ducttapecrown

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by ducttapecrown 1mo ago
You got nothing wrong. To expand, you can add points on elliptic curves together. To add P and Q, you draw the line between them, find the third point on the line, and reflect it over the x-axis [1]. Then the idea is to find a generating se
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by ducttapecrown 4mo ago
I feel like LLM's will change advertising like internet search changed advertising. Here "like" means similarly in magnitude, not direction. If I could predict the future etc.
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by ducttapecrown 7mo ago
It is not the technology that sucks ever more money out of the populace, it's the people at the top!
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by ducttapecrown 7mo ago
NYTimes competing with NYTimesPitchBot for funnier headlines, I see. What a bizarre and awesome piece of science. I like crystals for the miracle of uncountable numbers of atoms transferring symmetry from the smallest scale to the visible s
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by ducttapecrown 7mo ago
It's mentioned in the article that the chimpanzees only relinquished the crystals in exchange for many bananas, so it seems they're more into crystals...
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by ducttapecrown 8mo ago
This is just a general pattern: applied mathematicians are often using things pure mathematicians haven't proved to be true yet. The examples are widespread for the generalized Riemann hypothesis. There are statements we aren't su
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by ducttapecrown 8mo ago
Can you list some better books for those of us who liked Le Guin and are interested in what could be better?
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by ducttapecrown 9mo ago
The dots need to be the vertices of equilateral triangles for the Voronoi diagram to be hexagons, the above is a rectangular grid rotated 45 degrees. You can overlay a regular hexagonal tessellation over a regular triangular tessellation to
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by ducttapecrown 9mo ago
Location: Seattle Remote: US time zones Willing to relocate: to SF Technologies: math, English, Python Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YlO2X6hwkPyf-CkdWparf7Tfle_... Email: samdeclanla {at} gmail.
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by ducttapecrown 11mo ago
Why is the scrolling janky?
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by ducttapecrown 11mo ago
Terry Tao is writing about this on his blog.
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by ducttapecrown 11mo ago
The bull case is that everyone losing their jobs will accelerate and bring about the socialist revolution, giving us universal basic income and universal healthcare.
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by ducttapecrown 11mo ago
How long did it take for mobile repair shops to proliferate? Surely solar repair shops will also appear.
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by ducttapecrown 11mo ago
It reads more like mysticism than a serious claim of novelty, chill out.
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by ducttapecrown 11mo ago
Lee taught Intro to Topological Manifolds for one quarter, and then the next two quarters where Intro to Smooth Manifolds. Then Riemannian, then vector bundles, and then complex manifolds.
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by ducttapecrown 11mo ago
Location: Seattle Remote: US time zones Willing to relocate: to SF Technologies: math, English, Python Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YlO2X6hwkPyf-CkdWparf7Tfle_... Email: samdeclanla {at} gmail.
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by ducttapecrown 11mo ago
Yesterday there was an article about how the ear works more like a Gabor transform or a wavelet transform than a Fourier transform, both of which are Short Time Fourier Transforms, so yes!
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
We need investors to fund ideas to find out if they are good or bad. It is called testing.
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
A function (which is an isomorphism) from complex numbers a+bi to matrices is a+bi |-> [[a,-b],[b,a]] where the matrix is listed by rows. So i is sent to the matrix R with a 0 in the top left, 1 in the bottom left, 0 in the bottom right
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
It turns out incremental thought is much better than original thought. I guess.
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
Doctors would implement self-healing and abolish checklists if they could! Be glad if you don't need a checklist.
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
Depends on if the managers above them are accountable or not. Accountability is the opposite of corruption and both need to come from the top.
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
Is the LHC humanity's biggest let down? Confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson but birthed 0 black holes!
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
Here, I asked ChatGPT to summarize it for you: just kidding.
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
How did you pick the number "about a dozen"? Probably just LLM budget constraint I guess.
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
You could make an analogous course titled "Mathematics for [subfield of mathematics]" for any subfield of math. It would be a good(ish) title (I have never titled a course), and the content would be nicely focused. Such courses ar
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
The mathematician in question doesn't believe in infinity as an axiom, so he has a different understanding of what finding irrational roots means than others. From what I've gleaned from the other comments, it sounds like he does
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
Geometry only benefits from visual reasoning in 3d and lower, and there are a lot of dimensions above that! You can see visual reasoning as a little cheat computation, you can run math problems through your sense-determining brain, which is
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
They get it from being an engineer!
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by ducttapecrown 1y ago
Since it says "linked", there may be exceptions, every body is different.

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