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Submarines also have reduced partial pressure of oxygen, (18-19%). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378427489...

That article is about the UK!

Better to stop for a week than conduct inspiring new research into the combination of mild covid and low oxygen levels while needing to staff an underway watchbill.

I'm part of the unit and the strike, although I'm not currently a TA. Happy to answer any questions if anyone has any. We're on strike for 42k for 12 month appointments, 37k for 9 months, as well as dental/vision and third party arbitration for non discrimination and harassment cases.

Maneuvering boards and paper charts.

I've never heard this, but it sounds like it comes from Mandarin, since baobae means the same/similar thing there.

He died less than a year after this article was written.

It's probably the Jorge Luis Borges quote on the setup page.

From teaching a little CS and numerical computing in college and now teaching programming, I agree with you. Too many students come out of high school without the ability to manipulate mysterious symbols without any real understanding of what they mean. Some students only know how to follow scripts to solve a problem from a template. Others need a concrete understanding before engaging with the abstraction, so they can't explore the math in order to gain an understanding. Maybe that's what he was trying to get at with "following obscure steps".

High school teachers, please make your students manipulate mysterious symbols more.

Yeah, the page is pretty messed up on my Chrome/Win7 also.

Have you ever been to Israel? Israeli style screening would mean interviews for every person flying to the USA. It would be more inconvenient and expensive than even the current TSA.

I'm so glad that Mr. McConlogue can tell the justly homeless from the unjustly homeless.

The government presumes that tipped workers get a certain amount in tips, and taxes as if they got it.

I find biking in NYC pretty calm as long as I'm not running red lights. To me it feels safer than biking in San Francisco did. There is a significant set of protected bike lanes and there are a fair amount of bikers on the road. Drivers not signaling is certainly a problem and it is important to not follow traffic laws when it's safer.

You are very wrong that no one objects to people using alcohol as a date rape drug, and I don't hesitate to condemn anyone who pressures someone else into drinking in order to control them.

Another reason the attitude you display here is alarming is that it may be difficult to tell the difference between a drunk person and a drugged person. It's not like the victim falls unconscious and the attacker carries them away. Someone who has been slipped GHB might be perceived by the people around them as having gotten drunk deliberately, for example.

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I just wish that making an error in the debugging context didn't destroy my state. If it weren't for that, I might have used Lush again after Professor LeCun's Machine Learning class.

"After all, hundreds of thousands of cattle are fattening in a 100-mile radius around Garden City and such incidents could turn into a food security issue - especially in an era where agri-terrorism is a threat."

The only agri-terrorist incident I've heard of was The Breeders in the 80s. The California government surrendered to them and the conflict was resolved [1]. Is this era of agri-terrorism the years since 1989 or is it a brand new fantasy threat?

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_California_medfly_attack

What you think is inane is the part of testing that actually tests math skills.

He would have liked to use all the non-infringing content that was there as evidence that Megaupload was a genuine cloud storage company.

By filing a counter claim you aren't really starting a legal battle, you're giving them 10 days to start a real legal battle by going to a court. Your content is already offline. File a counter claim and it will be back up in a week and a half.

It's about 5% of the population, so not normal in the sense that most people have an iq of 125, but normal in the sense that meeting someone with an iq of 125 is not terribly uncommon.

NDP is what I said above, you can test a solution in polynomial time. You should get an algorithms textbook to read about time complexity of algorithms if the "Time Complexity" page on wikipedia doesn't make sense to you. I used Cormen's textbook in my algorithms class. This is important, you're going to have trouble if you don't really understand the asymptotic (as the data structure gets large) difference between, for example, searching a list and searching a tree.

I didn't understand this sort of math at all until I spent some time in a formal Theory of Computation class studying first finite automata/regular languages, then PDA/CFL and other related topics. I don't think you can expect to understand the reasoning that led to the P=NP question without that kind of study. You must learn the math.

On the other hand, here's a short summary of P=NP itself:

There is a large group of problems called NP (Non-Deterministic Polynomial), which have been shown to be equivalent, in that a polynomial time algorithm for one could be used to construct polynomial time algorithms for all the others. These problems all have the property that a possible solution can be tested in polynomial time. Because NP is big, many of the problems within it are useful, and it isn't intuitively very far from problems which are soluble in polynomial time, a lot of work has been done on trying to either find polynomial time algorithms for NP, or show that no such algorithm could exist.

edit: As lacker mentions, one intuition about NP problems is "Problems for which you must check all the possible solutions and see which one is right."

The amount of gold in circulation has never stopped increasing.

Your conscious time is more like 15 seconds, according to the article. All you're going to accomplish is hitting a panic button.

One of Richard Feynman's books speaks to his wedding to Arline Greenbaum. They married partly because they thought she was dying much faster than she actually was. Pain isn't necessarily regret. I think you're wrong about this.

I'm posting the full text, retrieved from Google cache, since the juliepagano.com is down.

Julie Pagano

My experiences in tech: Death by 1000 paper cuts

Mar 24 Posted on March 24, 2013 at 2:08 pm In Once Upon an Internship, I learned early that sometimes being a software engineer means death by 1000 cuts because you don’t have the power to make it stop. Even the tiniest little things add up to something big – sometimes it’s really death by 1000 paper cuts.

The cuts started early. I’m discouraged and humiliated in math classes throughout my school years to the point where I still get anxious doing math in front of others despite being good at it in private. A high school teacher tells me that I shouldn’t go to college for engineering, but instead something nurturing (you know, what women are good for).

My college classes have next to no women in them. A professor makes creepy comments about “geeky girls” during class. One of my few female classmates tells me she’s just doing this to prove her father wrong. Classmates don’t take me seriously until I scream. The first time I learned that you get to be a bitch or you get to be ignored – a choice that would later follow me to the working world. Four years of paper cuts. Four years of pushing myself too hard because I wanted to prove something.

Nearly every technical conference I attend has at least one person with a microphone making a comment along the lines of ”my wife/girlfriend doesn’t understand technology and gives me shit for being interested in it.” It’s clearly intended to be a joke that the audience will identify with, and most of them do because theses conferences are largely straight and male. For those of us who aren’t, it’s a regular signal that we’re not considered, that maybe we don’t belong. The heavy drinking makes some of us feel unsafe. A paper cut for every conference.

At an old job, someone in authority pats me on the head to dismiss an argument I’m making about something at work. As though I was a child – a thing he’d be unlikely to do with a male coworker. Same person makes comments when I wear makeup to work – I feel uncomfortable doing so again. I’m asked to take notes in meetings where I am a technical lead and should be actively participating. Male coworkers make comments about stalking women on facebook and looking at images of booth babes in work meetings (some later apologize). Others say that front-end development isn’t real software engineering. I suspect I’m paid less than male colleagues (perhaps paranoia, perhaps real – it’s a hard thing to verify). Problems are easiest to resolve by finding a new job – this is what I do (thankfully the new job is much better). A thousand paper cuts for the working world.

Every time I try to push to make things better, I am guaranteed a patronizing response from someone. If I had a dollar for every time someone suggested that some demographics just aren’t biologically predisposed to be good at programming (even though research does not support this argument), I’d be rich. On more than one occasion, I’ve had people try to engage me in arguments about the importance of diversity only to later claim they “were playing devil’s advocate” or doing it “for the lulz.” I’ve had people derail diversity discussions to victim blame and try to speak for the minority that they were not a member of. I’ve had people claim minority-only safe spaces are sexist. A paper cut for every time I speak up.

Before someone suggests that these patronizing responses are just jerks on the internet, no, that’s not the case. I get these responses fairly regularly in person. From people I’ve worked with. From people who know me. From prominent members of some tech communities. From people who should know better. The cuts are deeper when they’re real people because you can’t just turn them off.

Cuts I don’t feel safe posting here because they’re too personal or I fear the consequences…

I mention one of the above, and someone tells me that I’m just looking for things to get angry about. As though my feelings are not valid. Maybe they don’t understand that probably wasn’t the only thing that happened that day or that week or that month or the duration of my career. That I can’t detach and view these things in isolation. That no matter how tough I get, how thick my skin, the paper cuts still hurt. I’m not the only one covered in bandaids trying to stanch the bleeding and focus on programming because it’s a thing that I love. I’m terrified of the day that it becomes terminal, the day myself or one of my friends becomes another statistic in the book of “they leave and they don’t come back.”

This could be very useful for getting numerical and other high performance code into the browser.

You are just wrong. For example, algebraic topology is one of the most abstract subjects I hear conversations about week. It has applications in physics, data analysis, and numerical computing.

Also, saying that reality is 4-dimensional is hooding yourself. The machine learning techniques we use everywhere depend on the math of higher-dimensional spaces, and they wouldn't work if reality couldn't be meaningfully viewed as many-dimensional.