AbyormPiranha

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by AbyormPiranha 8y ago
Because mice aren't humans.
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What Are the Other Foundations of Mathematics?(math.stackexchange.com)
3 points by AbyormPiranha 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How Do I Cope with This Lag in Understanding?
3 points by AbyormPiranha 8y ago|1 comments
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by AbyormPiranha 8y ago
Free speech is being able to say what you want (as long as it isn't screaming fire in a crowded theater or yelling in a library or such like these) without consequences. A society where every website bans you for believing X but yhe go
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by AbyormPiranha 8y ago
That is like saying a person who randomly solves a symbolic integral by making a few lucky but logically invalid guesses is a great mathematician. It's not enough to be correct by accident.
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by AbyormPiranha 8y ago
The moral of the story is not that the needs of the many (group selection) outweigh the needs of one (individual selection). The moral of the story is that some incentives come with perverse effects. In India, the British government issued
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by AbyormPiranha 8y ago
Read papers on arxiv and forget books.
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by AbyormPiranha 8y ago
Problem: Pufferfish meat is delicious but it can kill you. Japanese solution: we will employ the finest of artisans who have practiced for five years to exactly remove the poisonous parts of the pufferfish. As these artisans are specially-t
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by AbyormPiranha 8y ago
How can a single-loop algorithm be O(N^3)?
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by AbyormPiranha 8y ago
Can one improve at this kind of skill? This is a serious question.