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by graycat 1y ago
(1) Didn't see anything on the math of probability or stochastic processes, e.g., nothing from Dynkin, Neveu, Breiman, etc. (2) That it's important to study carefully that computing is about "switches" is something like
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by graycat 1y ago
Ah, never had anything to do with LaTeX. Now, TeX, that's one of my favorite things! Ah, just today used TeX on a paper in anomaly detection that exploits the Hahn decomposition! In the paper of the OP, was there a place where it claim
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by graycat 1y ago
An important and well plowed subject. Can consider also for the coding theory W.\ Wesley Peterson and E.\ J.\ Weldon, Jr., {\it Error-Correcting Codes, Second Edition,\/} The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1972.\ \ and for the abstract alg
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by graycat 1y ago
Addition: Omitted the reports that Swift is worth $1B from her singing.
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by graycat 1y ago
Early on, with a good technical background, I guessed that, of course, the key to success in technology was some good technology but soon discovered that VCs just want to make money, a lot of money, quickly, and otherwise will hear from the
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by graycat 1y ago
Okay, "logistics optimization"??? In the US there have been a few, i.e., apparently less than 20, universities with an applied math program up to date in and teaching optimization. Sooooo, anyone at all seriously interested, long,
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by graycat 1y ago
Easier: At the best, cheap in-state college, major in math, science, or tech. Do well, and then for an Ivy, etc. college, go there as a grad student which can be even better for meeting people than being a ugrad student at an Ivy. Going
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by graycat 1y ago
For the square covering problem, answer, 2.
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by graycat 1y ago
> "C?" Forgy was Charles Forgy. For a "rules engine", there was also IBM's YES/L1.
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by graycat 1y ago
"Rules"? An earlier effort at AI was based on rules and the C. Forgy RETE algorithm. Soooo, rules have been tried??
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by graycat 1y ago
> Classes are divorced from the practical applications of learning. Apprenticeships train in exactly the situation you’d want to apply the skill. Hmm .... Something like in the movie "The Hunt for Red October", the US Navy wan
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by graycat 1y ago
My Ph.D., applied math, Johns Hopkins, supports my post.
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by graycat 1y ago
Cairo may have a way out: Commonly the main criteria for a Ph.D. is: (1) Pass qualifying exams in several important topics in the field. (2) Do some research that is an "original contribution to knowledge worthy of publication&q
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by graycat 1y ago
> collateral damage ... Right.
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by graycat 1y ago
One, maybe not the only one, hands off, automatic, 100% "all-natural", do nothing solution to the "housing crisis": Hope the birth rate , i.e., on average the number of babies born per woman, stays significantly under
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by graycat 1y ago
Microsoft? For progress, one word: Document. For more, quit forcing on me stuff that hurts my work. One more, for a list of old problems, document and fix those.
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by graycat 1y ago
Maybe since the Big Bang I'm the only one, but AM one, to be torqued at what I regard as media low credibility and undefined, obscure terminology. Sorry guys but I (1) very much DO want solid information about a range of interests an
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by graycat 1y ago
Yup: And stochastic dynamic programming and stochastic optimal control ! Suppose a cargo plane is to fly from Kansas City to St. Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Dayton, Nashville, and Memphis and at each city pickup cargo. Suppose the c
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by graycat 1y ago
Hmm. (1) An article from WSJ. From their reputation, not good. (2) Article about Pig Butchering ? Obscure, undefined terminology, really bad writing. That's too much -- refuse to read or pay attention.
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by graycat 1y ago
AGI???? Again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time: (1) Given triangle ABC, by means of Euclidean construction find point D on line AB and point E on line BC so that the lengths |AD| = |DE| = |EC. (2) Given triangle ABC, by me
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by graycat 1y ago
The topic was about Federal budget cuts for the STEM fields. My point was, budget cuts or not, if want to work in the STEM fields, 'bout have to pursue work and funding for national security. I gave some "autobiographical"
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by graycat 1y ago
Moreover, in WWII we had Turing's code breaking, England's radar, the US proximity fuse, and "the bomb, the ATOMIC bomb". Then Garwin and Tukey talked, and we got the FFT (fast Fourier transform), talked about the test b
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by graycat 1y ago
(1) "Tab Pickup". I've never used it, don't want to use it, doubt if I will ever use it, but when I'm in the middle of my work, moving fast, lots of windows open, then bring a window to the top of the Z-order and g
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by graycat 1y ago
Budget cuts? Want to get paid, by the US Federal Government, for pursuing science or technology? From experience, in simple terms, a word: Have the work for and the funding from the US DOD, department of defense, military, for some work the
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by graycat 1y ago
Maybe a related practice (what I do): Write actual proofs or good documentation that contains essentially proofs and combine that with Knuth's Literate programming. For what is to be proved , try to use divide and conquor to make
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by graycat 1y ago
> I don't understand what you mean. I explained in (2). The main point in (2) is that ALL the people in the threatened area, right on the street they ARE, where they live, work, shop, walk, whatever, get LOUD SIRENS, REALLY LOUD, t
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by graycat 1y ago
Seeing Musk's announcement of his Grok 4, three questions: (1) Is there a function from the plane to the real line that is 0 on the Mandelbrot set in the plane, strictly positive otherwise, and infinitely differentiable? If so, then wh
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Elon, Three Questions [video](youtube.com)
2 points by graycat 1y ago|1 comments
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by graycat 1y ago
Threads is for mobile? There's an app ? Mobile , why do I care about mobile ? Mobile 's for phone calls, right? And a mobile phone has a tiny screen, is short on electrical power, and has the worst substitute for a keyboa
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by graycat 1y ago
Get a good system to alert, wake, get the attention of all the people at risk and on the way out'a there right away for $0? (1) The weather center develops a warning directed graph of persons who spread the word to get the PAS at the

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