JadeNB

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by JadeNB 2y ago
He does mention in the text above the video: > Be warned that due to "BUG", these seem only to display properly in Chrome. I am working on fixing "BUG" once I get some sleep; I have some leads due to helpful people on
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out to me was the use of backslashes in his website URL. Yeah, some of those (like the backslashes) were clearly intent
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Do I win anything for noting, in a video about hyper-detail orientation, that, when the text on screen says "Is this the most beautiful ____", the voice-over says "This is the most beautiful ____"? https://www
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Oh, I forgot that Hulu has an infuriating thing where, if you turn on English-language subtitles for a show that's mostly in English (as those of us with poor hearing often do), and the show has burnt-in subtitles for portions of speec
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Good subtitles are more akin to interpretation than translation. You have less space to fit, timing is important, you need to translate idioms, etc. Timing particularly! You'll often get a mystery where the detective says "A
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I don't think that's really conclusive; surely they've taken it as far as they think they can in a reasonable amount of time, but (1) they've no real need to be secretive--why not share it as soon as there's a concr
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Yes, you are right, sorry. I thought that (2022) in the submission indicated that the article must be from 2022 (though it seems actually to be from 2024), indicating that the mention of the name change in the article must mean that it had
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by JadeNB 2y ago
They have; it's just usually called SnakeTris.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Actually, the name change took effect in 2022, and is mentioned in the article: > As should be obvious from the framing, X here is a variable, not a web site formerly known as Twitter.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> While I might quibble with the parenting technique because I believe an interest in useful topics can be cultivated, I'm not going to knock those parents for developing the ability to do hard work. The rest of the world is better
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Lockhart missed the point a bit. I think it's fairer to say that his point may not have been what you expected it to be. As a teacher myself, trust me, if a student comes to you and says "I came up with a proof!" and yo
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> No parent can “train” a kid to be a math genius. While that's true, there's lots of parents who don't believe it, or don't care if the end result isn't actual mathematical genius as long as it's some sort
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by JadeNB 2y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492264 .
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Something can be held fast, but I don't think it is usual English to say that something fixed is fast. Garnishment of wages is garnisheeing, though here I'll agree "garnishing" seems to be acceptable too.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I think that's an excessively intentionalist view of evolution. Evolution doesn't test the waters, in the sense that it inhibits a harmful mutation from happening again, nor are mutations likely to be purely good or bad; mutations
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I think this is a highly uncharitable response to someone clearly trying to speak humbly and honestly of their instinct towards a solution they obviously then recognized would be inappropriate.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Yep! He went into detail about the whole mathematical competition and how (IIRC) there's no general solution for quintics. Yes, that's exactly right—no solution of the general quintic in terms of radicals. This study introdu
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> It was my introduction to many things, including birthday paradox and analytic solutions for tertiary equations. What is this latter? Is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_equation#Cardano's_formu... ?
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> > Tenure precedes peer review afaik > Um, no. Tenure decisions turn largely on publication record, which turns on peer review. I'm pretty sure your parent meant that the concept of tenure precedes the concept of peer rev
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Have you ever seen an original physical copy of, say, Einstein's annus mirabilis papers? I haven't. I suspect that these are extremely rare and valuable collectors items and only trained archivists are even allowed to handle
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by JadeNB 2y ago
And a follow-up: https://whatheco.de/2013/02/16/camelcase-vs-underscores-revi...
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> But the integers are a subset of the rationals, which are a subset of the reals, which are a subset of the complex numbers. It depends on definitions, and, in some sense, the point of the common approach to mathematics is not just that
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I thought at first that it was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis , which makes sense in a textual context, not about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipse , so it took me a minute to un
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by JadeNB 2y ago
It's just a few paragraphs in: > Inspired by the existing Albatross Books, Lane’s nascent company wanted an animal for their mascot. Many years after the fact, designer Edward Young explained (as quoted by Hornsey) that after a coup
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Also Iverson's bracket notation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iverson_bracket)—underused , but indispensable once you get in the habit.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Gödel was second-to-none in analytic ability and he was paranoid. What made him so certain that nuclear chain reaction was a distant possibility? If it were anyone else, I'd say they were just trying to comfort themselves by not t
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> A professional developer does thorough work when it matters, and cuts irrelevant corners that aren’t worth wasting time on. The problem, it seems to me, is that, while a furniture maker may have a reasonably stable idea of what their f
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> I don't see how you would define linearity in a ring (I don't mean a module, just a ring). I.e. D(af) = aD(f) doesn't make sense if you don't have scalar multiplication. Every ring is a module over itself. But you
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> And from there, it makes complete sense to look at operators with similar properties in other vector spaces. It does, but this one's on a rig (= ring - negatives), not a vector space over any field.
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by JadeNB 2y ago
It wouldn't hurt, but why "needs?" The notion isn't changing.

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