DrFalkyn

Most other primate species, indeed most other mammalian species, polygyny is the norm

It’s one word, like watchmaker or bookkeeper are in English.

reshape

Yeah one of other beauties of numpy is you can pass data to/from native shared libraries compiled from C code with little overhead. This was more klidgy in Matlab last I checked

Back when our lab transitioned from Matlab to Python I used numpy/scipy quite a bit. I remember heavily leaning on numpy.reshape to get things to work correctly. In some cases I did resort to looping.

In academia you are forced to go where the jobs are, or else you leave the field. Yes I have known people married with kids who move overseas

I thought it was the exact opposite. European universities were a lot harder to get a faculty appointment. And they tended to favor local candidates , Which is why you see a lot of US universities have foreign professors, but not as many European universities that do

In the medieval era in Europe few were generally professional, in the sense that it was their full time job even in peacetime. Like you said the Kings retinue would be one of the few exceptions. Since the collapse of the (Western) Roman Empire there just wasn’t the concentration of resources in Europe for maintaining standing armies. Most were effectively a reserve force, somewhat akin to the. National Guard in the US hat could be “called up” in the event of a war.

Then how did BART get built ?

What happens if the Kafka node fails ?

You can sell the barrel after you are done

It’s AGI when it can improve itself with no more than a little human interaction

Maybe for translating a natural language query into a regular expression that can be ingested by grep.

Unless there’s enough oxygen, it shouldn’t be a problem

But how many of those stars would have been suitable for life ?

A huge star that’s going to burn out quickly isn’t conducive to complex organisms

Also in a huge star there’s less material to form planets in the first place

Is there some law that you can only use a single messaging app ?

How about Google Wave ?

https://support.google.com/answer/1083134?hl=en

This is becoming more common. Students are entering high snchool already having taken geometry in the 8th grade. When I graduated in the late 90s, we had calc 3 (we called it multivariable calc) and linear algebra, partially because a bit under half the class would run out of math by their senior year. They also were starting to offer differental equations and complex analysis. This was a magnet program. When I went back for my 20th reunion, I was told only maybe 5-10% didn’t already have geometry.

If we could ever figure out what wet brains actually do (continuous feedback, ? enzyme release ? ) this might be possible

The Plaza Accord was 1985. And it wasn’t just between the US and Japan. iIf included France, Germany and the UK.

The Japanese economy continued to grow until the mid 1990s. I think the real culprit was low birth rate in the prior 20 years did not train the next generation of productive workers. China, South Korea most of Europe face similar issues

This isn’t quite true. The last language from the Supreme Court, in Brandeburg vs. Ohio ( 1969) was “imminent lawless action”. There’s also standards for the public airwaves, which are regulated by the FCC. maybe not as important as they used to be, but still there and the major networks which are also broadcasters abide Also there’s specific exceptions like threatening the President, and “obscene” material, such as porn.

The there’s the question of private ownership of the platform. You certainly can’t say whatever yiu want on YouTube, for instance.

The Washington Post being owned by Amazon for one

Replication in SQLLite

   cp data.db <backuo location>

There’s DICOM but last I worked with it it was a disaster. , because everyone implemted it differently. Seemed like a solution looking for a problem. Also didn’t help the standard is like 200 pages and it was a design by committee, none of whom appeared actually interested in coming up with a reference implementation.

I never understood why everyone didn’t just use TIFF

“Amplification” has to be one the most misunderstood concepts In electronics

No signal is really “boosted” by some weird process. What happens is a very powerful DC signal (i.e constant) is selectively allowed through, being mediated by the input signal. The “volume knob” on a power amp works by ATTENUATING that constant DC signal prior to “amplification”

That must have been why PacMan was such a dismal failure. How realistic is to play a giant yellow mouth chomping on dots in a maze while being chased by ghosts

It’s not for free. It’s in return for being under the US security umbrella, which costs the US about $800 billion a year

Of course that umbrella could soon be gone, so it would be a moot point

More stark is the difference between 700 and 800 OPS …

When there was a left handed pull hitter at at the plate, the third baseman would move to where the shortstop was, the shortstop would move to second base, and the second baseman would be on shallow right field. Third base was left completely undefended. I always wondered why hitters couldn’t just practice a late swing and send a chopper down the third base line …

The new rule says there has to be two infielders on either side of of second base when the pitcher delivers They still shift just not as much

Why can’t teams just defend the three better?