smallcharleston

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by smallcharleston 7y ago
The reason I refuse to read about keto is that pretty much all doctors and public health organizations I’ve seen recommend basically the same things: whole grains, fruits, vegetables, replace saturated fats with unsaturated if possible, low
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
Nassim Taleb suggests everybody but Nassim Taleb doesn’t understand risk in complex systems.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
It’s not unidentifiable once you study more. Sigma “is” “roughly” the letter S, and stands for sum. Squiggly S stands for integral (roughly a sum). Intuition for why these things roughly “are” each other takes perhaps more study.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
What the hell are you talking about dude
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
They might or might not deliver real value, but I’m sure most research scientists view a lot of software as simple implementation rather than real value. I think everyone needs to work together for these complex systems.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I wonder why the self-driving car hype folks don’t simply lobby to make more trains. (I mean the ones who have been successfully marketed to here, not the marketers).
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
It’s not always true. I know an undergrad who had a conference paper out in a direction a PI could use in grant writing.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
Are they? As an undergrad I thought my professors were silly folks who got suckered into making a huge effort on obscure facts when they could easily make the same salary with less energy in software/IT. When a prof I did research with
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
Naps taken per Saturday
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I agree with some part of your second paragraph. If I met some guy who did nothing but code 14 hours daily for 10 years, my first guess would be that he may be mentally deranged and impossible to work with on a team. Maybe 10-12 hours 5 day
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I wonder how people become so deluded that a major news publication needs to tell them this. Surely if it were reasonably easy to become rich by refusing lattes, several people from your social circle would have done it already and you coul
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
The author may simply have a crush on him.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
Who cares? What do you care about? I care about money and food in the table and being able to live my life. Did that guy interfere with that or managing to continue a decent career trajectory? If not, who cares?
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
Christianity already solved this. There is a hierarchy but it’s invisible and you can’t access it. The one you see is not especially relevant to anything except social custom and determining your responsibilities.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
That seems a bit odd. Maybe he’s not an effective manager, but why would you go out of your way to not do what he asked?
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
Do people do these kinds of computations often in practice?
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I think most informed Economist readers already are aware that they are, to some extent, being influenced by the “subtle propaganda” of the publication. I believe it’s part of their “thing”.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
Many folks will acknowledge the secular or scientific benefits of e.g. temperance with food or alcohol, or even restraint with sex. One thing I’ve heard few outside of religious encourage is humility. Some people will just be better than yo
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
My mom was in extremely good shape with obese children. She was a homemaker who did hours of exercise everyday. As such she could basically eat potato chips and donuts and stay in great shape. For people who had to do things like study or w
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I met one engineer with a similar attitude. He would often make fun of me for not knowing things. However, he completely lost it when I pointed out he didn’t understand some basic concept in the same way he would have done to me. I’m hesita
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
That book is so hard.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
If you use it normally (1-2 drinks or less max daily) it doesn’t seem like a drug to me. Basically a perhaps mildly unhealthy food item that makes you a bit more social for an hour.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
Realizing you don’t understand the point comes from understanding the point more than you did before you read the book.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
They have a lot of books on the subject. Many of the articles in eg Harvard Business Review are about it. Who knows whether someone without the natural skill will ever become great, but I am convinced it can at least be learned to competenc
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I’m not sure they’re entirely separate. To phrase things in a way that you shouldn’t, and taking my perspective as a reasonably junior guy: you need one letter of reference from your job. If you have the “eulogy virtues” and are reasonably
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I wonder why some folks seem to only go on these huge drinking sprees. Why do few people seem to discuss simply drinking 0-2 drinks daily? Ie using moderation like an adult.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I’m not that other guy and I also haven’t read this paper but it seems quite thorough https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04838
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
The reason the gradient is preferred (as I understand it) is actually computational considerations. Assuming you can actually compute the both of them, a Newton method (uses the gradient and the derivative of the gradient, the Hessian) usua
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
Some vague feeling that if it were useful, correct, refined, and thought-out enough it would be in a book or periodical.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I refuse to read any blogs.

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