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by Rod 17y ago
ML uses a lot of probability and optimization. AI uses graphs and stuff. But then, electronics uses some stuff from solid state physics... but is it physics!? Some fields are inherently more "applied" and detached from what a purist would c
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by Rod 17y ago
Dude, chill out, will ya?! Go to a math department and claim that algorithms & complexity is math and you will get lynched by some topologist. Most of EE & CS is quantitative, but it's not exactly math, in the sense that it's not fo
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by Rod 17y ago
You're totally right. We could go on discussing what is Math and what is not. Some of what you have listed would probably fall under the category of "Theoretical Computer Science", which is mostly Discrete Math. Of course, the pedantic math
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by Rod 17y ago
O(log(n)) and such stuff is not exactly algebraic or differential geometry, buddy...
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by Rod 17y ago
Unless you're working on computer graphics, there's no math in programming / IT...
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by Rod 17y ago
You're absolutely correct. I was too lazy to write an in-depth response, but if I were to write one, I would have written pretty much what you wrote. And, indeed, the Red Army's greatest contribution was to kill millions of German soldiers
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by Rod 17y ago
I have read about Smale's work on data mining, and I was immediately intrigued by it. It's not everyday that one sees a world class mathematician doing such "dirty" applied research ;-) BTW, I would like to start doing some reading on this.
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by Rod 17y ago
Those figures do put things in perspective, indeed. I'd just like to point out that the U.S. actually lost approx. 400,000 people "only" (50x less than what the Russians lost). The Lithuanians lost 13% of their population, too. However, in
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by Rod 17y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say that what won WWII (in Europe, at least) was the Red Army. The best thing that happened to occupied Western Europe was the Nazi invasion of the USSR. Let us show some respect for the millions of Russ
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by Rod 17y ago
LOL. Funniest thing I have read in a while. Would be funnier if it weren't true that the retarded postmodernist pussies in certain academic departments actually do think along those lines...
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by Rod 17y ago
For the sake of clarity, could people be less ambiguous when they talk about Wall Street!?! They say "bankers", I think of guys doing M&A and other corporate finance. Most people think of anyone working at an investment bank. Salaries a
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by Rod 17y ago
Glad to hear that the URL was helpful to someone :) Are you studying Morse & Morse-Smale complexes for data-mining purposes? Just curious.
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by Rod 17y ago
This book is based on Prof. Zomorodian's PhD thesis, which is available at: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~afra/thesis/twosidedl.pdf
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Topology for Computing(cs.dartmouth.edu)
13 points by Rod 17y ago|9 comments
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Thermal Imaging for Energy Efficiency(ooeygui.com)
1 points by Rod 17y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
I agree that it's a light-hearted blog post. And I would appreciate if you kept your opinions on what I should and should not do to yourself. Thank you.
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by Rod 17y ago
I agree with you. I don't want to keep discussing what is and what is not entitled to be labeled as porn, though. On the other hand, we have the word "nudity" which is more specific than the word "porn". The full Lena image qualifies as nud
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by Rod 17y ago
"what do you think the IPCC reports are based on?" If only the IPCC didn't have a political agenda...
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by Rod 17y ago
You wrote: "Hence, the full Lena picture is porn by definition." The author wrote: "One cannot do research in image processing without an encounter with Lena (pronounced Lenna). The image of the woman with a feathered hat has become the
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by Rod 17y ago
Then the author is misusing the word "pornography". Etymologically speaking, pornography denotes the "depiction of prostitutes" or something like that. Thus, claiming that the Lena image is porn is implicitly insulting Lena. The author pi
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Richard Feynman's Works of Art(museumsyndicate.com)
35 points by Rod 17y ago|6 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
I have worked in image processing and I have looked at Lena many times. I know it's the top half of a Playboy centerfold: http://www.lenna.org/full/len_full.html What I see is a rather artistic photo. It surely contains nudity, but it's n
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by Rod 17y ago
The author claims that the Lena image is porn. Give me a break!
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Bringing Eastern European Mathematical Traditions to North American Students(ams.org)
2 points by Rod 17y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
I am not doing research in the area, thankfully. I know people who are. I talk to them often, and I have come to the realization that this is an incredibly complex problem. One has to take into account the physics, chemistry, biology of the
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California is now divided more East-West than North-South(economist.com)
4 points by Rod 17y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 17y ago
That happened quite a bit during the Cold War: many discoveries were simultaneously made in the U.S. and in the U.S.S.R., but they ended up being named after the American scientist (mostly). Fortunately, in some cases, discoveries share the
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by Rod 17y ago
Soon, we might start seeing drug traffickers flying small stealth UAVs over the border with a few pounds of cocaine inside them, LOLOL. I wonder how the feds are going to fight that...
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by Rod 17y ago
We're talking about a very complex problem here, and jumping to conclusions based on unreliable computer simulations and mass hysteria promoted by the media is, indeed, unreasonable.
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by Rod 17y ago
And since you can't argue scientifically with someone who has decades of experience in the field, you're playing with semantics, aren't you?

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