danharaj

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by danharaj 6y ago
escape your hodge duals fam
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by danharaj 6y ago
My mind was in between whinging and kvetching.
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by danharaj 6y ago
Oh my god here, is the same qualification near the top of the article. > One of the problems the two friends looked at was a version of a century-old unsolved question in geometry. On every Quanta article there's always someone welc
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by danharaj 6y ago
> While locked down due to COVID-19, Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb figured out how to prove a version of the “rectangular peg problem.” Emphasis mine.
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by danharaj 6y ago
I'm currently reading The Black Jacobins which is about Toussaint L'Ouverture and the revolution in Haiti. Even after having read accounts of the brutality of slavery multiple times before, it always seems to recede into an abstra
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Why Statistics Don’t Capture the Full Extent of the Systemic Bias in Policing(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by danharaj 6y ago
Unfortunately the rationalist community basically engages in sophistry centered around a naive and outdated positivism with Bayes' rule slapped on top.
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by danharaj 6y ago
https://imgur.com/a/NwwBiIo I did this on a computer I don't usually use in an incognito tab.
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by danharaj 6y ago
If one were to examine that subreddit at this moment it would appear that the mods are very strongly against Scott Alexander being doxxed by a reporter and are also handing out bans for anyone gloating about this.
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by danharaj 6y ago
It's not a good look to compare people to a virus.
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by danharaj 6y ago
No, because they're countries. Who deals with an international incident caused by the NYPD?
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by danharaj 6y ago
The NYPD has a budget for spying on people in other countries. State power is weird.
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by danharaj 6y ago
When the NYPD did a work slowdown, rates of crime according to their own data went down.
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by danharaj 6y ago
You are engaging in circular reasoning.
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by danharaj 6y ago
I can't prove a negative. Show me something JBP has said that is challenging and novel.
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by danharaj 6y ago
His technical papers are fun to read and based on solid mathematics. He's collecting that work into a book which is about as poorly edited as you would expect but the math is solid. There is no sense in which Taleb is as vapid as JBP.
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by danharaj 6y ago
I think there are unresolved philosophical issues around probabilistic interpretations where it's not clear a priori what the space of possibilities is. Even if we could pin it down in an instant, that space is constantly reshaped in t
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by danharaj 6y ago
> Only a few months ago People have been expressing the exact same sentiment you are for years and years .
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by danharaj 6y ago
Diversifying police forces does not fix the problem. It's what the police do not who does it. Black individuals can participate in Black oppression. I will not elaborate on the point because it's not my place. I will just refe
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by danharaj 6y ago
> Right now you have the two political parties and virtually all the S&P 500 corporations, all the universities, and most of the media (including social media) actively supporting BLM and being against "systemic racism". Sa
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by danharaj 6y ago
> By definition, racism is something only individuals can do and so racist laws are the product of racist people. Well here's your problem buddy. You decided that racism is something that by definition can't be systemic. Ther
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by danharaj 6y ago
Let me try to clear something up for you. The people protesting on the streets right now don't give a shit what color the boot on their neck is. Systemic racism doesn't just mean the system is full of racist individuals. It means
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by danharaj 6y ago
Oral traditions record, among other things, historical events.
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by danharaj 6y ago
> Truly I find the mechanistic view of nature so grim and pointless. Would you find it ridiculous if I said that it serves an ideological purpose so deeply entrenched in our civilization at this point that we hardly notice its contingent
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by danharaj 6y ago
Maybe not for Americans :) The eruption was hypothesized to have occurred in North America but did the team try to cross reference with native accounts of that time period?
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by danharaj 6y ago
The common generalization of semilattices and groups are inverse semigroups which are one way of capturing the idea of partial, or local, symmetries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_semigroup
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by danharaj 6y ago
The rabbit hole goes deep here. Formal concept analysis is essentially the study of certain galois connections on lattices derived from relations on sets. You can generalize relations to profunctors on categories and galois connections to a
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by danharaj 6y ago
You're sorely mistaken.
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by danharaj 6y ago
You can do more shit at night without a fire source when the full moon is out. It can be uncomfortably bright if unaccustomed to perpetual artificial light
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by danharaj 6y ago
Could you elaborate?

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