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by fiforpg 2y ago
Surely, many do? The ones I interacted with did, for example. I'd venture that the preferred CAS varies with schools and countries.
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by fiforpg 2y ago
One has to be a little careful with designing courses like this. They are most likely to be of interest to people who already know, at least to some extent, both (i) calculus and (ii) programming. That is, the (presumable) target audience —
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by fiforpg 2y ago
Me, I'd go for the smelly cheese option.
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by fiforpg 2y ago
The statistics for those doing more exercise and those suffering from obesity are likely describing two different groups of people.
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by fiforpg 2y ago
> professor X in field Y likes esoteric language Z, so his grad students write out libraries A/B/C to corner the Z library space This description seems to fit Julia really well. What other languages are like this?
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by fiforpg 2y ago
> and perhaps Python-using academics also never make packages. Your guess is (largely) correct. For most users, the workflow is exactly as you described: > They make the notebook, use the build-in R functions and then their work is do
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by fiforpg 2y ago
The way negation is concealed in the middle of that title reminded me of Zizek philosophizing about subtleties of the negative: continue to no longer attend, coffee without milk vs coffee without cream, and so on, and so on. https:/&#
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by fiforpg 2y ago
As can be easily verified by turning the sign upside down, it is not a Rabbit, but a Яabbit.
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by fiforpg 3y ago
If you need pdf viewing and management (indexing, annotations, citations), it might be useful to look into citation managers, which are built to do exactly these things: check out Zotero.
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by fiforpg 3y ago
There is a very nice short proof of John's ellipsoid theorem by Gruber and Schuster: https://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/gruber/gruber_arbeiten/johnelli... — one elegant trick I remember from there was that the valu
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by fiforpg 3y ago
In addition to being a very independent philosophical thinker, Spinoza was deeply interested in more practical study of nature, something that may have had to do with his day job as a lens grinder. He published two short texts on probabilit
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Given that they used position evaluation from (a search chess engine[1]) Stockfish, how is this "without search"? Edit: looking further than the abstract, this is rather an exploration of scale necessary for a strong engine. Could
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Yep. But to be really scared of the man you can consider that during the later years of his life he lost eyesight, first in one eye, then went completely blind. All without slowing down. The anecdote goes that with his eyesight already se
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Such discussions show that teaching of calculus often tends to be overly algebraic, for no good reason. Clearly, Leibniz notation does not intrinsically contain any deep insights since at one point Leibniz himself was erroneously induced
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by fiforpg 3y ago
> revolveth in heaven inside a flame produced by his own mouth, whilst his own form is invisible Such a beautiful hermetic formula. It could totally describe a god in Lovecraftian universe. That, and also the fact that a minor deity was
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by fiforpg 3y ago
> but I needed a good reason that would justify the time investment It should be understood though that there are cases when math(-like) language is abused, leading to overcomplication and obscurantism [1]. In mathematics, there is alway
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Gelbaum-Olmsted Counterexamples in analysis is a standard reference for various pathological examples in analysis: https://archive.org/details/counterexamplesi0000gelb
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by fiforpg 3y ago
It could be that the author was thinking about sequential compactness : every sequence of elements of the space has a convergent subsequence (with its limit also in the same space). For metric spaces, sequential and usual compactness coi
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Not directly related, but also a (sort of) brutalist architecture book that comes to mind is Soviet Bus Stops: https://archive.org/details/sovietbusstops0000herw Edit: I see that the book about Spomeniks and the one li
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Soviet Bus Stops, the movie (2022)(sovietbusstops.com)
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by fiforpg 3y ago
These are fantastic art works, and driving around to check them out would a perfect euro tour for a future summer. Still I can't help but be intrigued by the wistful tone of the website. Judging by the "about" page, the guy r
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by fiforpg 3y ago
We used Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ for my high school classes, and I have very fond memories of both. This must have been on Windows. Borland really had a series of these fantastic products, it's a shame they are no more. The only mode
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by fiforpg 3y ago
> Some alternatives in Emacs: I swear I had to read that twice to stop seeing "alternatives to Emacs". I'll see myself out now. (Doom Emacs is really nice though, and modal editing does help with key bindings, just as a
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Yeah, well. The Dvořáček affair is certainly a serious allegation. Yet not something the general public can be a judge for. Given that the Czech authorities and courts did not pursue it, the rest of us can't either, if only for the lac
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Early Christianity and the phenomenon of martyrdom is discussed in a very nice episode of In Our Time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016ptt If I recall correctly, the panelists express the idea that it might have
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by fiforpg 3y ago
I like what Bertrand Russell had to say to that very question, in one of Unpopular essays (quoting approximately from memory): Philosophy is science in the circumstances of insufficient knowledge. That is, given insufficient data it may s
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Firefox supports ublock on mobile.
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by fiforpg 3y ago
A great thing about Lem is that he has written in (the style of) so many genres. The third column in this table on Polish wiki illustrates this rather well: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_pierwszych_wyda%C5%84_dz..
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by fiforpg 3y ago
To my taste, the Pirx stories read as some of (if not the ) most fiction-y Lem in existence. As opposed to the rest: thinly disguised philosophical studies. Sometimes really thinly, as in Golem XIV , or completely naked in Summa Tecnolog
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by fiforpg 3y ago
I like how the word "meat" is clearly an inaccurate translation of a notion in the language of the conversation, for lack of a better word in human languages. "Organic matter" would be more accurate, but less striking. M

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