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by xvedejas 3y ago
And I personally wouldn't pay any more just because a print was limited. It's almost as if people have different values they assign to products. Shame he didn't consult you before setting his price?
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by xvedejas 3y ago
You've described the core of a usual Chemical Engineering curriculum. A school with a good engineering program would definitely offer these classes, maybe under a name like "transport phenomena" (in my experience).
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by xvedejas 3y ago
When you're rolling thousands of dice on phenomena that only happen once every hundred years, you'll get a lot of hits each decade.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
You might be thinking of an Atmospheric River / "pineapple express"? While that phenomenon may originate from roughly the tropics, it's not the same as a Tropical Storm.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
according to SI, the opposite of micro (10^-6) is mega (10^6)
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by xvedejas 3y ago
Some operations have much more complex inverses, in a computational sense, so I don't think it's so simple. The key to showing this is to reduce the problem to its inverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduct
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by xvedejas 3y ago
It's actually really difficult to get drunk off of weak beer (about 2%), you quickly reach a pain point when it hurts to drink more liquid. And I suspect the dilution also slows uptake.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
In college a Christian friend readily gave "evidence" of predictions in the bible as reason why he believes that religion. I think a lot of religious people do think there are clear predictions. I wish I remembered his examples (w
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by xvedejas 3y ago
How would you compare the relationship between breathing and phrasing, with the relationship between bowing (eg on a violin) and phrasing? I have musical experience with the latter but not the former. The buttons on an accordion are usually
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by xvedejas 3y ago
Ah yeah, I didn't mean evaporation was a chemical process, it was something in addition to that. Aside from evaporation, there are chemical processes which (for example) generate gases, which is not a phase change but a change to form
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by xvedejas 3y ago
Air pressure can have effects on chemical processes, at least when some kind of phase transition may occur between liquid and gaseous phases. I don't think that's happening here, but the vacuum could have some negligible effect
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by xvedejas 3y ago
I target microcontroller platforms, some of which only have a single compiler, usually some patched 20 year old version of GCC. The only possible alternative to C would be something that transpiles to ANSI C, given that some of these platfo
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by xvedejas 3y ago
Merit scholarships were already out of fashion by the time I was applying for colleges (circa 2010). Especially at more selective schools (those with lower admission rates), merit scholarships have been displaced in favor of diversity schol
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by xvedejas 3y ago
Calling 22 year olds "kids" and then also saying they have a lack of solidarity with their older "peers" seems a bit insensitive to me. People having families is great, but if their benefits come from the expense of your
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by xvedejas 3y ago
If you don't say this, someone somewhere on the internet will accuse you of thinking your news source is perfectly unbiased, even if you never said such a thing. It's a useful caveat just to try and defuse that kind of low signal
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by xvedejas 3y ago
Earth-observing satellites can measure surface temperature with so-called "thermal infrared" bands. I am unsure on the exact process typically used to go from that map to a global average, but that's a likely starting point.
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LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models(leandojo.org)
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by xvedejas 3y ago
I mean sure, that counts as a limit, as it is something that limits the housing being built. We can probably learn a lot from asking why it's not profitable to build certain kinds of housing. That said, the US is not building zero hous
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by xvedejas 3y ago
> There is room for exponential growth in housing It sounds like you're saying that we could build more supply. Okay, but we haven't yet, so we're at a limit until we do.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
Given that we're already at the limit with regards to housing supply, I'm not sure that demand-side changes will make housing affordable unless the population very actively shrinks. Even in Latvia, a country with one of the fastes
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by xvedejas 3y ago
It is somewhat true for the few blocks around where the author lived. But it's confusing to me when people say it's worse now than it was in 2016/2017, say. The pandemic made everything worse for a couple years, but I think w
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by xvedejas 3y ago
All numbers are just processes we treat like a number. "Four" is not a "real thing", it's a mental model / description that sometimes applies to real things; infinity too.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
All property in my mind is a "government-granted monopoly", so it's confusing what distinction you're trying to draw.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
The biggest complaint I always hear from people in the medical field is the long hours. It sure sounds to me like that (and thus any knock-on problems) could be solved by more practitioners, spreading the work around. I can't speak for
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by xvedejas 3y ago
`log(x)` does not give `+inf` on the range `(0,1)`, I think you're thinking of "log odds" aka a "logit" which is `log(x/(1-x))`
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It's especially exciting that it's more popular now than it's ever been. With the 2019 re-release, it's pretty consistently been around #50 in top active players on Steam at any given time. And they keep updating it stil
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by xvedejas 3y ago
I used to think this, but you'd be amazed how many small towns in Europe have train stations. The eastern third of the US is high enough density for this, we've just chosen to put our money into interstates and the like instead.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
That's just the chain rule, right? d/dt y(t) = ( d/dx y(x) )( d/dt x(t) )
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Is `dy/dx` ever distinct from `d/dx y`? Generally I've treated `df(x)/dx` as just another way to write the operator `d/dx` applied to `f(x)`, which I don't think of as a fraction.
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by xvedejas 3y ago
The issue isn't even how rational people are. Even if our lack of rationality was no problem, it would still be impossible to get someone to reveal their true preferences without a system where they have to sacrifice value to obtain so

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