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by generationP 2y ago
The newer version is 2021, not 2017, though the title on top of the site says 2017.
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by generationP 2y ago
You can also get to the new site from one of the hits further down ( https://textbooks.aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/tr... ) if you pay attention. But it's far from the transparency I'd have ex
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by generationP 2y ago
FYI, there is a newer version at https://sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/sergei-treil-homepage/l... . Google seems to never have learnt about this site, which is weird as it is on a Google server.
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by generationP 2y ago
More info at https://retractionwatch.com/2023/10/09/how-thousands-of-invi... and https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02192 . As the latter makes clear, this type of fraud is most likely done by
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by generationP 2y ago
This looks like someone on the editorial side snuck the references in. Don't think authors have a way to do it.
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by generationP 2y ago
Windows has a scan app ( ms-windows-store://pdp/?ProductId=9wzdncrfj3pv ) that can commandeer a scanner connected via USB even if the scanner's own software doesn't let you. Not sure it works with every model, and i
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by generationP 2y ago
Good point -- I was implicitly talking about serious instruction on advanced levels. There was no shortage of classes where you got to listen to French music and read some easy books; but nothing that would bring you to fluency. An exchange
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by generationP 2y ago
I consider the wide-scale and fairly high-quality scientific education system to be the only genuine upside of Soviet communism. Admittedly, part of its success was the fact that it offered many people the only way to the middle or upper cl
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by generationP 2y ago
If I am to guess: - large academic population and high general education - a tradition of collecting banned and bootlegged content, particularly Western (samizdat, magnitizdat) - lack of resources to get things legally (e.g. university subs
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by generationP 2y ago
The Eastern European (not just Russian) book scanning scene seems to have started in the early 2000s, back before the anti-Western turn. Z-Lib is newer, from the 2010s(?), definitely predating the current meaning of Z.
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by generationP 2y ago
Coming from a field where [n] routinely means {1,2,...,n}, I don't feel like the [1], [2], [3] system can win me over. But I'm ready to see some advantages it has.
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by generationP 2y ago
Keep in mind that any company operating in Russia (paying taxes, providing data to "law" enforcement, etc.) would fit the same jumpsuit. We could go that way, but it would be a serious change of rules and create its own perverse
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by generationP 2y ago
A 50-page PDF loads a lot faster and shows a lot smoother than an HTML of equal textual length. And I've never seen any modern tools that turn TeX into multifile HTML (one per section).
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by generationP 2y ago
These examples miss the mark somewhat. The "2" in "2π" can mean several things (the nonnegative integer 2, the integer 2, the rational 2, the real 2) that are all commonly identified but are different. The "2"
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by generationP 2y ago
Most of Buzzard's examples are indeed lossless (even bijective) conversions, but the notation mathematicians use (and programming languages often support) makes it look like they are completely absent, which comes back to bite you. In
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by generationP 2y ago
The problem is that no one thinks of type conversions as taking any explicit paths! It's one thing to view the actual process of long division as path-dependent (something everyone who learns about Gröbner bases is familiar with, as at
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by generationP 2y ago
This is not the point of the article. Even at the level of the objects themselves, 1 : integer is not 1 : rational. The latter is an ordered pair (1, 1) of two coprime positive integers, or an equivalence class of ordered pairs up to cancel
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by generationP 2y ago
This is exactly the "specification by universal property" that the author is talking about. In your case, it's saying "a 3-dimensional vector space is a vector space with three chosen vectors e, f, g and three linear map
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by generationP 2y ago
This is probably better known here under the name of implicit type conversions. Strictly speaking, the rational number 1 is not the same as the integer 1; we just have a conversion map that preserves all the relevant properties. It's a
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by generationP 2y ago
Is it good at digesting huge lists of PDFs (say, 100 000)?
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by generationP 2y ago
Which of the suggested "Steps to help" would have helped prevent the xz infiltration? For a single-maintainer project, adding bureaucracy can only make things worse.
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by generationP 2y ago
The Stacks project is meant to be a comprehensive Bourbaki-style textbook, not an encyclopedic survey, so the Wikipedia comparison is a miss. (The WP has a textbook level of detail on some topics, with proofs and examples, but these are few
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by generationP 3y ago
I think Lenny's constant might be better suited https://old.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
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by generationP 3y ago
If German intel serves personal data to a known fugitive from justice working with the GRU, then EU regulation is a lost cause. If anything, I want them to know as little as possible.
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by generationP 3y ago
That Marsalek works for Russian intel isn't new. Many of the details are.
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by generationP 3y ago
Interestingly, the article completely avoids mentioning the familial trail: > Marsalek's grandfather, [Hans Maršálek]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Mar%C5%A1%C3%A1lek ), was a member of the Austrian resista
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by generationP 3y ago
> For people who might not know, Rhapsody of Fire broke into in two bands, one keeping the original name and the other becoming Rhapsody. Ehm, this is not what happened. In 2006 Rhapsody became Rhapsody of Fire to avoid some trademark di
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by generationP 3y ago
The Sacrament of Sin is their best; almost every song on that one is great. It's one of the rare examples of a band that was boring and bland at first and then greatly improved. Call of the Wild is a close second. On their other al
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by generationP 3y ago
Probably true, but there are more rooms in the Villa yet to be excavated. What we have is essentially a bookshelf in a larger library. If it is sorted by alphabet, it might be representative, but what if it is sorted by topic?
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by generationP 3y ago
This is from 2013, so the bet that "nobody will want to read [PDFs] in 5 years" can be considered failed. If anything, PDF has become the lingua franca of the academic web, crowding out even DjVU at the thing that DjVU was made fo

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