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   by bollu 6y ago

   How ought one respond? I struggle with responding to challenges outside of offering "problem solving" solutions, or sympathetic noises. What would /actually help/?
2. 122.▲
   by bollu 6y ago

   This is very interesting, is there a textbook for this?
3. 123.▲
   by bollu 6y ago

   Shameless plug: I wrote some high quality (I hope) notes on HMC, because I couldn't find an explanation that was (a) rigorous, (b) explained the different points of view of MCMC, and (c) was visual! Here's the notes: https:/
4. 124.▲
   by bollu 6y ago

   I'm sure it will be called "cyber preparedness", just as biological warfare was dubbed "biopreparat" by the USSR...
5. 125.▲
   by bollu 6y ago

   I agree that the visa application (as an indian student who's had to go through it multiple times for internships/education) is time consuming, expensive, and harrowing. I was stunned to find out that visa applications to the EU o
6. 126.▲
   by bollu 6y ago

   Nice, thank you for the bug report. fixed!
7. 127.▲
   by bollu 6y ago

   I love this description of zmq and sqlite.
8. 128.▲
   by bollu 6y ago

   They're linear coupled PDE s are they not? which allow for a significantly wider range of behaviours that linear ODEs? As far as I understand, there is no 'closed form solution' for the initial value problem of Maxwell&#x27
9. 129.▲
   by bollu 6y ago

   Thank you, Fixed!
10. 130.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    Shameless plug: I wrote some high quality (I hope) notes on HMC, because I couldn't find an explanation that was (a) rigorous, (b) explained the different points of view of MCMC, and (c) was visual ! Here's the notes: https:&#x2
11. 131.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    I would like to know which open source projects are used by synthetic biologists.
12. 132.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    How does this sort of comment help? To be constructive, please: (1) Describe /why/ this is a privileged position, and (2) Describe /why/ this is "blind-sighted". As far as I can tell, the OP is right; It's
13. 133.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    You use sum types / optional<T> / Maybe / Option<T> / whatever your language calls them. Such a value can have two states: 'None', where it calls no value, and 'Some(t)',where it carries a
14. 134.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    What's a good language and textbook / lectures to pickup delimited continuations and how to use them?
15. 135.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    What's a good language and textbook / lectures to pickup delimited continuations and how to use them?
16. 136.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    > measure of your life is how prestigious a college you went to In my experience, the prestige of a college definitely correlates with how rewarding your time at college is going to be.
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    by bollu 6y ago

    The top comments have dissuaded me from reading the book. What book should I read to learn how to process my emotions more effectively? I found the idea of this book interesting because it seems to encourage "precision" in descr
18. 138.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    Does anyone have any insight on why performance on OpenBSD is so much poorer? I'm really curious. I would have predicted the opposite: that OpenBSD is faster on account of its leaner.
19. 139.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    Where can I read more about murder in hunter gatherer societies? That sounds fascinating
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    by bollu 6y ago

    A slightly more concrete version of this is data Predicate a = Predicate (a -> Bool) this naturally has a contravariant functor instance: if you can tell me whether something is true for "a", and you can convert &quo
21. 141.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    While I know precisely what you are saying (have been learning scheme theory this summer), this is hardly an accessible example to pure math undergrads , let alone someone who's attempting to learn some functional programming, with no
22. 142.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    Yes, which is why I phrased all of this as "hypothetical relations ..."
23. 143.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    Grover's search offers quadratic (polynomial) speedup, not exponential. As OP states, adiabatic does not provide for the theoretical possible exponential speedup, assuming the hypothetical relations of complexity classes P != (NP = BQP
24. 144.▲
    by bollu 6y ago

    I want to know if there's nicer solutions to the way in which I solved the problem of pointer-reading-fatigue. I'd love to hear war stories and techniques.
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    Readable Pointers(bollu.github.io)

    9 points by bollu 6y ago|4 comments
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    by bollu 6y ago

    All smooth manifolds can be realised as submanifolds of euclidean space. This is the famous Nash embedding theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_embedding_theorem Hence, it's unclear if the power gained by G
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    by bollu 6y ago

    Thanks, this is nice. I presume this comes from fluids? I found this wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_and_Eulerian_specif... . Is this it?
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    by bollu 6y ago

    Thanks! Are there more Greg Egan books about relativity? And does he spell out the mathematical details somewhere?
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    by bollu 6y ago

    What's q.v? Also, Buchberger is a special case of Knuth-Bendix completion :D
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    by bollu 6y ago

    The article explains this in the first paragraph, does it not? - ... the mockery made of academic standards when, after donating $200,000 to the psychology department, Epstein was appointed as a visiting fellow there despite a complete lack