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I think those are good points. I don't know much about comedy or entertainment but I get the same feeling that getting "chosen" matters more than your content. On the other hand, g…

Do you think being good at something and successfully selling or marketing your work is like buying a lottery ticket?

Pg has a quote along the lines of "easier jobs that are hard to get fired from are worth more money." Of course not every public job is easy, rather often there are benefits involv…

Absolutely. It's almost unheard of to work at a major academic institution without one. Becoming a professor is all preparation from 18-30, and then was an assistant you still have…

I agree with you, but unfortunately our government is using them for that purpose.

The intent of that thread is to peer into his tweets to associate him with an untouchable "white supremacist", as opposed to any particular wrong doing. That's not even a descripti…

> Just because somebody is good in one area that doesn't mean they have any authority in another Precisely what I am saying. We can applaud Nick for contributions to cryptography w…

Is he mean? Or do associate those views with mean people. I just don't understand why everyone needs to be a PR polished suit. These people work on computers, not administer public…

That is true, but it still provides tons of examples of functors such as fundamental group and homology. These sorts of interesting functors are not common outside of graduate math…

> hope he isn't You wish he was more like you? This is a good reason why he hid his identity. Any real person would be more disappointing then the legend constructed in imagination…

I suspect this is a reversal of cause and effect. Did consumers demand subscription services? Or did vendors (led by Adobe) decide to change to subscriptions to get uniform cash fl…

Houses, cars, etc are far more reliable and well designed than software. Think about all the extreme conditions cars continue to function in. How many people don't even follow basi…

PG benefits from self-confidence as well (certainly to a less degree). Being extremely self aware and re-questioning ones positions constantly doesn't seem to be a winning trait in…

Category theory is mostly useful for modeling computation theoretically and thus designing languages. It's also not that helpful to learn unless you already know a lot of deeper ma…

Doesn't shunting yard solve this pretty simply? Once you have an expression in RPN, building expression trees is pretty easy.

Don't most universities host their own software?

I don't think so. I draw my 9s by drawing the circle, and then the line down. Looks like you go the other way. This is all about direction and gesture as opposed to OCR.

Looks like you draw your digits differently. It's "trained" to my style. Try making your own glyphs and see how it does.

How do you draw your 4? The one I used is the "one stroke" 4 where you draw it from left, top, and then down.

> best match even when the match is poor. Yeah, a real application could have a score threshold.

This animation might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_integral#/media/File:Line...

> can't handle certain cases where a path is retraced in opposite directions It does ok if there is only a small part that retraces, but you're exactly right.

It's "introductory" for MIT students who have a background in engineering, math, or physics, not average people off the street. Recursion is hard for students to grasp when taught …

I remembered fabien as well who is a big inspiration of mine: https://github.com/fabiensanglard