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by sn41 2y ago
I agree. If I am allergic to sesame, then I would also rather play it safe, rather than try a risk. By the way, Molitor 5901 is the phone number used by the Jackal to know if he could move, in "The Day of the Jackal", if I rememb
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by sn41 2y ago
With my modest experience as an expert witness in courts, I am against this. It is very difficult to make judges understand, for example, how science works - one can only be so sure, and we go ahead with that, for example, in medicine, as w
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by sn41 2y ago
There seems to be an article on confabulations - seems to be a concept from neuroscience. From the abstract of the article: "Confabulations are inaccurate or false narratives purporting to convey information about world or self. It is
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by sn41 2y ago
Just a quick note: Rahul Ilango is a phenomenal theoretical CS researcher who has made great progress towards understanding the "Minimum Circuit Size Problem" [MCSP], long believed to be, but not yet proven, NP hard. Needless to a
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by sn41 2y ago
Assuming that you trust that the regulatory agency does not have leakers back to the respective companies. When there's a revolving door between regulatory agencies and companies, it gets tricky.
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by sn41 2y ago
It's quite understandable, imho. Immigration is being allowed precisely for cheap labor, especially when citizens are not prepared to go through the extra hardship - for example, I remember reading that the fatalities when the bridge f
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by sn41 2y ago
The title sounded condescending. But the overall theme seems to be that we must not lose trust in others since it may be better for us professionally. I think it is also better for us psychologically.
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by sn41 2y ago
Just curious: Sussman and Wisdom have written a book called "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" following the classic SICP Scheme book. Has anyone attempted a similar approach for electromagnetics?
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by sn41 2y ago
I don't think you need to understand a concept deeply to use it. The "do..." syntax in Haskell is something that comes naturally to many programmers. It is introduced only at the end of a Haskell course since it uses monads,
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by sn41 2y ago
I think this is from the traditional "Trivium" - grammar, logic, rhetoric - which was considered to be a well-rounded education (presumably for scions of wealthy families). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triviu
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by sn41 2y ago
Another related case in Pennysylvania: https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/ag-shapiro-put... Quote from the website: "The complaint, filed along with the settlement, details how McKinsey advised Purdue a
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by sn41 2y ago
Great article. But the author can't be serious about no one knowing who Prabhakar Raghavan is. He is, for instance, the co-author of the definitive text on randomized algorithms [Motwani and Raghavan]. He has also been a well-respected
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by sn41 2y ago
Congratulations on the verification of your proof! It must be great to have your research life's crowning work being formally confirmed! Also a great victory for the new foundations of Quine.
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by sn41 2y ago
Yes, it's very important to get that on record. Roko, get that basilisk off me!
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by sn41 2y ago
Very interesting take, thank you! Of course, my favorite David Lynch movie is "The Straight Story" - what a heartwarming tale!
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by sn41 2y ago
Rental stores were great, except for the late fees. Many local rentals had good collections of older movies and TV series. They are simply non-existent in the streaming world.
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by sn41 2y ago
Can confirm this. The second attack is potentially fatal.
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by sn41 2y ago
An important idea is to use what are called worst-case-to-average-case reductions. You convert a boolean function f that is worst-case hard to another function g which is average-case hard. In other words, if g is average-case easy, then f
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by sn41 2y ago
I think they are too tall for the wheelbase. The design is narrower than traditional auto-rickshaws. I think one of the issues is I think that the battery is not heavy enough to stabilize the center of gravity once you start tipping over -
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by sn41 2y ago
E-Rickshaws are very unstable, and they are overloaded on North Indian roads, with people sitting even in the shared driver's seat, increasing the lopsided tilt. A distant relative of mine was killed when the e-rickshaw in which he was
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by sn41 2y ago
I was very fond of Geary, and looked into Vala because of it. Found it to be an elegant language, and good to get practical programs working in GNOME. I haven't looked at it in the past 7 years. Is Vala still actively adopted?
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by sn41 2y ago
Your response is not entirely correct. Lucknow university was not toe-to-toe with anything. But you are right, Allahabad university had people like Meghnad Saha and C. V. Raman working there at some point. Also, Mulayam Singh did not come i
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by sn41 2y ago
You are oversimplifying the Enlightenment. One needs only to look at Galileo, and the current unnecessary shenanigans of American Christians over evolution to know that Christianity does have a problem with science.
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by sn41 2y ago
Not back then, no.
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by sn41 2y ago
Well, I guess one big part was gaming arcades, back then. They no longer exist, or are rare and derelict.
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by sn41 2y ago
I lived in Iowa for about 10 years, couldn't agree with you more. I have good memories of the place, and have occasionally visited Atlantic,IA, which is off the Nishnabotna river, polluted by this incident. The state is very clean and
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by sn41 2y ago
Thank you for suggesting this podcast. Sounds very interesting. Will check out other episodes as well.
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by sn41 2y ago
There's also a hidden component in these budget calculations: it is hard for people doing more "traditional" physics to find tenured positions, since many faculty hires went to string theory. So the salary that went to string
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by sn41 3y ago
My bet would be microplastics.
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by sn41 3y ago
Nice... All it needs now is automated talking heads. I guess the AI for that will be available in the not-too-distant future. (/s)

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