justinmeiners

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by justinmeiners 6y ago
I think those are good points. I don't know much about comedy or entertainment but I get the same feeling that getting "chosen" matters more than your content. On the other hand, great work doesn't happen by accident. Gr
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Do you think being good at something and successfully selling or marketing your work is like buying a lottery ticket?
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Pg has a quote along the lines of "easier jobs that are hard to get fired from are worth more money." Of course not every public job is easy, rather often there are benefits involved other than cash
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Absolutely. It's almost unheard of to work at a major academic institution without one. Becoming a professor is all preparation from 18-30, and then was an assistant you still have to grind and run errands to "earn your place&quot
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
I agree with you, but unfortunately our government is using them for that purpose.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
The intent of that thread is to peer into his tweets to associate him with an untouchable "white supremacist", as opposed to any particular wrong doing. That's not even a description, it's just a reason to dehumanize som
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> Just because somebody is good in one area that doesn't mean they have any authority in another Precisely what I am saying. We can applaud Nick for contributions to cryptography without importing his views of other things. We don&#
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Is he mean? Or do associate those views with mean people. I just don't understand why everyone needs to be a PR polished suit. These people work on computers, not administer public policy. We can appreciate their contributions and igno
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
That is true, but it still provides tons of examples of functors such as fundamental group and homology. These sorts of interesting functors are not common outside of graduate math.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> hope he isn't You wish he was more like you? This is a good reason why he hid his identity. Any real person would be more disappointing then the legend constructed in imagination.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
I suspect this is a reversal of cause and effect. Did consumers demand subscription services? Or did vendors (led by Adobe) decide to change to subscriptions to get uniform cash flow? At agencies I have worked at all creatives I worked with
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Houses, cars, etc are far more reliable and well designed than software. Think about all the extreme conditions cars continue to function in. How many people don't even follow basic maintenance schedules? Another key difference is th
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
PG benefits from self-confidence as well (certainly to a less degree). Being extremely self aware and re-questioning ones positions constantly doesn't seem to be a winning trait in business and promotion. At the very least, if it'
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Category theory is mostly useful for modeling computation theoretically and thus designing languages. It's also not that helpful to learn unless you already know a lot of deeper math, like introductory algebraic topology, etc.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Doesn't shunting yard solve this pretty simply? Once you have an expression in RPN, building expression trees is pretty easy.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
I don't think so. I draw my 9s by drawing the circle, and then the line down. Looks like you go the other way. This is all about direction and gesture as opposed to OCR.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Looks like you draw your digits differently. It's "trained" to my style. Try making your own glyphs and see how it does.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
How do you draw your 4? The one I used is the "one stroke" 4 where you draw it from left, top, and then down.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> best match even when the match is poor. Yeah, a real application could have a score threshold.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
This animation might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_integral#/media/File:Line...
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> can't handle certain cases where a path is retraced in opposite directions It does ok if there is only a small part that retraces, but you're exactly right.
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Gesture Recognition with Line Integrals(justinmeiners.github.io)
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
It's "introductory" for MIT students who have a background in engineering, math, or physics, not average people off the street. Recursion is hard for students to grasp when taught in math contexts as well, so I don't thi
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
myself! https://github.com/justinmeiners/
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
See other comments. That may be the case, but it's wrong to frame it as "free" vs "paid".
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
I agree, that state is a mess. I happen to live in state with low taxes and affordable school. Perhaps the european model is better overall, or perhaps there are other complications. Regardless, the debate is not "free" vs "p
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
I don't disagree. I am not making a judgement of which is better overall, just that neither alternative is free, or even close to that.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
Europeans are absolutely, utterly, unable to imagine that things they pay a percentage of all income earned, over their entire life, are not free. It's incredible to watch from outside.
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
> Python/C files didn't work in a vacuum They do if you use the standard library (which for python is quite extensive), and copy any dependencies into your own source, as if they are your own. By "in a vaccum" we can
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by justinmeiners 6y ago
It makes sense that having more information is better than less. I would argue that they should use no dependencies to avoid this problem entirely, or download them and include them as source in the project, or at least include a note of wh

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