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by ninly 4y ago
Article authors don't typically write the headlines that appear above their pieces.
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by ninly 4y ago
This site is not as ground-up or comprehensive as Susan Rigetti's page, but I have found it useful: https://statisticsbyjim.com/
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by ninly 4y ago
Got it. Now, where is the car?
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by ninly 5y ago
Its reputation is eternal: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12012003
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by ninly 5y ago
When I first went back to school for tech stuff (ultimately a master's in EE), my instructor for the entire calculus sequence -- and later on for linear algebra -- struck what I found to be the ideal balance. Something like: 0. Homewor
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by ninly 5y ago
I think these things are changing, though I hope the changes come sooner than I suspect they actually will. I know there is ongoing discussion about how to bring rules more in line with modern practice and tech, such as the explosion of int
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by ninly 5y ago
It's unfortunate that that was your experience. The VE experience does vary a lot from one region or group to another. I know there are VE groups that absolutely do better than this even with the conventional paper approach, make it a
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by ninly 5y ago
I agree, but would add the importance of #3. You can't transform/manufacture things without some process for doing so (or doing so more efficiently or effectively than was previously possible), and the physical means to this itsel
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by ninly 6y ago
A couple years ago I threw together some MATLAB functions to take a wolfram number and a seed row, along with some cosmetic parameters, to generate elementary cellular automata. Nothing very big or elaborate, but fun and handy for exploring
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by ninly 6y ago
The survival and progressive sophistication of human society and culture has always depended on the effective function of community-level values -- whether understood in terms of duty, honor, shame, mores, rule of law, or other mechanisms.
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by ninly 6y ago
'indexes' has been a just-fine variant of the plural for a very long time -- actually it's the first one listed in Merriam-Webster, so probably the more common variant, though I haven't dug into other references. That sa
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by ninly 6y ago
He typed (edit: and handwrote) hundreds of these open letters, technical notes, reports, etc. Here's the archive at UT: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
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by ninly 6y ago
On this topic, Douglas Hofstadter's book Le ton beau de Marot is organized around this and related topics: poertry, translation, language and literary play, and the challenges and freedoms offered translators, all woven in typical Ho
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by ninly 7y ago
The "don't roll your own" argument isn't against having lots of encryption algorithms, though. It's because it's nearly impossible for a nonspecialist to implement tools that other specialists can't fairly
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by ninly 7y ago
I don't entirely disagree, but I feel like quotations are so often used in discourse without any context, and with a problematic sort of "pure" attribution to the genius of the person quoted. Quotations from Einstein or Linco
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by ninly 7y ago
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/26/two-reasons/
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by ninly 7y ago
Right? At 300 baud you could almost read the text as it appeared. Buying a 9600 baud modem after a year or two at 2400 felt amazing, like, "wow, whole lines of text appear before I even start reading!" Then, with the jump to 14.
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by ninly 7y ago
[heart-eyes emoji]
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by ninly 7y ago
> Or would she have received a slap on the wrist for that. Or would she have received a pat on the back, given that she went through the Standard Procedure for adding a feature to the browser plug-in?
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by ninly 7y ago
And the popup message is one Google is required by law to make available to its employees.
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by ninly 7y ago
Certainly bold and perhaps ill-advised, but I would hardly characterize this as "injection" > Spiers told NBC News that she was inspired to create a digital notification because “a poster in the cafeteria is not the best way of
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by ninly 9y ago
Even if the Boring Company is hip, I guess no one can get away with saying they're not boring.
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by ninly 9y ago
The Control Lectures series by Brian Douglas on YouTube is a fantastic resource ( https://www.youtube.com/user/ControlLectures ). Also U. Mich. has a great set of control tutorials put together with a focus on implementa
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by ninly 9y ago
I lived in a Polish neighborhood in Brooklyn for a few years, and absorbed as much orthography and pronunciation as I could during that time. I ate a few pączki, too. While I learned to speak a little bit, it was not enough to be functional
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by ninly 9y ago
Haven't read the other one, but the Yates is great. Another indispensable book for historical context about the Classical transition from oral to literate culture (and its implications for memory, education, and Greek thought) is: - Pr
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by ninly 10y ago
The Reenchantment of the World by Morris Berman. Assigned in a college course and it raised a ton of still-important questions about the foundations that our scientific and materialistic worldview(s) rest on. I'm "over" thi
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by ninly 10y ago
I'd tend to expect the same (and agree that "not an expert" is vague), but I'm actually a bit more curious about the proposal that it's a normal distribution. Why would it be? If I had to guess, I might go for somet
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by ninly 10y ago
I'm curious about the claim (er, "observation") that At scale, the skill level of developers reading/writing/maintaining/testing code is going to be a normal distribution around the mean of "not expert.&q