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by TriinT 17y ago
Quoting Richard Feynman: "From a very long view of the history of mankind - seen from, say, ten thousand years from now - there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery o
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by TriinT 17y ago
And that is why Wired seems to have become Gawker or Valleywag. There used to be some good journalism on Wired in the 1990s. Now it's a geek version of Vanity Fair...
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2009 UCSD Data Mining Contest (mill.ucsd.edu)
27 points by TriinT 17y ago|8 comments
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Hackers: makers, doers... and painters ;-)
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A futures hedge fund in 18th century Japan(hedgefund.blogspot.com)
2 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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You male chauvinist pig!! Uncle Sam's Misguided Children also recruits women, ya know? ;-)
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by TriinT 17y ago
You might enjoy reading this interview: http://www.ams.org/notices/199704/arnold.pdf
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by TriinT 17y ago
Thanks for the wonderful URL. Yes, I am a "school child" indeed, albeit a bit older (i.e., I am a grad student ;-)
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I keep thinking of how V.I. Arnold managed to teach group theory to Moscow schoolchildren in the 1960s. I also wonder why Landau & Lipschitz are such wonderful books. There's something special in the Russian way of teaching Math / Physi
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by TriinT 17y ago
Of course Math serves many fields, but have you ever found a research paper that applied Math to, say, Biology and didn't use a bit too much hand-waving? Of all fields of application of mathematical ideas, Physics has been (by far) the most
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by TriinT 17y ago
Arnold's article is highly satirical. If I wrote such an article, it would be, indeed, utterly ridiculous. Arnold is such a great mathematician that he has earned the right to poke fun at his own field. His books on differential equations a
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V.I. Arnold: On teaching mathematics(pauli.uni-muenster.de)
32 points by TriinT 17y ago|19 comments
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There's a lot of herd phenomena on HN. Humans are social animals, and animals are dumb by nature.
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Ferraris? Mansions? James Bond? Gold-diggers? Is this HN?!?
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Well, everything you learn in a 4-year humanities degree, you can learn in your free time when you're in high-school. English? History? That's not Quantum Field Theory. You don't need 10 years of training to learn humanities. Just grab a bu
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Funny that people upvoted your comment even though it made little sense ;-) Now it makes sense.
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by TriinT 17y ago
That's quite true. I try not to fall under the spell of the selectivity bias. I know a bunch of math grad students who competed in the IMO and the Putnam, and I know another (smaller) bunch of math grad students who despize math competition
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by TriinT 17y ago
I agree with everything you wrote. However, it seems to me that AoPS is populated with math enthusiasts, while HN is populated with hackers. AoPS is indeed mostly about math competitions, and yes, math competitions have little to do with re
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by TriinT 17y ago
"I'm a non-CS major and am much unlike many of you mathematical whiz kids who make up this board" Are there any math whiz kids on HN? (other than cperciva) There are many smart people on HN, but I don't think there are math whiz kids. Thi
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by TriinT 17y ago
"I do not think that is what "derivative" means, leastwise in common economic parlance." Last time I checked, put options were considered derivatives. After all, a put option is basically a contract whose value is derived from the price o
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That's an intelligent comment. "Some derivatives might help brick-and-mortar production happen but a look at the details of the financial crisis will reveal that the majority of derivative investments have involved a casino-like approach t
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by TriinT 17y ago
Have you read the text? Is there any politics in there? Even the most die-hard Ayn Rand fanboy should laugh at it. It's hilarious. Of course satire and politics are NOT mutually exclusive. To keep you happy, Rod should have written "it's sa
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by TriinT 17y ago
I agree. I would like to say that I honestly believe that the way the masses perceive the markets is completely and deeply flawed. For instance, if you build a new super high-tech cruise ship which ends up sinking during its inaugural voyag
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There's a difference between someone who becomes rich by making things and someone who does it with "derivatives". One creates wealth. One just "makes money". I respectfully disagree. Bashing derivatives used to be a fad. Now it's the nor
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The shape of Planet Earth(josleys.com)
12 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
Depends on what kind of kayak you have. My kayak would easily capsize so I would only take it to the ocean when it was flat. On non-flat days, it was also fun as one could try some harmless kayak-surfing and get wiped out countless times. F
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by TriinT 17y ago
My comment was tongue-in-cheek. Though spear-fishing is doubtlessly a great way of impressing the ladies, it requires a lot of technique and it can be lethal. If you live by the coast and the waves aren't too mean, something cool is kayak-f
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by TriinT 17y ago
If you live by the coast, you can try spear-fishing and you kill two birds with one stone: you exercise and you eat healthy food ;-)
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"Understanding" the whole world is a quixotic quest. However, it's possible to understand a bit of the places you visit by meeting the locals and letting them show you their way of life. It may sound like baloney, but I have experienced tha
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by TriinT 17y ago
Without meeting locals, you may see the world, but you will never understand it. You don't have to befriend everyone. Meeting people is different from being friends with them.

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