boyobo

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by boyobo 6y ago
A quick google shows that the OP is indeed in academia.
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by boyobo 6y ago
Maybe things were different back when OP took calc but I’d bet any standard calculus textbook used for instruction in the past 20 years mentions this many times.
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by boyobo 6y ago
Most academic jobs are crap precisely because they are not tenured faculty positions at good universities.
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by boyobo 6y ago
I already agreed that the op was hinting at an important problem. The link is weak because the op put hardly any effort into explaining the (possible) connection to these two particular undergraduates and their work. I am not claiming that
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by boyobo 6y ago
This particular comment was probably downvoted because he basically just took the hottest buzzword of the last decade and inserted it with a very weak link to the topic at hand. You could copy and paste this comment to any article about any
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by boyobo 6y ago
Why did you pick out that quote if it misrepresents the linked article?
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by boyobo 6y ago
I don't know about the first quote, but the second quote is not saying that the study of philosophy is useless. Just that it's useless for science.
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by boyobo 6y ago
https://payup.wtf/blog/doordash-tip-theft "That’s right — the more you tip in-app on DoorDash, the less DoorDash pays the worker."
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by boyobo 6y ago
> What percentage of coders do programming on a turing tape? Is this partial evidence that turing tapes are trash? Does that question even make sense? Yes it is. Turing machine models are very limited, and a programme to let us achieve
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by boyobo 6y ago
> No one "does mathematics" in ZFC. How is this not partial evidence that ZFC is trash? What percentage of coders do programming on a turing tape? Is this partial evidence that turing tapes are trash? Does that question even ma
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by boyobo 6y ago
Now I'm not sure what your point is. Are you suggesting that HoTT is to python as ZFC is to turing machine tape?
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by boyobo 6y ago
That's a flawed analogy. Mathematicians do use 'higher level languages', that's precisely why most of them don't care about HoTT vs set theory. Just like a web dev usually does not care about the instruction set of
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by boyobo 6y ago
You don't need anything like HoTT to start using multi-letter variable names. E.g. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geome...
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by boyobo 6y ago
Do you understand the concept of correlation? "Usain bolt won the olypmic gold medal many times (n=8). If winning the gold medal was so rare, what are the odds that people like Usain Bolt exist?"
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by boyobo 6y ago
It's certainly different from what seems like the standard usage in the past few years, but I woudn't say it's a misuse. Here's is google's dictionary definition "a special right, advantage, or immunity granted
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by boyobo 6y ago
> However, if it was such a rare thing, what are the odds that someone like me would exist? Someone wins the lottery every week. What are the odds of winning the lottery? Is playing the lottery a good strategy to make money?
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by boyobo 6y ago
I think people are using the word in different ways. The person you are responding to is using it as a description of the current state.
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by boyobo 6y ago
https://ibb.co/BGj5nDn Consider the following graph. The nth fibonnaci number is the number of possible walks from n to 1. (I made a mistake in the picture, there should be an edge from 2 to 1).
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by boyobo 6y ago
Thank you!
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by boyobo 6y ago
Does anyone know of a program for mac which allows you to type using Vim input? Of course it's probably too hard to make it compatible with all the different types of text boxes, so I'm envisioning a shortcut that you can press, w
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by boyobo 6y ago
Any name given to object is necessarily going to be an incomplete description of said object. It's a tradeoff between the length of the description and the precision of the description. If you want to know what the object does you can
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by boyobo 6y ago
Why call it 'natural selection' then. That's just 'selection'.
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by boyobo 6y ago
But are those the only 6?
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by boyobo 6y ago
Great article. Can energy be explained in a similarly simple fashion? I'm pretty comfortable with probability theory so this entroppy explaination makes sense, but I still don't understand what energy is. Also, who determines what
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by boyobo 6y ago
Here is a nice, short proof, utilizing the conceptual framework of "Computation". https://www.scottaaronson.com/incompleteness.pdf See chapter 3.
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by boyobo 6y ago
I mean, maybe they need to exponentiate the bound or something. e.g. 2^(4n) is much much much worse than 2^n. The sentence did strike me a little wierd though.
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by boyobo 6y ago
What are you aiming for instead of Amazon? (I am an outsider to the industry and I am curious).
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by boyobo 7y ago
I wonder why you decided to contrast programming and programming languages with mathematics. Your second sentence makes perfect sense if you replace programming with math.
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by boyobo 7y ago
You can say the exact same thing about mathematics.
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by boyobo 7y ago
Not really sure what your argument is. But it’s wrong, because n=4 is a counterexample. The factors are 1,2 and 4. This is an odd number of factors. Edit: it seems you are talking about 'The number of factors in the prime factorization

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