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oh, interesting, I assumed the data came from interruptions (that seemed obvious) but I'm surprised you had some specific negative measurements. How do you decide the magnitude of …

I assume 0 delay is the minimum here, and a median of 0 means over half of the data are exactly 0.

Yeah, I recently upgraded to the 9a from the 4a for $250 USD and am still really enjoying Pixels. I might just be out of the loop on what's available, but I can't imagine many othe…

Yeah, it was a pretty big change actually. You're right though, the conversation didn't change much even as access to healthcare did change.

I'm an American mathematician and have always allowed the codomain of a random variable to be any measurable space. I haven't noticed anyone mention random elements. I don't work i…

I didn't know what a duvet was until I was an adult. Grew up with sheets and quilts in Appalachia.

Yeah, that seems true and it's basically the value proposition I bring to my work.

Interesting way to look at it. Your description of what physicists are experts at matches my math PhD pretty closely. I focused on mathematical modeling. I now work with a bunch of…

You don't think increasing pedestrian fatalities could be linked to people choosing to walk less? I've certainly noticed in my area that drivers have been much more aggressive sinc…

The article says that biking increased and walking decreased. I don't think I can explain those things simultaneously with just "well we were in a pandemic during that time."

I'm not sure why this article would prompt you to call out bike lanes. > there’s a noticeable rise in biking trips while pedestrian activity is dwindling as a portion of overall tr…

> There are now tools specifically to help you do this Out of curiosity, not disagreeableness, which tools are those?

> CCNOT and Hadamard are universal logic gates with which all (?) quantum functions/transforms can be approximated. CNOT, H, S, and T are universal for approximating any quantum op…

That's interesting. I thought it was obvious that ADHD does exist because it's just a constellation of behaviors that some people indeed do exhibit. I feel like we agree completely…

I wouldn't say it's a nitpick. Rationals are fractions of integers, not just any fractions at all. Rationals are _examples_ of reals, but it's bad pedagogy to say "fractions, which…

It's bad pedagogy. But it is also technically incorrect. You can have fractions with complex numbers.

It's a funny thing. I think what you're saying is exactly right from the standpoint of a dev. As a mere consumer, if you support Steamdeck via Proton, then it sure feels to me like…

"Roll a D20 and if you get 1 humanity as you know it will be destroyed in your lifetime" seems bad. Why do you consider 7 or 8 percent low?

I think drewcoo's point was that "having a conscience" and "having consciousness" are not the same thing. They were pointing out that the wrong word was used with a joke.

Cool. I have a second interview for a software developer position at a quantum computing place this week. Hopefully I'll be following you into the field!

Ahh I wish I had gotten the chance to interact with new math majors more often. In grad school most of my students were engineering majors. I'm not super likely to end up back in a…

> when people say "infinity is not a number" they generally mean aleph-0 Sure, maybe. I think saying "infinity is a number" is wrong regardless. I'm happy with aleph-0 being a numb…

There is no bijection between the natural numbers and the power set of the natural numbers. When talking about bijections to study the sizes of sets, there is clearly not just one …

I know you weren't the one who made the claim, but if this is what the commenter meant by weeb culture, I'm not sure how it has anything to do with, for example, Twilight Princess.…