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You aren't. I feel inclined (especially because they're trying to tell me otherwise) to pronounce it in a rather different way which I shall not make explicit here beyond saying that it splits as pyg/fx rather than as py&#x
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"tombeau" literally means "tomb", but the term also sometimes means "piece written as a memorial", like Ravel's piano suite "Le Tombeau de Couperin". And yes, Hofstadter explicitly links "
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The advantage of Chebyshev polynomials over ordinary power-basis polynomials will be much less in that situation. But sometimes you're approximating something that doesn't have convenient domain-reduction relations available.
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The cute general theorem is: if p is a prime number then the number of times p divides n factorial is floor(n/p) + floor(n/p^2) + floor(n/p^3) + ... And from this (or by other arguably more elegant means) one can get the rela
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With either of those, you're still representing your polynomial as a combination of powers: 1, x, x^2, x^3, x^4, etc. For many purposes it's much better to represent a polynomial as a combination of Chebyshev polynomials: 1, x,
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Why would anyone care whether their TV literally has quantum dots in it? It matters how bright it is, how wide its gamut, how accurate the colour reproduction, how much power it consumes, how long it lasts, etc., and maybe all those tend
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Maybe I'm overoptimistic about people's intelligence, but my impression is that no one in the history of ever has thought the song is uplifting . There's a reason why it's been used so often in television and film to ac
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I think it would be very interesting to try to teach a computer to play the game without having explicit knowledge of what's in all the articles. I'm not sure just what level of ignorance you'd want to enforce: good human pla
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redactle.net has no ads (I think; I have pretty stringent anti-ad measures in place) and a bunch of nice features that make the game more fun to play. For instance, you can configure it to always show you the lengths of the words explicitly
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This is fun! Of course a good Redactle player can do much better than what's described here, because this algorithm (by design) doesn't use any information about the article other than yes-or-no "does such-and-such a word app
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I do, in fact, know that the author didn't "download a theme", because all those spammy "Top Posts" link to things advertising the author's products . I am curious as to whether you truly think that > Those
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I don't see any hate. I do see useful information. Looking at the linked page for myself, and seeing a list of "Top posts" all of which are obviously ad-infested SEO gunge, I immediately learn that I cannot trust whoever made
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If you want real accuracy, note that the actual mile/km ratio is almost exactly half way between 1.6 and (1+sqrt(5))/2. So do both conversions and take the average. (You won't get results as accurate as that suggests, of co
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> when Mozilla engages in political activism, promoting Marxism? The link you provide in support of this ( https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/chris-smalls-ri... ) is an interview with Chris Smalls, a un
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What, specifically, should they have done differently that would have made Firefox not lose most of its market share to Chrome, and how do you know it would have worked?
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If your thought experiment involving pieces of paper has helped you to think of useful or interesting things that you wouldn't otherwise have thought of, that's great. It hasn't so far done anything of the kind for me. The fa
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(I did not downvote the parent of this comment, nor am I angry. I can't speak for anyone else.) Seems a bit of a weird request, but sure. I assume the point of it is some sort of credential-test, so I'll focus on things relevant t
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So far as I can see, this has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with geometric algebra in the sense being discussed here.
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Likely familiar even if you haven't heard "strand" as such with that meaning: "stranded" (run aground on the beach). One place where you might possibly have heard "strand" meaning the beach: Lewis Carroll.
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"If the code runs, who cares that it was written by a werewolf" may get you better code, but it may also get you more werewolves. If the only thing anyone is doing is writing code, that probably doesn't matter, but here in th
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I don't think that's fair. Mathematicians pretty reliably say "algebraic integer" or "integer in [some specific class of numbers that has non-rational integers in it]" when they are talking about the broader no
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Some of them, for sure. All of them? I don't buy it. Show your evidence. Also ... how confident are you that there isn't just as much benefit-from-collateral-damage among people who thrive on certainty and stability? E.g., you mig
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All together now: ... IN MICE
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This isn't quite right -- Abel proved that there's no quintic formula before Galois came along. Galois theory gives a whole lot more insight, lets you understand why some quintics do have solutions in radicals, etc., but Galoi
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(I'm not the grandparent poster, but:) OED https://www.oed.com/dictionary/hen_n1?tab=forms#1717329 says "hean" was never a standard spelling of "hen". 350 years ago would be the late 1600s when
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There are known algorithms that can solve _all_ problems in euclidean (ruler-and-compasses) geometry, no intuition required. The most effective algorithms of this type are quite inefficient, though, and (at least according to DeepMind) don&
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Working mathematicians mostly don't use theorem provers in their work, and find that when they do they go significantly more slowly (with of course the compensating advantage of guaranteeing no mistakes in the final result). A theorem
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They say "our systems" (presumably meaning AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2) solved one problem "within minutes", and later on the page they say that the geometry question (#4) was solved by AlphaGeometry in 19 seconds.
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usea's argument is clearly not that but only that you can't literally think something is "not worth discussing" while you are actually discussing it. The person who was explicitly defending non-GPL licences was rahkiin.
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They're getting blasted for causing a massive worldwide outage due to what is clearly inadequate quality control. I don't see why this is any better if it's "pushed a kernel-mode driver update with bugs in it" than

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