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To add a different but orthogonal perspective to this: My higher-level math courses were pure mathematics courses, and we pretty much always used Springer textbooks, which were onl…

While that may be true, I think what this boils down to is a form of prosecutorial discretion, where the discretion is in the hands of the ruling party.

For the record, I just read about the use of eagles (not falcons, though they are kept at falconries in France) in combating drones in a daily newsletter I highly respect. Here is …

From the abstract [0]: "Conclusions: Endogenous IAP’s protective effects in regard to the metabolic syndrome may be inhibited by PHE, a metabolite of aspartame, perhaps explaining …

There's a lot of prep/clean-up I just don't want to deal with. I've tried this method before, and it just didn't work out. All the washing of things you have to use in intermediate…

Most people I know get grossed out when I mention this, but one way I saved a bunch of time re: all the chicken I had to eat for my bulking diet was to just buy canned chicken brea…

This is just a nit, but Andrej Karpathy was never a professor at Stanford; he received his PhD from Stanford and now works at OpenAI.

See, e.g., Quine's "Translation and Meaning,"[0] as well as the blog post I linked to further down the page. Not every philosophy program consists solely of analytic philosophy; co…

The idea that passive voice is used in philosophy doesn't seem to be a novel idea [0]. For what it's worth, I don't think undergraduate CS degrees develop students' writing abiliti…

Philosophy/(Pure) Math double major here. I would argue that my Math degree made me a "better" writer than my Philosophy degree did. Writing quality in philosophy is generally much…

Coincidentally enough, this was a submitted puzzler to the NPR syndicated show "Car Talk," except there were 10 men in a line wearing black or white hats. The goal was to determine…

In fact, that's what NVIDIA did at my alma mater, Grinnell College. I believe the intent was for courses like the OS course to be taught using CUDA (at least to some degree). I don…

I can't remember where I heard this, but I think the whole listicle thing generating a profit so that they could produce actually good journalism was always the plan. I mean, I som…

This argument, to me, seems like a lot of inside baseball. I think people attuned to the political conversation vastly overestimate how much political coverage the average voter co…

That's smart money. It turns out he's already suspended his campaign [1]. [1] http://live.mprnews.org/Event/2016_election_breaking_news (just search for the word "suspend")

To be clear, the posted course is not a survey course in machine learning. It is instead a more practical course on using TensorFlow to build deep neural network architectures usef…

I only doubt this theory because we civilians are not privy to strategic bombing locations. It is entirely possible that the US air campaign (or the Russians', for that matter) rec…

Ha, I haven't had the time to listen to it yet, but I was hoping my opinion would change as well. Glad to hear it's changed at least one person's opinion.

I don't really see how much good can come from this season of the podcast if they've chosen such a politically polarized subject. Surely they know there's very little chance the pr…

FYI: The second imgur link doesn't actually show any pictures. The first one looks great, though.

One technical reason may be that C++ (I only looked at LightLDA) has a higher learning curve than Python, which the Tensorflow docs stress. Though Tensorflow stayed at #1 for a whi…

I would hardly categorize Daniel Craig's refresh of Pierce Brosnan's Bond interpretation as "simple replacement." I think each new Bond actor has great potential to bring their own…

I think that what you may be experiencing is a heightened sense of concentration toward a passion of yours that you were passionate about before you smoked pot. However, think abou…