StefanKarpinski

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by StefanKarpinski 15y ago
In college, my girlfriend (at that point of two years) knew I was into incomprehensible theoretical math, but apparently I had never mentioned anything about computers or programming, which I was also pretty into. One day we were both worki
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by StefanKarpinski 15y ago
It's difficult to fathom how the authors interpret the data on page 14 as not supporting the hypothesis that there is a male/female variance ratio of circa 1.1. Figure 1A is a generally bell-shaped curve centered around 1.1. In Figure 1B,
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by StefanKarpinski 15y ago
Yes, definitely, let's not tolerate assholes like RMS (almost unarguably an asshole) or Linus (arguably an asshole, although, I for one find his directness and lack of tact refreshing and amusing) in open source. So let's get rid of Linux a
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by StefanKarpinski 15y ago
The shift to more symbols and more and better notation has also drastically increased mathematical productivity and rigor. In fact, most of the notation emerged together with the axiomatization of the foundations of mathematics in the early
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by StefanKarpinski 16y ago
The questions it generates are all trivial with a little bit of math knowledge. Finding the roots of polynomials that are already factored. Multiplying a series of factors, the last of which is zero.
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by StefanKarpinski 16y ago
That it's awesome: http://mashable.com/2010/10/13/etsy-office-pics/ I'm an applied mathematician and data scientist at Etsy, and the office is really, really cool. My cousin, who's an architect from Sweden came to visit with his wife and