nilaykumar

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by nilaykumar 3y ago
> The profit motive is what creates abundance. Abundance for whom? Surplus is allocated by the few at the top (board of directors, c-suite, etc.). Why should they choose to give it to the workers? Walmart and McDonalds certainly understa
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by nilaykumar 3y ago
> the desire to find the best way forward has often been used throughout history to justify genocide and lots of other horrible actions Does that mean we should never again root for radical change? Because Stalin effectively murdered mi
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by nilaykumar 3y ago
My need for homeostasis is independent of the economic system in which I live, certainly. But that does not refute GP's point that it's difficult "to create legal organizations that help people without the assumption of a pro
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by nilaykumar 3y ago
Minor pedantic point: there is sometimes a distinction made between profit and surplus, where the former is a surplus that is allocated wholly at the whims of the employer/capitalist. In this sense of the word, cooperatives are not nec
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by nilaykumar 4y ago
A marvelous work of interpassivity [1], I think Zizek might say! Now he can have AI perform his meaning-filled labor for him ;) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev4gwxGkReQ
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by nilaykumar 4y ago
A cursory look at the table of contents of Volume 1 turns up various topics such as: - the length and regulation of the working day for factory workers - the division of labor - the economic impacts of increasing automation/mechanizati
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by nilaykumar 4y ago
Note: Capital is available to read for free here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ The beginning of Capital is quite dense (establishing the basic definitions of a study often is, and
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by nilaykumar 4y ago
This is incorrect. Dying drops your character to Standard league, which is a league that almost no one plays. It's mostly used for testing mechanics/interactions/bugs, etc. Hardcore PoE _is_ permadeath.
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by nilaykumar 4y ago
https://nilaykumar.github.io/ I recently redid mine to use org-babel with org-publish. I'm pretty happy with how it came out, though it's still slightly under construction. Maybe a little too much going on to be c
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by nilaykumar 5y ago
Location: Chicago Remote: Yes (preferable) Willing to relocate: No (with exceptions, e.g. NYC, Philly, ...) Technologies: Java, LaTeX, python Resume/CV: on request Email: nilaykumar[at]tutanota.com Website: nilaykumar.github.io/ab
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by nilaykumar 5y ago
I'm not too familiar with the physics side of things, so maybe I'm misunderstanding the notion of gauge symmetry, but even in the absence of matter I think there is a U(1) gauge symmetry present. The homogeneous Maxwell's equ
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by nilaykumar 5y ago
Why is A_\mu a vector field on spacetime? In the standard treatment A is the (pullback to the base of the) connection 1-form of a connection on a principal U(1)-bundle on spacetime. Technically it's valued in the Lie algebra of U(1), b
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by nilaykumar 6y ago
"John Stuart Mill says in his Principles of Political Economy: ‘It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.’ That is, however, by no means the aim of the application of
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by nilaykumar 7y ago
A less intimidating and slightly more practical approach might be to look at how we classify our own work on the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/archive/math The MSC is of course quite useful for catalog and reference purpose
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by nilaykumar 12y ago
By the end of the last run, the people I talked to at CERN were fairly certain that there's no SUSY in the current dataset and that SUSY will likely not be found during the upcoming run. But perhaps the people I talked to are simply of
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by nilaykumar 12y ago
It doesn't buy you anything, just as fine art and music do not buy you anything.
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
Quick comment: I think people are emphasizing too much the 'logic' of mathematics, over its content. Mathematics is NOT about rigorous thinking and logical patterns (unless of course you study logic). It is much freer, pattern-bas
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
One might find another one of Tegmark's papers of note: http://arxiv.org/abs/quantph/9907009 . I've barely skimmed it, but being vaguely familiar with how decoherence a la Zurek is supposed to work (had a
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
This is a tad off-topic but: I'd argue that a large proportion of scientists and mathematicians don't want to waste time trying to achieve Victor's goals. We have jargon for a reason - it allows experts to communicate effecti
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
Check out Emancipator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSN4DLG6Ng&list=PL7669BCCE53... Trip-hop.
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Terence Tao proposes collaborative work on the twin primes conjecture(polymathprojects.org)
2 points by nilaykumar 13y ago|0 comments
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
Agreed. But keep in mind, the content is not all there is to it; the historical context and influence on society is also an integral part of the humanities. Or at least, that's what I think -- I try to take a historico-contextual approach t
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
"It feels like they always try to hide some equivocation under fancy text, starting with "we define X as Y", then jumping through a natural-language use of X to get Z, then assert "Z is Y"." This is precisely what I often found irritating.
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
Oops! Thanks!
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
Yes, I see what you mean. I guess my intellectual is anyone who has built up a strong foundation of techniques for analytical thinking, whether it be from the sciences or the arts. In some sense, I think that any such intellectual should be
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
"You walk out of the classroom with new cognitive pathways that you didn't know you had. You'll never see the world with the same eyes again." I couldn't have put it better myself. I came into my required undergraduate philosophy course dou
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
My university (in USA) has a rather large set of required "core" courses, the inner core of which are a full year of literature and a full year of western philosophy. We read and discuss, in these two years, on the order of 40 classic works
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by nilaykumar 13y ago
Although they give excellent physical intuition, Feynman's lectures don't exactly cover any "theoretical physics," they're more of an intensive introductory course to physics as a whole. His QED in some sense helps you understand how QED wo
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by nilaykumar 14y ago
It gets even better with Hamiltonian mechanics, canonical transformations, and Poisson brackets, just wait! Especially neat is how easy it is to connect such abstract formulations of mechanics directly to quantum mechanics. I love seeing re
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The principle of least action: a more elegant mechanics(wherenothinggathers.blogspot.com)
22 points by nilaykumar 14y ago|4 comments

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