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The compression is basic run-length encoding, leveraging the Perl repetition operator (x), and the property of the Perl print/say functions that they concat items passed in a list before writing to STDOUT.…
Probably the best citation is a remarkable, rigorous paper by Chetty et al (2014) that uses individual IRS returns [1]. To quote those authors: “We find that children entering the labor market today have the same…
Internet service is a much higher margin business than television. I don’t see why Big Cable should want to stay in it, at this rate. 81% of the money TWC takes in video subscription fees they spend on video programming…
The portrait of the college grad painted in the article is consistent with what I’ve seen as an undergrad at Harvard in econ and CS circles. > [College students want money, structure, and sex appeal.] But I’ll add…
This article considers hedge funds in the aggregate, which seems to me to be a fallacy. It doesn’t consider variation within a category which we can usefully select against. “Money in hedge funds is a bad investment”…
I assume “ACCESS GRANTED” is preferred over your root prompt because it is more legible to the vast majority of viewers. In fact, I suspect one noble goal in ItsAUnixSystem-style sequences is making sure everybody…
> The only real restriction is that fast lanes can’t be offered exclusively to a company also owned by the cable or phone company. This fast lane already exists, and it exists for the cable company itself. E.g.…
You can get a passport the same day in the US. Most but not all State Dept. “passport agencies” [1] require proof of international travel in the next 2 weeks. I know, because I had one made in Atlanta, the day before a…
Original link to English translation http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/mathias-doepf... Original link to German source http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/mathias-doepfne...
No, because “blurriness” (low local contrast) may indicate something besides a particular depth. Consider, for instance, a head-on photograph of a print of a shallow-focused photo. The region that print embodies will…
Great way of thinking of it. Adults may have different brains for learning languages than kids, but I’d argue the problem adults have is more that they have more "ships to burn" (and are more hesitant with the torch).
Well said. To take things one step further, I’d suggest the main failure may be the claim that we desire to learn languages in the first place, when we’re not willing to integrate a language into the things in our lives…
The traditional American Spanish classroom is probably at least 80% English, and students are in it perhaps 5 hours a week. = 1 hr/week total Compare this with the experience of a Spanish native speaker dropped into…
Yes. As I mention above, I find motivation to be extraordinarily important in learning languages of all kinds. Diving in implies you start with some task you’re already motivated by. A crucial, well understood advantage…
I’d echo your intuitions about learning, drawing on my experience learning a second language (German) to fluency in my late teens, and comparing them to my half-hearted, dead-ended attempts with a few others (Chinese,…
Instagram/Twitter/Github: Informal market which favors the needy, and somewhat the connected. Phone service: random UID as you suggest, users put aliases in address book. Works great. Plays no favorites, unless you want…
I’m very interested to see how the mainstream press covers something I understand well. Gives me a input → output pair to train my model of the press’s lens on the world. It’s also interesting to see how the public…
The compression is basic run-length encoding, leveraging the Perl repetition operator (x), and the property of the Perl print/say functions that they concat items passed in a list before writing to STDOUT.…
Probably the best citation is a remarkable, rigorous paper by Chetty et al (2014) that uses individual IRS returns [1]. To quote those authors: “We find that children entering the labor market today have the same…
Internet service is a much higher margin business than television. I don’t see why Big Cable should want to stay in it, at this rate. 81% of the money TWC takes in video subscription fees they spend on video programming…
The portrait of the college grad painted in the article is consistent with what I’ve seen as an undergrad at Harvard in econ and CS circles. > [College students want money, structure, and sex appeal.] But I’ll add…
This article considers hedge funds in the aggregate, which seems to me to be a fallacy. It doesn’t consider variation within a category which we can usefully select against. “Money in hedge funds is a bad investment”…
I assume “ACCESS GRANTED” is preferred over your root prompt because it is more legible to the vast majority of viewers. In fact, I suspect one noble goal in ItsAUnixSystem-style sequences is making sure everybody…
> The only real restriction is that fast lanes can’t be offered exclusively to a company also owned by the cable or phone company. This fast lane already exists, and it exists for the cable company itself. E.g.…
You can get a passport the same day in the US. Most but not all State Dept. “passport agencies” [1] require proof of international travel in the next 2 weeks. I know, because I had one made in Atlanta, the day before a…
Original link to English translation http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/mathias-doepf... Original link to German source http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/mathias-doepfne...
No, because “blurriness” (low local contrast) may indicate something besides a particular depth. Consider, for instance, a head-on photograph of a print of a shallow-focused photo. The region that print embodies will…
Great way of thinking of it. Adults may have different brains for learning languages than kids, but I’d argue the problem adults have is more that they have more "ships to burn" (and are more hesitant with the torch).
Well said. To take things one step further, I’d suggest the main failure may be the claim that we desire to learn languages in the first place, when we’re not willing to integrate a language into the things in our lives…
The traditional American Spanish classroom is probably at least 80% English, and students are in it perhaps 5 hours a week. = 1 hr/week total Compare this with the experience of a Spanish native speaker dropped into…
Yes. As I mention above, I find motivation to be extraordinarily important in learning languages of all kinds. Diving in implies you start with some task you’re already motivated by. A crucial, well understood advantage…
I’d echo your intuitions about learning, drawing on my experience learning a second language (German) to fluency in my late teens, and comparing them to my half-hearted, dead-ended attempts with a few others (Chinese,…
Instagram/Twitter/Github: Informal market which favors the needy, and somewhat the connected. Phone service: random UID as you suggest, users put aliases in address book. Works great. Plays no favorites, unless you want…
I’m very interested to see how the mainstream press covers something I understand well. Gives me a input → output pair to train my model of the press’s lens on the world. It’s also interesting to see how the public…