unixbeard1337

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by unixbeard1337 1y ago
Yeah, but this is specifically about pure mathematics. Do Google and medical companies publish pure math research?
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by unixbeard1337 3y ago
Sorting went up for men but down for women? I'm not sure I want to start a DEI fight but I'm also not sure I can think of another answer. EDIT: part time work, apparently.
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by unixbeard1337 5y ago
I find it difficult to believe that most theoretical physicists are wrong and one guy in the math department at Columbia + the comments section of a venture capital link aggregator are right. It could be; it just doesn't seem very like
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by unixbeard1337 5y ago
>This is not something to ignore and dismiss, unless you think Zuck is a complete idiot. Well...
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by unixbeard1337 5y ago
I'm pro-YIMBY, but building more will only solve part of the problem. The problem it won't solve is that our winner-take-all economy is winner-take-all for cities, too. Everyone is pouring into the top n metro areas and even the
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by unixbeard1337 6y ago
What aspect of nature does the sensitivity conjecture describe?
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by unixbeard1337 6y ago
I was thinking of Roman moneylenders like Seneca as I wrote that. But they didn't lend money for "means of production" like steam engines etc. Everything was all slave power. But even if we allow Rome as capitalism (which I d
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by unixbeard1337 6y ago
The key feature of capitalism is the economy is defined by capital, i.e. money that makes money, preferably at scale. That didn't exist in any sustained, important way until the early modern period in Europe.
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by unixbeard1337 6y ago
The hard thing isn't the wheel, it's the axle. For that, you need a precision that it's difficult to get without at least bronze tools.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
> The CS program for undergrad in Havard is exactly the same as your closer public college. I've taken community college CS, and I've taken CS50 (online). I did not find this to be the case.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
My read on this is pretty complex. On the one hand, my verbal ability is off the charts - I never scored lower than an 800 on a PSAT or SAT. My math ability is good but not great. For some time I've felt I'd have been better serve
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
The one guy better not sleep.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
There is worse misunderstanding/bikeshedding upwards in the thread, although it's more artfully worded. And at least one of the replies to this refers to useful resources. This is, in fact, exactly why math should be posted on HN.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
It's analogous to McDonald's selling you a dining room and then regulating what food you can eat in it.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
>High-level, what makes Forth interesting? What are it’s major strengths and weaknesses? Strengths: Lisp-level metaprogramming facilities while also being extremely fast and close to the metal. Weakness: the Perl problem (write-only) but
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
>That's what the free will debate in philosophy is about: whether there's a coherent conception of free volition that can justify holding an actor morally responsible for their choices. Well, I don't care about that questi
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
A lot of this is about moral philosophy, which doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in causality. But I don't see why determinism would mean you can't be held morally responsible, or "free will" would be ne
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
It's not obvious to me where your other comment addresses my thought experiment.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
Calvinists and Sunni Muslims don't believe in free will. Neither one as a class could be said to be in a nihilistic funk.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
>I don't see why. Free will is a choice made for our own reasons that isn't coerced by another actor's will. This is exactly why free will evaporates. Your decision making apparatus and the factors that go into your choice
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
The Tocharians used an Indic script. We know what the letters mean for Indic languages, so we can get a pretty good idea of what Tocharian sounded like. Pretty good.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
Via Yiddish, I believe.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
Lots of weird fox lore around the world. In Chinese folklore, they can pass for human (often as attractive women) and ensnare people in various wiles.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
Manuscripts had to be copied, and the copyists were Confucians who, as a class, had little interest in such things.
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by unixbeard1337 7y ago
Houston doesn't have zoning, but does have fairly stringent land-use regulations on single-family homes (min. lot size, setbacks, etc.) See: https://marketurbanism.com/2016/09/19/how-houston-regulates-...