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Yeah, but this is specifically about pure mathematics. Do Google and medical companies publish pure math research?

Sorting went up for men but down for women? I'm not sure I want to start a DEI fight but I'm also not sure I can think of another answer. EDIT: part time work, apparently.

I find it difficult to believe that most theoretical physicists are wrong and one guy in the math department at Columbia + the comments section of a venture capital link aggregator…

>This is not something to ignore and dismiss, unless you think Zuck is a complete idiot. Well...

I'm pro-YIMBY, but building more will only solve part of the problem. The problem it won't solve is that our winner-take-all economy is winner-take-all for cities, too. Everyone is…

What aspect of nature does the sensitivity conjecture describe?

I was thinking of Roman moneylenders like Seneca as I wrote that. But they didn't lend money for "means of production" like steam engines etc. Everything was all slave power. But e…

The key feature of capitalism is the economy is defined by capital, i.e. money that makes money, preferably at scale. That didn't exist in any sustained, important way until the ea…

The hard thing isn't the wheel, it's the axle. For that, you need a precision that it's difficult to get without at least bronze tools.

> The CS program for undergrad in Havard is exactly the same as your closer public college. I've taken community college CS, and I've taken CS50 (online). I did not find this to be…

My read on this is pretty complex. On the one hand, my verbal ability is off the charts - I never scored lower than an 800 on a PSAT or SAT. My math ability is good but not great. …

The one guy better not sleep.

There is worse misunderstanding/bikeshedding upwards in the thread, although it's more artfully worded. And at least one of the replies to this refers to useful resources. This is,…

It's analogous to McDonald's selling you a dining room and then regulating what food you can eat in it.

>High-level, what makes Forth interesting? What are it’s major strengths and weaknesses? Strengths: Lisp-level metaprogramming facilities while also being extremely fast and close …

>That's what the free will debate in philosophy is about: whether there's a coherent conception of free volition that can justify holding an actor morally responsible for their cho…

A lot of this is about moral philosophy, which doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in causality. But I don't see why determinism would mean you can't be held morally responsib…

It's not obvious to me where your other comment addresses my thought experiment.

Calvinists and Sunni Muslims don't believe in free will. Neither one as a class could be said to be in a nihilistic funk.

>I don't see why. Free will is a choice made for our own reasons that isn't coerced by another actor's will. This is exactly why free will evaporates. Your decision making apparatu…

The Tocharians used an Indic script. We know what the letters mean for Indic languages, so we can get a pretty good idea of what Tocharian sounded like. Pretty good.

Via Yiddish, I believe.

Lots of weird fox lore around the world. In Chinese folklore, they can pass for human (often as attractive women) and ensnare people in various wiles.

Manuscripts had to be copied, and the copyists were Confucians who, as a class, had little interest in such things.

Houston doesn't have zoning, but does have fairly stringent land-use regulations on single-family homes (min. lot size, setbacks, etc.) See: https://marketurbanism.com/2016/09/19/h…