dragon96

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by dragon96 6y ago
Since so many CS professors make their course materials available for free, you should take advantage of that and piggyback off of multiple sources. I often search for "[Concept] lecture notes", choose one of the links (based on r
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by dragon96 6y ago
> I'm more interested in knowing what I should do now Spend some quality time reflecting on high school over the next few weeks. What advice would you give an underclassman? How should they think about their four years of high schoo
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by dragon96 7y ago
The physics I've done have only done with n-particle systems, where n is a number I can count on a hand. Likewise, most of the examples I'd learn in a pure math class are either (a) relatively well-behaved objects with nice proper
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by dragon96 7y ago
> You are nitpicking, and completely missing my point. > I was just pointing out that there exists much cheaper ways of representing any function. Therefore the article seems very unexciting to me. To be fair, your original comment di
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by dragon96 8y ago
I love this way of thinking about "poor" and "rich" as mental labels rather than objective monetary worth. It makes me wonder: Why is it easy to label oneself as "poor" or "rich", but not as someone o
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by dragon96 8y ago
I'm a recent math graduate, working for a couple years before going back for a PhD. I'm a little sad about the affiliation requirement because I'd really like to be able to read and ask questions, even if I am a fool (relativ
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by dragon96 8y ago
I'm a big fan of Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Zeitz. The main downside is that there isn't an official solution manual, so checking your work takes a little more work. But one of the main upsides is that there isn't an
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by dragon96 8y ago
My recommendation is to focus on these two items and ignore everything else until then: 1) Logical quantifiers: ∃ ("there exists") and ∀ ("for all"). Quantifiers can get confusing when they get strung together. I like to
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by dragon96 8y ago
I don't understand how this qualifies as a "painful" or "horrific" update. It seems that most of the hate is either about (a) a slower loading screen or (b) worse design. The latter is debatable, but the former is j
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by dragon96 8y ago
> If a certain book isn't working for you, try something else on the same topic This. Sometimes it'll take 10+ minutes to understand a single idea when you can spend <10 minutes to find another book, article, blog post, or m
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by dragon96 8y ago
The key to reading a math textbook is learning to be generative. In other words, it is not enough to be able to verify a proof, but to be able to construct the proof yourself. One of the most common failure modes is reading a textbook a
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by dragon96 8y ago
I can relate to this description a lot! I find that my mind is very blank whenever around people (from strangers to closer acquaintances), which makes it really hard for me to avoid modes in which the other person asks me question and I fee
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Shannon Fellowship: $100,000 fellowship for independent intelligence researchers(shannonlabs.co)
28 points by dragon96 8y ago|3 comments
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by dragon96 8y ago
Happy to do some leetcode problems together if you'd like. I have a couple weeks off, and I'd be happy to tutor or give you some feedback (for free). See my profile for email.
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by dragon96 8y ago
> Struggle is overrated compared to repetition and quick correction. Just to offer a differing view, I would posit the exact opposite: struggle is underrated compared to repetition and quick correction. The latter is prone to blind memo
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by dragon96 8y ago
I feel like this article offers a lot of good points and factors to be aware of when sad, but it doesn't really point at ways to change. Anyone want to help compile a list of actionables or things to consider that you've personall
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by dragon96 8y ago
If you don't mind sharing, what are some of the problems in systems biology that you find more interesting, and who is working on them?
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by dragon96 8y ago
Benford's law offers an approach to detecting fabricated data by looking at the distribution of the most significant digits of the data presented and matching. There's a paper that was published in the last 5 years, which I unfort
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by dragon96 9y ago
The associated video lectures can be found on the course homepage here: http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/teaching/sp18/