TheTrotters

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by TheTrotters 4y ago
“This partnership is a historic first for a major professional sports league, and will allow fans around the world to watch all MLS, Leagues Cup,1 and select MLS NEXT Pro and MLS NEXT matches in one place — without any local broadcast black
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
This may be true for lower-tier and middle-of-the-pack graduate programs but at the higher end, if anything, the opposite is true. There's an arms race among the candidates to get the best grades in the hardest classes, to get the best
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
That’s of course a fair point. But there are key differences. Twitter is used as a key communication channel for politicians, public officials, business executives, journalists, academics etc. all over the world. People’s careers and influe
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
> Most people wouldn't or they would charge for access and increase their RoI. Search isn't really valuable to Google, they make most of their money in ads. They make money from ads… which people see when they use search. Ad-su
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
You’re absolutely right about Google but, I think, it’s not necessarily true for Twitter. Their social graph is so important that it wouldn’t make sense for any one person to go to a free Twitter clone. And everybody moving at roughly the s
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
What kind of logic is this? Plenty of companies and services which people would pay a lot for choose to be ad-supported. Google, Bing, and other search engines are ad-supported but, if they weren’t, I’d pay a lot for them in a blink of an e
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
Note that the OP is asking about college-level math, not cutting-edge papers. Textbooks routinely have a list of symbols and their definitions. But, from my experience, notation is rarely the problem. I’d bet that the root cause of OP’s fru
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
I wasn’t alive then but I imagine it’s similar to what the iPhone announcement was for me. Scrolling + rubber band effect, pinch to zoom, or just using your fingers to control a device. It was magical! For the younger generation those are v
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
I had very good experience with The Economist but, despite that, I'm still hesitant to re-subscribe because I just don't want to bother e-mailing them if I want to suspend or cancel my subscription (or add/remove print etc.).
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
I had a great experience with Audible. I switched from Audible UK to Audible US but forgot to cancel the former. After six months I noticed I had 6 credits I didn't want. I sent one short e-mail explaining what happened and within 15-3
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
Few people are criticizing the show from deviating from books per se. It isn’t good on its own merits. Of course they had to make some changes and flesh out some characters to adapt it for TV. They just made poor choices. Instead of going w
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
But if you want your show to be a success you have to take chances. If they make just another derivative show they can’t be surprised by the poor reception. (Besides I’m not sure I agree with the premise. Game of Thrones was a big success a
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
Exactly. There’s a lot of wishful thinking that the show is criticized because it deviates from the books. No, the show simply isn’t good. It suffers from the Netflix Disease. High production quality, painfully mediocre writing.
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Energetic Aliens(stephenmalina.com)
4 points by TheTrotters 5y ago|0 comments
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The Bitter Lesson (2019)(incompleteideas.net)
2 points by TheTrotters 5y ago|0 comments
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
OSM doesn't seem to have public transportation data which makes it useless unless you exclusively use a car.
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
> I mourn that the default aspiration for getting a PhD isn't staying in academia and advancing science. It almost certainly is for the vast majority of grad students. There are just way more newly-minted PhDs than tenure-track jobs
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
> it communicates extra information very cheaply and in-band with the code for people who are intimately familiar with the mathematics involved. I think it's just the opposite. People familiar with the relevant math have, most likel
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
Anyone who has even basic fluency with these algorithms has ~never worked with code that uses these symbols and will likely find them distracting in this context. I've seen plenty of function use, say, `theta` but I have never worked w
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
I disagree. Virtually no one who worked even a little with these algorithms has used math symbols in their code. For better or for worse it messes up people's pattern recognition.
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
In a vacuum real math symbols look better but they're virtually never used in practice and they mess up people's pattern recognition. It's uncanny valley but for code.
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
> It sucks when you need to buy / move furniture though. But isn't that an extremely rare event? Maybe you move more than anyone I've ever known but I don't see how something so minor could meaningfully affect quali
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
But that strategy is probably impossible in a market where the cost to entry is fairly low. Suppose Uber drives out literally all cab companies out of the market in some city and rises prices to absurdly high levels. Creating a brand new ca
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
I don’t think I buy this reasoning. Operating a taxi doesn’t require a huge capital expense. So even if we accept your premise, once Uber raises prices way above what they used to be, someone can just create an old-schools taxi company with
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with them. At least compared to every other generation.
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
TED isn’t necessarily much better. Plenty of talks are based on low-quality psychology research that doesn’t replicate (e.g. power poses). TED should be viewed as high-quality feel-good, inspirational YouTube videos, not an educational reso
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by TheTrotters 5y ago
Why? People use all kinds of substances: caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, marijuana, modafinil, a myriad of sleeping pills, antidepressants, and painkillers. At different points in time some of them have been banned or regulated, at others avai
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Most developers believe blockchain technology is a game changer(stackoverflow.blog)
3 points by TheTrotters 5y ago|1 comments
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Radical Acceptance(aeon.co)
1 points by TheTrotters 5y ago|1 comments
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The Etymology of Trig Functions(mathisonian.github.io)
2 points by TheTrotters 5y ago|0 comments

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