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by aesthesia 7y ago
Even and odd functions don't form a partition of the space of all functions, but they do span it as a vector space. What's more, the vector space of functions is the direct sum of the even and odd functions: every function has a u
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by aesthesia 7y ago
Ipe is great, although it is a little idiosyncratic. I haven’t found anything better for making structured diagrams.
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by aesthesia 7y ago
The problem I have with whiteboards, and especially porcelain ones, is that they are too slippery. Writing on a chalkboard offers a certain amount of resistance and texture that just feels better than on a whiteboard. This is also something
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by aesthesia 7y ago
The barriers (at least in the US) to university study are seldom admission. There already exist many accredited institutions that admit essentially all applicants with a high school degree or equivalent. The things that stop people who woul
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by aesthesia 8y ago
This reminded me of the great little paper "Homophonic Quotients of Free Groups" ( https://eudml.org/doc/233741 ), which might also be considered an algebraic theory of French (and English) letters.
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by aesthesia 8y ago
A college student in the 1960s with no computer experience or access started such a service: https://slate.com/technology/2014/03/before-okcupid-and-matc...
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by aesthesia 8y ago
Too-low corporate tax rates can't be a reason for this. Until the 2017 tax changes, the US corporate tax rates were (depending on who you asked) either on par with or significantly greater than those of comparable countries. So we can&
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by aesthesia 8y ago
I've found the opposite--the academic sources cited on many Wikipedia pages (in math and adjacent areas) are seldom comprehensive and often insufficient for the topic. Literature reviews in decent papers, on the other hand, usually clu
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by aesthesia 8y ago
Desktop sales were already declining 7 years ago. A lot of people just don't care to have a desktop PC any more, and when their old computers finally break or stop working, will replace them with laptops or tablets, which can't do
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by aesthesia 8y ago
I've seen reported that it takes about 200 hours of unstructured time together to become "good friends" with someone. Outside of high school and college, I'm not sure where you get that amount of consistent open-ended ti
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by aesthesia 8y ago
This post is great. It collates a bunch of half-formed thoughts I've had about organization and putting things away. I've noticed that when I move, I try to put things in places that are somehow analogous to where they were before
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by aesthesia 8y ago
This is very NYC-centric. A big part of the value of Uber/Lyft is that they provide a similar service in many places where it simply wasn't available before. The automation and deprofessionalization played a big role in making tha