These are not contradictory claims. But it should be noted that the current trend is people going from MATLAB to Python for the kind of things that both are good at. It was initially probably driven mostly by Python being free, but now it has a kind of an avalanche effect in that the more people switch, the bigger the Python community is, the more libraries, docs etc are, and the better it becomes - and hence more enticing to switch for the remaining folk.
For scientific and technical computing, data science and machine learning, a good reason to use Python by default is basically because everyone else does. So it's easy to find libraries that already cover your domain, a large and helpful community, and ease of hiring new people.
Well, and there's IPython.
It's worth noting that many high-paying jobs require multiple languages. E.g. when people talk of Python, the ability to write extension modules in C++ is often assumed.
Silicon Valley is not the only tech hub in US, and US is not the only country in the world.
And I'd wager that there are plenty of talented techies who'd rather live in some nice but cheap boonies if they can work from home and get paid a salary that, for the cost of living where they are, translates to way more than $100k in SV.
Differences in nutrition and environment make a difference, but do not come close to explaining the full gap.
Except they do, if you look at child nutrition specifically (i.e. while the brain still develops).
You can, and they did in fact (specifically for IQ studies in Africa). Turns out that the causative link is actually with the amount of calories in one's nutrition as a child. Below a certain level, the less you get, the less developed your brain will be when you're an adult, and on statistical scale, this does translate to lower IQ score.
There is scientific evidence that genetic variation within "races" is greater than the variation between the median genetic profiles of "races".
It is true, but only if you take the two extremes, and completely discount the normal distribution (i.e. the fact that most members of either category do not belong to those extremes).
America's modern left often argues that portions of the US Constitution can be safely ignored because it's old and was written by white dudes.
This is definitely the case - unless you think that e.g. the Three Fifths Compromise, as reflected in the text of the Constitution, has any but historical value.
You can't force any level of review. It can always be turned into people signing stuff without looking at it.
You can force a certain amount of time allocated to said review, per law. Even if they basically do nothing and just sign off at the end of the mandatory period, at some point, there will be so many laws that the only thing that legislature will be doing is re-enacting them again and again, with no time to enact more laws... unless they choose to actually let some sunset.
It's actually really enlightening to see it being recounted like that. I'm trying to mentally apply the same approach to the events of our days, imagining how the government might handle this or that in a similar vein, and it just doesn't compute at all - they're so far away from it.
Not quite. He's not trying to resolve the paradox by setting a fixed boundary, he's just noting that the question as stated doesn't have a meaningful answer because of the lack of such boundary. If we rephrase the question to include the boundary, then there is an answer, but of course that is simply answering a different question.
Typing is faster except if you're writing a mathematical text or anything that is NOT simple plain text. Even simple diagrams are complicated to do on a computer.
Agreed, but that's where pen input, combined with a tool that can seamlessly interlace it with typed text - like OneNote - is awesome.
And from a personal experience - if you write something down you remember it better than if you type it.
I rarely find it necessary to remember the notes that I jot down exactly, word for word. So long as I can remember the overall idea, and where to look to find the details... and the huge advantage of having it in electronic form is that it is searchable.
(Granted, with OneNote, you can actually do handwriting and have it OCR'd and searchable, too... it even does a good job on my rather crazy Russian cursive, to my surprise.)
English cursive is just as fast as Russian (you should have studied it in a Russian school, as well; at least, all three that I were in used it). The point rather is that cursive is basically a useless skill in today's world - it lets you do your handwriting somewhat faster at the expense of legibility, which is useful for note-taking... if you don't have a computer with a proper keyboard; and who doesn't these days? With a keyboard, even a moderately skilled typist will outperform the best cursive writer.
For the few cases where you are forced to use pen & paper, or it's just what is available at hand, printing will still get the job done, just a bit slower.
Funny how a religion that goes around absorbing the tribal wisdom of those it encounters is treated with more contempt than one that was written by a single dude who thought he had perfection dripping from his pen and converted people with the sword.
You do realize that Islam has similarly absorbed a lot of pagan Arab customs, do you? That whole lunar calendar thing, Kaaba etc.
It's not that it's more rational, more intelligent or more logical to render the sex act infertile, you know.
It is, if what you want from it is enjoyment of it (which is what 99% of the people do, including - secretly! - anti-contraception religious nuts)
I already asked a specific question: how exactly is this strategy supposed to work when releasing code as open source and targeting other (more popular in their niche, at that) platforms? This is nothing even remotely similar to the situation at the time of Halloween documents.
After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
