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by fiforpg 3y ago
Do you mean Pascal the person? :P
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by fiforpg 3y ago
That (3) is a very interesting issue. My suspicion is, it basically says "knowing logics is good for your well-being". The skill of logical inference — even at the level of very basic syllogisms — is both very much underappreciate
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Of course, I do think of math as a (meta)language. Maybe my phrasing does not convey that well. So much for using natural language instead of math... ;)
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Curiously, this review (and perhaps the book being reviewed?) makes no mention of the model of mathematics as a language. This seems to be a common idea among working mathematicians and physicists[1,2], and it is rather clear that the quest
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by fiforpg 3y ago
> Traditional vector math gives the output of the cross-product of two vectors the same type. (That's why it's only meaningful in 3d.) That is not really the reason. Relevant trivia: that cross product is defined only in dimens
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by fiforpg 3y ago
This website is surprisingly useful. Recently I had to decide whether I could bring my ezpass transponder on the plane, and a quick search revealed a similar page answering exactly that question. Compare that to flying in Europe where afaik
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by fiforpg 3y ago
> If you're promoting research into quantum gravity that doesn't respect special relativity, you're a crackpot. Is there a short argument for why MOND cannot agree with relativity, at least on the relevant scales?
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by fiforpg 3y ago
> Sometimes called "orals," "comprehensive exams," etc. — other names I have heard people use for these: prelims, quals, ...
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A close call: How a near failure propelled me to succeed (2020) [pdf](ams.org)
13 points by fiforpg 3y ago|1 comments
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by fiforpg 3y ago
My first distracted thought upon reading this title on HN: cool, Terry Tao is finally getting his own army! Jokes aside, Tao also has a nice write-up in AMS Notices on this experience and how it influenced his career: https://www
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Why "not supposed" to say out loud? Sounds simply as a problem of the only X on a team of Ys. Cultural (and other) differences can be hard, it is just a fact of life. Think of it as being in the shoes of a lonely non-American in t
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by fiforpg 3y ago
“I was poking around, Googling ‘how to download Library Genesis,’” LG literally has this info on its front page. Researchers will research, I suppose.
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by fiforpg 3y ago
A rather bizarre number, 2^8*5. Only two prime factors, but also not a pure power of 2.
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Come on, prior to this people read Nocedal & Wright, which is still very much a standard text on nonlinear optimization, and there were well-known implementations of nonlinear optimization algorithms written by these people in Fortran.
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by fiforpg 3y ago
Curiously enough, another painting by Bruegel, Hunters in the snow , https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunters_in_the_Snow is prominently featured in Tarkovsky's Solaris, which is discussed in another thread on
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by fiforpg 3y ago
The parts where the author is scandalized about the tasteless use of technology in religion read less as a critique of technology then that of religion. If anything, they demonstrate that the human-written sermons were just as robotic.
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by fiforpg 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230508155750/https://www.ft.co...
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Push-buttons are coming back, hurrah(ft.com)
2 points by fiforpg 3y ago|1 comments
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Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by fiforpg 3y ago|0 comments
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by fiforpg 3y ago
I know some people who seem to be able to push forward year after year after year, maintaining this extremely productive pace and having no apparent issues with burnout. I wonder what makes this possible, is it based in a healthy upbringing
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Politics and the English Language by George Orwell(gutenberg.net.au)
12 points by fiforpg 3y ago|3 comments