animefan

Correlations are better than nothing. You want a simple elegant theory but why do you think one actually exists. The human body is incredibly complex, maybe there are no general rules, only a plethora of interacting processes that are very hard to model.

Also I think that there is a lot of evidence and theory on the harmful effects of dietary saturated fats. Same for being overweight.

They could encourage people to leave 0 star reviews and update them if they survive.

There are fascinating parallels between this debate and the debate on the size, economic development and political cohesion of the Palestinian population before the establishment of modern day Israel.

While these people sound cool, I notice that hn treats then like heroes while it treats people who violate zoning laws at scale as villains.

To assuming considering doing this I would say please please don't. If a dozen people did it the company would crack down and amend it's policies.

Not sure that this deserves to be down voted. If the only reason for not continuing this lifestyle is his wife, doesn't that imply that his wife is being irrational?

My undergraduate degree was math. Looking back, I find it really hard to imagine how I could have learnt all that without going to college. I just don't think it's possible to recreate that combination of extrinsic motivation and interactive learning. maybe moocs can do this but I suspect they fall short on both accounts.

Now I'm able to learn more independently (e.g. type theory and HoTT) but it's still very difficult and I don't think I could do it without my undergraduate and higher degrees.

I see a lot of posts on hn asking the lines of "how can I learn X on my own". Without at least some formal education in college math or cs, I suspect the answer may be "it's not possible "

One problem with this argument is that it ignores the fact that investors are also consumers. If the representative investor is also the representative consumer, then managers who aim to maximize shareholder utility will not set monopoly prices, but rather competitive prices! Of course, like the author I don't think any of this bears out in reality.

As someone who was identified as gifted and talented in Australia, I think the parents often want things that are not particularly useful, eg early university entry, or their goal is some special university program.

In high school I did training for the international mathematics Olympiads (which was too much work but otherwise a great program) and that was all the extra input I really needed. In university I did an ordinary math program, and my parents really didn't understand that the math department is more than capable of challenging high iq students.

I feel that the system let me "fligh freely" because I always had access to challenging material if I wanted it (I also did debating). However my parents weren't satisfied because they wanted to be provided with a clear path from my youthful intelligence to future success.

Indeed the article has a very orientalist tone. In comparison, the wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan has similar content but at least the Nihon vs Nippon section discussed the actual phonetics and not just the corresponding romanizations (surely most educated people are aware that romanizations are imperfect representations that obscure the underlying phonetics)

The point of this article is to describe exactly how to do this using a specific Python library. It's not fundamental research but it's very useful for people who want to do this sort of thing in practice without reinventing all the software libraries from scratch.

While China has a great and deep culture, I don't see a strong reason why the UK should look to China for inspiration for its education system. The West continues to do great things in every field including technology. I think that the increasing representation of Chinese in technology is mainly due to the fact that hard technical skills are much more transferable across language and cultural barriers, than to any inherent advantage in China's education system. And while it's great that the Chinese government wants to invest more in cutting edge research, right now the most advances are still being made in the West.

I wad confused too but looking at the definition of realloc, it will sometimes allocate adjacent memory and sometimes allocate new memory and perform a move. In which case copying the std::string values might not be valid.

I disagree with 1 and 2, in the sense that i believe that sensory input has no fundamental ontological role, and is merely how we biological humans bootstrap our knowledge of macroscopic objects.

The real dilemma of quantum theory is how to reconcile this macroscopic world with the world described by quantum theory. Personally I don't think many worlds approaches make sense because they don't have an adequate description of probability.

For reference, the poorly named "standard model" which is the quantum theory of all forces except gravity, cannot really be called equations in the usual sense. This is because the kind of mathematical model that would describe the standard model (nonperturbative QFT) can't currently be done rigorously. It can only be done for simpler models in lower dimensions. The standard model is a very complex sort of approximation to a theory that is assumed to exist.

This might be a mere detail to some but to me it is a sign that physics is complex in all kinds of ways, and can't really be described as "choosing the right equations". Even if you think that this is what physics is fundamentally, I think you would have to admit that it wasn't possible to describe what the meaning of "equation" was before qft was developed, and the same may be true about future theories that unify the standard model and gravity.

The supreme court's definition of "arms" is not something that can be changed by passing a law. Just like you couldn't hack the second amendment by defining arms to be muskets.

I guess part of my point was that when your post implies some implicit threat, you should be clear on whether you are merely warning of this threat or whether you think it's a good thing. Otherwise you might end to inadvertently supporting a system you don't intend to.

Which parts of that post were so extreme that it would be wiser to say then anonymously, in your view?

The fact that so called "racists" are unable to freely[0] express even a moderate opposition to the mainstream narrative on racism, is the best proof that this narrative is at best incomplete.

[0] e.g. without fear of losing ones job.

I consider myself to have a lot of mental stamina. I can focus for hours if I have to, and sometimes to job really requires it, e.g. you need to get something fixed for a customer. I don't consider this an unreasonable part of the job, but it takes a mental and physical toll that needs to be managed. As I get older (early 30's now) I expect to have less inclination and ability to do this kind of intense mental workout, and therefore move more towards management. My understand is that manual workers like builders tend to do a similar career transition.