Syzygies

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by Syzygies 4y ago
A few years ago I programmed my phone.com VoIP lines to route any call not on my whitelist through a virtual switchboard: Dial 7 to speak with me. I haven't had a robocall since. It's an inconvenience if a company wants to use aut
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The relationship with testosterone is complex; higher levels interplay with a genetically determined follicle sensitivity. That said, my favorite T-shirt ever on the subject was spotted on Fire Island: It's not a bald spot, it's
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I have Tailscale on all my Macs. I use MacOS default SSH between my machines, but only via the Tailscale interface. Nevertheless, I had to open SSH on each machine, and it's a nightmare to close up the firewall so only Tailscale gets t
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I've spend months at a time, e.g. Sicilian island hopping, with less than this. For me the critical issue, which drives all clothing choices, is being able to independently do laundry. That is easier in frequent small batches; I can&#x
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I avidly follow descendants of Scheme and Haskell (I figured out for example how to build Idris native on an M1 Mac), and I plan to follow Ante. I just spent $5k of lunch money on an M1 Ultra Mac Studio, to use as a math compute server. How
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by Syzygies 4y ago
Wow. You were in Richmond and didn't stop at Tacos Los Primos (550 23rd St, Richmond, CA 94804, in parking lot)? I'm a https://masienda.com/ devotee who regularly makes masa from scratch (nixtamalized Oaxacan corn
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https://www.earth-prints.org/bitstream/2122/12550/1/Foresta%... Between the stone and metal ages, the volcanic glass obsidian was a favored material for all manner of sharps, and an object of trade. Usti
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I use https://concepts.app/en/ for all iPad drawing. It features an infinite canvas, and is tuned for beautiful architectural drawings. I use it for math notes and illustration. Like my academic colleagues, I was force
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The title of Linear Algebra Done Wrong is an unacknowledged nod to Sheldon Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right . I know Sheldon; he believes it's a crime to teach people determinants. I teach people determinants. Wrong features
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Ahh! Then you need a router table. You can make jigs for it the rest of your life, you don't need to actually use the table.
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There's an assumption here that a polytope with equal area faces will be fair. I'd like to see a proof. My mathematical intuition is that the probability of stopping on a face depends on the extent that nearby faces slow a rotatio
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Back in the 1980's I co-wrote a computer algebra system, that ran for example on many colleagues' first computer: The first Macintosh. Resources were scarce, everything mattered. Malloc attempts to work acceptably well under diver
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by Syzygies 4y ago
Admissions is an imprecise art. While the majority of elite school students make do with status and connections, some go on to attain global stature. Global stature is virtually impossible to attain, an unrealistic goal. The world is actual
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Whether the universe is a simulation is unknowable, but the universe could consist of thought. If so, this research is dangerous; like the Trinity nuclear test, the conflagration could alter our neighborhood of the universe. I had a pretty
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by Syzygies 4y ago
Math professor here. I see students hit a wall in linear algebra, very good at "trained seal" but profoundly resentful that the time has come to go meta: Part of one's learning has to be investment in reflection and experimen
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As a high school student many decades ago I read every library book I could find on hypnosis. The most compelling book did not believe hypnosis was a distinct state of consciousness, but rather a strong form of social persuasion. It detaile
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Yes. And carefully designed "extreme" air cooling solutions can outperform average water cooling solutions. "Monolith" will for me always conjure up "2001: A Space Odyssey". I want to work out a wood monolith m
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by Syzygies 4y ago
Yes. I couldn't even figure out from the reference manual how to generate an input file programmatically. Presumably the saved file format is human readable, and could be reverse-engineered, but documentation would help.
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Yes, sometimes when I've tried to get to sleep on a strong body-high indica cannabis, analysis starts to make much more sense. Branches of mathematics are likely organized by which senses we appropriate.
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> This means that tasks which require working memory can not be performed unconsciously. There's an old chestnut that one can't have thoughts without words. As a visual thinker, I always found this assertion preposterous. How d
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My first reaction glancing at the site was "Bluetooth Rubik's Cube". I could confirm in seconds that such cubes exist, but minutes spent spelunking the site gave no evidence that CubeDesk had even considered this issue. Then
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by Syzygies 5y ago
You might want to reconsider the ++ naming convention. Many people capable of a critical appraisal of C++ wouldn't want an association with C++. The prejudice that your name triggers is that you don't understand what others think
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by Syzygies 5y ago
Yes. I ordered a $5K Mac Studio for parallel Haskell computing, but not the monitor. My favorite monitor is: EIZO FlexScan EV3285 31.5" 16:9 IPS Monitor (Black) https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1450642-R
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I've written extensive programs in Haskell, and yet I also have many Bash scripts. I go back and forth. For the longest time I ignored Perl and just wrote scripts in C. Then I learned Perl, then Python. I prefer Ruby for no better reas
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> Same reason most of us use QWERTY keyboards instead of one the many better layouts available. Many people here are coders, not writers, and the layout for generating human language is irrelevant. With QMK firmware tap-hold, and one fin
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Wow. That takes me back. John Nash independently invented hex in grad school. A sequence of scenes involving hex were cut from the movie "A Beautiful Mind". The first day that Russell Crowe joined the production, he was occupied w
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Tailscale supports remote web browsing because it supports SSH tunnels: https://medium.com/maxkimambo/web-browsing-over-ssh-tunnel-a...
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No, I hadn't tried it. WOW. It just works. Zero hiccups in the transition. No need to look further. I can now toss code for variant SSH config files, I no longer need port forwarding rules on each router, and I no longer need my DynDNS
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Thank you. I live in two places; if Tailscale "just works" I could use it. I came to the comments figuring if there was actually a better product people would say so here.
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Yes! For a two-fer, take a pair of cell phone photos of the open book, compute a 3D model, and flatten it as if the book had been sliced and scanned. Now match up all the letter E's in the entire book for image enhancement. Vectorizati

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