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by vlasev 12y ago
I think the person is confusing needing animals for food versus needing animals in general. We certainly don't enslave and eat ALL animals.
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by vlasev 12y ago
There are two options on the extremes 1. Keep the HUD in focus and the road out of focus. Your eyes are still seeing a lot of road information that doesn't necessarily need the high fidelity. This is relatively safer than looking away
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by vlasev 12y ago
IMO Bill Thurston is saying people are people first and mathematicians second. People often feel the need to contribute to the world and mathematicians often wonder how they can do it through mathematics. And of course he says it's not
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by vlasev 12y ago
I both agree and disagree. On one hand I disagree because mathematics is abstraction built on top of abstraction many times over. It can be incredibly dense with information. An example comes to mind - Stokes' theorem. It's an ama
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by vlasev 13y ago
Really? It seems that the pdf is somewhat broken (24 pages is 12 pages of the proper paper and the next 12 are from a slightly older version(it seems))
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by vlasev 13y ago
For what it's worth, the graph (Figure 4) on page 10 features the label "Human, cropped 97.53%" and later again in the comparison section but not in the abstract. Still, the whole thing raises some red flags!
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by vlasev 13y ago
I have an idea. What if you made this but every time you add to a block, it's height also increases (perhaps linearly with the power of 2)
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by vlasev 13y ago
Over the long term you expect the weather to average out and cancel itself out of the calculation. The question is does the headwind lower your efficiency more than the equivalent tailwind raise your efficiency?
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by vlasev 13y ago
I think that's as good of an example as any provided by the author as why the US should do away with the mpg measurement. If even the careful author can make a mistake like that, then think about the average person.
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by vlasev 13y ago
That's actually awesome and should happen! Test various combinations of macro-nutrients!
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by vlasev 13y ago
That's a good question. In the spirit of making learning easier it would perhaps "start" with what we teach children. However, that might be ultimately misguided because that would just mimic the curriculum and force the whol
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by vlasev 13y ago
It's perhaps more than a convention because this is also the limit that the function x log(x) naturally takes as x approaches 0 in the domain of the logarithm. Well, this is just a rehash of what the "cleverest" student does
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by vlasev 13y ago
I had an idea for a couple of years now of creating a wikipedia-style mathematics textbook that will be crowd-sourced, standardized and cover all of math in a way that's accessible to learn from on your own. It would have a kind of a z
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by vlasev 13y ago
This is exactly why you have things like 0! = 1, 0 choose 0 = 1, 0^0 = 1, the empty sum is 0 and the empty product is 1, and so on. These are DEFINITIONS and they make notation easier. They basically help the flow of mathematics. It's
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by vlasev 13y ago
What do you mean exactly by "graceless" here?
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by vlasev 13y ago
Why not make an app that uses your phone during charging at night to mine coins for charity?
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by vlasev 13y ago
Here you go. If you have a straight track and then you have a circular loop you'll feel no extra force until the circular loop's start and then all of a sudden you'll feel a lot of force because you are suddenly turning aroun
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by vlasev 13y ago
There's 2584 which is done with the Fibonacci numbers! :P
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by vlasev 13y ago
Speed reading is like speed sex... Choose between 1 hour with 1 person or 1 minute with 60 people? Okay I get that you might prefer 20 minutes with 3 people and that's fair. Everyone can learn to read faster and everyone can claim to u
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by vlasev 13y ago
Is the fact that he's a hypocrite make his point irrelevant?
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by vlasev 13y ago
Maybe you can try a few rungs down the ladder?
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by vlasev 13y ago
It's not BECAUSE they are rich though...
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by vlasev 13y ago
Actually, if we get to a point where we strongly suspect an alien world contains life, it would probably be a good investment to spend a lot of time pointing a telescope in its direction. I imagine almost all (useful) telescopes will point
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by vlasev 13y ago
Let P be the point (a,b) and let Q be the point (x(t),y(t)) of a curve for some parameter t. The tangent vector to that curve is (x'(t),y'(t)) and the ray PQ is just (a-x(t),b-y(t)). You need to make sure these vectors are the sam
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by vlasev 13y ago
Actually, to make a 2048 you need to make two 1024s. It's unlikely that you'll make two 1024s at the same time. Similarly for the lower tiles. As a sort of upper bound you expect the game to be over in about 1024 moves and it&#x27
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by vlasev 13y ago
You are a little over a year old 10000 hours into your life and you are hardly and expert at that point :P
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by vlasev 13y ago
Reason for disagreement?
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by vlasev 13y ago
This looks decent but I think it could be made a lot better. Right now it's kind of messy with all the functions and all the lines and numbers on the circle there at the same time. It would be better to be able to select those function
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by vlasev 13y ago
I wouldn't compare it to existing plants but to something more like the Chicago pile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1
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by vlasev 13y ago
You are taking a sort of a bottom up approach of learning the languages. It's sort of similar to learning Japanese for the sake of it (which is fine). Language is for communication and of course programming languages are to make things

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