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On the subject of using other people's computers: How do people who use a heavily customised environment -- like Emacs with modifications (like caps-lock key for CONTROL) -- cope w…

OK, fair enough.

You're judging Nietzsche using circular logic. You're saying that because he's respected by some academics, he is objectively worthy of respect. But that's contingent on those very…

Finance jargon is impenetrable. Aren't you supposed to gamble with a fixed percentage of your money in case a long tail event happens? From an outsider's point of view, that seems …

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> repairing a cable is really easy task generally Highly subjective. Some people have other hobbies. > make the cable replaceable, i.e. have it also be connectorized on the headpho…

Problem with non-wireless headphones is that they break. One side of the headphones stops playing sounds; you can sometimes spin the connector and get the sound back, but that gets…

I'm wondering how many of the complaints here are to do with FrontPage itself, or the very idea of WYSIWYG web design. To me, it seems that web design is a visual thing. And if so,…

If you like quaternions, you should check out the split-quaternions. They're equivalent to the 2x2 matrices, but help you understand them better by using analogies to the highly fa…

Nassim Taleb had some negative things to say about GARCH. "GARCH does not work out of sample. It is a good story, but I was unable to use it in predicting squared deviations or mea…

There was a Quanta Magazine article talking about predicting the evolution of a flame-front using ML. The ML algorithm remained accurate for eight Lyapunov intervals; eight times l…