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841.
by gowld 2y ago
"separate tickets" are for 2 1-way tickets instead of a round-trip, not splitting a 1-way across a connection.
842.
by gowld 2y ago
It protects the sharks too!
843.
by gowld 2y ago
Maybe they get sick later and don't know why. Or maybe it's a harmless way to vent frustration, and remind the cook that picky customers are ignorant pseudo-elitists.
844.
by gowld 2y ago
Alton Brown's "I'm Just Here for the Food: Food + Heat = Cooking" is a fun intro too.
845.
by gowld 2y ago
"She did not dumb things down but broke them down, creating entry points for American cooks in their home kitchens" This is an important lesson for educators, communicators, and colleagues. Too many people think that "accessi
846.
by gowld 2y ago
Someone should invent a way to communicate without requiring a a 1:n app for every destination. They should make some kind of n:n web that connects everyone to every destination.
847.
by gowld 2y ago
None of that justifies an app, vs an in-store kiosk or a website.
848.
by gowld 2y ago
MBAs aren't that stupid. Either they make more money by selling less at a higher price (consider, a 20% increase in price might be a 50% increase in profit), or they are sowing losses for tax purposes.
849.
by gowld 2y ago
You need to convince the tool makers, not the web app authors using their tools' defaults.
850.
by gowld 2y ago
Pouring more water isn't required, only the permission to pour more water is required. And that was granted in this scenario. As the old saying can go, "It depends on what the meaning of 'can' can be."
851.
by gowld 2y ago
Ballmer and Gates were undergratuate mathematicians. It's not a bad strategy.
852.
by gowld 2y ago
I don't see how Ballmer randomly guessing a number and candidate doing binary search would NOT be Nash Equilibrium. For anything else, the candidate has a strategy of "guessing a trick number", and Ballmer has a strategy of
853.
by gowld 2y ago
It goes both ways. Mathematicians will take a moment denigrate Geometric Algebra as "linear algebra with a uselessly nonstandard notation", ignoring that we should prefer a less awkward way of structuring linear algebra than &quot
854.
by gowld 2y ago
The absolute first video to watch should be the (ironically titled) Why can't you multiply vectors? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htYh-Tq7ZBI
855.
by gowld 2y ago
Where are the mathematicians who could be describing Geometric Algebra correctly? For a professional working in linear algebra, supervising a graduate student, it should be straightforward to translate these "higher order" linear
856.
by gowld 2y ago
"You" won't even be alive in by the time you finish reading this paragraph. You will cease to exist, and someone else will have your memories.
857.
by gowld 2y ago
t0mek sais "the simplest form", but the comment is fixable by changing that to "a simplest form". (For example, if hypothetically a/b and c/d where somehow the same number, and yet somehow there is no x such th
858.
by gowld 2y ago
Mathematicians (with books in hand) tend to have the ability to disambiguate when confusion arises. But they rarely do, instead relying on context and the intelligence of the reader to derive meaning.
859.
by gowld 2y ago
Indeed, the integers have the same limitation -- factorization is unique only up to units. 1 = -1 * -1 In elementary mathematics, people wave away "-1" by saying silly things like "positive integers", before Gaussian in
860.
by gowld 2y ago
Academia is a guild. There are far more people who want the job that can get it, and has very strong employment protections for members. They don't welcome outsiders anyhere except the bottom of ladder.
861.
by gowld 2y ago
Identifying with your work is different from identifying with your employer.
862.
by gowld 2y ago
Like too many discrete math texts, the Characteristic Root Technique for Repeated Roots section does not give a proof of the forumla.
863.
by gowld 2y ago
Complicated algorithm over an array vs simple algorithm over trees and tables and sets and records.
864.
by gowld 2y ago
Similar to how most people don’t need or care to learn statistics. They just want to learn how to say statistical words to silence critics of their pseudoscience.
865.
by gowld 2y ago
Why is someone studying science in college, if they haven't finished high school?
866.
by gowld 2y ago
How does Galois theory relate to any of this?
867.
by gowld 2y ago
The fundamental theorem of Galois theory reduces certain problems in field theory (like finding roots of polynomials) to group theory (counting permutations and symmetries), which makes them simpler and easier to understand and solve (or pr
868.
by gowld 2y ago
The reason that the proof isn't geometric, is that the algebriac proof is a proof that Euclidean geometry is incomplete. How can you use a language (any given language!) to express the idea that the selfsame language is incapable of ex
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by gowld 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20061107120353/http://www.merit.... > Of course you should understand that I ate the column only because the Internet, as far as I can tell, did not suffer a gigalapse dur
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by gowld 2y ago
Naming the groups of order 8 is harder than naming all the smaller groups.

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