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by antiform 18y ago
This was discussed in this thread, but this tends to be more of a trait of immigrant parents rather than Asian parents. I grew up in places like New York and California which was full of first-generation immigrants (mostly Asian and Middle
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by antiform 18y ago
This is certainly an interesting approach, but does anybody have any firsthand experience with learning a technical discipline from primary historical sources? While I do enjoy reading the original papers for many mathematical ideas, it see
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by antiform 18y ago
In the book The Heart of Mathematics by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird, there is a quotation of a translated passage from Proclus, a 5th-century AD philosopher: "It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrati
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Chronological Index of Paul Erdos's papers(math-inst.hu)
3 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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The Physics Guide to Hooking Up (Brownian random walks vs. Lévy flights)(physicsofsex.blogspot.com)
1 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
I don't think I've ever seen an actual technical paper on the front page of Hacker News. I remember trying to post some of my favorites when I first came to HN, but people rarely responded to or upvoted them. Also, it's a lot more work to r
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by antiform 18y ago
Security updates like this are somewhat frustrating (disclaimer: I am a fan of full disclosure, at least after the exploit is patched). If it is able to somehow glean your Twitter password from you clicking on the link, that is a serious se
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The Mathematical Grue(mark.reid.name)
7 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
Amazon S3 is actually relatively expensive. It's far cheaper in the long run to host it on your own server. However, if you don't have experience setting up scalable systems, tuning your configuration, or do not want to spend time doing tha
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by antiform 18y ago
Thanks. Now I think I understand. I guess it would be the difference between, say, a session musician or your average member in an orchestra versus a rock band trying to make it big. However, if you focus on how you get paid rather than t
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by antiform 18y ago
First, it's Grigori (Григорий) or "Grisha" for short. Secondly, there's quite a few mathematicians that have that look. I remember a funny story one of my professors told me about Campus Security not allowing him into a building because the
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by antiform 18y ago
No way. It's not just a matter of people liking to listen to both Kanye West and Sufjan Stevens. I do like people listening to different types of music, but I don't think this is something that you can just attribute to "trendinesses" of po
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by antiform 18y ago
I think there's a difference between hip-hop music and rock music, though. It's less important for hip-hop to have the dynamic range because the majority of its emotional expressiveness comes from the words, rhythm, the way they interact an
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by antiform 18y ago
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. Rock bands are scalable careers. They don't get paid a wage, and the income between the top performers and the mass of wannabes is huge. Being physically present is not a necessary nor sufficient condit
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by antiform 18y ago
Somehow, I don't think that most of the consumers of music products are in their early teens. Electric guitars, amps, and guitar pedals are expensive, and I doubt most teens have that kind of disposable income. I went to high school in a pr
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by antiform 18y ago
Some schools already do something like this. For instance, I know that Brown does not have pluses or minuses, and they only have grades of A, B, C, and NC (no credit). Furthermore, the NC grades do not appear on official transcripts. On top
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by antiform 18y ago
On top of that, you don't even an ocean to measure the Earth's circumference. Eratosthenes of Cyrene (born in the 3rd century BC) calculated the circumference of the earth fairly accurately using the angle of elevation of the Sun measured f
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by antiform 18y ago
I don't understand why there's so much hate for Microsoft. There's much more to Microsoft than just Windows, Office, and Live Search. For one, I'm impressed by some of the stuff coming out of Microsoft Research that was shown at Techfest 20
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by antiform 18y ago
Perhaps somebody would have discovered hyperbolic or other non-Euclidean geometries before Lobachevsky? Through the lens of modern mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry seems like such a simple extension/modification of Euclidean geometry, ye
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by antiform 18y ago
To most mathematicians, valuing intuition is not a new idea. While one of the most distinguishing qualities of mathematics is its rigor, to focus on this quality misses the big picture. Henri Poincare, arguably the greatest 20th century mat
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How To Encourage Women in Linux(tldp.org)
4 points by antiform 18y ago|9 comments
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Why Computer Science Undergrads Should Work for Start-Ups(stanford.edu)
4 points by antiform 18y ago|4 comments
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How We Kill Geniuses(blog.wired.com)
45 points by antiform 18y ago|58 comments
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Autonomous Game Controllers: Playing Katamari with a Random Path Algorithm(nearfuturelaboratory.com)
1 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
My pet theory is that playing a musical instrument is less common a hobby among programmers now than it was a generation ago, because now programming tends to be associated with "Computer Science" as its own discipline, rather than a subdis
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A Case for Inspirational Leadership(roshanthomas.blogspot.com)
1 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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Dirty Secrets of College Admissions(thedailybeast.com)
22 points by antiform 18y ago|15 comments
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What Defines the Ruby Community?(storytotell.org)
1 points by antiform 18y ago|2 comments
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Novel Approaches to Sequences of Learning(johnwlewis.wordpress.com)
1 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
Actually, the Mandarin shi can also used for predication with the "noun shi adjective de " grammar pattern. For instance, you could say " ta shi hen gao de ," for "he is very tall." This is grammatically correct, but then the sentence

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