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by asdf_snar 6y ago
Hi Peter, Thanks a lot for doing this. My partner is on a cap-exempt H1B (academia) and is a citizen of a European country. She has her work authorization, but the visa in her passport is expired, and to my understanding she needs that to r
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
> For example, not only students but also modern algebro-geometers on the whole do not know about the Jacobi fact mentioned here: an elliptic integral of first kind expresses the time of motion along an elliptic phase curve in the corres
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
I don't understand how the images that are presented on the landing page relate to a browser. Where is the proposed alternative browsing interface? I don't see a URL, nor how to browse multiple websites simultaneously.
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
> The only ones benefiting are the companies that sponsor H1B visas by suppressing wages for everyone. ... and those of us (perhaps sufficiently few) who work on H1B legally, for the visa's purpose (insufficient American expertise).
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
Somewhat of a side-question, but how would one go about about finding jobs where knowing Monte Carlo methods is a primary requirement? It seems most companies want a software developer that knows a bit of this, rather than a statistician&#x
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
> A lot of mathematicians would consider this a very limited view of the subject. Could you provide an example of such a mathematician?
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
I don't see how the article you linked is relevant to the question of whether or not most academic papers are widely read. That being said, the original article is poorly sourced and poorly written.
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
Perhaps one of the most well-known such gems is Milnor's "Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint". https://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2017/MilnorDiff.pdf
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
This person has no idea what they're writing about. Edited because my post was flagged (I'm not sure why). The definition of correlation coefficient is incorrect, which could have been attributed to a typo, except the author goes
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
I was going to post, "that's too bad, there's already an excellent one out there." Yep, this is how I learned regex. In fact, I don't even worry about forgetting regex, since 10 minutes on this and I have most of wh
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
From the abstract, "Circle is a compiler that extends C++17 for new introspection, reflection and compile-time execution. An integrated interpreter allows the developer to execute any function during source translation. Compile-time fl
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by asdf_snar 6y ago
I don't understand how the conversion from FLOPs to dollars is done. A footnote says that "These $ figures come with substantial error bars, but we believe they are in the right ballpark." Where are the estimates themselves c