eastWestMath

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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Doesn't google have more than one failed social network?
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
I mean, you probably need to look at a few textbooks before you'll make any sense of papers.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
You'd probably need to spend a few years learning the basics first...
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
I get that this is the New Yorker, but I think it's a stretch to say he invented fuzzy logic. MV-algebras had been around for decades when he published his paper, based on Lukasiewicz's work on real valued logic. They come up quit
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Seems like denying entry was pretty reasonable.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Was that before or after the fatwa?
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
The public certainly has the right to boycott an artist's work if they committed a morally reprehensible action without any sign of remorse. The public doesn't owe the artist anything.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
I guess it's adversarial if you want resources all to yourself. But something like a basketball court is easily shared.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
But infinitesimal calculus is all about local linearity, in the analytic formulation you're taking the closest linear approximation to the function at that point. Using the dual numbers approach, there is an infinitesimal (nilpotent) r
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
You're more likely to be in a car crash than the victim of a crime...
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
>Keep in mind that this is C++ of course, so there's no mathematically rigorous type system; I just have a uint8_t pointer to a place in memory. Well you basically answered your own question - you would need a language with a more s
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Wadler's paper is an excellent piece of exposition that's us at the level of an upper-year undergraduate textbook. There's nothing condescending about referring a professional to a relevant paper in their discipline, but it
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
I guess, as a theoretical computer scientist myself, my first reaction is to roll my eyes. I get that these guys are trying to drum up interest with investors/funding agencies, but "My greatest fear is that my research is too su
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Conversely, mythologizing/lionizing mathematicians like that is one of the more annoying habits our field has, and I'm glad it's dying out. There are people doing fantastically innovative work that's outside of the mathe
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
>Why can I sell a Die Hard DVD but not a Die Hard movie file?
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
So you believe spending 15$ on a DVD entitles everyone ever to have access to that IP?
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Because there's a difference between owning a physical copy of media and owning the rights to distribute it.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Strictly speaking, you don't have the right to do that under the licensing agreement for digital media. You're perfectly within your rights to lend your friend a DVD.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
There's a huge difference between lending your friend a VHS and uploading a torrent. And the idea of owning a license to a piece of intellectual property shouldn't be a hard thing to wrap one's head around if you work in soft
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Companies don't have 2 hour time limits on solving their hard problems - if you run into hard algorithmic problems in your problem domain, you should just have someone with a graduate degree in CS theory. Let them work out a solution t
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Not really, a lot of the income inequality comes from having a large underclass stuck in a cycle of generational poverty for various reasons (often/mostly related to structural racism).
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
If I remember correctly, if the Riemann conjecture is proven the geometric complexity theorists have a path to resolve P=NP.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
You'd be surprised at how many mathematicians are avid hikers. I've heard stories of people flying to Calgary, disappearing in the Rockies, then showing up at UBC for a conference over a month later.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
I used to make fun of the idea of coding bootcamps. Then I started a PhD in computer science and realized only 30% of CS students actually engage with the theory courses that would differentiate them from boot camp grads. At this point I&#x
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Writing a parser is broadly applicable to a wide range of problems, not just writing a compiler.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
If they aren't making efforts with their women employees, it would follow they aren't doing much to help out their black/Hispanic employees either.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
I think it's ok to infer someone holds and opinion (i.e. is libertarian, Stalinist, some other annoying internet political opinion) and to check out of the conversation if they do.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
Relatively higher paying jobs have relatively more competition. The lowest paying jobs (minimum wage) will always have the least competition.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
No it's not, it's just the one that neural networks and amateurs on Kaggle are good at.
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by eastWestMath 9y ago
There's more to computer vision than image classification, multicamera geometry is still necessary for any serious work in computer vision.

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