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by ekm2 3y ago
My favorite feature used to be a "Sort by Reading Level".Gone with the wind...
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by ekm2 3y ago
You did a PhD in number theory,but you are recommending group theory and abstract algebra?
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ChinaGPT(github.com)
1 points by ekm2 3y ago|0 comments
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by ekm2 3y ago
Philosophy depends as much on life experience as it does on native ability hence the benefit of advanced age.Chess,Music and Math depend more on native ability than on life experience.
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Are the New AIs Smart Enough to Steal Your Job?(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by ekm2 3y ago|0 comments
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Higher education is shockingly right-wing(drafts.interfluidity.com)
6 points by ekm2 4y ago|2 comments
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Animosity, Mass Opinion Around the World Toward the Former Colonizer(cambridge.org)
1 points by ekm2 4y ago|1 comments
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by ekm2 4y ago
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-baidu-finish-testi...
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by ekm2 4y ago
Obligatory quote from Asimov's "The Gods Themselves": about two and a half centuries ago, the American naval commander Matthew Perry led a flotilla into Tokyo harbor. The Japanese, till then isolated,found themselves faced w
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by ekm2 6y ago
Why not?Everyone who went to college studied SOMETHING.Why is Andy's designation so amorphous?
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Ask HN: What was Andy Jassy's college major?
7 points by ekm2 6y ago|5 comments
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How to become an Entrepreneur(thebookoflife.org)
1 points by ekm2 9y ago|0 comments
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by ekm2 9y ago
I wound not be surprised if he is the product of a Math Circle:a nice place to stretch one's mathematical abilities while retaining the bragging rights of never having formally studied math in college.
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by ekm2 9y ago
Calculus at 11 and never having been challenged for a while at school implies he self studied some courses that he is not explicitly mentioning.
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by ekm2 9y ago
Actually Ed Witten was not a total newbie to advanced Math before grad school.From his commemorative lecture: At about age 11, I was presented with some relatively advanced math books. My father is a theoretical physicist and he introduce
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by ekm2 9y ago
Long thread and no one talks about just teaching Logic like French schools do.
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by ekm2 9y ago
Not really.But I moderate now that I know how it can affect other things.
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by ekm2 9y ago
Chess is so addictive it made me drop out of CS grad school.I would compete online every day from 10 pm to 3 am.That is not a good schedule if you want to make it to an 8 a.m class.
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Unicorn League(sage.co.uk)
1 points by ekm2 9y ago|0 comments
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by ekm2 10y ago
Your metric will lock me out:I did Real and Complex Analysis sophomore year but was forced to take intro to statistics senior year in order to graduate.
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by ekm2 10y ago
>a lot of people good at math have poor people skills All the more reason to open the floodgates so we can get the few people with both skillsets.
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by ekm2 10y ago
Maybe you should have specified that it was the Cosmology not Buddhism that was invented by the Catholic priest.
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by ekm2 10y ago
Creativity.
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by ekm2 10y ago
Most mathematical minds prefer Plato.Verbal types adore Aristotle.
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by ekm2 10y ago
There is another guide online: " http://hbpms.blogspot.com/2008/05/stage-1-elementary-stuff.h...
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by ekm2 10y ago
Explain then why Harvard is #3 on the list (and MIT at #6).
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What I read in 2015(lafstern.org)
1 points by ekm2 11y ago|0 comments
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Terry Tao's Generals(web.math.princeton.edu)
3 points by ekm2 11y ago|0 comments
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Business At The Speed of Thought(kirjonen.me)
1 points by ekm2 11y ago|0 comments
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by ekm2 12y ago
Actually,Math/Physics, along with Econ,Philosophy as well as International Relations majors score higher than Engineers on the LSAT. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1430654

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