DrFalkyn

Most other primate species, indeed most other mammalian species, polygyny is the norm

It’s one word, like watchmaker or bookkeeper are in English.

reshape

Yeah one of other beauties of numpy is you can pass data to/from native shared libraries compiled from C code with little overhead. This was more klidgy in Matlab last I checked

Back when our lab transitioned from Matlab to Python I used numpy/scipy quite a bit. I remember heavily leaning on numpy.reshape to get things to work correctly. In some cases I did resort to looping.

In academia you are forced to go where the jobs are, or else you leave the field. Yes I have known people married with kids who move overseas

I thought it was the exact opposite. European universities were a lot harder to get a faculty appointment. And they tended to favor local candidates , Which is why you see a lot of US universities have foreign professors, but not as many European universities that do

In the medieval era in Europe few were generally professional, in the sense that it was their full time job even in peacetime. Like you said the Kings retinue would be one of the few exceptions. Since the collapse of the (Western) Roman Empire there just wasn’t the concentration of resources in Europe for maintaining standing armies. Most were effectively a reserve force, somewhat akin to the. National Guard in the US hat could be “called up” in the event of a war.

Then how did BART get built ?

What happens if the Kafka node fails ?

You can sell the barrel after you are done

It’s AGI when it can improve itself with no more than a little human interaction

Maybe for translating a natural language query into a regular expression that can be ingested by grep.

Unless there’s enough oxygen, it shouldn’t be a problem

But how many of those stars would have been suitable for life ?

A huge star that’s going to burn out quickly isn’t conducive to complex organisms

Also in a huge star there’s less material to form planets in the first place