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Neat! Can people in the know share their experience with TeXmacs which is supposed to do very similar stuff ?

Nation \neq Civilization.

If I were a fish, I'd want not to be eaten. I don't care two bits whether I'm fried in margarine or in butter (to paraphrase Nehru).

Enough said.

Wow, Quartz defending a fellow Hinduphobe's views! Man something has gone awfully wrong with the Monsoons.

I'm sure that helps you think well of yourself.

Thankfully the British kept a meticulous record of the beautiful civilization they destroyed with utmost cruelty.

India was much more advanced than Britain at the time. Now the thief claims to be a civilizer ? Irony has known no bounds.

https://archive.org/details/DharampalCollectedWritingsIn5Vol...

:) Ah, colonialization and its many wonders!

The conditions are because the rural economy has deliberately been kept very weak. You can't blame poor people for trying to make a living.

Go outside of your big cities to see the country for what it really is.

I wouldn't necessarily want go by what established Hinduphobes like Gardner Harris have to say about the country.

This is a genuine question: why can't they outsource their software devel ?

Sure - but that's not what the OP is referring to. There is no "sync" step in multiple parallel chains, unlike particle swarm & genetic algorithms.

MCMC is also used for finding MAP solutions, an operation which is strictly less difficult than computing the partition function.

It is a multivariate (co-ordinate wise) version of MH. You can paralleize it because the Bayes net allows a decomposition of the p.d.

I feel like while your comment on Global-optimization algorithms may indeed be true, I don't quite yet believe that the hacks they involve are quite that general yet.

MH wasn't designed for Global optimization, and there is only one "particle". I guess this what you meant by "parallel" ?

One of the parallelized versions is Gibbs sampling that is used for sampling from Bayesian networks. In this case you don't even need a proposal distribution; neither would you need the test from MH.

I think Graphlab (https://dato.com/) comes implemented with something of this kind.

The trouble with Particle swarms/Genetic algorithms is that they aren't guaranteed to sample from the underlying p.d. It is not yet apparent whether you can find the mode of a distribution faster by choosing a Markov chain whose stationary distribution is different from the underlying one.

Bernie Sanders does appear much more consistent than Hillary; and he unlike Hillary has talked of dismantling the NSA. I'm afraid he won't make the Democratic nomination.

The other republicans seem like a bunch of idiots. It's likely that Hillary will come to power. She does seem to have the money for it.

I found this paper to be an excellent discussion on the implications that Physics has on the complexity question, http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf

I'm surprised the author didn't mention PCA and its invariance to orthogonal transforms - and its complete breakdown to those that aren't.

> The teachers make long speeches about how they're here to help.

A lecture I was listening to once mentioned how this was akin to asking how much sugar one should add to turn the ocean sweet.

That's like saying, I know my life doesn't mean anything to the Universe, and then consequently jumping out the window.

Isn't that a bit too agnostic (and fatalistic too) ? I mean it is us who are causing the downfall afterall.

I agree that on the large scale we're no less "natural" or "conscious", but surely we can be better than a Meteor or a Supervolcano.

> This is not something to be proud of. It's sad and depressing. High school is a time for kids to learn social skills, not advanced computer science concepts.

Unless they want to. I'm not entirely sure that most do.

Here is what I found incredible: he was mediocre even in his Math exams (and failed the rest).

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/did-srinivasa-ramanuja...

You know there is something called Enthought (started by Travis) right ?

Is the startup going to follow in the footsteps of Enthought ?

Precisely. I find that getting the balance (that ethereal "style") right takes a lot more time than actually "learning" the language.

"Normal schools can’t personalize the curriculum and so deal poorly with asynchronous learners."

Couldn't agree more! Universities tend to be much worse in this aspect.

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X220 Tablet, if using Wacom is your thing.

They also seem to have killed off the awesome Thinkpad X-tablets :(

I wish it was also a bit less plasticky; something like Macbook Air + Nub + Old Thinkpad keyboard + Black Rubberized body + WACOM would be a dream come true. Hardware upgradeability on top of that would be epic.

It has nothing to do with Ivies or the US; it's humanity.

Even better: use org-mode.

Yes, I think the above is a fairly useless digression. Thank you for making me think more about this.

Is clojure any "better" in real-world use ?