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by zamfi 6y ago
> If the most you can say about a parameter to a higher order function is that it is "a function", then "f" is the best name for it Of course. But even in FP languages you don’t name all your functions “f”! At some le
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by zamfi 6y ago
I think this is actually proof that students are treating math as a set of rules applied to a process, and not having any real understanding of how the variables and equations they’re mechanistically applying rules to have any connection to
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by zamfi 6y ago
> More often than not, I think folks just say "SINGLE VARIABLE NAMES BAD. MATH HAVE SINGLE VARIABLE NAMES". It's really dense. In any given math paper, the author typically defines any such variables. And if those definiti
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Mathematical notation presumably mostly makes perfect sense to the kind of people who deal with mathematical notation all day long. Maybe the overuse of opaque names leads to self-selection of who becomes a mathematician? Single-letter
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by zamfi 6y ago
In addition, the same notation is often overloaded in new domains, where the association with the prior domain is metaphorical, or even simply allegorical. As a novice programmer, it took years to get out of the habit of using non-descripti
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by zamfi 6y ago
> It was almost entirely kum-ba-yah sessions where the teachers would ask the kids what they were doing and how they were feeling. Maybe in the middle of a pandemic, when you’re trapped at home, away from your friends, with parents who a
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by zamfi 6y ago
> https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/ In general, I’m not swayed by blog posts that claim I might not be capable of “critical thinking” because I disagree with your interpretation of data. Who
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Ever caught a cold from your kid, who didn't have it bad? I have. Of course, and so has every parent -- what, exactly, are you implying, that the people studying this haven't had this experience? And are therefore not conside
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by zamfi 6y ago
We don't know this either. May be age-dependent.
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by zamfi 6y ago
Click the next button. Somehow on safari the first window is broken.
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Children will spread the infection to their teachers, school staff, and families. There is no question about that, regardless of whether children's infections count as "cases." Actually this is exactly the big question r
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by zamfi 6y ago
Quoting the Wikipedia page cited above: > It required one litre of water to clean, each of 400,000 installed panels. A total 15 days cleaning cycle required, 124 million litres of water enough to sustain 9000 people, while rain in Cholis
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by zamfi 6y ago
> it stands to reason that over all of the exploring, investigating and just plain spreading that we do, we'd encounter some bacteria that are new to a population. If those had any great chance of killing us off, shouldn't at l
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Why do you think humans would ever make peace with alien cultures? Great question. Maybe we need interstellar mutually-assured destruction. Seems to be the only thing, short of dominance, that has worked to preserve peace(-ish).
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by zamfi 6y ago
> The round trip transport time between the home world and colonies would be so long that it is hard to come up with any economic benefit establishing such colonies provides to the home worlds. Let’s just hope, for the sake of any beings
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by zamfi 6y ago
Another commenter posted: > It's simple, demand "pulls" the economy far better than supply pushes it, and we are a rotten insecure society with no demand. I'm not sure it's so simple. In certain industries, we ha
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by zamfi 6y ago
That’s my understanding! EDIT: Actually this may only be required for vehicles with certain features, like regen or endurance braking! Car regulations are...complex.
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by zamfi 6y ago
Why not both? Tesla does, after all, manufacture cars — it doesn’t just write software that goes into cars made by others.
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Modern vehicles are required to turn on the brake lights at a given level of deceleration, regen / brakes or not!
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by zamfi 6y ago
Cool! Thanks. Wonder what the jump from 31-40 (ish?) is about
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by zamfi 6y ago
> I made some graphs if anyone's curious, but I can't post them here. I’d love to see them!
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by zamfi 6y ago
I guess one question is: how big was it? If it couldn’t fit more than 25 people, it was definitely not a US supermarket...
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by zamfi 6y ago
I think you did not end up at an actual supermarket. I’ve never been to one that doesn’t have eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, or red peppers. Neighborhood bodegas, which can look like small shops selling food, are a very different type of est
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by zamfi 6y ago
(2019) Prior discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088425
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by zamfi 6y ago
> How many cups have you seen in your whole life? Probably fewer. How many different cups are there in that dataset? How many hours have I spent looking at cups? Anecdotally, my 2-year-old spends a huge amount of time playing with cups.
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by zamfi 6y ago
> deep learning requires far more examples to train image recognition Than kids? Who have have video input 10h/day for years (~1B images) and can also choose their examples actively? There are many ways in which deep approaches
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From the questoining-assumptions-I-didn’t-know-I-had department.
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Only if they put in fast chargers, though. If they put in L2 (i.e., 8 hours for a full charge) chargers, it’s worse than useless.
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by zamfi 6y ago
Thanks, this was helpful. I think I worry that, short of revolution, change happens because people in power acquiesce to it. :/ (Again, obviously, this is bad, and I wish it were not this way, and I don’t condone or want to justify thi
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by zamfi 6y ago
Wait, I'm not sure why you are taking a combative tone, as I'm pretty sure we agree -- and if we don't, I'd like to see where. Perhaps I was unclear. First: injustice absolutely matters in all cases, not just when it&#x2

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