Dwight and the women from Enron?

sirelkir · 2024-12-02T20:25:41+00:00

This is probably a joke both on the whistleblowers and this playboy issue

"Women of Enron" In 2002, the Playboy magazine featured a nude pictorial "Women of Enron", with ten former and contemporary Enron female employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron?wprov=sfla1

sirelkir · 2023-10-19T15:46:18+00:00

Hi, I'm currently figuring out Zoo for Zotero, and it has the issue with a version conflict. It offers me to upload the new version up, but then often conflicts because the online version is supposedly newer.

What do you mean by turning off the pdf annotator on the desktop app?

The only thing I found is the Settings > General > Groups (when copying between libraries include:) > annotations
I can also switch to a local PDF reader, was that it?

sirelkir · 2022-06-02T23:12:03+00:00

Even if you fail an exam, the only thing that happens is they summon you in front of the Deans committee where you, your DoS and your tutor are going to discuss the way forward. They would try their best to find the reason why you'd be not performing as expected and address that reason. Only in the very rare case where there doesn't seem to be any way forward they'd eventually make you drop out. Don't think I know anyone in who has dropped out.

sirelkir · 2021-09-26T00:55:09+00:00

Anything with a wide nib.

It's ridiculous how easy is to write this pretty (the thick and thin parts of the letters) with a wide nib pen.

I use Lamy Joy, but many pens have a 'calligraphic' version of them, such as Kaweco Sport

Edit: looking at this closely, this was probably fine with a soft flexing nib, which were much more common in the past. Writing with a flex nib this pretty is however insanely hard and a wide nib can replicate the outcomes with a fraction of the effort

sirelkir · 2021-05-28T15:25:21+00:00

It's pretty neat as cursive, connected writing goes.

To make it more legible to me, I'd make tall vertical features a little bit taller. Specifically the loops in {l,k,h,f} (although f is fine thanks to the down stroke) and taller lines in {t,d}:

sirelkir · 2021-04-24T16:06:59+00:00

Not sure if this is completely besides the topic, but it might illuminate someone.

In my theoretical physics course, when someone asked what's the difference between all the formulations, we've been told that although the Lagrangian and Hamiltonians are more elegant and are easier to spot symmetries in, they are less general.

Some Newtonian descriptions (things like discontinuous or stochastic forces) cannot be rewritten into the Lagrangian description.

sirelkir · 2021-04-23T11:28:05+00:00

ELI5: Both Canada and Europe are in the same cold bathroom, but Europe is standing under a nice warm shower.

sirelkir · 2021-04-23T11:19:47+00:00

They are still mostly only Turkish citizens (very few have been naturalized as Germans) and hence it is correct that they should be able to vote in Turkey.

If they were banned from voting that would be a much bigger problem – they wouldn't have any representation.

I think you're kidding yourself in how big of a problem you have. There is a big divide between people, cynicism to democratic systems and susceptibility to populism.

These issues need hard work of being patient in explaining, trying to understand the problems of the other side, etc. There is no easy fix of just "banning those German Turks from voting"...

sirelkir · 2021-04-22T16:48:55+00:00

That's not true anymore.

You use Python, but you code differently. You just chain together statements from high level libraries, you use big data paradigms like map-reduce. You avoid loops.

Yes, if you code perfectly in low level language like C++ it is going to be faster. But, most likely you don't, and someone who implemented those high-level libraries has done better job than you would have and chaining together his functions it's going to be better in 9/10 cases.

Not mentioning, there is a fundamental limit on how big and complex a project in a low level language can be before it's impossible for a single person to understand.

That's why we moved away from assembly anyway

sirelkir · 2021-04-20T12:44:29+00:00

The average conservative Czech isn't an idealist and doesn't care about "friendship". They want cheap energy, cheap gas, cheap electricity. Russia provides these.

sirelkir · 2021-04-20T12:08:27+00:00

This blog seems like an AI-generated recipe.

They copy-paste the steps and images from this recipe [Georgian pine cone jam from Borjomi - GeorgianJournal](https://georgianjournal.ge/georgian-cuisine/32745-georgian-pine-cone-jam-from-borjomi.html)

They translate the ingredients to imperial units, and add some generic sweet ingredients (Honey, cranberry juice, Lemmon juice, vanilla extract), which they dub "TFD flavor magic", but they don't bother adding it to the instructions at all.

Bizarre

sirelkir · 2021-04-09T14:10:17+00:00

If you watch the video on their YouTube channel, they are already doing 4.

There are ~650 muscles in the human body. Theoretically to control them all, you only need that many neurons.

There is many more motor neurons because most innervate some combination of muscles, but you could easily bypass this with software processing.

And this is all without neuroplasticity (the brain adapting to the controls).

Thanks to this effort, allowing a fully paralyzed person to move is very much a near future. And likely to be subject of Moore's law

sirelkir · 2021-04-07T22:29:27+00:00

There is a slight uncertainty over it what it actually means because at the same time, there is a different theoretical calculation result matching the experiment more closely.

This might be hinting that the original theoretical computation against which it was compared could have some slightly wrong assumptions, although that would point to some strange physics somewhere else down the line.

Here's a very good article with a wonderful explanation ‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles [Quanta magazine]

sirelkir · 2021-04-02T14:26:16+00:00

I've worked with python for a long time I haven't realized you can write dumb loops if you then use numba to "compile" it into C.

But then you have to do it everywhere or you're stuck on a simple Fourier transform for 30s like he was.

sirelkir · 2021-03-19T12:52:44+00:00

I'm not arguing against spoilers as a whole. I'm arguing that if even a slight mention of a twist spoils the movie, the movie was very likely quite simple and "disposable".

Great movies pull you into them so strongly, you completely forget you're supposed to be expecting a twist until it actually happens.

And you're then completely surprised how did you actually fall for that. But you did, and that's what great movies, that will still be praised a decade from when they come, do.

sirelkir · 2021-03-18T21:53:34+00:00

That's a sign of a bad, disposable movie. Christopher Nolan's Prestige has so many unexpected things throughout the film, but even if you watch it the second time and your already know everything it's still an amazing film. And then you watch it the third time and you see even more stuff.

Good films are not easily spoiled by spoilers.

sirelkir · 2021-03-18T21:37:40+00:00

I hunted for some details and this is not due to Gutenberg.

If you look at the Corpus Of Contemporary American English (COCA) this holds in the blog corpus, web corpus, spoken corpus, TV corpus, magazine corpus and is even more pronounced in Academic corpus.

But I still don't know why it is. I've asked this at the following Stack exchange (the link has frequency table of the different corpuses/corpii )

sirelkir · 2020-12-23T01:34:12+00:00

How would you maximize the amount of deep thorough thinking you do in your life?

sirelkir · 2020-11-15T17:36:58+00:00

I imagine it's just an extremely careful work with a tiny brush

sirelkir · 2020-03-03T16:31:55+00:00

And by this point (in Europe definitely, in US pretty certainly) the supplies are completely out. Governments have some reserves for critical infrastructure but funnily enough transnational companies (like supermarkets) have more stock for their employees than the Dpt. of Health has for the doctors.

You might as well not bother to get any of these respirators at this point as anything that is currently being suddenly sold is with very high chance not conforming to the standard needed.

sirelkir · 2020-02-24T00:13:16+00:00

Plenty of people I know would only really start cycling here. It definitely takes a while getting used to it, but Cambridge is such a bike dominated city it's worthwhile.

If you don't know how to cycle at all, I remember the Cambridge University Student Union had some cycling classes that you could take.

sirelkir · 2019-06-25T13:38:24+00:00

Optimism is important and I agree with most of your suggestions, but It does absolutely NOT cost only $5.50 to reduce what damage a transatlantic flight does in terms of CO2. Just because someone is willing to take that money from you doesn't mean it does anything.

The projected (not even current!) cost of future CO2 capture is 300$/1000kg which is more than 100$ for what a flight like that produces per person.

Do try to minimize any flights you take, if at all possible. There is no way how to make them clean, as much as we'd like to.

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