antioedipus

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by antioedipus 3y ago
You (or others) may like Struik’s A Concise History of Mathematics [1]. It’s also quite easy to read cover-to-cover. My other favorite, Stillwell’s Mathematics and Its History , is excellent as well. In my opinion, Stillwell’s book is be
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by antioedipus 3y ago
First of all, many rolling release distros don’t follow upstream as fast as possible—there’s often some testing window. People go on and on about backported security patches and stability, but I’ve had to handle so many buggy patches or iss
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by antioedipus 3y ago
For something with “math” in the title, this article sure has a lot of basic statistical mistakes (like, things you learn not to do in an intro course).
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Tripping Balls at the Largest Weapons Trade Show in North America(thehuntfortomclancy.substack.com)
2 points by antioedipus 4y ago|1 comments
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by antioedipus 4y ago
* You can think of it as a factor graph with linear residuals and Gaussian noise functions in factors that connect a chain of variables, with all but the most recent variable marginalized. It’s a well known fact that linear, Gaussian facto
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by antioedipus 4y ago
Also, why run all of Microsoft’s spyware and deal with their forced updates just so you can get through to a slightly slower and less compatible version of Linux.
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by antioedipus 5y ago
This website never fails to amuse me… What is the intention of this comment? That Debord is “far right” or a reactionary? That people who read him are? That it’s interesting that a Marxist philosopher is read by reactionaries?
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by antioedipus 5y ago
I am about the age of the people this article is talking about. This is laughably out of touch. Take a look at the right communities on TikTok or Instagram or Discord (they’re not small) with people aged around 13-20 and you’ll see that Mar
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by antioedipus 5y ago
I’m not even sure where to start with this because it’s such a vulgar misreading of Hegel… Hegel generally rejected the “thesis, antithesis, synthesis” triad (which mostly comes from Fichte.) Dialectics, and his overall system of immanent c
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The Illustrated Guide to a PhD(matt.might.net)
40 points by antioedipus 6y ago|13 comments
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by antioedipus 7y ago
The open-source Mattermost intentionally lacks a couple of pieces of basic functionality to push you to pay, like the ability to stop regular users from deleting channels, and no way to set a reasonable password policy that requires more
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by antioedipus 7y ago
This language is compiled, not interpreted. Because of this, runtime performance is not limited by Go’s performance characteristics. This language can claim to be very close to C/C++ in terms of runtime performance characteristics be