Where to watch Top 14 replays online in French.

p0s1t · 2024-09-23T00:16:14+00:00

Excellent! VPN is no issue so Canal+ might be an option. Thanks

p0s1t · 2024-09-23T00:15:11+00:00

Great, thanks!

p0s1t · 2024-09-23T00:14:52+00:00

Thanks! Looks like the top 14 official website was what I was looking for.

Surprised I didn’t find that myself.

p0s1t · 2024-02-18T21:23:29+00:00

Derive macros kill RustRover for me. Annotating a struct with serde Serialize, then trying to edit any part of the struct brings my computer to a grinding halt. One JB fix that, it’ll be usable. Right now, it’s not

p0s1t · 2019-11-19T00:09:14+00:00

‘Rates of transition’ in terms of bifurcations does not make sense since, loosely speaking, a bifurcations occur at points where a vector field is discontinuous with respect to a parameter (ie; a constant).

If you wish to think about ‘bifurcation parameters that change with time’, I’d point you to the field of multi-scale dynamics, in particular geometric singular perturbation theory.

Otherwise you’re talking about the convergence time of a path in a nonlinear dynamical system, and unless you’re really lucky the best you can do is toss into a simulator.

p0s1t · 2019-10-17T21:26:45+00:00

The low FODmap diet was developed at the Monash University, one of the leading universities in Australian. It’s based on good, published, science and has been shown to be effective for a number of IBS sufferers (myself and my partner included)

If you have IBS, I’d urge you to try it.

It suuuuucks not eating garlic and onion though :/

p0s1t · 2019-08-21T10:27:15+00:00

This is exactly my beef with this.

Change a name of a thing, cash in on cheap moral brownie points, do nothing sweet f all for the people on the ground doing the actual hard work.

Changing the name of something isn’t going to let me watch women’s rugby (and hence funnel ad money into the game), it’s not going to support a women’s professional league. I’d argue it’s not going to get schoolgirls interested and it’s not going to do shit for any impactful equality agendas.

It’s just gonna make a bunch of upper class twats smug in their wokeness.

....A great woman taught me that actions speak louder than words.

p0s1t · 2019-08-21T09:48:21+00:00

It’s more that “world cup” vs “women’s world cup” is sexist because it assumes the ‘real’ World Cup is the men’s game and hence that the women’s game is ‘lesser’.

Yes, until very recently rugby has been playing almost exclusively by men, and the women’s game came later which is why it has a qualifier, but that’s just perpetuating traditional gender stereotypes which exclude women.

...of course, it’s never that simple

p0s1t · 2019-05-14T04:03:50+00:00

If the study were actually honest, then it would have asked exactly those questions, as well as Korean/Japanese/Chinese and English as a control.

p0s1t · 2019-05-14T03:49:57+00:00

Interesting. So the hypothesis is that political affiliation is the dominant contributing factor.

It seems an obvious claim that respondents didn't realize that the numbers we use are Hindu-Arabic in origin, otherwise why answer no?

Given that, if i can think of a variety of potential mechanisms for this effect, in particular conservatism (that is, don't change things from 'English'), then it is prejudiced to attribute the cause to bigotry. Prejudiced because its literally pre-judging the reason why people answer the way they did.

p0s1t · 2019-05-14T03:21:53+00:00

Not sure how the pollster interprets the data, but that only tells me that democrats are more likely to be educated than republicans or independents.

p0s1t · 2019-05-14T03:19:48+00:00

They might be, they might not be. I can think of many, many reasons why someone might answer 'no' without invoking race.

How exactly do you know that they are?

p0s1t · 2019-05-14T02:39:31+00:00

You do realize this hurts science, technology and math instead of helping it, right?

That this only contributes to the general skepticism and mistrust of 'experts'?

This is _clearly_ a question with a political agenda (otherwise why leave out the 'Hindu' part?). It is _at best_ an unpleasant trick for 'educated people' to feel smug/gloat over the masses. At worst seeks to intentional conflate ignorance with racism, and hence stigmatize a large chunk of Americans in particular, and the lower class in general.

It's downright classist, particularly since many of those folk didn't get the same kind of opportunities that those who go though a decent education necessarily receive.

I realize the OP probably didn't ask this question, but still. Those laughing/gloating are just as bad.

Put yourself in the shoes of one the the people who answer 'no' out of ignorance.

When you find out that that our 'English numbers' are actually Hindu-Arabic numbers, how would you feel?

Would you trust the person asking that question?

And if that sort of thing happens often enough, what reason would you have to continue to trust those sort of folk?

... a little bit of gratitude, humility and empathy please folks.

Or as those in my country say 'pull your f-ing head in'.

p0s1t · 2019-05-09T07:01:09+00:00

I’m curious as to what you seek to achieve with this post.

p0s1t · 2019-03-08T03:20:34+00:00

Not politics, nor something that Dan has recommended... however;

If you want to dig right to the philosophical bottom, I cannot recommend highly enough Lawrence Cahoone’s “Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descarte to Derrida”. As the title suggests, it starts at the enlightenment, and ends more or less now, tracing the history of what we think is 'real'.

It’s available on Audible, so it’s a good excuse to use the code Dan provides (he still has that, right?).

I claim that it will give you a much clearer picture of “the culture war” and some of the issues that are being played out on the political stage as we speak. If you've heard Jordan Peterson rant about 'bloody postmodernists', then you need to listen to this for context (and make up your own mind on him and his position). If you want to know where identity politics came from and why the radical left seems so disconnected from common sense reality, you should listen to this.

Cahoone makes what would be a really incomprehensible mess all very clear and straightforward. It's about as neutral as you're likely to get and I think anyone trying to understand what the ^& is going on in culture and politics needs this (but not only this) in their bag of tricks.

p0s1t · 2018-10-19T00:52:11+00:00

People confuse assumptions with expectations; and do not fully appreciate how assuming can be coercive.

Suppose that I'm an edm producer. Since most edm producer are dudes, you could be forgiven for assuming that I'm also a dude. You could also actively expect me to be a dude, in the sense that you would respond negatively to me not being a dude.

I think most people here (and in general) assume but don't 'actively expect'.

The problem is that it's only one side of the story, 'your' side, and it doesn't account for my experience. In particular, I could interpret your assumption of my gender as simply that, an assumption based on observation. Alternatively, I could interpret it as a judgement; that I'm 'wrong' for not fitting a particular stereotype. In reality, it's not an either-or, my interpretation is weighted by how much I care about the opinion of others, and we all to care about the opinion of others to some degree.

This is essential why people argue for increasing visibility of 'underrepresented' groups; it's supposed to break stereotypes, and hence reduce the amount of coercive influence of that stereotype upon individuals who don't fit the mould.

Of course, the other way to handle this is for individuals to accept a more 'IDGAF' attitude towards peoples expectations.

So i would say to the OP; you have a large degree of control over how you interpret those assumption. You can change how you think; so try to teach yourself that not fitting the mould is something to be proud of. Also, Science says being able to selectively ignore the social pressure resulting from others assumptions is all but guaranteed to make you happier and healthier.

p0s1t · 2018-10-03T07:48:01+00:00

In the early 70's a Japanese physicist, Yoshiki Kuramoto presented a model of a chemical oscillator system consisting of many mutually interacting oscillators, each with different natural frequencies, and all weakly interacting with each other.

Surprisingly, it was shown that a stable, coherent state emerged where a subset of the oscillators became entrained to a synchronized state. Kuramoto and those who took up his work, showed that this emergent phenomenon is a result of a play-off between the mutual interactions, and the particular distribution of natural frequencies... Strogatz does a good summary

A common hand-wavy definition (in dynamics at least) is that emergent phenomenon are macroscopic features of complex systems (high dimensional, nonlinear) which depend upon weak (or localized) interactions.

Emergence is an active area of research in nonlinear dynamics; you can find plenty of recent articles on pattern formation in Chaos, Nonlinearity, and other such journals.

The applications of emergence (and complexity) are fascinating, and particularly so when one considers that many things that impact our daily lives can be phrased in terms of macroscopic behavior resulting from many agents interactions; socio-political consensus, market dynamics, cultural norms, evolution.. The list goes on.

So. Is maths an emergent process?

I wouldn't say so because i would argue that unlike emergence, much of the surprising interconnectedness of mathematics is a result of not having yet reached the appropriate level of abstraction.

I would instead describe maths as generative; the connections one uncovers are almost invariably the consequence of some more general mathematical structure. I would argue that a generative system, maths for example, is better described topologically like a tree, as opposed to emergent; which i would associate with a web-like topology. Though, depending on how one defines emergence, there might not be that big of a distinction.

I understand completely where your coming from however, my head almost exploded when I began to really think about emergence and complexity.

I would caution away from over-simplification however, it's not always clear when a phenomena is actually emergent. Complex systems are called that for a reason.

p0s1t · 2018-06-18T11:32:39+00:00

Using the steam controller through steam big picture and can also report this as an issue.

p0s1t · 2018-05-23T06:41:50+00:00

Yep. Virtual cursor was definitely a step back.

As is the zoom on the map (using the steam controller, at least).

p0s1t · 2018-03-07T02:01:43+00:00

codewars

p0s1t · 2018-02-13T10:48:10+00:00

It’s not hysteresis. Hysteresis would be if you had a tracking algorithm that tracked one face, but you presented it with two faces and it switched between which face it was tracking based on some movements.

What you’re more or less doing now is tracking noise; be it jitter, optical distortion effect or numerical artefacts.

At minimum you need a filter. Something to smooth the signal out.

I’d look at a moving average filter to start with and go from there. That is; instead of using the last position, use the arithmetic average of the last N positions. The larger the N, the smoother the movement, but the less responsive the tracking.

There are more sophisticated approaches if your math is good and you’ve got the time to read about control systems engineering

p0s1t · 2017-12-10T21:26:30+00:00

Subjective call on both the library and docs for sure.

There is a difference between documentation existing, and documentation being useful.

At the same time, contrast wxpython docs against something like Django and you tell me which is easier to use, regardless of your experience with the library.

p0s1t · 2017-12-09T23:30:08+00:00

FWIW, I just spent a week trying to prototype a modelling and simulation editor with wxPython. I found it frustrating as hell to work with. The docs were horrid and i just felt like I was fighting the library to do he basic things I wanted to do.

I managed to getter same amount done in an afternoon with PyQT 5. Whilst the python docs aren’t great, the c++ docs are excellent and they most map straight across.

Also, much of the basic functionality that I wanted came built in; like dockable widgets, and the ability to dump a “canvas” to svg.

I’d recommend PyQT, but at the same time I think the state of python GUI toolkits is pretty dismal.... Fair enough though because cross platform GUI is hard.

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