FredrikMeyer

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   by FredrikMeyer 8y ago

   If one wants the content of this article in podcast format, the researcher was interviewed in one of the latest episodes of Data Skeptic (an excellent pod cast, by the way): https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/20
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   by FredrikMeyer 8y ago

   John D Cook: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/ His posts are short and to the point, often about experiments in numerical mathematics.
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   by FredrikMeyer 8y ago

   I haven't watched the Abel lecture yet. What is it that you find bizarre?
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   by FredrikMeyer 8y ago

   Very short feedback: it looks very nice (startup time was fast on my Mac). However, some of the usual Mac hotkeys in text fields didn't work. In (for example) the Chrome URL field I can press ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the URL (i
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   by FredrikMeyer 8y ago

   He has now also written books about bread! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Modernist-Bread-Art-Science-Cuisine...
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   by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

   Here's a link to the actual presentation https://web.archive.org/web/20100817162301/http://dl-web.dro...
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   by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

   Nice! Even though this is implemented before, it is easy to read (and if you only need simple functions, downloading Sage is a bit of a overkill (there is an online version of Sage which I used a lot during my PhD though!)). I like seeing s
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   by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

   I agree that the would already should have had a lingua franca, but I must say that it English is far from the best candidate. The language is huge, and the grammar is full of irregularities. Pronunciation must be learnt case by case (why a
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   by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

   His grandson is actually a mathematics professor at my university: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_St%C3%B8rmer Really funny and amicable guy.
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    by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

    It is possible to sort them by difficulty. Some of the newer problems are easier than some of the first 100 problems, appearantly.
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    by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

    I recently got a PhD in pure mathematics, and also recently started my job as a junior developer in a large consultant firm in Norway. I only knew basic Java and Python, but coming from mathematics, I find learning formal stuff quite easy.
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    by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

    I was about to post your number 3 before I saw it here. Here's a link to it: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html
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    by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

    John Baez is a fantastic writer. His home page is full of wonderful illustrations and expository stuff (physics, mathematics, climate science, ...) http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/
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    by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

    * "The history of western philosophy" by Bertrand Russell. A fun read so far (~100 pages). Russell is not afraid to tell the reader that he really dislikes Plato, and thinks he destroyed western philosophy. * SICP (Structure and i
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    by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

    This was posted here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14527429
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    by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

    This is very good advice. I am a PhD student in mathematics, and every time I try to learn a new area of math, I'm grateful when I stumble upon PhD theses about that topic. They actually include their calculations.
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    by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

    In my mathematics education, the standard has been that first year courses are "almost always" taught in Norwegian, whereas second year and higher are taught in English if there are non-Norwegians present.
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    by FredrikMeyer 9y ago

    It is the same situation in Norway. International students pay no tuition (and we have the same debate here whether to continue this situation...). On the other hand, living costs in Norway are quite high.