FLengyel

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Trump Appoints Two Anti-Net Neutrality Advocates to Oversee FCC Transition(forbes.com)
2 points by FLengyel 10y ago|0 comments
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by FLengyel 10y ago
These companies seem not to believe in the free market if they suppress the free exchange of information about their labor practices.
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by FLengyel 10y ago
All too familiar. I am reminded why I stopped writing software for academic research. It's considered low-academic-value work, on a par with system administration or I.T. helpdesk work.
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by FLengyel 11y ago
Scientists are already doing what the author suggests. At least one very fine hydrologist and climate scientist of my acquaintance lived by Beckett's motto.
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by FLengyel 11y ago
I heard that Norman Steenrod was pacing back and forth in Fine Hall thinking about this puzzle, until he solved it. This was before it was attributed to Boolos, according to my sources. The author might have been Mark Kac, or it might have
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by FLengyel 11y ago
Fabricators will get shown up later rather than sooner by someone else if one insists upon making excuses for them.
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by FLengyel 11y ago
Structured procrastination appears analogous to the second-price auction, in which the winner of an auction pays the second-highest bid. This strategy leads the bidders to bid the true value of the auctioned item. One proof of this assertio
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The 20 most creative paintings ever – according to a computer(techinsider.io)
2 points by FLengyel 11y ago|0 comments
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by FLengyel 11y ago
This is correct. In retrospect my math Ph.D. was a waste of time. There have been proposals over the years on how to address the overabundance of PhDs. One approach seems to have been widely and independently adopted: advise those responsi
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by FLengyel 11y ago
I left after being continually relegated to low-academic value technical support work for established academics. Last year I turned down four opportunities to participate in NSF grants, and this year three so far. It is impossible to advan
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by FLengyel 11y ago
Preposterous. The individuals shown are young, photogenic, employed, attractive, physically fit persons with no obvious medical maladies. The target demographic is minuscule.
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NYT: Is your boss mean?(nytimes.com)
2 points by FLengyel 11y ago|0 comments
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by FLengyel 11y ago
I wrote about a linear programming proof of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem due to Rakesh Vohra and his collaborators in a series of posts, starting with http://deniallogic.blogspot.com/2015/04/transitivity.html
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Ardent support for HFT on Hacker News(opusminimax.wordpress.com)
6 points by FLengyel 14y ago|0 comments
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by FLengyel 15y ago
As a New York Times Op-Ed author myself (with a friend; URL http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/opinion/09orlow.html ), I can assert that the typical trajectory after such a performance is to end up commenting on Hacker News.