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by dsacco 9y ago
I don't "fetishize" any of this, but I'll grant you that efforts to categorize and classify things can be excessively boring :). What's fascinating to one person is boring to another!
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Yes, it’s quite fascinating differentiating between the social idiosyncrasies of each.
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The first step to understanding the class system is to differentiate between class and wealth. Class has very little to do with wealth, and it is mostly determined by your upbringing, mannerisms, profession, lifestyle and network. A high ne
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The parent mentioned children, and I mentioned a (very talented) 14 year old. You're talking about 19-22 year olds; I have no reservations about that age bracket tackling proofs, but that's not really the point.
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I think you and I mean different things by computational mathematics. Calculus isn't analysis, but it still has substantial rigor to it. You might not be able to develop calculus from scratch after studying it, like you could by workin
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That's a good point. But if that's the case, undergraduate mathematics does not need to introduce abstract algebra, topology, linear algebra, analysis, or any of the other higher level courses. In fact, they could finish out at ca
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> If you don't teach proof-based mathematics at the undergraduate level then aspiring mathematicians would have to take those courses at the graduate level. This would cause advanced degrees to take considerably longer to obtain.
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Frankly, I disagree that mathematics should be its own degree at the undergraduate level as well. Let me clarify: I think people should be able to become philosophers, just like they can become mathematicians. But I’d advocate for changing
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> It's often said that one of the benefits of studying math is that it improves critical thinking skills. I believe this to be true, but I also believe that if our primary concern is improving our day to day critical thinking skill
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But thankfully, we have ultimate frisbee to fill the gap.
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In what context, and a plus over what other degrees? I don't agree that it's a plus unless the candidate has double majored in a relevant degree, or did a philosophy BSc. and a relevant MSc afterwards. If I were reviewing applicat
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I think the "highly ranked school" is what matters in that case, not that the degree is in philosophy in particular. If you graduate with a 3.9 from Harvard, your specific degree doesn't matter for many lucrative fields, and
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Rupert Murdoch can have well documented dislike for Google without his dislike intrinsically kneecapping the Wall Street Journal’s journalistic integrity. The comment I replied to criticizes the article we’re discussing categorically by o
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> It's the "Wall Street Journal", a Murdoch business publication that approves of every business as long as it isn't Google. Please don't bring politics into this. If you have a substantive criticism about the
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> It seems obvious to me that this is just an artificial product to make more revenue. If a product is actually generating more revenue, what makes it "artificial"? Do you disagree with the use of products to complement an ec
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> I hear this every time cryptography is brought up. I think I get that it's hard, but people make it sound like it's the hardest thing ever. It’s not literally the hardest thing ever, but it’s probably in that category of di
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Ternary computation does reduce the number of operations for things like multiplication, that’s correct. But if the rest of the modern world isn’t also ternary, you actually introduce performance overhead that reduces your overall efficie
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Yes, and yes. Here is an example with GDAX: https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD Here is an example of an API supporting public access through Gemini: https://docs.gemini.com/rest-api/ Here is anoth
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> It's not like stocks where you can see actual bid/ask and daily volume numbers. Yes it is. Cryptocurrency exchanges have orderbooks like regular exchanges do.
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Your description reminds me of Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 6, Hated In The Nation.
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> I understood it as saying that it's possible to understand the technology, and even have a strong pro-encryption and pro-privacy stance, without believing that FBI as an institution is fundamentally corrupt or motivated by malice
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> I have never met anyone who understands what cryptography is, and supports the FBI. I understand cryptography and I broadly support the activities of the FBI. You have now “met” such a person. It’s fully possible to simultaneously su
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Most of the large tech companies allow but don’t advertise remote work flexibility for senior staff. I know someone who works remotely at Apple on a team on the other side of the country.
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> I think that must be a fallacy, but I'm not sure which. How can we do worse by including more information? I don't think the term "fallacy" applies either way because the parent's point not reducible to a log
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It depends on the application. SIDH is attractive because it doesn’t throw out decades of elliptic curve mathematics because of the spectre of quantum computers. The mathematics is a bit more familiar if you squint at it, though working wit
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Ah, no worries. Post-quantum cryptography has a reputation for being somewhat excessively theoretical (which to be fair is a reasonable argument). But there are benefits other than post-quantum security. For example, lattice problems can pr
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My area of research is primarily post-quantum cryptography, not strict quantum mechanics. That said, based on my understanding of the implementation details of quantum computers (as opposed to e.g. quantum complexity), I’m pessimistic about
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McEliece has had significant cryptanalytic attention since the 70s, when it was first invented. In fact, it’s probably the most well studied post-quantum proposal, and it’s not really waiting on any further cryptanalysis. It’s currently con
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This is a very active area of research in theoretical cryptography, and has been for over a decade. It’s an area that I myself work in. The uncertainty is not quite what you think: researchers more or less know what will happen to public-ke
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> Have you ever tried that in the open ocean? It's quite different from a pool, or a river. -Spent over 120 days in the open ocean aboard a 25ft boat. I have. I find it distinctively easier than pools, lakes and rivers. The commen

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