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domnomnomon Congress demands tech CEOs censor the internet even more aggressively

I actually don't mind this.

Isn't it much more annoying when someone is pushing an agenda and pretends to be objective? At least I can relax and not get trojan-horsed by opinions.

domnomnomon Hacker's Guide to Numerical Analysis

Hackers = engineers

domnomnomon Hacker's Guide to Numerical Analysis

> My rule of thumb is that anything title "...for Hackers" is crap.This link was not an exception.

Well then you're missing the whole point completely.

domnomnomon Ask HN: What is the most complex concept you understand?

What about quaternions?

domnomnomon Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing

A lot of people work at google. A subset of googlers are very focused on privacy first.

domnomnomon Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes

Calculus 2,3 and Real Analysis can also be understood with undergrad calculus.

domnomnomon It Can Happen to You

Can you ELICSUndergraduate. Tokenizing is normally for if you're writing a compiler of DSL right?

domnomnomon France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack

Part of the "benefit" is the software breaking again in the future. Like I said, there is no cost to software failing and even a benefit. If people died when software failed, that 25x effort would probably become 5x dude to efficiencies of people actually working on the problem

domnomnomon France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack

Where do you think type systems originate?

domnomnomon How Antidepressants Work, at Last?

I've seen you say this a couple of times, but cholesterol in this context refers to something very specific. Essentially the ratio of cholesterol to other lipids in the cell membrane has influence on the bilayer dynamics of lipid raft formation and in this case receptor orientation.

domnomnomon France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack

I used to struggle with the notion of software - Why is it that formal verification never took off? Then I realized, bad software is just another way of printing money for somebody somewhere.

domnomnomon Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues

Proteins are practical.

domnomnomon Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons

The insinuation was a gender was more effective.

domnomnomon Higher coffee intake may be linked to lower prostate cancer risk

Here are a couple of papers about supposed mechanisms:

Regarding caffeine: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16709440/

Regarding coffee polyphenols: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16709440/

domnomnomon YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-email-shows-dnc-boss-gi...

Is it?

domnomnomon Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response

Focusing on how you feel is also a great way to die prematurely. Hypertension, Heart Disease and Cancer all don't care one iota about how you feel. This has literally nothing to do with what you're talking about other than being about eating habits.

domnomnomon 14,000x Speedup (2015)

It's not malformed, it's just incorrect. Additionally, the halting problem is about provability. That sort of imprecision of language needs qualifiers at least.

domnomnomon 14,000x Speedup (2015)

It's a dynamic where each party can feel the need to cover one's own insecurities resulting in (unintentionally) invaliding the other party. One side aims to justify a sunk cost and the other to prove themselves and it becomes a chain reaction whereby everyone becomes engaged in ego defense/vuln attack until someone goes "wow you are really intelligent" and breaks the cycle.

domnomnomon Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)

This same tyranny exists with money. The beauty of financial transactions as work and recognition is that there's never any ambiguity as far as your work being valued. In academia you have, on the other hand, things such as nebulous awards and recognition of placement on a publication. These things have real implications for career placement. That can be an analogous sort of tyranny, I think.

domnomnomon Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)

You’ve done the same as well!!! Can YOU spot it?

domnomnomon Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)

"If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police?

If you answered “yes”, then you are used to acting like an anarchist!"

No. This fails at scale. People are prosocial in small groups and in person but when this scales it goes away. This is a slight of hand the author is making to silently embed a false premise into the argument.

domnomnomon Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]

You'll love Russell then.

https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/br-ml-ch5.html#n8

He gets deep into some stuff, so read the parts that interest you. I also highly recommend his book, the problems of philosophy. It's really what I think math is all about.

domnomnomon Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]

Good, keep all the maths for me.

domnomnomon Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]

Not true, logic is great. It's just taught in a tortured way and mostly goes by another name.

domnomnomon Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever

Exactly. There is just no simple solution, only likely applied optimizations in certain contexts that those in the trenches will be able to discover.

domnomnomon Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever

Lmao, turtles all the way down my friend.

domnomnomon Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]

We make circular cpus and do everything in base pi! Yes!

domnomnomon Elite Disillusionment

What did you do after?

domnomnomon Why Do People Stay Poor? [pdf]

That sort of epistemological tone is quite painful to see.