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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
it's 55 pages
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
actually this is exactly what i was talking about i.e. (as far as i understand it) this is essentially a reduction tree. i called it a recursive hardware design because it synthesizes to indeed i was unaware that you recursively call funct
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>what they bring that's so much better how do you generate recursive designs in vhdl? e.g. reduction trees? >preprocessing/templating can't fix so your tool (vhdl/verilog) requires using another tool (perl/tcl
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>In particular, it includes infinities, which do not exist in the physical universe. Bold claim. As far as I know the centers of black holes are indeed non-removable singularities of (some) solutions to GR equations. What's funny is
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
i mean nhmfl isn't a degree granting institution so i think you mean you got your phd at fsu
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
wikipedia used to have this https://i.redd.it/5ibk260ssqa61.png e.g. i understood the other two words in the title no problem. >Ukrainian i'm from moldova and i speak russian and understand ukrainian pretty easily.
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
googled Четиризначни because didn't recognize it as a russian word (it means four digit) and the first hit is that book https://www.book.store.bg/p35401/chetiriznachni-matematiches...
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
i onboarded last summer as an intern and it was pretty miserable. language barrier with my intern manager mediated by zoom/blue jeans/portal plus the famously poorly documented codebase made it damn near impossible to get things d
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
this is a post on a substack that reprints an interview with the same person that runs the substack, who (just) coincidentally has recently published a book. hmmm. this is content marketing. there's a reason that when you publish legit
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>Imagine if all the programming documentation you worked with was at the level of a 1980's first book on BASIC. mathematical maturity is the same as "code sense". when i started writing code a couple of years ago i would g
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
this is such a tired old debate. 1. fundamentals are important even if people forget them. 2. not everyone in tech does web dev. these things are true and self-evident. the end.
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>how CPUs fetch and execute instructions, talk to other perhipherials, how does malloc()_or sin() work, what is a page fault, or how to balance a red-black tree literally every single one of these things is taught in an undergrad class a
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
yea you're right. kudos for explaining it so succinctly.
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
lol i'm a dummy for never realizing that SO(3) isn't homeomorphic (the diffeo part isn't necessary to prove this...) to T^3 (which i naively thought because s in SO(3) seemingly has 3 free parameters). surprise surprise SO(3)
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
i'll leave it to the guy who designed and ran the course to give me an assessment of it over some random that wishfully compiles circumstantial evidence (like how long the courses were taught for).
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
he said it himself literally in the preface to the lectures "The question, of course, is how well this experiment has succeeded. My own point of view—which, however, does not seem to be shared by most of the people who worked with the
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
Ya coming back to this post I saw the other comments. Guilty as charged of not reading the article.
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
This is not a CS problem (unless everything is a CS problem) but a very well known market design problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collusion
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
2 years ago Prof at my old school had a student commit suicide over being pressured to go along with this. You can Google your way to figuring out where and who. Last month Prof finally resigned. No other repercussions. People think academi
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
lol cooley-tukey FFT is anything but simple when you actually have to implement it.
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
I don't remember where I read this (or heard it) but someone said getting rich is easy: either be the best at something or be second best at two things. The phrasing is obviously just a little too neat but the point makes sense to me -
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>no complex two-column format, Two columns is for the reader's benefit - your eyes can keep their place on the page much more easily when jumping half the distance to the beginning of the next line
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>oh THAT sense, why didn't you just say so? i mean if you're not familiar with the real actual academic platonism v formalism debate maybe you shouldn't pontificate on what's better or worse re mathematical exposition
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>Which precise sense? in the sense that "mathematical entities are abstract, have no spatiotemporal or causal properties, and are eternal and unchanging" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathemat
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>How to see past the clutter if you don't know what you're looking for? the picture of the circle isn't clutter - in a very precise sense it is the definition (platonic ideal). the algebraic definition "x^2 = y^2 + z^
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>Nah, it's a measure :) lol tell me you're a physicist without telling me you're a physicist :) >with minimal confusion. i think this the key thing that people that do a little math but not an immense amount don't
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>Looking at some diagrams and videos for certain topics is a lazy and harmful approach to learning god my eyes can't roll farther back in my head. your point would be less absurd if it weren't for the fact that algebraic geomet
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>You'd have to be slightly insane yes and this particular flavor of insanity has a name: pedantry. >the meaning is engraved in dense equations what's hilarious is that middling tier mathematically literate people worship mat
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>Why is there always this pushback against "popsci explanations" in these threads? because underneath all of the rhetoric about entrepreneurialism and "disrupting" thing tech (and by extension HN) is one of the most c
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by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Defense+Clandestine+Service or any of the other capitalized 3 letter agencies

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