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by gunnihinn 10y ago
> Capital of the Alps, France FTW ! Je faisais mes études à l'UJF, cette ville me manque trop.
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
NOT TO MENTION ALL THE SHOUTING ONE DOES IN COMMENT SECTIONS
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
Perhaps for those few of us who are a bit rusty on beginning grad level physics.
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
And a GIF is worth a thousand * framerate * seconds words. How can anyone be surprised they're beating images?
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
There's one for every cardinality (up to isomorphism). I forget my set theory, but if the cardinalities form a set, then the totality of vector spaces does too. If not, we can amuse ourselves by looking at the set of finite-dimensional
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
> for example, that the set of all vector spaces is itself a vector space Hmm... under what operations? It's a semigroup under direct sum, and probably something under the tensor product, but I'm having trouble imagining what t
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
Well I'm glad you guys nailed the problem in three tweets or so.
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
> If Elliot were to be like Mike from Suits, Mr Robot would need to change the name of the show to Suits. And it follows that the space of sitcoms is a singleton. That explains a lot.
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
Yeah, fighting the cartels directly has worked like a charm so far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War#Casualties
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
This is great from so many angles. The counterexample is solid mathematics, the paper is wonderfully to the point, and the use of computers to successfully investigate a pure math problem was innovative. I only wish they'd described th
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
I watched Toy Story 3 alone in my apartment and cried like a baby at the scene with Andy and the girl at the end (manly man n+1 in this thread checking in). I'm not a very emotional guy, but some emotion now and then is nice.
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
I work for a scientific publisher. For April fool's this year we sent an email to all staff saying that to adjust to the realities of today's publishing industry, we would now start rewriting article titles into the more fashionab
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
The article was long ago published as a stand-alone book. I bought and read the book before I ever knew it came from the New Yorker. It's one of the most haunting things I've read, and I guard that book jealously, which is a long-
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
tl;dr: Null. Lagrangian mechanics are a way of expressing classical Newtonian physics in the language of symplectic geometry. It's been done for 30-40 years and has nothing to do with quantum mechanics. The people who wrote this may be
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by gunnihinn 10y ago
I don't think this can improve on the classic: https://youtu.be/rguQFPnPIYc?t=1m33s
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by gunnihinn 11y ago
I remember back in high school physics when we were calculating the volumes of a few stars and my teacher said "Just round out 4\pi/3 to 4". I completely understand why we'd do that -- the error terms in the radius of th
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by gunnihinn 11y ago
I'm a mathematician and I'd say their ideas only become interesting if that conjecture is true. Otherwise it's just numerology.
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by gunnihinn 11y ago
> Primes have no inherent relation to decimal, so all prime patterns in decimal are mathematically meaningful. No. There's all sorts of random nonsense in all base expansions of anything that we assign meaning to. Most base-related
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by gunnihinn 11y ago
The top 8 reasons why no one's future is in journalism! Number 5 will shock you!
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by gunnihinn 11y ago
Hi, LaTeX copyeditor and typesetter here. The bane of my existence are authors who know just enough LaTeX to be dangerous. First, almost all of their formatting work is the first thing to be thrown out. Second, authors are strongly incentiv