Totally agree. I was disappointed to see the article follow the trend of framing everything in life around the notion of productivity. But one can only be thankful that poor mental health is correlated with poor…
Agreed, I think this is an overly-simplified explanation. Skimming the paper it looks like the crucial thing which introduces bias is precession of the coin.
>Rotation is inherently about different particles moving at different velocities. This is why there is an absolute reference frame for it: it is defined by these differences, so by reducing them to zero and making every…
> The real problem with kraits is that they enter homes in the dead of night and bite people in their sleep. A krait in the bed is the premise for the excellent short story "Poison" by Roald Dahl.
It tastes delicious and has a fantastic aroma. It's quite complex. I'd put it somewhere between vanilla, marzipan and cinnamon. I've tried it with chocolate, almond, vanilla, fruit, cream, custard with good results. It…
In fact unless I'm missing something the units don't match up: Total stock market value has units $ GDP has units $/year So expressing their ratio as a % is misleading.
> He can go left and come out right to demonstrate that he knows the secret - without revealing the secret Correct > The reporter would still not know how he did it Correct > and could not pass his conviction on to the…
People get by with a lot less. The median household income in London was £39k in 2013 [1] [1] https://data.london.gov.uk/apps_and_analysis/gla-household-i...
The surface is the data. E.g. the ridership for Lafayette Street is the upper line of the green area, minus the lower line of the green area. This is called an area chart and is used to show cumulative data and how each…
OTOH, the terrible truth is that it was necessary to order thousands of soldiers to their almost-certain deaths in order to win the war, and without a disciplined army this would not be possible. This says something…
>Walking anywhere in London or navigating the subway during rush hour means having to make a mad, dodging, aggressive dance against an oncoming tide of people, many of whom seem oblivious to Britain’s long tradition of…
There is definitely pedagogical value. This issue is covered by the author, but when studying ODEs for the first time, at some point the student will come across the fact that exp(x) is a solution to y' = y, which is…
A related, and to my mind even more counter-intuitive result, is a strategy for predicting f(x) given only the values {f(y), y<x}, where f is any arbitrary function on the reals.…
In that case don't look up the lifetime earnings of Dwarf Fortress, it will make you even more depressed!
That's a shame. They do require cooperation from car users to be effective. There are a lot of cyclists where I live which probably helps things.
I think you are right, and the solution is a meta-textual reassurance, specifically of the form: "if one of the statements is true, then which casket should the suitor choose?"
A great read, thanks. Incredible that he survived that fall.
Not just any professor, but Béla Bollobás!
On the other hand I find these results fascinating. They are like a microcosm of experimental science. Numerical coincidences like these can be found by any high school student with a calculator, but only some deep…
This is a cool idea. My bank recently introduced a similar feature in their mobile app. You can move a small amount of money from your current account to your savings account in a couple of clicks (no need to log in):…
"He was tall and muscular, a blue-collar type" A blue collar worker is lower class by definition. As phrased above, the "tall and muscular" bit is part of the writer's observation/stereotype that the man is a blue…
Totally agree. I was disappointed to see the article follow the trend of framing everything in life around the notion of productivity. But one can only be thankful that poor mental health is correlated with poor…
Agreed, I think this is an overly-simplified explanation. Skimming the paper it looks like the crucial thing which introduces bias is precession of the coin.
>Rotation is inherently about different particles moving at different velocities. This is why there is an absolute reference frame for it: it is defined by these differences, so by reducing them to zero and making every…
> The real problem with kraits is that they enter homes in the dead of night and bite people in their sleep. A krait in the bed is the premise for the excellent short story "Poison" by Roald Dahl.
It tastes delicious and has a fantastic aroma. It's quite complex. I'd put it somewhere between vanilla, marzipan and cinnamon. I've tried it with chocolate, almond, vanilla, fruit, cream, custard with good results. It…
In fact unless I'm missing something the units don't match up: Total stock market value has units $ GDP has units $/year So expressing their ratio as a % is misleading.
> He can go left and come out right to demonstrate that he knows the secret - without revealing the secret Correct > The reporter would still not know how he did it Correct > and could not pass his conviction on to the…
People get by with a lot less. The median household income in London was £39k in 2013 [1] [1] https://data.london.gov.uk/apps_and_analysis/gla-household-i...
The surface is the data. E.g. the ridership for Lafayette Street is the upper line of the green area, minus the lower line of the green area. This is called an area chart and is used to show cumulative data and how each…
OTOH, the terrible truth is that it was necessary to order thousands of soldiers to their almost-certain deaths in order to win the war, and without a disciplined army this would not be possible. This says something…
>Walking anywhere in London or navigating the subway during rush hour means having to make a mad, dodging, aggressive dance against an oncoming tide of people, many of whom seem oblivious to Britain’s long tradition of…
There is definitely pedagogical value. This issue is covered by the author, but when studying ODEs for the first time, at some point the student will come across the fact that exp(x) is a solution to y' = y, which is…
A related, and to my mind even more counter-intuitive result, is a strategy for predicting f(x) given only the values {f(y), y<x}, where f is any arbitrary function on the reals.…
In that case don't look up the lifetime earnings of Dwarf Fortress, it will make you even more depressed!
That's a shame. They do require cooperation from car users to be effective. There are a lot of cyclists where I live which probably helps things.
I think you are right, and the solution is a meta-textual reassurance, specifically of the form: "if one of the statements is true, then which casket should the suitor choose?"
A great read, thanks. Incredible that he survived that fall.
Not just any professor, but Béla Bollobás!
On the other hand I find these results fascinating. They are like a microcosm of experimental science. Numerical coincidences like these can be found by any high school student with a calculator, but only some deep…
This is a cool idea. My bank recently introduced a similar feature in their mobile app. You can move a small amount of money from your current account to your savings account in a couple of clicks (no need to log in):…
"He was tall and muscular, a blue-collar type" A blue collar worker is lower class by definition. As phrased above, the "tall and muscular" bit is part of the writer's observation/stereotype that the man is a blue…