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by woopwoop 5y ago
Airlines are great, at least compared to what they use to be. I flew from Austin to New York round trip this month for less than 100$.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Sanity check: you train a 48 million parameter image classification model on a single 4000x4000 rgb image. Do you overfit?
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by woopwoop 5y ago
The paper does not say that calorie surplus was proportional to fat gain. It says that there was considerable variability in weight gain and fat gain, and that on average only 50% of the weight gained was fat. Also, regardless of what the b
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Why would changes in body fat be proportional to calorie surplus? Fat is not the only thing on the human body that stores energy. It is stored in proteins as well.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
It's also not true that changes in body fat are proportional to calorie surplus.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Why is that obviously true? There is not a 1:1 correspondence between calories and mass. There are more calories stores in a pound of fat than in a pound of protein. Why can't you lose weight while running a calorie surplus by losing m
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Restricting people's freedom of movement based on their liability to spread dangerous diseases is much more reasonable than restricting their freedom of movement based on where they were born.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Vaccine passports are less offensive than regular passports.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
This is very valuable. A lot of people in this thread are suggesting this law will be bad for coloradans. I don't know. I don't live in Colorado, but this is a strong reason to think twice about working with any of these companies
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Actually the most idiomatic way to write this is `while "False":`
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I've always been confused by the "calories in, calories out" claim. It is usually used to mean that weight gain/loss is proportional to calorie surplus/deficit. But I don't understand how that is a restatement
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by woopwoop 5y ago
What could falsify this hypothesis? I feel like I can tell just-so stories about the all-consuming importance of elite status in the post-war United States that are just as shocking and compelling as what is written here. Did you know peopl
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by woopwoop 5y ago
OP here. I agree. I'm a mathematician, and like most mathematicians I find discussions of foundations actually kind of tedious (although obviously a proof that Peano arithmetic was inconsistent would be a big deal). Also only a handful
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The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011)(golem.ph.utexas.edu)
368 points by woopwoop 5y ago|164 comments
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by woopwoop 5y ago
In "The Lion and the Unicorn," he advocates for a militaristic socialism with nationalization of all major industries and severe wage and price controls.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
When did he speak out against Trotskyism? He fought with a Trotskyist militia in Spain.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
All-in-all, the United States is a great place. But it's an awful look for a country to make it hard to leave. I think shutting the borders to people coming in is bad, but shutting them to people going out is so much worse.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
It was less than six months between Grantland shutting down and The Ringer starting, and less than a year between Simmons leaving and The Ringer starting. I was definitely not the only one who hoped The Ringer would continue what Grantland
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I hate threads like this, because they tend to degenerate into extremely solipsistic negativity. I'm also pretty circumspect about claims like "the good internet died" which seem to me to reek of unexamined nostalgia. That th
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by woopwoop 5y ago
1 is not an externality. It is fully priced in to the cost of renting the unit.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, I should have been more precise. I was referring to time invariant equations. You are right that this doesn't apply to the wave operator (which also does not commute with rotations in R^4). But in space on
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Why is the laplacian so ubiquitous? Well, locally any reasonable PDE is well approximated by a linear one. And linear PDEs are of the form Lu = f for a linear differentiable operator L. But why does the particular case of L = laplacian show
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I would imagine short sleepers need more calories.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Non-obvious is necessary to avoid appending "and also the sun rises in the east and sets in the west every day" to every prediction to get it to satisfy the other three. That a fact is observational does not make it non-scientific
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by woopwoop 5y ago
> The reason we don’t think of history as science but we think of meteorology as science even though both build models based on observation, known regularities and constants, is because the sort of reliable predictions a historian can ma
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by woopwoop 5y ago
news.ycombinator.com
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I've heard this explanation alluded to, but I've never understood the details. What does the last sentence mean?
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The Cyclone Life Cycle the Polar Front Theory of Atmospheric Circulation (1922) [pdf](inscc.utah.edu)
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by woopwoop 5y ago
If you look at an actual beyond beef package, you'll see that they say "plant-based" in huge letters on the front. Again, it's integral to their product's market niche that it (a) can be substituted for beef and (b)
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Is the premise here that beyond beef et al. are trying to trick customers into thinking they are buying regular beef? A moment's thought reveals that to be utterly absurd. Their business model is entirely dependent on people buying the

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