weichi

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by weichi 4mo ago
I'm won't claim that universities don't have a problem with adminstrative bloat, but looking at simple top-line numbers like number of non-teaching staff can easily be misleading. I don't know about Brown specifically, b
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by weichi 7mo ago
"If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response."
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by weichi 11mo ago
upvoting not because I think the article is great, but because I want someone to tell me (a magit user) why jj is better than using magit to interact wit git!
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by weichi 5y ago
AFAIK, evidence is pretty clear that delaying marriage (up to a point!) reduces the likelihood of getting divorced. https://ifstudies.org/blog/want-to-avoid-divorce-wait-to-get... Of course you are correct that lowered
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by weichi 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "premise", but I really hope that the justification for "treating everyone equally under the law (or otherwise)" is not because doing so "helps prove beyond a reason of doubt who t
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by weichi 6y ago
"the notion of counter-elites: those who are groomed for power and then excluded from it ... The tech industry is a better example ... Peter Thiel (classic counter elite Stanford-trained lawyer cum entrepreneur)" Is what sense was
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by weichi 7y ago
The article is too long and too wordy, but it provides many links to published studies on the effects of porn on the brain.
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by weichi 7y ago
"In particular, there are ongoing efforts to try to make it the normal thing for scientists to make the programs they ran on their data available so that their results can be reproduced; aggressively dropping older programming language
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by weichi 8y ago
Unless I am very badly misunderstanding TED, it provides none of the things that churches provide for their members. Some of these things are described succinctly but clearly in the post you are responding too. Could you expand on this?
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by weichi 8y ago
I've read Griffiths, most of Shankar, some of Sakurai, and some of Feynman. Of those, I would say Griffiths is the best option for someone with your background. It's short enough that you have some hope of going through the entire
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by weichi 8y ago
I like the thought process here (looking at aggregates), but this analysis is simplified to the point of uselessness. For example, since you are talking about houses I think the relevant quantity is average wealth per household. The average
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by weichi 8y ago
Most of the comments here are completely missing the point of the article. The article is not about whether the ideas espoused by old philosophers are worth learning about, or about whether old philosophers are worth reading. The article as
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by weichi 9y ago
You need to write down the 1-1 correspondence you are proposing. Don't describe it in words, actually start writing the natural numbers in one column and the corresponding reals in the other. When you do this, you will find either that
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by weichi 12y ago
How leaky is the abstraction? Can you effectively use this with very little prior knowledge of front-end web development? And what is the state of F# on Linux these days?
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by weichi 13y ago
You are qualifying this with the word "successful", but is it really the case that high-quality candidates are putting up with temp contracting roles in lieu of an immediate "permanent" position? That seems like prima fa
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by weichi 13y ago
While it's true that NIST SP 800-63 gives 44 bits of entropy for the comic's password, this is purely a coincidence. The comic certainly isn't using using NIST SP 800-63 to calculate the entropy. The "xkcd" method e
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by weichi 13y ago
Do you really think that Amazon is doing something that they believe will lose customers so that they can make a point to about how they are smarter than stock analysts? I have a very, very hard time believing that the people running Amazon
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by weichi 13y ago
"This paper has already seen more, meaningful, peer review that most papers Nature publishes ..." I really don't think that this is true. The useful bit of peer review is changes made to the original paper as part of the peer
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by weichi 13y ago
Thank you. I can appreciate that it's difficult to implement good interactive plotting, especially across platforms. It's also very very important!
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by weichi 13y ago
How good is the interactive plotting experience?
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by weichi 13y ago
"If a 30 year old puts a days wages into an account and can expect a days wages out when he's 80 years old then he can drastically simplify his retirement." Your idea here seems to be that bitcoin could help you not only hedg
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by weichi 13y ago
MRI machines don't actually use liquid cryogens, do they? Surely some kind of cryocooler would be simpler and cheaper?
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by weichi 13y ago
Please read the article. This example actually supports his thesis that "as long as it is possible for counterspies to generate misleading information most of the time, spies are useless even when their information happens to be correc
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by weichi 13y ago
The UN was founded after the nuclear bombs were dropped.
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by weichi 13y ago
In order to truly understand the madness at play here, we really need to know how the list of email addresses was generated.
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by weichi 13y ago
What are the largest companies by revenue, profits, and employees that are using this model?
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by weichi 13y ago
It's a really interesting question, and one that economists have studied quite a bit - google "theory of the firm" for some details.
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by weichi 13y ago
That second paragraph doesn't make sense to me. How do you use a convolution to sample down? And don't you mean low-pass filter in the last sentence?
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by weichi 13y ago
So do you keep the books that are part of the 90%, or do you get rid of them?
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by weichi 13y ago
Very interesting article. But it makes we wonder ... if someone gets access to your key file, that's nearly always going to be because they have access to your login account, right? And at that point isn't the gig pretty much up? In other w

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