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by impendia 6y ago
A countervailing pattern I've seen (in games with 3+ players) is that, if one player pulls into a lead, then the other players will start piling on them. Board games like Avalon Hill Civilization, Family Business, Root, etc. -- basical
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Is basically the same thing as a Fitbit? I used one of those for six months and I tracked my sleep -- kind of interesting, but I didn't completely trust it. It seemed to think that if I was laying down and not moving then I was sleepin
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While visiting my nephew I got to read to him from the Hilda series by Luke Pearson. Absolute magic, and the title character demonstrates curiosity in spades.
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> they gradually stopped providing that added quality. I had a paper accepted in a well regarded mathematics journal, and the copyeditor proceeded to thoroughly mangle it. I had to explain that the meaning of a fraction changes when you
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by impendia 6y ago
I haven't experienced, nor done anything to avoid, any sort of pain or injury like this. Maybe I'm just lucky?
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by impendia 6y ago
I bought an under-desk bike near the beginning of lockdown and have run the odometer into the four figures. I highly recommend it to anyone. I definitely agree with you that it is no replacement for walking, yoga, or other active forms of e
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by impendia 6y ago
Agreed. I got this book when I started to suffer from insomnia, hoping I could learn something useful about how to cure it or cope with it. The book merely scared me.
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An example described in the article, and which comes from the same branch of analytic number theory, is Daniel Shiu's result that you can find arbitrarily long strings of primes in "any" arithmetic progression. (By "any&
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> Where does that leave people like doctors who earnestly help their patients? Not a doctor, but a college professor. I love my job, take pride in it, and work hard at it. But I think of myself as working for my students, my collaborator
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by impendia 6y ago
Good luck to you! One huge frustration I've had as a customer is the unavailability of healthy fast food. I spent five months in Berkeley and ate at Sweetgreen all the time. Now, I'm back in Columbia, SC where I work at a large
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I grew up in Durham. Nice weather most of the year, although the summers are hot. Mosquitos are annoying, although you get used to them. The place has a lot to be said for it. Several outstanding universities, a bunch of really great restau
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As a math teacher, I love these things. In a calculus class, I once gave a demonstration and then derived the parametric equations on the board. In an introductory number theory class, I tasked my students with figuring out how to predict h
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by impendia 6y ago
Incidentally, if you like chess the channel is outstanding. (And back online now.) https://www.youtube.com/user/AGADMATOR I enjoy watching on my lunch breaks. Great breakdowns of games between top players past and pres
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by impendia 6y ago
I am very very sorry to say this, but I suspect that in your situation you would face extremely long odds looking for a traditional tenure-track job. You might have better luck looking for "academia adjacent" jobs; for example,
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I did it. Was working a software job and realized that I wasn't excited about the industry. I decided to apply to Ph.D. programs in math, got accepted to some, started a Ph.D. at 26, now work as a professor. My years in industry weren&
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by impendia 6y ago
Consider to what end? The Moderna vaccine had been designed by January 13, 2020 [1] -- before a single case was confirmed in the US. It took only a weekend to finish. In contrast it took nearly a year to finish testing, and even this was an
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It seems this is the natural endgame, every refrigerator will come with an LCD screen on the front that advertises at you. I just hope that my new fridge will continue to keep my food cold after I smash the screen with a hammer.
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In most American cities, going to the grocery store is kind of a pain. You have to drive somewhere, usually at least a mile or two. You have to find some place to park and walk across a huge parking lot. The store itself will be huge, if yo
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Indeed, for a year I had the chance to live five minutes' walk from an excellent grocery store. It was right across the street from the yoga studio where I practiced, and on my way between home and work. There were lots of automated ch
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by impendia 6y ago
It depends on your desired emphasis -- theoretical or computational? From a more theoretical angle, Jim Hefferon has written an outstanding introductory book. It is free and open source, available with loads of supplementary material, here:
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I'm a professor at a US university. The honest answer (at least at the university level) -- probably we don't. From what I can tell, there's very little enthusiasm for online education, on the part of either professors or stu
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(1) To the best of my observation -- and I read Inside Higher Ed regularly -- this certainly happens but it's not common. (2) AFAICT, when it does happen, it happens through known channels. e.g. there might be a few classes or majors
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Because I've learned some about the way academia works -- where pressure comes from, and how it operates. If the administration tried to hatch some conspiracy to inflate the grades of athletes or legacy students or whoever, ... then a
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I don't speak from experience, but I believe the answer to be "probably not" -- at least not on the academic side of things. There would be repercussions for the player of course, and maybe also for the special tutors that at
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I have not, to my knowledge, ever had a football player in one of my classes.
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Here is the actual reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/kg8cbx/aita_... The top voted comment, with around 20K upvotes, rips into the father: "Instead of berating your son,
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Regarding grading: I am a professor at a large American state university where football is king. I have never been pressured to change a grade for the kinds of reasons you mention. I'm not saying that grading is perfect -- measuring
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> The Langlands Programme was an effort in group theory to develop a representation (a way to generate all the elements in a group as far as I understand it) for all possible groups. As a professional number theorist, I would not say tha
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I hope it will make me more grateful for the simple pleasures -- e.g. drinking coffee at a coffee shop without being scared. And more inclined to get out of my house and spend time with others. At the very least, it will have these effects
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Read Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ Brilliant popular science writing about contemporary discoveries in math, computer science, and the physical sciences.

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