Gabriel54

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by Gabriel54 3y ago
I found Halmos' Naive Set Theory to be very helpful when first learning about proofs. Don't be offput by the title - the material is fundamental to any working mathematician. It is also quite short.
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by Gabriel54 3y ago
As a TA at a certain public institution in Texas, the level of some students' incompetence by the time they reach their final year in undergraduate studies is shocking and saddening. And yet, almost no one fails, because there is pres
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by Gabriel54 3y ago
One basic misconception people often have is that the subset relation implies smaller cardinality (i.e. "size"). E.g., all odd integers are integers, so there are more integers that odd integers. But this is not a very useful no
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by Gabriel54 3y ago
This is a logical and natural conclusion of what happens when we give up on the idea of meritocracy.
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by Gabriel54 4y ago
This position is totally at odds with that of many members of the US Supreme Court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textualism
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by Gabriel54 4y ago
The Ottomans had some of the oldest (recorded) military marching bands [1]. Lots of great recordings on YouTube [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_military_band [2] https://youtu.be/FuqwJmP
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Long lunch: Spanish civil servant skips work for years without anyone noticing(theguardian.com)
2 points by Gabriel54 4y ago|1 comments
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by Gabriel54 4y ago
> In Santa Monica, Calif., high school English teachers said last year they had “a moral imperative” to eliminate honors English classes that they viewed as perpetuating inequality. If this is simply a sound pedagogical choice, how is it
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United flight from Hawaii plunged to within 800ft of Pacific Ocean(theguardian.com)
38 points by Gabriel54 4y ago|42 comments
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by Gabriel54 4y ago
At least Monty Python knew Jaspers: https://youtu.be/LfduUFF_i1A
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by Gabriel54 4y ago
Not sure what kind of documents you are referring to. The I-9 form is very clear about what documents are acceptable. It is not difficult to understand if someone is legally able to work or not.
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by Gabriel54 4y ago
I first read The Waste Land in high school without understanding much of it, but it left a big impression. It felt like the end of an era, one in which education was still rooted in the classical tradition (could someone today so casually