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by lenticular 7y ago
That just means that there was an impact at around the same time. There's been numerous impacts like this that have been claimed to be the cause of Younger Dryas in the past. However, just because there was an impact doesn't mean
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by lenticular 7y ago
No, speaking as a former glaciologist, that's not likely to be true. The parent poster is correct. Younger Dryas featured multiple advances and retreats, which is inconsistent with an impact. Multiple impact over many centuries just is
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by lenticular 7y ago
Vitamin D deficiency actually really common, especially with dark skinned people living at higher latitudes. Most office people could do with a bit more UV.
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by lenticular 7y ago
> On a side note: Should he have been able to see whose results he was looking at? It's surely unethical in my book. They were specifically ones from his own family, so I imagine he had consent.
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by lenticular 7y ago
Whoops, brain fart.
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by lenticular 7y ago
Sequential access is O(1) just like mutable arrays. These structures really are fast and practical. The benefits of immutability are enormous. That's why they are so popular. Edit: That's true about log32 and log2 become close in
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by lenticular 7y ago
Modern persistent tree-based data structures are usually O(log32n) random access, which is essentially O(1) for all practical purposes. With a mutable array of references, random access follows one pointer, while these structures follow usu
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by lenticular 7y ago
These persistent structures use what's called structural sharing. The simplest persistent structure is just a regular linked list. While random access is O(n), inserting, deleting, or concating is O(1). Since the list is not mutated, w
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by lenticular 7y ago
It's subjective, but I've really got to disagree with you that vests look good. They're pretty hard to pull off, IMO.
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by lenticular 7y ago
I probably wouldn't worry about it unless you have really large arrays. It's still probably pretty insignificant compared to the time spent updating the DOM.
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by lenticular 7y ago
Check out Funkia List [0], an persistent O(log n) random access list implementation. I use it pretty extensively when I'm writing typescript. It actually can beat native arrays on concat and push, often by very wide margins, while also
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by lenticular 7y ago
We used to say that in Seattle.
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by lenticular 7y ago
Residents don't sleep much, so this doesn't surprise me at all. Related, the residency process needs to be massively reformed. The flimsy justification for making people responsible for human lives work 80 hours a week is usually
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by lenticular 7y ago
Yeah, Neanderthal is great (I'm a Clojure a user). It's got support for structured sparse matrices (like Toeplitz) the last I checked, but not general CSC/CSR matrices.
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by lenticular 7y ago
Sure, but there's not a single mature library that's done so.
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by lenticular 7y ago
Breeze runs out of memory for even surprisingly small arrays.
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by lenticular 7y ago
I'm eagerly awaiting their sparse matrix support. It's unbelievable that the entire JVM doesn't have a single comprehensive, production quality sparse matrix library [0]. This is one of the big things keeping my machine learn
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by lenticular 7y ago
We're talking about employment here. Masculine vs. feminine has nothing to do with job performance except in maybe porn or something. If masculine men are preferred, then that means everyone else isn't. It's an obvious avenue
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by lenticular 7y ago
This is a really good point. Women also show tend to show bias towards men, and gay men often show bias towards straight men. It's kind of an instinctual thing to suck up to the powerful.
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by lenticular 7y ago
I doubt it is anywhere near just as likely to flow in the opposite direction. It's not like masculine white males are favored just because of their voice pitch. That ideal as the ideal of power is deeply ingrained in our society. More
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by lenticular 7y ago
For sure, but at least overt discrimination is much more easily remedied by social ostracism or legal means.
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by lenticular 7y ago
It's really easy to do this with pure functional programming in impure languages like Scala. You can use arbitrary impure code within lazy IO values. Outside, the functional purity makes reasoning easy. If, as recommended, there is on
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by lenticular 7y ago
This is the gospel truth. It does take discipline though, because writing tests sucks. I like to have a policy of never committing a non-trivial function without a test. That way, I can never put it off and wind up with a huge chunk of unte
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by lenticular 7y ago
Subconscious gender/racial biases, which absolutely everyone has, are so devilish because they take conscious effort to overcome.
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by lenticular 7y ago
It's pretty incredible how recent many of our seemingly inalienable rights (actual freedom of speech, de jure racial equality, right to representation, prohibition of the use of illegally obtained evidence, etc) have actually only been
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by lenticular 7y ago
They're usually evangelicals. Evangelicals outnumber Catholics in the US, and also outnumber all mainline Protestent denominations (Methodist, Lutheran, etc) combined. They're fast gaining ground in Latin America as well. Not all
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by lenticular 7y ago
>Whereas with composition, you now need to manually implement all 20+ methods in the interface, just to make the pass-through call. This adds a tremendous amount of boilerplate to the code. Inheritance is not necessary for this. The trad
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by lenticular 7y ago
Giving up tea presumably would mean giving up something the poster presumably finds pleasurable. Drinking tap water instead of bottled has no such trade off. There's a big difference between asking people to live like monks and asking
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by lenticular 7y ago
It's not that you can't make money off it, it's that this sort of mindless unnecessary consumption has severe social and environmental consequences.
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by lenticular 7y ago
Some people will abuse it, sure. Mushrooms are usually a good experience, but it is too intense for most people to want to do regularly.

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