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by impendia 15y ago
I don't know what your site is (perhaps different than I am imagining), but whenever I'm obliged to do this I nearly always give a Mailinator address.
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by impendia 15y ago
Speaking as a university professor , I would look up the names of professors teaching compilers or related classes at various American universities, and send them an e-mail with a link to your site. Offer them a freebie if they are interes
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by impendia 15y ago
In grad school I had a friend I had a mild crush on. She posted on Facebook that she was going to a concert by this over-the-top disco band -- "Anyone want to come along?" I did. Not only did I like this person, but ridiculous disco music i
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by impendia 15y ago
> One in nine people had a password in this top 500 list. These passwords include some real stumpers: password1, compaq, 7777777, merlin, rosebud. Looks unbelievable at first. How could people be so stupid? But I use such passwords all
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by impendia 15y ago
Isn't this what independent alt-weekly newspapers are for? The ones I'm familiar with list all of what you describe.
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by impendia 15y ago
I'm rather a beginner. Please ask someone with more experience than me!
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by impendia 15y ago
I recommend meditation. You can either find a group in your area (which is also great for making friends) or read books by Pema Chodron or others. Meditation is, in my experience, a great way to deal with guilt. (And I say this having dealt
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by impendia 15y ago
I haven't read it personally, but I've heard that "Naive Set Theory" by Halmos is the gold standard.
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by impendia 15y ago
Why attempt to stand out? OP should follow his heart, his interests, and his inclinations, whether that's off the beaten path or on it.
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by impendia 15y ago
"A man must love something very much to practice it not only without hope of fame or fortune but without hope of doing it well." -G.K. Chesterton
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by impendia 15y ago
"In the long run we are all dead." --John Maynard Keynes Second what dkasper said, but I would add that I love the culture of San Francisco. There is so much energy, so much excitement, such a mixture of people pushing their limits, doing
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by impendia 15y ago
I'm going to express an opinion halfway between the OP and those who are rebutting him (or her). I'm not familiar with St. Louis, but I recently moved from San Francisco to Columbia, SC (didn't really want to, but I'm an academic, my postdo
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by impendia 15y ago
> As someone who lives nearby, Eastern TN as a whole strikes me as a horrible place for hackers or startups. The majority of local talent seems generally disinterested in moving to any languages or tools beyond those of the average ente
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by impendia 15y ago
I got curious and looked at a Google Map of the place. It seemed that the neighborhoods mentioned covered a majority of the older urban neighborhoods close to downtown. Perhaps they are indeed all hellholes. If so, I'm very glad I don't liv
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by impendia 15y ago
> If this were an article about hammers, and how good they are for driving nails, people wouldn't care. If most people bought and used expensive, complicated hydraulic machinery to drive nails -- then I think people would care about suc
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by impendia 15y ago
Turing worked on a family of partial differential equations called "reaction-diffusion equations", and determined that for particular choices of the parameters, they produce phenomena similar to tiger stripes, leopard spots, and the like. O
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by impendia 15y ago
The first time I ever took a graduate math course, I did my term project on precisely this theory. Analyzed the PDE's, did some numerical experiments on it, gave a lecture on it. I had to tell my audience "Well, we think this produces tiger
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by impendia 15y ago
> Andrew Wells from the Council of University Librarians believes Elsevier is being unfairly singled out. "The practices that Elsevier has both in dealing with authors and in selling scholarly content to libraries are very similar to th
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by impendia 15y ago
I never "learned" LaTeX, despite being an academic mathematician and using it all the time. My documents have headers which I don't understand. Indeed, learning it from scratch seems like a hassle, and it has features far beyond what I ever
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by impendia 15y ago
This article is already a little bit out of date: It strikes me as unusual to describe 6,094 as "over 5,500" :)
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by impendia 15y ago
> What I got out of The Little Schemer wasn't really how to write Scheme but more how to solve problems recursively. They do explicitly claim in the book that that is their goal!
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by impendia 15y ago
I have to disagree with The Little Schemer, despite the fact that I took freshman CS with Matthias Felleisen (one of the two authors), thought his course was brilliant, and absolutely swore by Scheme by the time I was done. I felt the book
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by impendia 15y ago
The problem is that "a number" is meaningless. Is i (square root of -1) a number? Is x? Is 3/2? Depends on your perspective. You can define the integers, the rationals, the real numbers, the complex numbers, and plenty of more exotic system
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by impendia 15y ago
I lived a block from 3rd and 20th. It's a reasonable place to live, I liked it, and it is indeed next to Caltrain, the T, and the 22 and 48 buses. But there isn't a lot right there, it always takes at least fifteen minutes go get where th
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by impendia 15y ago
Find the right people in Cal's middle management, cold call them, and complain to them. Also, find out who has donated large amounts of money, cold call them too, and complain to them also.
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by impendia 15y ago
Thanks luke_s. However, after reading your comment I still don't know what to do about it. As far as applications I'm familiar with... well, they are typically to other areas of math, as Slowpoke was complaining about. Since you mentioned
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by impendia 15y ago
I am a math professor at a large state university in the US. A comment and a question: > Mathematicians teach math to do more math, which in turn is used to to even more math. That is true of some mathematicians, and of some subjects. B
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by impendia 15y ago
Simple. Because it's not in any academic's pure self-interest, acting alone, to stop publishing in for-profit journals. It is the "tragedy of the commons". Take overfished waters, for example. It would be beneficial for all the fishermen if
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by impendia 15y ago
If you got this to the point where you could scan a document and have it spit out latex code for the whole thing, you would have... ... a huge success on your hand. EVERY mathematician I know, most certainly including myself, would use it c
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by impendia 15y ago
This will have an effect, but slowly. Editors of Elsevier journals will send papers off for review, and get a growing number of "Sorry, I don't review papers for Elsevier journals." If you tell people that you are an editor for a nonprofi

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