jckt

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by jckt 2mo ago
Disregarding the competing definitions of “science”, a significant value in mathematical work is “the journey”. The truth or falsehood of individual results are rarely as important as the machinery developed to deliver it. If all the genie
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by jckt 6mo ago
There aren’t mass deaths in the US either (no deaths reported per the article). But there are definitely cases of listeriosis due to raw cheese in France. A recent outbreak was in 2025 and led to 2 deaths. https://www.rfi.fr&#x2F
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by jckt 7y ago
I actually thought that the whole "mainland infiltrates HK police" conspiracy was just PRC-phobia (which is a real problem in HK when it becomes xenophobic, sadly) but there's actually been evidence of it (albeit not much). I
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by jckt 10y ago
Wasn't the Obama campaign tech effort more about coordinating organisers/canvassers/etc in a "data-driven" way, rather than the Cambridge Analytica "propaganda network" type? Clinton did indeed have a prog
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by jckt 10y ago
Doesn't make him not a bad guy.
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What do unsolvable math problems and Mount Everest have in common?(believermag.com)
2 points by jckt 10y ago|0 comments
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100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science(americanscientist.org)
1 points by jckt 11y ago|0 comments
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by jckt 11y ago
Would that not be against the interests of the US neoliberal elite, who in turn have enormous influence on the USG?
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by jckt 11y ago
Would that completely backfire once everyone knows the selection process is random?
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by jckt 11y ago
Surely someone else would have done it for them, and paid the $400? After all, you don't get wealthy by having your loved ones paying $71k when $400 would suffice.
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by jckt 11y ago
I think a lot of that is just to advertise the car ("this the future, people!!"). For example, the article notes how large parts of the F 015 is made of "plastic that changes shape in hot weather", which Mercedes (or any
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by jckt 11y ago
That's a really weird reading of michaelochurch's comment. Note the past tense -- he " wanted to find KP guilty". I'm pretty sure he was simply illustrating his initial reaction to the case, that he feels KP isn&#x
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by jckt 11y ago
I think he was downvoted because some people can't see further than his Michael Brown analogy.
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by jckt 11y ago
Sorry, I was just quoting the last sentence in the article.
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by jckt 11y ago
Indeed, the last sentence > One of the stranger points brought up in testimony was how Ms. Pao, before she was married, had dated a colleague for six months without ever realizing he was still living with his wife. sounds like the articl
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by jckt 12y ago
I think the Internet as it was originally designed would have had the opposite effect. I mostly browse the "old" Internet -- i.e. static pages and the like. And all I really see is a diversity of opinion. It's honestly diffic
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In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas(nytimes.com)
222 points by jckt 12y ago|147 comments
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by jckt 12y ago
Is there any reason why the submission title has "2008" in it? The article in question says it's from the June 1998 issue
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by jckt 12y ago
Barely related, but I just thought I'd point out that the author writes, in my opinion, quite nice sci-fi too [1], ranging from short stories to a web serial. [1] http://qntm.org/fiction
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by jckt 12y ago
If you're referring to what Einstein referred to as the "finite, unbounded" universe, i.e. a spherical topology of the universe, measurements from the last decade and a half have shown that to be most probably (if not complet
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In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge (2013)(quantamagazine.org)
59 points by jckt 12y ago|12 comments
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by jckt 12y ago
http://grammarist.com/usage/briton/ This link supports the opposite of davidgay's comment (sources within).
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by jckt 12y ago
I think he/she means that normal exercise, or rather the typical amount of exercise that people do , is insufficient to burn the calories in a normal diet. So while the exercise you do is healthy, you shouldn't be expecting weigh
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by jckt 12y ago
I've been using it on 2 home machines, for the home partitions, one using a HDD and one SSD. Been at it for over 2 years now, and I don't think I've ever had any filesystem related hiccups. Granted, they don't do anythin
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by jckt 12y ago
Not exactly an "online course", but these notes (used for an undergrad course on games) I found quite readable: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/games/
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by jckt 12y ago
What would be the UK equivalent of a US PhD? A postdoc position? And in that situation would the stress be comparable? Or is the system just totally different?
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by jckt 12y ago
A question for those who got their PhDs -- do you think there is a difference between getting one in a European Uni versus getting one in the USA? I've known a few science PhDs in the UK that seemed to be quite content in their decisio
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by jckt 12y ago
You seem quite resourceful so you might enjoy MetaMath[1]. This is, in my opinion, literally learning mathematics from first principles. Well, it's not really learning mathematics (insofar that lot of the concepts won't be par
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by jckt 12y ago
The source on "7.6 percent of bachelor’s degrees were granted in the humanities in 2010" seems flimsy. The Chronicle links to the NYT, and the NYT links to a blog (and not even a specific post). The numbers here[1] I think are tru
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by jckt 12y ago
The Soyuz programme is still in active development. It began in the 60s but they're still designing/making new Soyuz rockets/spacecraft.

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