hackerblues

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by hackerblues 16y ago
To be fair, a foreign student who is trying to rebuild a social group from scratch has more incentive to be be socially outgoing.
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by hackerblues 16y ago
I imagine we just let them go extinct.
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by hackerblues 16y ago
The best way to gain confidence is to be able to list a series of things you have done which you can be proud of. How does one generate such a list?.Pick an easy task you want to achieve, write it down, do it, cross it off your list. Contin
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Cambridge apparently has quite a good culture. There are a couple of groups which run events/weekly lectures/brainstorming things: http://cue.org.uk/ http://www.cutec.org/ In particular, Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge is being held i
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by hackerblues 16y ago
I don't think so, just geometric series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Anything written by Ian Stewart. "Rational points on elliptic curves" by Silverman
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by hackerblues 16y ago
I have the same experience as a mathematics grad student. After two or three hours I run out of focus and need to go for a walk + food.
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by hackerblues 16y ago
I'm sure this came from an old HN post but: We'll See... There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. "Such bad luck," they
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Yes, the information is now online. So what? The problem isn't the availability of knowledge. Books have been around for a very long time. What is the additional mechanism which will allow the youtube revolution to dethrone the school/unive
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Daily burn?
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by hackerblues 17y ago
I think it's definitely only you. For example, the guy below spent most of his press coverage talking about the iPad. Saudi to behead Lebanese convicted of witchcraft: lawyer http://www.france24.com/en/20100331-saudi-behead-lebanese-co...
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by hackerblues 17y ago
"At least they're actually exposed to differing viewpoints, many many more differing viewpoints than if the internet didn't exist." (citation needed) It isn't at all obvious to me that this is true. It seems quite plausible that the vastnes
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by hackerblues 17y ago
From the wikipedia page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War ) "According to the French academic Dominique Reynié, between January 3 and April 12, 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000
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by hackerblues 17y ago
My best trick for being able to derive trig identies from scratch is to use the complex analysis identity: exp{i \theta} = cos(\theta) + i sin{\theta} where i^2 = -1. As an example, lets derive the double angle formula: cos(2 \theta) + i si
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by hackerblues 17y ago
What advantages do you think software offers in this respect that books don't? All I can think of are: a) Logging successes/failures b) Suggesting questions Both of these are partially replicated in books by a) Having a list of answers at t
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by hackerblues 17y ago
The main benefit I find from having something to draw on is the ability to talk about multiple things without blowing their/my working memory. Seven chunks gets used up pretty damn quick when you need to consider both the parts and the inte
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by hackerblues 17y ago
Perhaps also more trusting/optimistic. Ie, for the newspaper experiment, the message said there were 43 pictures but why should you trust it?
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by hackerblues 17y ago
I think there are two aspects to this that you might not have considered. 1) If your contact with maths is simply reading a formula out of a book and implementing it then long variable names might be fine. If you are actually trying to do a
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by hackerblues 17y ago
"Although I think he goes a bit overboard in some cases (robotic actors?)" Not at all overboard - there are numerous successful animated movies. Granted they still use humans to provide the voices but I find it plausible that artificial spe