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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
> Participants were instructed in their respective native languages to estimate roughly how much time it took
If they really want to claim that the “language you speak” changes your perception of time, then they should have avoided the confounding variable of translation discrepancies in experiment instruction.
For example, design some simple UI which does not need to be explained.
Comment · 3 years ago
> They say a reader does not steal and a thief does not read.
Profound or contrapositive [1]?
P = reader
Q = not steal
not P = does not read
not Q = Theif
P - > Q
not Q - > not P
Comment · 3 years ago
> the story from France of the second-grader who, asked what 2x3 equals, replied "3x2", knowing only that multiplication was commutative.
This is a classic joke making fun of the issues with French education based on the Bourbaki [1] school of mathematics, see [2] for more discussion. Different issues than the USA, but also bad in my opinion.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20230315185224/https://www.uni-m...
Comment · 3 years ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08997
“arXiv will not consider removal for reasons such as journal similarity detection, nor failure to obtain consent from co-authors, as these do not invalidate the license applied by the submitter”
The submitter can mark the paper as “withdrawn” but it will remain available
Comment · 3 years ago
Best advice in this thread:
Comment · 3 years ago
I did not realize RPN is not available for CAS, that is disappointing.
Is an HP 50G really the last of its kind? Hard to suggest since it’s priced like a collectors item now…
Comment · 3 years ago
HP Prime on Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) mode [1, Page 47]. RPN is a basic stack based programming language, which is really fun to use [2].
[1]https://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/attachments/psg/palm-webossof...
Comment · 3 years ago
One key feature of 1Password is the use of a secret key in addition to a master password.
See page 10 [1] which explains how the secret key provides extra entropy (which makes it much harder to brute force a user who choses a weak password). Also see Story 1 on page 11 [1].
[1] https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-p...
Comment · 3 years ago
> Fusion “Breakthrough” Won’t Lead to Practical Fusion Energy
>Just one more step on the long road to commercialization
Road
noun
1. a wide way leading from one place to another
2. a series of events or a course of action that will lead to a particular outcome.
Source: google
Comment · 3 years ago
Turning Machines Are Magic: The Gathering [1]
Comment · 4 years ago
> "Busyness is a sign of poverty that will eventually lead to personal bankruptcy"
"People who like pseudo-profound quotes are not so smart, science says" [1,2]
[1] https://qz.com/566050/people-who-like-pseudo-profound-quotes...
Comment · 4 years ago
> flex, not a tool
Suppose that a plane has 250 seats and makes 50 trans-con flights a month.
Airline A decides to advertise having fast internet access in their flight, and raises ticket prices by $2 a seat to fund it.
(250)(50)(2) = 25000
Airline B stays with slow barely usable internet.
Which ticket do you book?
Since then, many people seem to think bees are on the edge of extinction.
In fact, there are more bees now than ever before [2]
[1] https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20130819,00.htm...
[2] https://www.marketplace.org/2024/05/16/honeybee-populations-...