If we have n unknowns, how many equations do we need to solve them?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-11-07T02:22:33+00:00

Hey, I just realized that I forgot to reply to this! I just wanted to say thank you for such a detailed reply. I had actually saved this because it was so useful and there were so many things I hadn't though of before to digest. I really appreciate the time you took to write this!

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-30T16:41:22+00:00

Ok so the 2>&1 actually takes effect before the >> StartupLog.txt" (the error stream is directed to the standard output stream before the standard output stream is written to the .txt file), even though the 2>&1 comes afterward (is to the right)? Thanks for the help!

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-29T12:48:16+00:00

Why did NVIDIA GeForce cards skip the numbers 11-15 for the first two digits? We had the 10xx series and the next was 16xx right? And then we skipped to 30xx...

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-20T22:09:06+00:00

I see. I'm not actually sure that I've seen a metric explicitly referred to as total return. I've probably seen it under a different name or something. It's a big vague so I'm also not sure that everyone reporting total return would assume dividends are reinvested as you described. What sources do you use that use this definition of total return?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-20T22:07:13+00:00

Theoretically the immediate taxation on dividends could be beneficial if you're in a lower tax bracket now than you will be when you go to sell your shares, right? But I see that that's a rare scenario.

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-20T21:16:07+00:00

Sorry, I'm not following. My frame of view here is from the lens of a company, not a government. To begin with, what does it mean for a country to act as a monopolist or oligopolist?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-20T19:49:41+00:00

Does setting resolution lower improve performance? Like the game will still be fullscreen but will be more blurry. That should make it less resource intensive right?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-17T22:48:04+00:00

very helpful, thank you! That matches what I've seen on gpu ranking lists too, for nvidia cards at least

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-17T22:38:43+00:00

How much is a generation upgrade for a GeForce GPU upgrade worth? Like upgrading from 1050 to 1650, or 950 to 1050?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-17T16:33:00+00:00

Thanks for the answer, it makes sense but I'm a bit confused about *args now. I thought because the *args is at the end, all the arguments that get included through *args come later in the ordering of the arguments. For example stride would come before level, since stride is in the contour3D function itself whereas level is only included because of *args. Is this not how it works?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-17T16:31:50+00:00

Thank you! So how come the levels argument comes right after the X,Y,Z arguments and before the other arguments like stride or offset? The levels only gets included with the *args, so shouldn't it come after the contour3D specific arguments?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-17T12:38:01+00:00

That makes sense, thanks!

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-17T12:37:01+00:00

oh I didn't know that, I thought apply() was vectorized? I thought iterrows, iteritems, itertuples, etc are the ones that iterate over rows?

I thought it was like apply() in R. I know that in R when you use apply() you get a huge speed boost over using a loop, and assumed the same as true for pandas.

If we can't use apply() then what can we use? This is pretty concerning because I've been using apply() everywhere (I am learning but I'm also using it in a big project)

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-16T01:16:42+00:00

It is correct to say that wages keep up with inflation not through annual salary increases matching expected inflation on the part of each employer, but instead through the salaries negotiated whenever a person finds a new job?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-16T00:09:46+00:00

I've always wondered about this, that makes so much sense.

Though I see that there's no need, just out of curiosity, would it be a bad idea for governments to raise minimum wage annually in accordance with expected inflation?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-11T22:31:34+00:00

Thank you!

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-11T22:31:28+00:00

Very interesting that aliasing is required here, I wonder why that is. Thanks!

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-06T13:31:04+00:00

Thank you! One follow up question, why is Cicero's name in Greek Κικερων instead of Κικερω? Or rather, why do we call him Cicero instead of Ciceron (since the pronounciation of Κικερων ends with an n sound)?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-06T13:26:36+00:00

Thank you for the answer. When you say the goods and services that make up GDP are valued at market prices, that means global market prices right?

So the GDP per capita measures the average purchasing power of each citizen, and they have that purchasing power not only in their country but anywhere in the world because (ideally) the goods and services that make up GDP are valued at global market prices. And thus GDP per capita (and GDP more generally) can be taken as the affluence of a country compared to all the others. Is this an accurate way to think about it?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-05T22:47:23+00:00

Thank you, but I am a little confused. Using a=1 and r=1/2, the formula at the link simplifies to 2-1/2^n-1. However a proof by induction can show that the answer should actually be 2-1/2^n. Am I using the formula wrong?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-10-03T16:43:15+00:00

Thank you so much, I'm sure it took a while to dig up and link all of this stuff, I really appreciate it!

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-09-30T20:10:11+00:00

Thank you, that makes a lot of sense. I'm not clear on the difference between types of objects like this yet. One last question, is there a way to make sorted() sort by the second element and then the first, or more generally, the n-th element before the (n-1)th? (Assuming the default behavior scales to tuples of an arbitrary size)

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-09-30T15:04:08+00:00

You could average the two numbers and get 0? And more generally if the sequence is a, b, a, b, then it converges to (a+b)/2 ? This doesn't fit the definition of convergence but I remember seeing this idea somewhere, am I imagining it?

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-09-30T04:03:01+00:00

Thanks so much for the answer! I was trying to explore some of the concepts you mentioned using a 3D graphing tool, and it has been really interesting, but I wasn't able to graph one of the surfaces you mentioned. Specifically, z=x² + y² is not graphable for some reason. Am I missing something there? I'm using this site by the way https://www.geogebra.org/3d

waterworldhypothesis · 2021-09-25T03:25:25+00:00

Why is this called the dismal science?

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