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by dmch-1 5y ago
Thanks to this I know that there is exactly 1 way of positioning 0 queens on 0x0 chessboard without any two of them attacking each other.
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Geronimo the alpaca killed as legal row ends(bbc.co.uk)
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by dmch-1 5y ago
Not specifically in pure maths, but agree I also found that a math PhD is good to have for jobs in AI, finance etc. But an equivalent industry experience might be worth the same at least.
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by dmch-1 5y ago
There is Artin's approach, and then there is a more abstract approach by Grothendieck relating to the fundamental group of algebraic topology. In the movie Beautiful mind there is a scene, where a student tells John Nash that he can pr
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by dmch-1 5y ago
Very true. When I was doing PhD in pure maths I had random people explain to me that a PhD would not necessarily give me an advantage in the job market. Like I would come to do a PhD without figuring that out.
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Chimpanzees have been spotted attacking and killing gorillas in the wild(edition.cnn.com)
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List of Countries by Number of Births(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dmch-1 6y ago
Samuel Eilenberg, one of the founders of category theory, used to tell to his students "You should have you own category". Meaning, that when you work on category theory you should have in mind applications to something. One of hi
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Thoughts from a Hipster Coffee Shop(alphanewsmn.com)
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by dmch-1 6y ago
To what extent can you get into category theory or homotopy type theory without learning some algebra or algebraic geometry/topology?
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by dmch-1 6y ago
Perhaps being recorded was a big deal back then. So they made more effort. Today it is common to have ones speech recorded, even for mass media.
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by dmch-1 6y ago
It's a joke man, why downvoting? :)
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by dmch-1 6y ago
To be honest, the most disadvantaged are the native English speakers. Nobody understands them.
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Singapore approves lab-grown 'chicken' meat(bbc.co.uk)
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by dmch-1 6y ago
The idea that people with darker personalities will succeed may also be a perception bias. According to this article we are talking about 20% of people with some degree of "dark traits". Of course a group this large will intersect
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by dmch-1 6y ago
It is not true that traits that are not advantageous are unlikely to be maintained over many generations. For example, many genetic diseases have survived for many generations. This may happen because, for example, they correlate with some
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by dmch-1 6y ago
How do psychologists measure personality traits to classify people in these kinds of categories (dark/light)?
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Which reads faster, Chinese or English?(persquaremile.com)
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by dmch-1 6y ago
Incidentally we still have "Silk Road" today. In its modern usage it refers particularly to some oil and gas pipelines running from the east to the west. In the latest news on the Silk Road, Azerbaijan, after its victorious war ov
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by dmch-1 6y ago
Did some googling, and came across this article about this Basque Pidgin https://core.ac.uk/reader/230764570 . It contains many interesting facts. Including the passage: "Certain surprising similarities among pidgi
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by dmch-1 6y ago
Yes, yet we humans do it all right.
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by dmch-1 6y ago
Some time ago I needed ball video tracking for a demo at work. I failed to find any out of the box solution which worked satisfactorily. It was way easier to find solutions for seemingly more complex tasks of people tracking or human pose e
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by dmch-1 6y ago
I saw a couple of comments complaining about making people into data points, and that this is dehumanising. But I do not see this. Growth of data based technologies and information surely create risks to privacy, which is another story. How
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by dmch-1 6y ago
This is perhaps more about economic competition than data safety. China has been doing this for a long time. USA is also taking the same approach recently.
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by dmch-1 6y ago
This article reminded me of when I was in academia some people used to take notes of talks with Latex, including typesetting diagrams. It was quite impressive. I tried it myself I think, but I can't remember to what results.
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The World’s Population in 1900 Looked Different Than Today(brilliantmaps.com)
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by dmch-1 6y ago
There has been a strong movement to more unity in Europe. But, this has not been accompanied by democratisation. To stay competitive Europe needs unity in the political process, defense and border security for example, and not in regulation
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by dmch-1 6y ago
You are asking for an advice, but it is not clear what is bothering you. You think that you are a terrible developer. What is the problem you have with this? Do you think this impedes you in your career? Do you feel bad about not being good
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by dmch-1 6y ago
This types of predictions disregard human factors. Many occupations are inherently human. Digital audio is no worse than human voice, however people still go to live concerts. Computers play chess better than humans, but there are still hum
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by dmch-1 6y ago
This is pretty much Murphy's Law in action. Murky business dealings, poor governance and mismanagement is a norm in big parts of the world. Then from time to time things go wrong, and that is just statistics.

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