dlemire

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by dlemire 3y ago
> I'd prefer something like "The purpose of PhD programs is to advance the field". If you read Wikipedia under 'Doctor of Philosophy', you will find that a Ph.D. was once more of a prestigious title you got after
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by dlemire 3y ago
Invest in a modern mass transportation system? Affordable housing? The possibilities are endless.
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by dlemire 5y ago
Is it?
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by dlemire 5y ago
Commonly used vaccines are known to cause widespread temporary myocarditis?
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by dlemire 5y ago
News agencies worldwide suppressed the 'lab leak' theory. Facebook actively censored it. Fact checkers 'disproved it'. Leading scientists called it a conspiracy theory. Yet it appears to be a perfectly valid theory. htt
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by dlemire 5y ago
Do you have a measure of this speed?
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by dlemire 5y ago
It is rational to doubt governments as history shows.
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by dlemire 5y ago
The original claim was "the overwhelming majority of pressure to cancel books and academics is directed at the left by the right, regardless of what gets column inches and think-pieces." Many would say that the overwhelming majori
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by dlemire 5y ago
You can also go faster using SIMD instructions if you need to compute wider population counts (beyond 64 bits): Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions, Computer Journal, Volume 61, Issue 1, 2018 https://arxiv.org/
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by dlemire 6y ago
Yes. I am working on updating it.
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by dlemire 6y ago
I agree. It looks like I made a mistake.
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by dlemire 6y ago
Half of the deaths in Sweden are in long-term care homes, and happened to people under the care of the state. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52704836
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by dlemire 7y ago
What are these new ML approaches?
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by dlemire 7y ago
At least in my experience with Canadian institutions, an adjunct professorship is largely an honorary title. It is typically unpaid. You can supervise graduate students and apply for some grants, but that is about it. Also it is not meant t
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by dlemire 7y ago
I suggest using Sattolo’ algorithm instead. Here is a relevant blog post https://lemire.me/blog/2018/11/13/memory-level-parallelism-i...
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by dlemire 8y ago
(I am the author of the blog post and I am answering here at the request of nkurz.) So nkurz is correct that, in the paper, N is always equal to the maximum bitwidth of the numerator. I was not careful enough to make sure that the notation
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by dlemire 10y ago
Timothy Taylor had an interesting blog post on this topic : http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.ca/2016/08/higher-local... It is derived from a U. of Washington report found at: https://evans.uw.edu&#x
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by dlemire 10y ago
I find it interesting that he would even consider the job.
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by dlemire 10y ago
Who is this society you refer to? When did it vote anything regarding impact factors? To a very good first approximation, academics are assessed by other academics.
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by dlemire 10y ago
Perhaps instead of trying to cut their costs, their best hope going forward is to keep their prices and profits high, and use the proceeds to fund some new completely independent "startup" journals to achieve their admirable orig