upquark

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by upquark 9y ago
> Nowadays, my primary criteria for joining a team is the quality of the people and of the manager. That's mine too, but nowadays teams and especially managers last about 6 months in one place. What is one supposed to do?
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by upquark 9y ago
Totally a preference thing. I strongly prefer pandas to dplyr having worked with both.
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by upquark 9y ago
How much of success is luck? I honestly don't know. It feels like another feel-good mantra coming out of SV culture. Most successful people I know or have heard of do not fit the profile of an average Joe (including qualities that are
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by upquark 9y ago
> bilateral clash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising
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by upquark 9y ago
What makes reddit and now HN think Ataturk was some sort of beacon of democracy? > In January 1920, Mustafa Kemal advanced his troops into Marash where the Battle of Marash ensued against the French Armenian Legion. The battle resulted i
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by upquark 9y ago
> Defining the set of real numbers is very different from defining all real numbers. I'm saying that ^ sentence makes no sense to me, I don't know how to parse it formally. If you start talking about the set of "definable&
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by upquark 9y ago
Then we mean different things by define. I am saying the set R (with all its elements) is an uncontroversial, well-defined construction within ZFC. I am leaving out any linguistic or Turing-computability aspects out of this, and people try
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by upquark 9y ago
I said "and other groups that reject all infinite constructions". Some schools of thought within that general intuitionist/constructivist/etc branch of mathematical logic do reject all infinite constructions: https:&#
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by upquark 9y ago
Oh it's definitely more real, as in it belongs to R and not to any of its extensions. You guys realize that the definition of R is non-controversial in modern math, right? There are fringe theories like constructivist logic and other g
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by upquark 9y ago
No, my "ill-defined" means "will lead to contradictions if you look too closely", not "I haven't exactly specified what it means".
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by upquark 9y ago
Yes but you defined the number just fine, right? "Compute" is a separate issue from "define", you can't compute a lot of things. Is this going in the intuitionistic logic direction?
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by upquark 9y ago
Still not sure I follow. Set of non-kings is not ill-defined, not in the same way as set of numbers non-describable by any formal system is.
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by upquark 9y ago
My example is incomplete, not faulty. I left it as a question (does the inf belong to the set?). If the answer is yes, we reached a contradiction. If the answer is no, we have to continue further zooming in to this interval (or some other c
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by upquark 9y ago
Wait, you're agreeing with me that the set in question is ill-defined, but still somehow comparable to other sets? I am not sure I follow. My statement is that you cannot meaningfully talk about "all the numbers that cannot be des
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by upquark 9y ago
"Real numbers that cannot be defined with language" is not a well-defined set though. Just like "integers that cannot be described in less than 100 words" is not well-defined (I could reach a contradiction by pointing to
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by upquark 9y ago
$25 - two sandwiches from Toasties baby :o
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by upquark 9y ago
Do the esteemed downvoters care to substantiate their position with anything other than "my daddy said so" anecdotes?
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by upquark 9y ago
Is this slave mentality or what? If I make 350k+, and a startup is telling me I should take their 150k base + worthless options deal, or else I've "pigeonholed myself in the current role" (actual quote), I think they're
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by upquark 9y ago
This whole discussion is setting off my BS detectors (your comments specifically, dad with HS degree vs 'the Chinese', etc), and to be honest, the whole tribal knowledge thing may be much more wishful thinking than an actual true
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by upquark 10y ago
It's just that the answer to the question posed in the headline is a definite 'no'. This type of silly inquiry into "is Azeri related to Sumerian", "is Georgian related to Chinese" etc. is very common in t
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by upquark 10y ago
> It looks like every kind of screening of immigrants will deter the more desirable ones As someone who self-selected the name 'bayesian_horse', can you please cite the evidence you're basing this on?
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by upquark 10y ago
Strange not to see Nietzsche here. Twilight of the Idols was his first book I read, then I ended up reading all the others without taking a break. Can't agree with everything he says, but it definitely resulted in making a 180 degree i
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by upquark 10y ago
Your annoyingly patronizing tone aside, I'll try to address what you're saying. > ...the class hierarchy: as an example, in Pharo Smalltalk you have the following hierarchy: ProtoObject -> Object -> Collection -> Seque
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by upquark 10y ago
I meant "minor point" relative to the other points. It's all relative and subjective, of course, I never said otherwise. Also, doesn't seem like you read the actual argument following the first sentence :)
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by upquark 10y ago
> "a.b".split(".") and ["a", "b"].join(".") Seems like a minor point to me, really. Sure, join could've been a member function of the list class, but that would prevent applying it t
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by upquark 10y ago
> not a very inviting home to live in, a kind of non euclidean space Hmm, i've always felt the exact opposite, that Python feels just right syntax-wise (this after years of C/C++, Perl, bash, JavaScript, etc). What would be you
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by upquark 11y ago
Same could've been said about every aspect of human progress, if we had asked philosophers to opine (they opine anyway, but the civilization moves forward regardless).
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by upquark 11y ago
Not being able to imagine how method A may produce result B is no evidence against method A. It may very well be evidence towards lack of imagination :)
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by upquark 11y ago
Yeah, the algorithm needs its viral hook: being good enough is not enough, you need to spam 10 people with this message to achieve full redemption.
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by upquark 11y ago
Your task is to learn a class of objects by example. Without seeing any negative examples, you're unlikely to learn the right class (which is unique, it is precisely the class of increasing sequences of length 3). (x, 2x, 4x) is not

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