banach2

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by banach2 9y ago
My experience is that you will find many cs and math people among car enthusiasts (At my university almost everyone involved in motorsport is math/science/eng.) From the other side, you will find a smaller proportion due to the wi
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by banach2 9y ago
Yeah, I just opened HN to waste a few seconds and saw this on the front page and my jaw literally dropped. If all my money was invested here I couldn't imagine what I would be thinking. This currency could probably make me bipolar all
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by banach2 10y ago
I haven't tried, but I'm sure they would be quick to address a correction. Unfortunately I don't think the typical car buyer should be smacked with the choice between poor data and the opportunity of volunteering for the upke
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by banach2 10y ago
You're right, however, CarPlay is already a very recent development. Bluetooth seems like quite a major omission, especially when you consider that it has been an established technology in cars since at least the turn of the millennium
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by banach2 10y ago
I know this isn't what you meant by car, but I want to take this opportunity to mention that my least favourite thing about my car is the Apple software which runs on it; Apple CarPlay. I live in London. Apple maps is a disaster. Busin
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by banach2 10y ago
Okay, this is a little late but when you say 10X = 9.999... then X = 0.999... not because you have removed the 9 but because that's what X is; a tenth of 10X! So when you say in your argument 10X = 9.9 and therefore 10X - X = 9.9 - 0.9
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by banach2 10y ago
What? Why -0.9?
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by banach2 10y ago
You're right, but that doesn't include licencing. There's no guarantee that Google won't retain any of your data. Additionally, there aren't many online services which you can just expect to work after handing them
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by banach2 10y ago
I love this idea. Imagine you have a bunch of emails and a bunch of contacts that you'd like to preserve. You're using Gmail and for some reason they've put a bad taste in your mouth. If Gmail were built upon these open found
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by banach2 10y ago
More than just for fun. In a global society so encapsulated by money people are always going to tend toward the path of least resistance to maximise that goal. In many cases, despite the moral factors, risk, etc; this is going to be crime.
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by banach2 10y ago
OpenBSD in a nutshell.
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by banach2 10y ago
With the amount of easily consumable and manipulative propaganda going around it's quite easy to make a misguided vote without realising the implications. It's not like voting to leave takes much effort.
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by banach2 10y ago
Whenever you boil a kettle you're breaking the same hydrogen bonds which provide the water its surface tension.
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by banach2 10y ago
BT declared that they would install fibre to my street in London five years ago. That didn't happen.
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by banach2 10y ago
As long as you're careful, you can treat infinity as a number. It lacks some nice properties but can allow you to clean up a lot of statements. For instance if you want to define a measure on some sigma algebra, it's useful to be
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by banach2 10y ago
That did not cheer me up at all. Life's too short when you turn it into an empty rectangle.
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by banach2 10y ago
As a mathematician trying to enter the world of software engineering I think this would be a useful resource!
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by banach2 11y ago
Not sure about this. I drove through Europe last year, including through several cities in Germany and encountered a lot of unrestricted autobahns. There are some areas where they gradually decrease the speed limit (often for roadworks) but