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by zeroer 6y ago
If ever. The Central Limit Theorem requires the distribution to have finite standard deviation.
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by zeroer 6y ago
On your suggestion I browsed the front page for 10 minutes just to see what all the fuss has been about. Tiktok is worse than I could have imagined.
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by zeroer 9y ago
You're bringing into clear relief why I wasn't accepted to Stanford.
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by zeroer 9y ago
> Where Stephen Fry discovers the concept of the Eternal September.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Wow, you're right. I missed that interpretation.
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by zeroer 9y ago
The rules for newspaper headlines is not the same as for normal sentences. > "Tanzania bans song for two years" That's ungrammatical as a sentence but a perfectly good headline.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Yea, in metrizable spaces, those statements are equivalent.
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by zeroer 9y ago
There's no One True Definition of what it means to be fractal, but a lot of working mathematicians use the criterion that a space's Hausdorf dimension is not equal to its topological dimension. Oftentimes (but not always), the Ha
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by zeroer 9y ago
The article posits that maybe advanced alien civilizations may be motivated to build larger (and hence harder to to detect) Dyson spheres for the efficiency gains. While that's a possibility, it's also possible that being harder
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by zeroer 9y ago
> A common example to help explain sunk costs is the movie theater experience, where a person buys a ticket and, 20 minutes into the movie, she realizes that it is a horrible movie and it will only get worse. Offtopic I know, but twice
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by zeroer 9y ago
Can you add ?share=1 to your spider to get all Quora's content?
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by zeroer 9y ago
I know who you're talking about.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Yea, I agree. Yudkowski found his voice starting around chapter 20. The initial chapters could use a good rewriting.
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by zeroer 9y ago
So worth it. If you read it, you'll wish there were more.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Don't bother with the rest of the Ender Quartet. While they're not terrible, they don't hold a candle to Ender's Game. There's just better uses of your time (like any other book on this page).
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by zeroer 9y ago
> drove way too fast, kept less than required safety distance Welcome to driving.
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by zeroer 9y ago
I'm on something similar. For about half a year, food tasted bland, but now most of the time I eat at a restaurant, food tastes gaggingly salty.
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by zeroer 9y ago
If you have out-of-band connections with all your friends and you have friends who are willing to jump through weird, nerdy, technical hoops, what do you need Facebook for?
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by zeroer 9y ago
Majority, sure. But I wouldn't call 54% (the percentage of voters who voted for somebody other than Trump) a "sizeable majority".
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by zeroer 9y ago
Huh. That's an interesting definition of "vacation".
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by zeroer 9y ago
Thank you. I appreciate the guidance, but I'm not attempting to troll, and this is something that I would say in an in person conversation and have. I really honestly believe that you'd do these kids a favor by euthanizing them.
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by zeroer 9y ago
It was dumb of Assange to make the offer.
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by zeroer 9y ago
There's another factor at play in Samantha's case - she was adopted. The article mentions that no evidence of abuse was ever uncovered by previous parents (both biological and foster), but who knows?
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by zeroer 9y ago
I don't know for a fact, but I would very much expect the answer to be yes. The relevant metrics to look at would be body fat percentage, cholesterol, triglyceride, and blood sugar levels, resting heart rate and blood pressure, and in
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by zeroer 9y ago
I sincerely hope that when I'm that old, I'll be above such pettiness.
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by zeroer 9y ago
I would assume that most American retirees are mostly living off of Social Security. Pensions and annuities are in there too.
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by zeroer 9y ago
I've thought before that CRPGs are decent training for how to handle money (emotionally speaking).
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by zeroer 9y ago
It's relevant to me.
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by zeroer 9y ago
BMI is a terrible metric for weightlifters.
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by zeroer 9y ago
Would you care if it's a cloud or a reflection off glass?

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