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by benrbray 6y ago
Looks very promising, thanks! I'm surprised I've never come across Zettlr before in all my research about editors. The features page and docs really are a testament to potential of OSS.
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by benrbray 6y ago
This looks great! Good timing too, since Roam has recently closed its doors to new signups. I've been looking for a new notetaking / PKM / Markdown app recently, but unfortunately all apps out there fall short in at least o
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by benrbray 6y ago
Great! I would love to see more classic games in the browser. The controls really throw me off though--do enough people really prefer inverted vertical controls for it to be the default in so many games? UP to go down, DOWN to go up?
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by benrbray 6y ago
For one, I can ask my coworkers to keep the noise down and they will politely oblige. Offices have pros and cons. My stance is that the pros outweigh the cons enough that we shouldn't eliminate offices entirely. I can be, and am, pro
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by benrbray 6y ago
It's not middle management that benefits the most from in-person work. It's new hires and new grads (like me) who are just starting their careers and benefit a lot from knowledge gained passively in the workplace. And--wouldn&#x2
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by benrbray 6y ago
Yes, if only.
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One big issue is that more experienced employees will be the ones to choose work-from-home as their default, while the newer employees seeking to learn the ropes will opt to come to the office. Perhaps a solution is to somehow formalize som
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by benrbray 6y ago
(I posted this in another thread, but it's also relevant here) As a new grad, I'm terrified of a transition where WFH is the default. I recognize that I still have a lot to learn, and that I can't do it all on my own. Casual
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by benrbray 6y ago
The following both have very well-thought out exercises that guide the reader through discovering the topic mostly on their own: > Pinter, "Abstract Algebra" > Tao, "Introduction to Measure Theory" (and "Epsi
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by benrbray 6y ago
I don't think blogs are dead, just hidden from view. That's why I obsessively bookmark blogs when I see them posted to HN or Reddit, since I know I'll never be able to find them again if I lose the link.
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by benrbray 6y ago
Tabs Outliner: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
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by benrbray 6y ago
Wrong! I have a very sophisticated system for managing my tabs. I'm very breadth-first when browsing the web and I also switch contexts a lot. Tabs are like a big Todo list for me. For a while, I would get really frustrated when chr
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by benrbray 6y ago
How productive one can be working from home also depends on the type of job and level of experience. As a new grad (hoping that my job offer survives covid), I'm terrified of a transition where WFH is the default. I recognize that I s
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by benrbray 6y ago
> The main characteristic of the language of mathematics is perhaps that different members of the community can completely agree about the meaning of each word and sentence. Haha, this got a laugh out of me :). While this is true in pri
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by benrbray 6y ago
Yes, using less energy is better, dirty or not. Reducing our dependency on cars also has many other benefits: fewer traffic accidents; reduced parking requirements means more space for people in cities; less sound pollution, which is bett
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by benrbray 6y ago
They're vocal because social media encourages them to be. They tweet out their crazy views and by dinnertime it's all over CNN and millions of people are suddenly listening to them.
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by benrbray 6y ago
Hence the "maybe". He clearly missed his chance.
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by benrbray 6y ago
I've had the same thought and it sickens me that we've come to this point. As someone who has made the transition from teenager to young adult during the Trump era, I feel like I've lost a game I never even had the chance to
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by benrbray 6y ago
I'm not a CMU student, but keep my eyes peeled for new research / resources published by Keenan Crane [1]. He has a knack for making advanced topics very accessible. Notably, this semester's DDG course has recently finished,
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“Discrete Differential Geometry” Course by Keenan Crane at CMU(brickisland.net)
2 points by benrbray 6y ago|1 comments
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by benrbray 7y ago
I should clarify: I don't mean cooking mistakes! I really like when e.g. Binging with Babish admits he accidentally forgot the salt. I mean mistakes where he drops something, forgets to plug in his stand mixer, fumbles with his words
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by benrbray 7y ago
I feel the same way about Joshua Weissman. He has fantastic recipes but I could really do without all the weird faces and the mistakes that he should've just edited out.
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by benrbray 7y ago
Just like you say, I've also recently found it much harder to google for survey articles too. I know they do exist somewhere, but I can't seem to find the magic words I need to enter into the search bar! We seem to be returning
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by benrbray 7y ago
Seems to be the case here. Regardless of the author's educational background, kudos to them for continuing to dive deeper into the math. After a math degree and three years of graduate school, I still run into blind spots almost ever
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by benrbray 7y ago
The author of this post has rediscovered some fundamental ideas in optimization just by tinkering around! Neat! > The objective function for linear regression is quadratic (and convex). This explains why Newton's method finds the
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by benrbray 7y ago
Sounds like a problem that should be fixed by setting the tax value equal to market value.
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by benrbray 7y ago
Here's a (work-in-progress?) monograph about the mathematics of tensegrities! Neat application of representation theory outside the standard examples from chemistry! Connelly & Guest 2015, "Frameworks, Tensegrities, and Symme
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by benrbray 7y ago
I've linked to a specific post, but if you have the time and the interest, the entire 325-reply newgroup discussion is quite fascinating. I stumbled across this after seeing it linked in a MathOverflow question. It also seems to serv
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Eric, Baez, and the Wizard (Re: Densitized Pseudo Twisted Forms) (2001)(groups.google.com)
1 points by benrbray 7y ago|1 comments
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by benrbray 7y ago
In my limited experience, I've found that D3 excels interactive graphs / data visualizations. However, when I've tried to use it for interactive math diagrams, I've found that it doesn't save me much effort. I fou

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