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by JMStewy 3y ago
https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...
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by JMStewy 4y ago
The key insight is that this strategy causes there to be a strong correlation between the success of different prisoners. As an example, let's say prisoner #10 opens his box and finds #21, then finds #5 in that box, then #84, then #51,
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by JMStewy 4y ago
That's a 終助詞 (shuujoshi) or "sentence-ending particle". Note that despite both being pronounced as "wa", the sentence-ending one is written as わ ("wa"), while the topic-marker particle is written as は (&qu
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by JMStewy 7y ago
Relevant discussion starts at 14:00 (15:47 to skip the intro).
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by JMStewy 7y ago
I enjoy reading the comments in Frink's units definition file, which I'm pretty sure I discovered via an old link from HN. https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt I particularly recommend checking out hertz
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by JMStewy 10y ago
That talk was "The Value of Values," which I enjoyed as well. Links for anyone interested: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values (1 hour version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6B
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by JMStewy 10y ago
It's the asker saying "you cannot," likely because of decisions he or she has already made about the setting and characters of the story that the green star will be in. Your response would only make sense if it were an answer
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by JMStewy 10y ago
The koan is commonly accompanied by the following: "What I actually said was, 'If you wire it randomly, it will still have preconceptions of how to play. But you just won't know what those preconceptions are.'" -- M
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by JMStewy 10y ago
The average 1st grader is 6 years old. 8th graders are around 13 years old.
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by JMStewy 11y ago
That's true for hold'em, but in stud variants you need to keep track of the cards held or folded by other players.
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by JMStewy 11y ago
I believe he's referring to Strogatz's introductory textbook "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering". Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Nonlinear
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Ten lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations (1997) [pdf](math.toronto.edu)
338 points by JMStewy 11y ago|118 comments
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Mathematics on a Distant Planet – Richard Hamming (1998) [pdf](gwern.net)
2 points by JMStewy 11y ago|0 comments
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by JMStewy 12y ago
Thanks for linking, I enjoyed the talk. I'm currently in the middle of the "go back to school for CS" route into software development, and it was heartening to hear your success story. Between starting on CS a few years late
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by JMStewy 12y ago
Being able to "check the further destruction of the retina" is a therapeutic benefit when it comes to macular degeneration. It's the best outcome you can hope for on any of our current treatments for it. The retina is still
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by JMStewy 12y ago
The article you're looking for is here: https://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/
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by JMStewy 13y ago
I think you're being too dismissive. You may be tired of seeing this kind of post from fresh graduates, but just because the solution to their problems seems obvious to you now, that doesn't change the fact that lots of 18-year-ol
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by JMStewy 13y ago
OP, from your description of your relationship with math in school I think you would enjoy Lockhart's Lament (pdf warning): http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf I had a similar experience to yours and Loc
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by JMStewy 15y ago
Link for the curious: http://akshat.posterous.com/patio11-says-hello-ladies
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by JMStewy 15y ago
I appreciate founders sharing their experiences like this, but I feel like most of this list suffers from premature generalization. Especially if these are lessons learned the hard way, I'd rather hear more of a "war story". Some, like "The
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by JMStewy 15y ago
That last line seems a bit uncalled for. I commend the entrepreneurial traits this man showed, but I don't see how you can simply dismiss the fact that he's profiting from a tragedy-of-the-commons situation. Just because there are some good
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by JMStewy 15y ago
My post was not an objection to teaching literary criticism. It was an objection to defending literary criticism by appealing to the value of general critical thinking skills. If someone proposed to cut computer science from a curriculum, w
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by JMStewy 15y ago
The only thing that literary criticism ever inspired me to criticize was literary criticism. Perhaps it was simply taught badly, but I received an excellent primary education - if the better schools around can't teach this stuff then I ques
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by JMStewy 15y ago
This comment thread is the first thing I've ever seen that actually made me want to use a social networking site. I might sign up for a G+ account based on this.
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by JMStewy 15y ago
I was a student that bitterly resented English class, despite being an avid reader and (as a result) a not-terrible writer. Yet, just like all of jseliger's students, I would never have touched that "book or subject of your own choosing" op
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by JMStewy 15y ago
This doesn't make any sense at all. The question at stake is "how does Ubuntu get the new users that it does?" Try the same line of argument in a different context: "Our television ad campaign is responsible for almost the entirety of our i
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by JMStewy 15y ago
Interesting. I am a fan of Dick, but before now had never heard of Lem. I found this a moderately interesting read but nothing that would make me seek out Lem's other writings. I'm curious what he's done that could inspire such esteem. Is t
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by JMStewy 15y ago
There's some discussion of this exact topic on Language Log here: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2989 From the post and the comments I found the following two links interesting: http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/02/lib
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by JMStewy 15y ago
This submission appears to be spam and should be flagged. I don't see any way to do so myself, possibly due to not having enough karma.
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by JMStewy 15y ago
This is true, and it's not unique to Japanese (Chinese does it too). But I'm not sure the existence of this specific feature in the language supports any particular generalizations about a "Japanese mindset." To English speakers, using diff

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