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by xdavidliu 6y ago
I hope by "their" you mean "MIT's", not "MIT media lab's". MIT media lab wasn't particular responsible for the Aaron Swartz situation.
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
for other readers, POS = point of sale, not piece of s* * *. I had to stare at it for about 10 seconds before realizing.
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
to save other readers a click, this is the same author as the NYTimes article in the OP, so this is that author recycling their own content, not plagiarism from someone else
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
just to make your point even stronger, the median is not affected by the highest wages _at all_.
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
> Software engineers at a certain level of their career and with relatively uncommon skills can pick and choose what companies they want to work at. What percent of software engineers does this statement apply to?
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
> In only a year and a half she went from pre-algebra to grad QM while being a writer at NYT I found this hard to believe, so I looked it up. It appears she _did_ go from pre-algebra to grad quantum within a short time [1], but that was
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
this is paywalled
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
in English, comma separated lists of adjectives or other descriptors are almost always understood to have AND between them, not OR. OR must be explicit, otherwise AND is implicitly assumed. This is not just a matter of two equally valid alt
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
You are missing the point: there's an entire field of study about the claim and the various ways that it's true. The wikipedia article is about that field of study. Hence, the only way the claim would be false would be if that ent
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
but in your direct quote, it clearly says "not-rich, not-white", so clearly the direct quote was not talking about "rich blacks"
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
> The lack of response on being called a troll is pretty deafening. I think it is easy to see this account is a byte-dance or ccp paid troll. You're not allowed to actually say that here. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
That still doesn't make sense. They take it is a forgone conclusion that volume increases will _eventually_ result in cognitive benefits, but provide no evidence or sources to support that notion. Of course, it seems to intuitively mak
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
> The latter finding may indicate that cognitive benefits may develop later and after structural brain changes have taken place." I'm confused by this part. How does the "latter finding" indicate that benefits may dev
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
ex-theoretical physicist here. I read Terry's post and I totally saw your point about "Notation^{-1}(C)" being more wit than clarity. Of course, I also share your respect and appreciation for Tao.
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
not sure if sarcastic, but for other readers, this is false [1]. [1] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/fauci-didnt-invent-wont-pr...
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
I won't comment on the rest of your post, but I'd like to point out that there's no evidence Ben Franklin said that. That quote is commonly misattributed to Churchill, but that seems to also be a misattribution [1]. [1] http
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
> and that it was really about computers I think Abelson said in the first SICP lecture that "it was NOT really about computers"
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
There's a strange point that is made on page 771. Toward the bottom of the page, it says: Such a conclusion would be wrong.² The "conclusion" being that doctors want to minimize both false positives and false negatives. Th
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
> Activists want to eat their cake and have it too. Ted?
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by xdavidliu 6y ago
Around March 2019, I walked up to Gerry at the end of a class he taught (I was sitting in) and he mentioned that he was actually a physics major at MIT when he was an undergrad (in addition to math) but was one course short. The course he w
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by xdavidliu 7y ago
out of curiosity, what HN law are you potentially breaking? I'm guessing there's a law that prohibits posts that simply say another comment is good?
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by xdavidliu 7y ago
There are tons of other typos in the article too.
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by xdavidliu 7y ago
last time I took grad quantum was Spring 2010, so I need a refresher. What does it mean for a particle to be "at minimum uncertainty"?
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by xdavidliu 7y ago
evince on my desktops / laptops (all of which run Debian), and Adobe Reader on ipad. I upload to my ipad through google drive, then access in safari on ipad, download the pdf, and export to Acrobat. The reason I don't use ipad&#x2
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by xdavidliu 7y ago
The warlord part was at the very end of their post.
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by xdavidliu 7y ago
I did my PhD in theoretical physics, and part of my thesis was on nonlinear eigenvalue problems in PDEs. I wasn't aware of the connection; though I guess it really depends on what you mean by "it's well known".
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by xdavidliu 7y ago
I don't actually think it is that well-known, you were completely right to point out. Also, I suspect the "dynamical systems" wikipedia page is completely irrelevant.
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by xdavidliu 7y ago
where on that page does it discuss the connection?