yetanotherphd

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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
The only thing missing from this is a reference to the mathematical theory of harmonic analysis, which provides a way to calculate the exact eigenvalues (or modes) of these systems (well at least a linear approximation to them). In particu
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
One thing that really sped up my compiler was eating a ketogenic diet, and eliminating preprocessed foods.
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
It sounds like you are jealous of Musk's intelligence, and so you write something that puts down smart people and talks down to them in a patronizing way. Why else would you lump all smart people together, and claim they have some psyc
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
The article criticizes the standard of evidence provided for mainstream diet advice, and yet they provide absolutely no evidence for their claim that the really important factor is eating natural, unprocessed food.
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
Well said. I often get downvotes on comments that go against the "more women in tech" feminist agenda. You just have to ignore the hive mind and give your honest opinion, no matter what the votes.
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
Nerds were cute when they started getting big paychecks. Now they are using their money to buy things that other people want. That's not fair!
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
That's unfortunate. Have you considered renaming the game to gogame?
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
I found Haskell was not that hard. But I did try to learn by reading Learn You a Haskell twice and gave up. When I really learnt it, I treated it like I would any other language: I tried to write nontrivial programs in it, in my case the 2
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
Reverse-agism is part of an egalitarian mindset of many HN commenters, who believe experience is more important than individual variation in skill. For them, skill and ability increase with experience, so it is an objective fact that young
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
Can someone fill me in on why IPC is important? I would have thought that most parallelism was either within a process, or across machines.
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
In Australia we have a single system, where the test for qualifying for welfare is almost entirely based on (1) total assets and (2) income. This disproves the theory that excessive complexity is inherent in welfare systems.
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by yetanotherphd 12y ago
No, it's time for something proven: Australian style welfare. Maybe in 50 years time, it will be time for basic income. The problem with giving people free money, is it reduces the incentive to work. Australia, and other countries, h
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Jealousy is a natural human emotion. It is notable how many stories bashing smart people (not for being smart per se, of course, but for lacking other important qualities) come up on HN. That, and how unfair the interview process is.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
No matter what the control for, these studies are very limited. If they say that intelligence is correlated with X, if we like X we will say that this proves X is a good thing, and if we don't like X we will say that this proves intell
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
This is a terrible idea. It doesn't sync live, you have to send the entire notebook back and they scan it for you. That makes it much less useful that, for example, those special pens that scan what you write. In almost all situatio
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
>I only need to point out the many companies that don't pay dividends and yet are widely accepted as investments. Your logical error is in assuming that if a company that pays no dividends now is considered a good investment, then t
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
You are correct about the empirical facts (there exist some companies don't currently pay dividends), but theory is needed to understand that if those company's never paid dividends, they would be worthless. The fundamental princi
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
It's extremely simple: The only real value a share has is dividends, and dividend-like things (like share buybacks, the whole company being taken private, etc.). In theory (and practice) the price of a stock is the expected value of th
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Nonsense by people who don't understand free market economics and therefore choose to ridicule it. Calling themselves artists (as another pointed out) shields them from the criticism they would receive if they clearly stated their poin
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I'd be interested in seeing a meta-version of this: give two papers with identical methodologies, one showing that employers tend to hire women less because they are biased, and one showing that employers tend to hire women less becaus
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Python was invented by an extremely talented programmer who didn't happen to know one particular thing. It's not the minutiae of theory that make Python so popular, but it's overall design philosophy geared towards ease of u
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
On my motivations, society does allow bullying to happen, and the discrepancy between what it allows to happen to children in the context of bullying, and what it allows in most other cases, requires an explanation. This requires putting on
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Well it's not surprising it seems like a truism to you, since a big part of conservatism is maintaining the status quo. But to be more precise about the benefit that conservatives see in bullying: bullying can be thought of as a social
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
please see my other replies - I'm not endorsing bullying, I'm explaining why many conservatives don't think it's a problem.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
When I say "social structure" I mean the idea that people should feel compelled to follow societal norms. Even though school bullies don't enforce the same norms as society at large, they do enforce the norms of their peer g
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I meant they are somewhat correct in their belief that bullying is a part of our social fabric. But I don't endorse bullying, rather I think that there is something wrong with our society. It is not an uncommon (again, I don't en
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Unfortunately bullying by its nature is not a very popular political issue. Conservatives (somewhat correctly) consider bullying to be part of how society maintains is social structure. Progressives only consider bullying through the lens o
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
A powerful reminder that our society still doesn't offer adequate protection, even of their basic right to safety, to all its members.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Funding science with taxes raised by income tax is socialist for me. Economic theory shows that income tax is the least distortionary kind of tax, What you are advocating is populism. You see a large transaction, and say "we could us
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
>relatively painless and with little dead-weight loss On what basis are you making this claim? Since you are familiar with the term deadweight loss, you must be familiar with the economic theory associated with taxation, and therefore

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