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by impendia 3mo ago
Since I last looked, at least on my browser the gameboard has been significantly enlarged. I'd say it's now obvious, but previously I mistook a bishop for a pawn.
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by impendia 4mo ago
This is cool! One suggestion: some way to tell what the enemy pieces are? Maybe a legend to the right of the board? I ended up discovering by trial and error.
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by impendia 4mo ago
Math professor here. If you want to learn math, then for the most part I recommend choosing time-tested avenues, using popular materials. There are two reasons for this: (1) Popular materials are usually popular for a reason: they reflect a
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by impendia 4mo ago
> People treat email has a permanent data store. Is this strange? I'll be trying to solve some problem, half-remember an email conversation from several years ago on something relevant, and want to look it up. This feels like the mo
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by impendia 4mo ago
I'm an academic mathematician in a US research-oriented department. I'm happy to report that I've observed very little of what you describe.
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by impendia 5mo ago
Some drivers seem to resent the idea that they should have to share the road, or slow down for anyone. Even if cyclists do everything right, they're still slower than cars, and so will present at least a minor inconvenience for drivers
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by impendia 5mo ago
Math professor here. When I go to research lectures, I sometimes hear that in response to audience questions, although not especially consistently. Some speakers do this more than others, I don't think anyone does it all the time.
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by impendia 5mo ago
These are very good questions, but it was a long time ago and I'm afraid I don't remember well enough to answer. I'm not even sure I could have answered you at the time. In my memory, it was mostly students promoting the ho
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by impendia 5mo ago
> I’m skeptical that there’s anything special about high trust communities other than a higher baseline of morale Strictly speaking I'd agree with you -- but I would consider a higher baseline of morale to be itself quite special! E
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by impendia 5mo ago
I went to Rice which had a similarly strong honor code, and it absolutely inspired pride. In me, and from what I could tell in many of my classmates. Is it propaganda? In some sense, yes, the only way to maintain such a culture is to repeat
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by impendia 6mo ago
I live in South Carolina, about half an hour from Congaree National Park. It's not a place you'd drive across the country to see, but it's beautiful and highly worth a visit. There are some freaky trees -- with knobs of roots
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by impendia 7mo ago
Definitely agreed! When I started my Ph.D. program, there was a weekly seminar that I started going to. At first, I instinctively left each week immediately after the talk was over. But I noticed that a lot of people would hang around after
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by impendia 7mo ago
Personally, I've enjoyed classes in yoga and in group fitness. This has several advantages: exercise is obviously good for you, and you can meet people while you're there. But more subtly, once you show up, someone is constantly t
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by impendia 7mo ago
Yes, they likely scraped the conference web site. Academia, at least in math, has a tradition of being public. Conferences will advertise at least the list of speakers, and sometimes the full list of attendees. This is widely considered a g
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Ask HN: What are service providers' responsibilities to prevent fraud?
2 points by impendia 7mo ago|2 comments
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by impendia 7mo ago
I got curious, and looked up the Harvard Polo Club. Apparently it naturally faded away as polo declined in popularity, but then was revived in 2006. I understand that, if you have a current and active polo club running, then you either have
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by impendia 8mo ago
I certainly didn't take it as a slight against myself. Rather, I've met Tao and several other top mathematicians, and I don't imagine any of them would say they fit that description. Indeed, Tao himself has written criticism
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by impendia 8mo ago
I'm a research mathematician working in Tao's field. I'm not claiming to be as prolific as he is, not by a long shot -- but other mathematicians do understand, critique, develop, and engage with his work. Indeed, many of hi
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by impendia 8mo ago
Are they working? If your 74 traps solve your problem and in a month you have no more mice, then congratulations. But it sounds like rather than buying more and more mouse traps, you should find and fix the underlying cause.
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by impendia 8mo ago
If people are scared to share their thoughts, then that seems like the problem. Also, how much of this communication is actually necessary? If someone doesn't care about an issue enough to write their own email, then why are they sen
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by impendia 8mo ago
If you find yourself spooked by LinkedIn "gurus", I recommend Reddit for some comic relief. https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/top/ is full of goodies. Here is my personal favorite: https:&#
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by impendia 8mo ago
I'm a professional mathematician and professor. This is a very interesting question, and a great motivator for Galois theory, kind of like a Zen koan. (e.g. "What is the sound of one hand clapping?") But the question is inher
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by impendia 8mo ago
Agreed. On my phone I turned off most of my notifications, and on my computer I turned off all of them. I couldn't find any way to actually turn off notifications in MacOS. But you can set "quiet hours" to be from 2:00 AM u
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by impendia 9mo ago
I haven't, but others have written about the same trip. There's lots of material online these days, I'm not really familiar with it but if you google "Shikoku henro pilgrimage", all the hits will be about the same t
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by impendia 9mo ago
A variant of this advice, that avoids some of the pitfalls, is to take time off to do something structured and specific. Personally, in between jobs a long time ago, I chose to walk the Henro Trail, an approximately 800-mile Buddhist pilgri
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by impendia 9mo ago
> Are you an expert? I can't speak for ndriscoll, but I am a university math professor with extensive experience teaching these sorts of topics, and I agree with their comment in full. You are right that some (other) statements are
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by impendia 9mo ago
If the government's guidance isn't to be at least mostly trusted, then I'm not sure the government should be offering guidance at all. (Which is perhaps a sensible position in itself.) In other words, if I learn enough about
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by impendia 9mo ago
This could certainly be fantastic, and very good advice. Or it could be a lot of bunk, I don't know. Given the source (i.e., RFK), I refuse to trust it. The point of guidance like this is to be trustworthy and authoritative. If I have
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by impendia 9mo ago
I agree in principle, but companies (and individual very rich people) are amazingly inventive when it comes to finding loopholes in the "nuance".
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by impendia 9mo ago
Indeed, I wonder if these angry young people would try to fuck with these AI agents, and attempt to make them spin in circles for their own amusement. Sort of like the infamous GameStop short squeeze of 2021: https://en.wikipedia

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