taserian

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by taserian 3y ago
Who gets to define "good"?
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by taserian 8y ago
One of my favorite stand-up routines talks about the infamous bumper sticker philosophy, and what happened when the person moved from a left-leaning location to a right-leaning one. https://youtu.be/pKBKLeTZbM4
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by taserian 8y ago
&& precedence mans that the && arguments are bound first, so: .where(p -> p.getCategory == 2 || p.getCategory == 5 && isProductUnderDiscount(p)) is equivalent to: if (product.getCategory() == 2 || (
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by taserian 8y ago
Hiya, Scott! I recently heard the first episode of Rationally Speaking podcast episode where you were the guest (yes, I'm catching up with the RS Archives during my long commute). I've also started reading QCSD (hey, if it's
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by taserian 8y ago
I can speak from my own experience; even though English is my first language, I entered as a grad student and TA in a public US university as a foreigner, since my undergrad degree was done outside the US. After they determined that I was c
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by taserian 8y ago
Thank you for this! I've always wondered if there was anything similar being done. I will say that this is quite a large collection of papers. Do you have any pointers as to which of these papers I should start with as a foundation?
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by taserian 8y ago
I've always wanted a page where it would have the translation of "I'm sorry, but I don't speak a word of X" in perfectly enunciated X for all X in [Languages]. I guess this is the next best thing.
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by taserian 8y ago
That's a totally different issue. There are multiple products on Amazon that develop a "following" (either because the product is ridiculous on its face, or because it's so ordinary ), and manage to accumulate all sorts
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by taserian 8y ago
A lot of the "rarity" with baseball cards was that they weren't inherently rare on release, but that the player on the card became a standout for the team afterwards, and therefore, owning the "rookie" card for them
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by taserian 8y ago
I have a small velvet bag that I use to keep my cell phone safe from scratches in my pocket. You can keep the fingerprint sensor on, but drop it in a similar bag with the sensor at the bottom; that way, you keep the fingerprint security, bu
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by taserian 8y ago
My experience with coding was using the old BASIC books (like the ones at https://www.atariarchives.org/ ), and stubbornly typing my way to make these games work. When they didn't, I found it enormously satisfying to f
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by taserian 8y ago
I lived in New York until the early '80s (I was 11 at the time), and I recall the commercial "Take the Train to the Plane". I always thought that they were part of the MTA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkL1
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by taserian 8y ago
It's a funny after-dinner speech (where some of the attendees aren't experts in coding theory), providing a somewhat tongue-in-cheek biography of Alice and Bob.
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by taserian 9y ago
Also a concept used in the game Endgame: Singularity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame:_Singularity
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by taserian 9y ago
I recognize that premise about 3 being an optimal radix from https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/10...
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by taserian 9y ago
What I feel is most important is reducing the amount of "friction". if the OS is a GUI Linux with Python, it's just a matter of: - opening a terminal - `python` - `print "mikestew"` The friction to get over is the T
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by taserian 9y ago
One of my favorite quotes from James Nicoll: "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other
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by taserian 9y ago
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/01/time-mozart-...
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by taserian 9y ago
A dear favorite of mine was Baldor's Algebra. Everyone else in high school was scared of it, but I found it to be very methodical and easy to follow from one topic to another. Picture of the cover, with text in Spanish: https:/&#
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by taserian 9y ago
Slightly off-topic, but is there a resource that collects the music cited in Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach"? I've never been good at reading music notation, so those sections of the book (which I need to re-read some
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by taserian 9y ago
A local speed-dating event. 15 years together this upcoming February, and we have a middle-school age daughter who is a joy (I thought they were supposed to be challenging at this age?).
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Jupyter meets MathBox2(nbviewer.jupyter.org)
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by taserian 9y ago
You might want to check out lesswrong.com I'd recommend https://www.readthesequences.com/ as something to test the waters; if this is your style, then you'll enjoy lesswrong.com .
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by taserian 9y ago
Are they tossed because of malicious intent, or because they can't change the outcome of the election? For example, if the outcome of the election has Candidate X ahead of Y by D votes (D = X - Y) and there are less than D provisional
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by taserian 9y ago
Some 10-12 years ago, I used to teach a simple CompSci 102 course on a military base while in grad school. A drill sergeant taking this class was a veritable fountain of stories of military mishaps; one that he liked to repeat was that befo
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by taserian 9y ago
I've been searching for this myself for some time, but either I don't know the proper search terms, or the knowledge is scattered such that the terminology isn't fixed.
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by taserian 10y ago
If "more and more issues are national issues", the average citizen is ill-equipped to deal with them. To propose that every citizen must know about everything that affects the nation is untenable. My apologies for the late reply.
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by taserian 10y ago
When I need an example of local authority, I always refer to the Catholic idea of subsidiarity, an organizing principle that states that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. Politica
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by taserian 10y ago
For more on analog synthesizers and systems, the documentary "I Dream of Wires" is highly recommended, and available on Netflix streaming.
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by taserian 10y ago
I especially like how certain symbols we regularly use nowadays weren't always known that way. For example, the set of integers is now written as \mathbb{Z} , but used to be written as a fraktur "Z" with a bar above.

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