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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 di…

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…

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 f…

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 m…

Is there some law that you can only use a single messaging app ?

How about Google Wave ? https://support.google.com/answer/1083134?hl=en

This is becoming more common. Students are entering high snchool already having taken geometry in the 8th grade. When I graduated in the late 90s, we had calc 3 (we called it multi…

If we could ever figure out what wet brains actually do (continuous feedback, ? enzyme release ? ) this might be possible

The Plaza Accord was 1985. And it wasn’t just between the US and Japan. iIf included France, Germany and the UK. The Japanese economy continued to grow until the mid 1990s. I think…

This isn’t quite true. The last language from the Supreme Court, in Brandeburg vs. Ohio ( 1969) was “imminent lawless action”. There’s also standards for the public airwaves, which…

The Washington Post being owned by Amazon for one

Replication in SQLLite cp data.db On modern cloud systems you shouldn’t have data loss anyway

There’s DICOM but last I worked with it it was a disaster. , because everyone implemted it differently. Seemed like a solution looking for a problem. Also didn’t help the standard …

“Amplification” has to be one the most misunderstood concepts In electronics No signal is really “boosted” by some weird process. What happens is a very powerful DC signal (i.e con…