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If the loss amount is adjusted to 33%, then on average over time individuals will make a net profit. A 50% win will more than compensate for a 33% loss (0.67 * 1.5 = 1.005).

Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms, A Unified Approach by John H. Hubbard and Barbara Burke Hubbard.

Because we shouldn't think about the media categorically one way or the other, as if it's either all fake or everything in the media is true. The media gets things wrong, and we sh…

> Under iOS 11.2.0 the effect is even more pronounced. No, the effect is exactly the same as you can see from the charts since they peak at the same benchmark scores. It is the dis…

> Wasting half your energy-budget on spoon feeding the compiler is just as bad as spending it on managing memory manually in C. This isn't quite a fair comparison. Manual memory ma…

Strictly speaking, AnySequence is a generic type, whereas AnySequence , AnySequence , and AnySequence would be three different concrete types.

This is particularly relevant right now. The swift-evolution mailing list is currently discussing adding a "dynamic member lookup" protocol to Swift to enhance interop with dynamic…

Our educational culture has us convinced that we need to have some kind of complete mental process before we produce an answer for some problem. In school, you answer a question by…

> (Can’t wait until we can have variadic generic parameters!) This.

Exactly. I have no idea. It would make sense for a large, capable predator to try out eating a human, but they just don't. Maybe humans don't have enough fat on them to be appealin…

Orcas do have large populations near Antartica, Norway, and Alaska, but they also have large populations along the American West Coast, Mexico, and Australia. The Global Biodiversi…

Yes, orcas also hunt seals, sea lions, and other marine mammals that live on beaches. Orcas will even beach themselves in order to hunt these. And they've even been observed in fre…

Some human beings that live near the ocean do go in the water. Here are some more facts: Great white sharks world population: fatal attacks on humans from 1990-2013: 35 [2] Orcas w…

Despite being a very intelligent apex predator with a diverse diet[1], orcas apparently have never killed a human in the wild before in recorded history, and there is only one reco…

>> 荼 vs 茶 Also 苶 looks similar.

The people behind the Perseus project are singularly amazing. This project really enhances our ability to read and research these texts, and it has continually improved over time. …

"Complicated" is an interesting translation for πολύτροπον rather than the more literal "much-traveled." But then again, The Odyssey isn't some children's adventure story. It's a s…

Brilliant and fascinating! I thought the sentences following your second quotation from the first paper, hypothesizing on the mechanism for kin selection, to be quite interesting: …

Absolutely fascinating work! However, I'm not entirely sold on the usage of the term "mother tree." While Simard says > That’s how we came up with the term “mother tree,” because t…

"Metaphors are like models, only with unclear responsibilities." --Nick Rowe, talking about the use of metaphors to describe economic models.

I have long thought that Pinyin is underestimated for its simplicity, conciseness, and its implicit description of regional phonetics in China. Its uses all 26 letters of English e…