given human-readable pdf into an untraceable version. E.g. you could copy it all out lon
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by topaz0 5y ago
I wondered the same thing. I use tidal and think that it is good.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Hired as a duct-taper, he turned himself into a box-ticker by doing this automation.

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