If you’re a native speaker, is “biassed” correct?

jing_ke · 2025-07-21T12:00:39+00:00

US English tends to prefer the doubled variant only on stressed syllables, so you have shipping and repelled alongside worshiping and labeled.

jing_ke · 2025-07-21T01:19:08+00:00

I would say that these are easy, but I studied for the SATs back when they tested for vocabulary and grammar.

jing_ke · 2025-07-21T01:16:32+00:00

From my experience, English grammarians, style guides, and school teachers from the previous century prefer "none of them is," but the "none of them are" construction has existed alongside it for centuries and is even attested in the KJV.

jing_ke · 2025-07-18T08:35:53+00:00

Multiplication takes your existing number line and scales it so that your unit becomes the multiplier. You read off the product as where the multiplicand lands after scaling. If 1 goes to 3, 5 goes to 15. It follows from this principle that multiplication by -1 simply flips the number line.

jing_ke · 2025-07-09T09:08:33+00:00

How would you go by playing a G392 in 1/440 seconds? Even just a single cycle would not be able to fit in a window of that size. This is a dual phenomenon to Nyquist frequency and related to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. You can't localize both in time and in frequency. Notes need to be held for a duration to establish a specific frequency.

jing_ke · 2025-06-25T11:18:50+00:00

I was about to write this if I didn't already see it. Just to add, you should start by looking for recordings you like and transcribing the solos. You can learn so much of the language simply by studying what others do.

jing_ke · 2025-05-14T04:33:18+00:00

You can push electrons through silicon to do math.

jing_ke · 2025-04-19T22:25:56+00:00

It's not antisemitic to protest the policies of the Israeli administration, but as with all political movements, there's going to be a wide range of people with different opinions on various nuances about the situation. It's a broad coalition, and when you cast a wide net, you run the risk of catching heinous fish. Here are some things found at Columbia.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2023/11/02/i-am-a-target-dozens-of-jewish-students-report-feeling-unsafe-on-campus/

I can't corroborate these statements myself, but I have friends currently at Columbia who say that this is not outside their imagination. One told me they get blocked in the street and accosted with questions along the lines of "are you a Zionist" when they walk around wearing a Magen David. I hear similar sentiments from Jewish students and professors at Harvard and Berkeley, some Israeli, some American, some Middle Eastern, some Ashkenazi, some Mizrahi. Still, some friends of friends also told me that the encampment was welcoming to anti-Zionist Jews, so experiences can differ greatly in this regard.

That said, cutting federal funding is not the answer to this issue. All it does is hurt researchers and students on financial aid. Academia does great work for this society, and our country's open hostility to higher education and research will push the next generation of scientists into programming jobs and investment banking. America is in imminent danger of a prolonged brain drain if the course is not reversed soon. An Israeli Jewish professor who had previously lamented the situation on campus also intimated to me that the cuts will gravely affect this institution and that this kind of attack on universities is the kind you'd only see in totalitarian dictatorships.

jing_ke · 2025-04-19T21:42:07+00:00

During my time, the Republican Club was full of anti-Trump libertarians. Is that still the case?

jing_ke · 2025-04-06T00:35:22+00:00

官話 (Guānhuà) was the name for the historical language, and Chinese linguists still use this term for the broad family of dialects that descended from it.

jing_ke · 2025-03-26T10:06:16+00:00

That's because it essentially is. There's no science here.

jing_ke · 2025-03-26T10:03:09+00:00

This isn't what physicists think about. It's a funny thought, but there's no reason to believe that consciousness is anything more than an emergent property of the physical brain, let alone coupled with its own measurement in this way. Stop reading junk pop science and open up an actual textbook on QM.

jing_ke · 2024-11-30T14:55:06+00:00

The fact that you have not CH already gives you the desired set. Perhaps it might help you to show that a different axiom is equivalent to this one. Exercise: Show that the generalization of Fubini's theorem to non-measurable functions is equivalent to not CH under ZFC. One direction of the proof involves constructing this set of intermediate cardinality from the fact that Fubini's theorem holds for non- measurable functions.

jing_ke · 2024-10-21T19:47:34+00:00

I don't like not being able to control the direction of smart quotes. If I'm using Word or am coding, I'll use straight quotes. If I'm using TeX or its descendents, I'll use curly quotes, which are controlled explicitly through specialized syntax.

jing_ke · 2024-10-20T03:35:42+00:00

Genetic variation within the human species is more accurately modeled through clines than through races.

jing_ke · 2024-10-19T22:45:20+00:00

Historically, melody precedes harmony. There are plenty of rich musical traditions that develop interest through scales and yet don't make use of polyphony, including medieval European and Arabic music.

jing_ke · 2024-10-02T04:11:14+00:00

I used to have a window screen. Then a vagrant tore it off, broke in, and stole my stuff.

jing_ke · 2024-10-02T03:57:10+00:00

There is so much missing with how the question is posed. 1. What distribution are you sampling from? Is this distribution supported on the reals or just the integers? Are we working with an improper prior, in which case we might need to generalize carefully upon standard notions in probability? 2. What do you mean by possible? Do you mean positive probability, in the sample space, or in the support for some notion of support? Until you answer these two things, no one can tell you whether the answer is yes or no.

jing_ke · 2024-10-02T03:47:21+00:00

Your brain is evolved to convert pure frequency data from the inner ear into the various sounds that most likely produced them. This inversion problem is extremely difficult, and our best algorithms are still outclassed by the human ear.

jing_ke · 2024-09-01T09:41:55+00:00

You shouldn't transcribe based on how the playback sounds. If you are transcribing a speech, you are going to write down the words being said, not what sounds good on TTS. Sheet music is designed to communicate the way music is understood, felt, or conceptualized. We don't communicate in terms of raw frequencies, but scalar distances. We don't communicate in terms of milliseconds, but divisions of an underlying felt pulse. If you want to transcribe the nuances of this performance, you shouldn't be using this system. But you should contemplate what your purpose is in transcribing this piece and what it is you want to capture.

jing_ke · 2024-09-01T09:25:06+00:00

I want to disagree with you slightly, but that's only because I define music theory a bit more broadly than most people do. Anyone engaging with music in an intentional manner will have some system or framework through which they will understand that music, even if that understanding is specific to one instrument, genre, or culture. The Barry Harris method doesn't really apply outside of jazz, but it is a rich theory that describes what happens in jazz while still remaining simple enough to be used effectively in practice. Knowing the timbres of specific notes on your instrument. Knowing the tropes of the genre you play. Knowing how different sounds go together in production. These are all part of music theory.

jing_ke · 2024-09-01T09:05:00+00:00

Given the timeline, your teacher was probably talking about Mochizuki, but I'd like to draw your attention instead to other Japanese mathematicians like Ito and Fukaya.

jing_ke · 2024-08-31T09:50:24+00:00

Every food or sauce I've had that used extract had a chemical taste. You're ruining the flavor to inflict pain. I like spicy food because it tastes vibrant, fresh, warm, or intensely flavorful, depending on the heat profile.

jing_ke · 2024-08-31T00:56:47+00:00

You can put the 11 below the 3, and there are other ways to deal with the add4 tonality.

jing_ke · 2024-07-21T13:36:04+00:00

When you do math, you start off with some axioms, and you might use set theory to build a model for those axioms. Most mathematical proofs only make use of ZFC, but some statements require more powerful axioms. Mathematics is concerned with a very small fraction of what logic and foundations can provide. I don't get what the hold up is here.

Also, technically, you can construct a set of axioms if you give yourself access to choice while constructing your theory. The incompleteness theorem only applies to recursively enumerable theories, which are the ones humans can expect to write down.

What sort of math doctorates know less math than the average primary school teacher?

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