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Second derivative is the business derivative.

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jewish_scientist wrote:If x/ y = c and c is constant, then maximizing x maximizes y, unless maximizing means something other than what I think it means.

Yeah, the problem is that "having two variables" means something different than you think it means.

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Sigma is the standard deviation of a Gaussian - don't make a new definition for a "broadness" if an existing concept can work for you. Can the a>threshold condition be related to a condition which was known to be obeyed in the original equation? If not, you are introducing things with this...

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They do require acceleration.

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It is in fact not possible to have a feature for maximizing for two variables.

You can maximize for a function, that's fun and good.

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Also, people propose modifications of GR where gravity doesn't move exactly at c, but is a little slower. These are extra bonus ruled out lately!
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2017/1 ... -with.html

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At one point, when I was still on the fence myself ("OK the easter bunny and tooth fairy aren't real, but maaaaybe there's something special about Santa..." *), my parents told me "Look, you may have figured this Santa thing out by now... do not under any circumstances tell your broth...

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ok but acupuncture is a horror show
they put the things in your skin

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There's also a scientific sense in which "just placebo affect" = "not really a thing," whereas cultivating a placebo effect can be the entire point of meditation. If you determine that there is no causal mechanism outside of one's own mind, sounds like what meditation advertises!...

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That sounds like a pretty mundane imagination.

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I mean I carry an imaginary ruler with me everywhere I go, are you not likewise prepared?

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And maybe to cut to the point of your question - the "repeated" is there because to be a nice algebraic definition, if there is some operation we're talking about, we really want the set to be include repeated actions of those operations. It is because geometry and algebra are very close f...

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Moo wrote:Tony's vehement reaction to Annie's makeup is interesting now...

oh snap I had not connected that at all, that is totally a thing

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What topic and level are you teaching?

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Two big celestial objects, two sexes, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_La ... ll_Numbers
Boom.

But yeah there's not much discussion of it because it's mostly just deeply flawed cherry picking.

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But there's nothing natural about spelling these weird guys. If it's just arbitrary lists, being handed a list is the best you can do. We most definitely had them all through grammar school? Maybe not in 7th and 8th grade...

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gmal ignored this, but I'm interested in hearing the answer from anyone who thinks it is okay for citizens to punch Nazis at random. Just curious where you're ultimately coming from and how much people do believe in first amendment rights. It's easy for the government to get out of hand so I'd rath...

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I have no idea why we haven't yet.

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Lawful Good is an oxymoron alignment. Eventually you have to figure yourself out.

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Yeah, I guess Dresden was only tragic because it was rather nice. Firebombing Wyoming is probably less of a grey area.

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I feel like Normandy is appropriate and proportional. Maybe Dresden was a bit much?

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morriswalters wrote:They are equally culpable

banned

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and therefore the violence in their ends and means is justified, from their perspective, because they are merely defending/protecting themselves and their people. Of course they can justify their own selves, but why should that matter to anyone? You can believe people are wrong without them believi...

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I found the religious aspect of my grandmother's funeral deeply upsetting. I was religious and can make a very nice performance of respect generally, but if it's someone who is actually close to me that I am personally mourning, I am pretty liable to slap someone who is coming at me with "she's...

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Why on earth should a web developer support a browser longer than people who publish the browser themselves? Depends on what you mean by "support". If you mean extensive testing to verify every page renders correctly in a specific old browser, then no that's probably not worth it. If you ...

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Why on earth should a web developer support a browser longer than people who publish the browser themselves?

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(It seems to me, by the way, that Eleanor Roosevelt has been entirely forgotten. "No one can make us feel inferior without our consent." I don't deny what's taken place historically, but you really have to consent pretty hard in order to feel that bad about a piece of litter.) People gene...

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Yeah. I mean so far the entire page is full of spoiler tags, and it makes reading a bit clunky. I think it's probably fair to just put [spoilers] in the title, and just have folks assume that the most current aired episode is always fair game. I know for me, I do not read anything in the thread at a...

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I think a speculation is only a spoiler if you are a prophet.

My feeling is Torvald has to die, so that when Brienne bones Jamie, she's not making a choice. Choices are hard, it's nice when circumstances make them for you. Like how Ygritte had to die for Jon to bone Dany.

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There is a lot of noise in weight measurements. How often is she measuring? If you are weighing every day consistently, it may be possible to notice a line sloping its way through a scatter plot, but two weeks is still pretty short, especially if you also have lady times cycling with a wavelength lo...

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Is that why they put in the scene about succession? To further the idea that Jon and Daenerys will be together? (I forgot how they got to talking about succession in the first place.) I think she mentioned twice in the one episode that she can't have any children besides the dragons, so...

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That's because number theorists are slacking. After a few courses in algebra someone finally defines "an algebra," why's it take so long to get "a number?" Slackers.

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But the clever Concierge would rather not have to give the manager bad news, so instead, he used a little quick cleverness. Rooms 0, 1, and 2 unfortunately did not exist, and had been booked, it's true, but it's simple as can be to map the occupants to new rooms - 0 -> 3, 1 ->4, 2 -> 5... and everyo...

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DREAM TEAM!

ASSEMBLE!

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What I doubt is your skill as a teacher. If you don't want to teach idiots, don't, but please don't tell the idiots to read the book, it isn't very helpful. I'm an idiot, remember? I doubt you are really that much of an idiot. You're probably even curious about these things, so you should do fine! ...

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I could try to figure out all the ways in which you go off the rails, but the problem really seems to be that you are trying to lay down your own track. You should not come up with your own definitions of things like "closed." Halmos' set theory book and Armstrong's topology are really nic...

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yeah, you could have it have a magnetic field, but not react ferromagnetically to some other field

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i most definitely did

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An edge doesn't imply something on the other side of it. It's common when doing geometry to embed everything into some higher dimensional space, because of our experiences with drawing shapes on a paper. You want to look at a circle? Draw your lil S^1 on a paper, which is R^2. You want to draw a dis...

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yeah, if you have f as the displacement function, the intensity is pressure * volume, and that winds up with a df/dt * df/dx, so you get an ~f^2 but then f(t,x) should average 0, so maybe the way you're thinking of f is to already include some squaring somewhere? what do you mean "receives all ...

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