madhadron

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by madhadron 1mo ago
I haven't thought about this in years! Julian Noble was one of my teachers back when I was an undergrad.
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by madhadron 2mo ago
Counterexamples are clarifying. For everyone condition in a proof, it's really handy to have a maximally simple, memorable counterexample that makes it fail because it violates that condition. Mathematicians tend to walk around with a
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by madhadron 6mo ago
The ACM should probably have run this by a statistician before publishing it. As another commenter pointed out it opens with bad experimental design, then goes on about random allocation in a way that makes it clear that the author doesn&#x
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by madhadron 7mo ago
You're describing a very small number of companies that all copied each other's systems. The idea of a terminal role, for example, is pure Facebook. These do not apply in general across the industry except where managers from thos
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by madhadron 8mo ago
> tens of thousands of lines of code Perhaps this is part of it? Tens of thousands of lines of code seems like a very small repo to me.
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by madhadron 8mo ago
This seems overly pessimistic. We regularly engage with other cultures and their texts and understand them, and, yes, it takes time and knowledge of context to do so. Someone needs to explain quite a bit about Roman society under Augustus f
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by madhadron 8mo ago
> Copy-paste his post into any LLM and ask it whether the post is contradictory or whether it's ambiguous whether this is production-grade software or not. No objective reader of this would come to the conclusion that it's ambi
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by madhadron 8mo ago
I'm puzzled by your statement. The activities you're describing have lots of exfiltration routes.
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by madhadron 8mo ago
Indemnification only means something if the indemnifying party exists and is solvent. If copyright claims on training data got traction, it would be neither, so it doesn't matter if they provide this or not. They probably won't ex
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by madhadron 8mo ago
I’m not sure what you mean by a change of basis making a nonlinear system linear. A linear system is one where solutions add as elements of a vector space. That’s true no matter what basis you express it in.
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by madhadron 8mo ago
All these transforms are switching to an eigenbasis of some differential operator (that usually corresponds to a differential equation of interest). Spherical harmonics, Bessel and Henkel functions, which are the radial versions of sines&#x
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by madhadron 9mo ago
"Time Enough for Love" is the only Heinlein I've felt any inclination to reread in the past few decades that held up at all (and it's still a good read).
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by madhadron 2y ago
Lamport's website has his collected works. The paper to start with is "Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system." Read it closely all the way to the end. Everyone seems to miss the last couple sections
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by madhadron 2y ago
Look up the admission of the Dakotas. There was a minimum number of people a state had to have to be admitted, but that was ignored in order to pack the Senate.
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by madhadron 2y ago
I mean it is psychologically irrelevant to almost all scientists in the US and not something they consider in their career choices at all.
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by madhadron 2y ago
The actual constituted nations of Europe as they exist today? Aside from the UK, not long. Most of them are states that came into existence in the 20th century. Germany was the 1980's. The rest are generally 19th century.
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by madhadron 2y ago
Because they're not negligible. It's worth calculating it out. Length contraction produces a very slight increase in charge density of the nuclei, but there are a lot of charges and electromagnetism is very strong.
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by madhadron 2y ago
> USA is a place where you can go from $100k to $100m vesting if you are lucky. And this is irrelevant to (very conservatively) 99% of scientists in the NSF and NIH.
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by madhadron 2y ago
No, there's a senate to get the small states in the late 18th century to ratify the constitution. There's still a senate because various groups added states without enough population to pass the bar of statehood in order to get ex
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by madhadron 2y ago
Lawsuits take a very long time, but a court injunction can control which way that time is spent.
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by madhadron 2y ago
> (I should add, for context, that my friend and I are talking about writing beautiful essays here. If you want to write the most precise thing possible, you need to edit mercilessly and accept that the writing ends up flat and disjoint
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by madhadron 2y ago
The BCG vaccine is not protective against tuberculosis in adults. It helps prevent miliary tuberculosis in children. I did my graduate work on tuberculosis. Those of us who weren't vaccinated because of our country of origin refused to
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by madhadron 2y ago
Here speaks someone with no scientific training or knowledge of the NIH, public health, or how any of it operates.
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by madhadron 2y ago
As usual, it depends. My time in public schools (K through 7th grade in various places in the southeast US) was a mixed bag. Newport News, VA with all the kids of engineers and naval officers? Awesome. I loved school. Most other places? Meh
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by madhadron 2y ago
It's a tradeoff. You can have excluded middle in your logic or infinitestimals in your extended reals. For mathematicians dealing with all the wild stuff coming out of studying infinities in the calculus, getting rid of excluded middle
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by madhadron 2y ago
> how do you guys keep up to date with tech? I don't. There really isn't much that's new that shows up. Spend your time exploring stuff people have already done, then learn whatever version of it this employer is using as
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by madhadron 2y ago
Biosphere II is worth a visit. They're still running it as a non-isolated research station. The original had several very specific problems (trees need wind to form strong roots, fresh concrete absorbs a lot of oxygen, their crops besi
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by madhadron 2y ago
I think the difference between this and Jacques Cousteau's ConShelf in the 1960's and the saturation diving habitats used today is the depth and duration? Cousteau's group spent weeks at 10m and the saturation diving habita
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by madhadron 2y ago
> I wonder what enabled the Inca to imagine all of these things... Probably the same way as the Chinese, Romans, Persians, Hittites, Assyrians, Olmec, Mexica, and all the other large scale political polities of the world. > How do you
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by madhadron 2y ago
It's been the standard reference for decades for a reason. I learned from it, too. There's really nothing else quite like it available.

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