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Given the centrality of linear algebra to applied mathematics (even in places where you wouldn't first expect, like the theory of regular expressions and finite automata)

Where can I read more about this?

Does it provide 2FA? I'm looking for a tool like this, but my company handles a lot of sensitive material and so having 2FA is a hard requirement.

However, observing people on psychedelics with fMRIs does not match with that.

This study would appear to disagree: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/6/2138

Decreased activity in the ACC/medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) was a consistent finding and the magnitude of this decrease predicted the intensity of the subjective effects. Based on these results, a seed-based pharmaco-physiological interaction/functional connectivity analysis was performed using a medial prefrontal seed. Psilocybin caused a significant decrease in the positive coupling between the mPFC and PCC. These results strongly imply that the subjective effects of psychedelic drugs are caused by decreased activity and connectivity in the brain's key connector hubs, enabling a state of unconstrained cognition.

This is a blog post by technomancy, the original author of Leiningen, exploring Racket as a new language:

http://technomancy.us/175

EDIT: Wrong link. This one might be interesting as well so I've left it here:

http://technomancy.us/169

The book appears to be available as a PDF at:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.115...

Kuhn Poker [1] is a game of imperfect information, which was solved by its creator in 1950. The only fundamental difference between Kuhn Poker and LHE, the game discussed in the article, is that regular LHE has much more cards involved, making the game more complex.

Your statement is technically correct because of the use of the word "completely", but wrong in a practical sense. The algorithm used to solve these games is iterative, so the solution only ever approaches a complete solution, but this is only meaningful if you want to argue that a 0.0000001BB difference in win-rate per hand is really meaningful.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhn_poker

How is it misinformation? The human doctor would not tell us his diagnosis in terms of percentages, because we as humans have a hard time grasping probabilities intuitively. That doesn't mean that a probabilistic diagnosis would not be more accurate.

The doctors job is to provide me with as much information about the objective criteria of my physical condition as possible. However when it comes to making choices about my treatment, say in the case of accepting/rejecting an experimental drug with some potentially nasty side effects, it should be entirely my own value judgement on what to do with said information.

I didn't use a RSS reader before Google Reader shutdown, and it was actually cries over the event that made me feel like I was missing out on something. Now I'm a happy user of Newsblur and can indeed concur that I was missing out. One man's tragedy is another mans fortune I guess :)

Where does this option exist? I've been going through Preferences and every other menu I could think of but could not find it.

Just what I've been looking for! Appears to be down now though?

Yeah the the community is incredibly helpful, but sometimes I wish there was one person I could just unload all of my questions at once to get a tighter feedback loop going. I think in the end there probably isn't much I already couldn't find out on my own or with the help of others for free, but this process could be a lot more efficient if I had an actual mentor.

Is there any reason to limit the amount of languages you can get mentored in? I would be interested in using this if it was available for Clojure.

Are the hand histories shared between users or do you only see statistics from hands you have played yourself?