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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Is't ok if I point out you made a typo.
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
I just recently learned that the note in Fermat's margin was published posthumously by his son! So Fermat never necessarily publicly claimed to have a proof. So I would imagine you're absolutely correct.
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
The only true facts are the useless tautologies... Sad for the theory of knowledge, truly...
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
What does it mean for a measurement to be probabilistic? I'm a math grad student, so still a layman, but here's the way I think about it: Every particle travels over every possible path as the wave spreads out. Once you measure th
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
This is truly a Hacker News moment. Genuine. Certified. Thank you for sharing, that's awesome! Are the Devon cows extremely rare, or the American Milking Devon cows?
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Well the ocean was filled with free floating ammonites, so maybe food wasn't an issue. Another commenter suggests a volcanic winter to lower the sea temps enough for the seals to cross.
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Thank you for the boring off-topic comments, boringuser2. Maybe boringuser1 was too interesting, so you were created. I promise to read the article if you do.
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
There's also a completed mass timber building on UW campus, on a grass field adjacent to the cherry groves that will be in bloom March 20th.
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
We need to stimulate demand for growing forests!
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Bricks are a nonstarter on the West coast because of earthquake safety is what I was told as a kid in California.
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
I wonder what the impact of the production of concrete and steel has on the environments where it takes place. I like the part of the article where they point out that mass timber would be better for carbon sequestration. I also think that
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
All the expert software engineers agree this is the most likely explanation. Have physicists looked into this?
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Citation: particle physics
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Does anyone know of an earlier example of the trope of having a magic box choose your class in a novel?
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
They're always deterministic, just as long as physics is.
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
That's not always true.
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
This is because "how does it work" and "why does it work" are Fourier transforms of each other!
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
That's what the above comment implies if you read it sarcastically, they might be in agreement with you!
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
You're going to tell me the discrete topology is continuous!?
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
I've definitely heard both saiclo- and siclo- in a math seminar context!
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Consulting!!
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
The Kardashev scale is a scale whose smallest unit is our current civilization, the scale easily accommodates Argentina.
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Because they kept letting Boeing do (or not do) the inspections?
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
As eitally points out, your prompt leaves open the possibility that the mirror writing is on the other side of the door (which would make no sense). So technically you underspecified the prompt?
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
"The people who do algebraic geometry in applied settings are doing math that is basically unrelated to algebraic geometry as practiced by theoretical mathematicians" seems like it is just a gatekeeping statement. It is basically
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
You didn't engage with the argument of the comment above you at all, you engaged with imagined arguments: that there is no academic research that is focused on research, and that the only place to do something applicable is finance. Th
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
This scientist is just older than LaTeX.
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Normal language and mathematical definitions are often orthogonal!
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Further economics classes only pull the curtain farther back on what economics is: applied mathematics and applied sociology combined! I'm personally undecided on dismissing economics and trying to learn more of it!
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by ducttapecrown 3y ago
Gonna frame this comment so I can point to it in the year it happens next decade.

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