butterthebuddha

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   Million Magnet Simulation: Mathematica vs. Python vs. OpenGL(youtube.com)

   4 points by butterthebuddha 5y ago|0 comments
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   by butterthebuddha 6y ago

   Do you mind posting brief notes indicating how far the reading group has progressed after each meeting? Thanks for taking the initiative to host this.
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   by butterthebuddha 6y ago

   For PhD students, the masters is integrated into the 5 years they spend doing their PhD. They are expected to take courses as a "pre-candidate" and do primarily research after they pass their qualifying exams and become candidates
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   by butterthebuddha 6y ago

   Most Diophantine equations. Someone has already mentioned FLT above. Problems of this sort is almost one of the defining characteristics of number theory.
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   You can take the derivative of a regular expression?(jvns.ca)

   3 points by butterthebuddha 6y ago|0 comments
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   by butterthebuddha 6y ago

   See https://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/buffer-cache.html .
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   by butterthebuddha 6y ago

   When people talk about different language, they mean more than just notation. For example, I can write "2 | 4" as "4 = 0 in Z/2Z". There is more than just a notational difference here. A more non-trivial example: Sa
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   by butterthebuddha 6y ago

   Concepts and ranges are pretty big too.
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   The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users [pdf](microsoft.com)

   2 points by butterthebuddha 6y ago|0 comments
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    by butterthebuddha 6y ago

    An argument for a smaller keyboard (and this is definitely a personal thing) is that I try my hardest to avoid using keys that are more than one key away from a finger in its resting position anyway (why---I really don't like having to
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    by butterthebuddha 6y ago

    > Rot mathematics is where it goes wrong. Not sure what you mean by "rot mathematics". > Meta mathematics, abstract, detached from real life, as alot of the academy with its publish pr perish thinking ... that produces pain.
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    by butterthebuddha 6y ago

    TAOCP?
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    by butterthebuddha 6y ago

    This isn't true. Most mathematics published in journals is new.
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    by butterthebuddha 6y ago

    Things are not so cut and dry. Rent in the college town my university is located in is high and people have to sign year-long leases the year before they actually occupy the apartment due to high demand. Forcing students to travel home plac
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    Breqn – Automatic line breaking of displayed equations (LaTeX)(ctan.org)

    2 points by butterthebuddha 6y ago|0 comments
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    On the Cruelty of Teaching Computer Science (Dijkstra) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)

    5 points by butterthebuddha 7y ago|1 comments
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    by butterthebuddha 7y ago

    Most people are here to have discussions, and not necessarily read news.
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    Uninterruptible Sleep(eklitzke.org)

    2 points by butterthebuddha 7y ago|0 comments
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    by butterthebuddha 7y ago

    I would love an expert's thoughts on whether something like MathJax/KaTeX can take advantage of WebAssembly for faster rendering. Seems like a perfect use case to me.
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    by butterthebuddha 7y ago

    Seems like you're thinking of Intel Management Engine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine )? From what I understand, IME and SGX are separate technologies.
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    HDLBits – Verilog Practice(hdlbits.01xz.net)

    3 points by butterthebuddha 7y ago|0 comments
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    by butterthebuddha 7y ago

    I would like to invite you to share your setup.
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    University of Michigan cancels in-person classes and all large events on campus(publicaffairs.vpcomm.umich.edu)

    3 points by butterthebuddha 7y ago|0 comments
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    bass: Make Bash utilities usable in Fish shell(github.com)

    2 points by butterthebuddha 7y ago|0 comments
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    by butterthebuddha 7y ago

    > If you have trust fund, career in politics, academia or high profile law and financial firms is much easier. I'm having trouble parsing that
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    Archiving Web Sites (2018)(lwn.net)

    112 points by butterthebuddha 7y ago|11 comments
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    by butterthebuddha 7y ago

    > sounds like an interesting weekend project. Aren't we just in luck that the weekend is just coming up! > Would you be interested in using WARC for the webpage though? This way, everything is captured in a single file and you a
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    by butterthebuddha 7y ago

    What I really want is a script that (1) Takes a URL and optional comment as input (2) Saves the webpage it points to into a git repo (a simple curl should suffice for most websites) (3) Inserts that URL, title of the page pointed-to by the
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    Off-the-Record Communication, Or, Why Not to Use PGP [pdf](cypherpunks.ca)

    2 points by butterthebuddha 7y ago|0 comments
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    Censored Planet: A Global Censorship Observatory(media.ccc.de)

    2 points by butterthebuddha 7y ago|0 comments