catgary

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by catgary 5y ago
I don’t know - did every Soviet mathematician buy into their propaganda?
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by catgary 5y ago
Your heart just breaks for those kids competing in the IMO. Their peers from other nations are going to go to college, maybe stick with math but they have a million opportunities ahead of them to use their talents. Meanwhile these kids are
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by catgary 5y ago
Do they actually have people who are experienced with type theory working on the type system, or is it the same core team?
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by catgary 5y ago
I'm a bit shocked that the IRB gave an exemption letter - are they hoping that the kernel maintainers won't take the (very reasonable) step towards legal action?
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by catgary 5y ago
Yeah I still remember that time a mentally ill young man got their hands on encryption and senselessly murdered 50 people.
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by catgary 6y ago
Slander is a crime.
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by catgary 6y ago
Look at the comments: > The paper is amazingly bad. None of the authors are mathematicians as far as I can see. I think the word “new” appears 50+ times in the paper. Looks like they updated the paper to include your observation from las
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by catgary 6y ago
I don’t know, I think one of the kindest things an older generation does is die off and let the younger generations take the reigns.
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by catgary 6y ago
- ... 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 of appropriate academic qualifications. Can we take a moment,
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by catgary 6y ago
That’s standard - credit card companies have similar agreements with merchants.
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by catgary 6y ago
Aren't TV pilots individual episodes?
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by catgary 6y ago
Many tropes in fiction can be boiled down to weird/unnatural social networks. I’m not convinced it’s a bad paper, in fact I’m worried the author of this post is being unfair to what seems like a pretty harmless/fun digital humanit
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by catgary 6y ago
I’m not even sure the paper he starts off criticizing is that problematic - it sounds like it’s basically a quantitative study of various tropes in fiction and comparing it to real data.