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by unclesaamm 3y ago
This is conservative lobbying spam. The umbrella group producing this document is called the "National Academy of Scholars" (NAS), which publishes articles about "globalists" and is funded by conservative donors (see ht
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by unclesaamm 3y ago
It's a simulation (following the theme of the OP submission), so these outputs are assumed to be the same quality. The point is even if you assume the quality is the same, the structure of the faculty hiring network alone will drive fa
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by unclesaamm 3y ago
While I think simulations and models are interesting, this model is just way too simplified to give any real insight. Here's an example of a leading scholar in the field -- Allie Morgan -- developing a simple model on this exact questi
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by unclesaamm 3y ago
This massive labor shift toward service work has been well underway across the US. See, eg, this excellent case study of how Pittsburgh's aging, shrinking cohort of unionized steel workers (with good health insurance) has been demograp
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by unclesaamm 4y ago
that's great, thanks for sharing! (though I'm not enough of a domain expert to know if it's accurate) another solution to this would be if Science Advances were to require submissions to provide a "Significance Statement
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by unclesaamm 4y ago
Well, to answer one part of the question, the chief risk manager quit early last year and wasn't replaced until just over a month ago
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by unclesaamm 4y ago
It's worth keeping in mind that Stephen Wolfram likely didn't write this himself. I know people who work at the company, and they sign agreements that any intellectual property (including mathematical proofs) they generate are own
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Interactive Unfoldings of 4D Polytopes(sam.zhang.fyi)
1 points by unclesaamm 5y ago|0 comments
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by unclesaamm 5y ago
I love this! Relatedly, here is a plug of an interactive unfolding of 4d polytopes into their 3d faces that I made recently: https://sam.zhang.fyi/html/unfolding/index.html
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by unclesaamm 5y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted, since what you're saying is true. See, eg, this article: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reic...
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by unclesaamm 5y ago
I'm guessing it's more likely, All You Need is Love, the Beatles song.
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by unclesaamm 6y ago
You literally threw it into a fire?
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by unclesaamm 6y ago
Crabby comment incoming: I love Richard Feynman as much as the next person (minus his famous misogyny), but this post is basically contentless. It's literally a motivational poster. Like why not post an essay or video instead.
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by unclesaamm 6y ago
The article links to the study. The issue was more than certain people sat downwind of others indoors, rather than where the air came from. Let me know if you read a different conclusion from it.
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by unclesaamm 6y ago
One key result of this evidence is that we should take all the money going into deep cleaning, and spend it on higher quality masks for everyone. Also perhaps makeshift ventilation systems (being careful not to replicate that Hong Kong rest
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by unclesaamm 6y ago
The opening analogy between a product roadmap and a literal map is thought provoking. But I think they're actually very different. A product roadmap describes this direction and intent for a product that doesn't exist yet, like wh
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by unclesaamm 6y ago
The last paragraph surprised me even though it shouldn't have. It's shocking to have a clever scientific story suddenly grounded in the reality that this person is rapidly dying. In some sense he has donated his body to science ev
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by unclesaamm 6y ago
This article talks about formatting and other superficial stylistic issues. The main challenge of writing a technical post is deeper: who is your audience? And how much do you assume they already know? The temptations are to take extremes:
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by unclesaamm 6y ago
In response to people who are saying, "it's just because Chinese people eat weird food that the virus started in Wuhan," here's a much more thoughtful article about how the shape of the global markets contributed to the
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Linear regression, the old fashioned way(sam.zhang.fyi)
2 points by unclesaamm 7y ago|0 comments
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by unclesaamm 8y ago
Sounds a lot like Factor. I wonder how it compares?
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
It's absolutely warranted and you did great. Everyone else on Hacker News is commenting as if perfect communication would have solved this issue. What they don't understand is the political reality of the situation - that in no un
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Searching municipal land use codes with a word vector graph(blog.opencounter.com)
3 points by unclesaamm 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A search engine for municipal land uses through word embeddings(blog.opencounter.com)
1 points by unclesaamm 9y ago|0 comments
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
This discussion seems like an apt place to drop Morris Kline's "Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty" ( https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Loss-Certainty-Oxford-Pap... ). As a non-mathematician whose only exposur
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
I've read most of those books, and while I wouldn't discourage anyone from reading them, I don't think it's a great reading list either. You'll have to dig through a bit of cruft to get to the gems. Partly, it'
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
The article echoes something I've been thinking lately, which is we won't win unless we go on the offensive. We need to rally around collectivizing the entire infrastructure of the Internet as a public good. Clearly the corporate
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
> This is just another nail in the oligarchy coffin we are actively sealing ourselves in. Or rather, that we're being sealed into, since this can hardly be called democracy.
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
My impressions after familiarizing myself with Stan, BUGS, JAGS, and a few Python libraries for Bayesian inference: Probabilistic programming languages are designed to specify and evaluate statistical models. They usually sit somewhere betw
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
I know some folks who graduated from Galvanize's Data Science program. They were told that historically 90% of graduates find jobs in 6 months. She is 6 months out, and only half of her cohort has a job.

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