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That just means that there was an impact at around the same time. There's been numerous impacts like this that have been claimed to be the cause of Younger Dryas in the past. Howev…

No, speaking as a former glaciologist, that's not likely to be true. The parent poster is correct. Younger Dryas featured multiple advances and retreats, which is inconsistent with…

Vitamin D deficiency actually really common, especially with dark skinned people living at higher latitudes. Most office people could do with a bit more UV.

> On a side note: Should he have been able to see whose results he was looking at? It's surely unethical in my book. They were specifically ones from his own family, so I imagine h…

Whoops, brain fart.

Sequential access is O(1) just like mutable arrays. These structures really are fast and practical. The benefits of immutability are enormous. That's why they are so popular. Edit:…

Modern persistent tree-based data structures are usually O(log32n) random access, which is essentially O(1) for all practical purposes. With a mutable array of references, random a…

These persistent structures use what's called structural sharing. The simplest persistent structure is just a regular linked list. While random access is O(n), inserting, deleting,…

It's subjective, but I've really got to disagree with you that vests look good. They're pretty hard to pull off, IMO.

I probably wouldn't worry about it unless you have really large arrays. It's still probably pretty insignificant compared to the time spent updating the DOM.

Check out Funkia List [0], an persistent O(log n) random access list implementation. I use it pretty extensively when I'm writing typescript. It actually can beat native arrays on …

We used to say that in Seattle.

Residents don't sleep much, so this doesn't surprise me at all. Related, the residency process needs to be massively reformed. The flimsy justification for making people responsibl…

Yeah, Neanderthal is great (I'm a Clojure a user). It's got support for structured sparse matrices (like Toeplitz) the last I checked, but not general CSC/CSR matrices.

Sure, but there's not a single mature library that's done so.

Breeze runs out of memory for even surprisingly small arrays.

I'm eagerly awaiting their sparse matrix support. It's unbelievable that the entire JVM doesn't have a single comprehensive, production quality sparse matrix library [0]. This is o…

We're talking about employment here. Masculine vs. feminine has nothing to do with job performance except in maybe porn or something. If masculine men are preferred, then that mean…

This is a really good point. Women also show tend to show bias towards men, and gay men often show bias towards straight men. It's kind of an instinctual thing to suck up to the po…

I doubt it is anywhere near just as likely to flow in the opposite direction. It's not like masculine white males are favored just because of their voice pitch. That ideal as the i…

For sure, but at least overt discrimination is much more easily remedied by social ostracism or legal means.

It's really easy to do this with pure functional programming in impure languages like Scala. You can use arbitrary impure code within lazy IO values. Outside, the functional purity…

This is the gospel truth. It does take discipline though, because writing tests sucks. I like to have a policy of never committing a non-trivial function without a test. That way, …

Subconscious gender/racial biases, which absolutely everyone has, are so devilish because they take conscious effort to overcome.