> you become dizzy with too much O2 in your blood
I've never heard of this, can you elaborate?
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I've never heard of this, can you elaborate?
[1]: https://www.tweag.io/posts/2018-07-10-funflow-make.html
Overall, this is a space I'm very interested in and this looks like a polished product. I'll be keeping an eye on it; I've installed the addon and am looking forward to playing with it :)
PS. "Full-text search" seemed to me (and might to many) like full-text search of webpage contents, not just URLs/titles. It's not malicious, of course, but it feels slightly misleading.
> Faculty with earlier surname initials are significantly more likely to receive tenure at top ten economics departments, are significantly more likely to become fellows of the Econometric Society, and, to a lesser extent, are more likely to receive the Clark Medal and the Nobel Prize.
> These statistically significant differences remain the same even after we control for country of origin, ethnicity, religion or departmental fixed effects. As a test, we replicate our analysis for faculty in the top 35 U.S. psychology departments, for which coauthorships are not normatively ordered alphabetically. We find no relationship between alphabetical placement and tenure status in psychology.
[0]: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/08953300677652608..., "What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success"
I know the author; they shared it privately with friends and weren't ready to post this publicly yet.
http://www.seilevel.com/requirements/visual-models-save-live...
> A unique feature of the S2 library is that unlike traditional geographic information systems, which represent data as flat two-dimensional projections (similar to an atlas), the S2 library represents all data on a three-dimensional sphere (similar to a globe).
(S^2 if the superscript character doesn't show up for you.)
Relatedly, I'd imagine that (akin to the story about choosing what parts of a fighter plane to armour) the worst health emergencies, esp. in children, are the ones where the child does not make it to the ER alive or is either unresuscitable (word?) or deteriorates rapidly and uncontrollably before a diagnosis can be made.
I don't understand. From my (admittedly little better than layperson's) knowledge, I'm guessing the cores of most multicore processors have to compete for memory access...? Is there a good search term I can use to help me understand what's going on here?
Since then I’ve had the chance in the world of mathematics that bid me welcome,
to meet quite a number of people, both among my “elders” and among young people
in my general age group who were more brilliant, much more ‘gifted’ than I was.
I admired the facility with which they picked up, as if at play, new ideas,
juggling them as if familiar with them from the cradle–while for myself I felt
clumsy, even oafish, wandering painfully up an arduous track, like a dumb ox
faced with an amorphous mountain of things I had to learn (so I was assured)
things I felt incapable of understanding the essentials or following through to
the end. Indeed, there was little about me that identified the kind of bright
student who wins at prestigious competitions or assimilates almost by sleight
of hand, the most forbidding subjects.
In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have
gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still from the perspective or
thirty or thirty five years, I can state that their imprint upon the
mathematics of our time has not been very profound. They’ve done all things,
often beautiful things in a context that was already set out before them, which
they had no inclination to disturb. Without being aware of it, they’ve remained
prisoners of those invisible and despotic circles which delimit the universe of
a certain milieu in a given era. To have broken these bounds they would have to
rediscover in themselves that capability which was their birthright, as it was
mine: The capacity to be alone.
This differs from the option mentioned by someone else of "calling the right people" (perhaps by donating a chunk of money to send conventional rescue personnel/equipment) instead of flashily taking matters into his own hands: this is a display of ingenuity/out-of-the-box thinking/"a tunnel-making company that everyone says is a bad idea saved actual lives, see?" first (again, read something like "nerd saviourism" or a restricted form of "tech solutionism" if you like) and philanthropy second.
Similar idea to pushing his batteries in Puerto Rico, and also explains his lack of interest in Flint (often mentioned on Twitter) or similar humanitarian concerns, and hence his difference from a certain "philanthropic billionaire" stereotype exemplified by Gates and Buffett: he doesn't own a company that claims it can purify water in a way everyone thinks is either overpriced or stupid, so "those things would prove nothing". (A silly prediction along these lines: if there ever is some sort of emergency in the near future that requires transporting something very quickly from A to B, faster than a cargo airplane (and insert other wildly improbable things here), I'd expect him to offer to do the "NYC to Tokyo in 30 min" thing for free.)
Not every word is a pretty one you can throw around, you know: what exactly about this metaphorical meeting was "non-Euclidean"?
When a value is bound in do-notation, the pattern on the
left hand side of <- might not match. In this case, this
class provides a function to recover.
Saying "non-argument" and ending it there is not useful, but in this case it's shorthand for something along the lines of "not even wrong", and I think that's a valid answer for some (not all!) of the points in the OP.
To pick one example: the author gives an example of an eta-reduced function and then says:
let fn1 a b c d = ... do something ...
let fn2 a b c = fn1 a b c
fn2 a b c d
(Or their criticism of partially-applied functions, which is essentially the same thing.)
This is a "non-argument": the only thing that is being made clear here is that the author hasn't spent sufficient time learning the idioms of an unfamiliar style of programming. Yes, horrible partial-application like
f = (g .) . ($) . (. (. h))
map f
map (\x -> f x)
I'm inclined to agree, and I do find your points more "airtight".
(I see you've been downvoted; it wasn't me.)
https://gist.github.com/vjeux/cc2c4f83a6b60d69b79057b6ef651b...
In my own opinion, I think the author would be better served by sticking with it for a little while longer.
And, no, to head off one common strand of arguments at the pass: no, as a Haskeller and FP enthusiast, I (very strongly) do not think pure, statically-typed, globally-type-inferred (?) programming is perfect or some kind of One True Way. Does it have warts? Of course it does, and don't believe anyone who tries to tell you otherwise.
But the pure FP way of thinking has a lot to offer, and seeing all its idioms through an imperative, C-family-language lens is counterproductive.
A good thing to keep in mind here is the "Principle of Charity": when faced with an unfamiliar spin on something you know how to do in a different way, it's useful not to approach it with the intent of disproving it. Existential Comics has a guide[0] to learning philosophy as an amateur that talks about this.
(I like your blog, btw!)
Here are two comments from yours truly on what "ideals" are and why they make sense to think about for number theory: