thebear

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by thebear 6y ago
One would certainly not want to argue with the statement that many people are incompetent, or at least not very good, at what they're paid to do. On the other hand, much of that alleged stupid and incompetent behavior turns out to be n
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Slate Star Codex Corona Links 5/18/20(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by thebear 6y ago|0 comments
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Mapping Wikipedia(theatlantic.com)
2 points by thebear 7y ago|0 comments
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by thebear 7y ago
The discussion of sterility and sclerosis seems reasonable to me. On the subject of stagnation and repetition, I find that my perception is diametrically opposed to what the author of the book and Peter Thiel say. I am a baby boomer, and I
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A Mathematician’s Self-Referential Take on “The Black Swan” by Nassim N. Taleb(dearworldnews.com)
2 points by thebear 7y ago|0 comments
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Gell-Mann Amnesia(epsilontheory.com)
1 points by thebear 7y ago|0 comments
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Hermitian Matrices and the Fallacy of Simpler Solutions(blog.greaterthanzero.com)
2 points by thebear 7y ago|0 comments
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Introducing the Hofstadter-Wolowitz Technology Overshoot of the Year (TOY) Award(toyaward.weebly.com)
3 points by thebear 7y ago|0 comments
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by thebear 8y ago
Have you seen the old girl who walks the streets of London, Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags. She's no time for talking, she just keeps right on walking, Carrying her home in two carrier bags. So how can you tell me you're
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by thebear 8y ago
I'd like to reinforce what an earlier commenter has already hinted at, with a story of a collapsing marathon runner. A lot of hobbies get much more dangerous with increased ambitions. Always ask yourself if that's worth it. As som
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by thebear 8y ago
Same here. I find that essay enormously helpful for evaluating one's current living situation and planning your future. Also, it provides a great way for explaining to others why you live where you live. I've been in Salt Lake Cit
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by thebear 9y ago
Author of the blog post here. I think you just made me aware of the true and deeper reason for my discomfort with C++: it's the fact that the convolutions are in the basic things. I am perfectly willing to put up with convolutions, a
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by thebear 9y ago
Author here. A few years back, I wrote an article about the issues that you're asking about. Since the article still comes up as the #1 result of Google search for "C++ rvalue references", I believe it's ok for me to rec
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by thebear 9y ago
Author here. Quote from the first paragraph of my blog post: "The decision to implement the math backend of GreaterThanZero in Java was driven by other considerations, primarily the appeal of Google App Engine as a hosting platform.&
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The Internet, like everything else, is about choice(dearworldnews.com)
1 points by thebear 9y ago|0 comments
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The “Quarter Under the Streetlamp” Fallacy(dearworldnews.com)
2 points by thebear 9y ago|0 comments
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Don't despair(dearworldnews.com)
1 points by thebear 9y ago|0 comments
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Your Music Player’s Random Shuffle Mode: Some Maths, Algorithms, and Probabilities(blog.greaterthanzero.com)
2 points by thebear 9y ago|0 comments
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Dear C++, I love you. Please don't make me hate you.(dearworldnews.com)
1 points by thebear 10y ago|0 comments
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The Software Paradox(baus.net)
3 points by thebear 10y ago|0 comments
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Dostoyevsky’s Christopher Columbus Quote Revisited(blog.greaterthanzero.com)
1 points by thebear 10y ago|0 comments
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The Mathematics in “The Revenant”(blog.greaterthanzero.com)
2 points by thebear 10y ago|0 comments
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by thebear 11y ago
Somewhat unbelievably, I still have that 1960's jeans jacket with the patch on it that says, "Do it today, tomorrow it may be illegal." And, all hail the Internet, that thing can still be bought online: http://www.
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by thebear 11y ago
I'd like to add a "pro" for Codelite: the person who maintains it is very responsive when it comes to bug reports. Until a few months ago, the nodejs debugger had some fairly serious issues. Each of the problems I reported wa
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by thebear 11y ago
It's been so long that I can't even find the agreement that I signed with Springer back then. But I would assume that there was something in there that allows them to do what they did. And since it's more than fine by me that
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by thebear 11y ago
After the initial excitement ;-) had settled down in the mid-nineties, it was, on order of magnitude, about $100 per year. Every once in a while, an interested mathematician would buy a copy. Other than that, in order to sell such a book, t
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by thebear 11y ago
Guess there won't be a royalty check for me this year. http://tinyurl.com/hmwpf8e I'm totally fine with having our book available for free; actually, I prefer it that way. Yet I find it a bit odd that Springer nev
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by thebear 11y ago
Cruel death is always near, so frail a thing is man. RIP Douglas Tompkins.
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WSJ Interview with Alejandro González Iñárritu(wsj.com)
1 points by thebear 11y ago|0 comments
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Erik Meijer’s Hacker’s Way(infoq.com)
1 points by thebear 11y ago|0 comments

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