MrManatee

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by MrManatee 10y ago
As you already realized, my example was supposed to be in 2D, but I forgot to mention it. Sorry about that. But your point about steradians is still spot on. If I had been talking about the 3D case, there would have been a 1/(2pi) fact
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by MrManatee 10y ago
I have found the idea of tau useful even though I have never used it in writing. One argument in favor of tau is that in many formulas pi often has the multiplier 2 in front of it. If these formulas are written in terms of tau, they may bec
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by MrManatee 10y ago
One aspect of teaching everyone to code is what Seymour Papert talked about in Mindstorms: it can be used as a medium for carrying ideas. For example, I think Mindstorms had this anecdote about a child who previously had trouble grasping th
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by MrManatee 11y ago
Yeah. The main thing people probably want is "TeX quality" typesetting of mathematical formulas inside web pages. Bundling the entirety of TeX inside a browser for this purpose would be kind of a hack, and suboptimal in many ways.
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by MrManatee 11y ago
I also use a password manager, and enable two-factor authentication when possible. I mark my personal devices as trusted, so I only have to do two-factor authentication whenever I get a new device. I can think of a few examples of threat ve
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by MrManatee 11y ago
I have sometimes wondered whether it would be useful to have two different types for indices, depending on if we are indexing the elements themselves or the "gaps" between them. Let's say I'm thinking about some language
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by MrManatee 11y ago
I would agree that the examples can be somewhat misleading, but not because of computability. Universal approximation theorem for neural networks doesn't care about computability, but it does require that the domain of the function is
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by MrManatee 11y ago
To put my words in context, I was thinking about mathematical questions, such as "does there exist a curve that goes through every point in a square?". Everyone has some kind of intuitive understanding of what's a "curve
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by MrManatee 11y ago
With regards to 2), there's a difference between trying to find an answer to a single yes/no question, and trying to find a general method for solving an infinite class of such questions. If a single yes/no question is clearl
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by MrManatee 11y ago
The term "isomorphic JavaScript" also sounds strange to my ears. I think it’s because in traditional use (in mathematics, linguistics, biology, etc.) you don't say "X is isomorphic", you say that "X and Y are i