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by impendia 2y ago
Roughly speaking, I'd conjecture that it is because America has always been an idealistic country. As the Declaration of Independence says, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are en
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I've had frustrating experiences with my insurance before, but indeed in this case I just mailed in a form.
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Perhaps someone else would not have been surprised in my shoes. But, rightly or wrongly, reading my health insurance documentation feels to me like staring into the abyss. Indeed, I admit that the expression "clearly stated" provo
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by impendia 2y ago
Both of the therapists I've seen made it clear up front that they refuse to deal with insurance companies, and expect payment up front. The health insurance industry would make Franz Kafka proud. That said, I was surprised when I maile
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by impendia 2y ago
Thanks for your reply. I could perhaps get on this committee, or others of a similar flavor -- but I've seen what happens to colleagues who volunteer for lots of committees, and it's not pretty. That goes especially since I'm
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Ask HN: How have you pushed back against overmeasurement in your workplace?
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by impendia 2y ago
I am an academic researcher. If I received an AI-generated email, I would permanently banish the sender to the deepest pit in my spam folder. Either that, or I'd have my own AI chatbot keep replying with confusing and vague questions u
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by impendia 2y ago
I live in the Deep South, where I've gotten around on foot, on a bicycle, and by car. It's clear that some drivers see me as a nuisance when I'm walking, but I don't really see that as my problem. In my observation, vehi
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I'm not sure I understand your question exactly, but I am fairly certain that not all quintic fields can be solved by the combination of (1) radicals, i.e. taking roots of x^n - 1, and (2) taking roots of x^5 - x - 1. I don't have
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by impendia 2y ago
When I say that a fundamental lesson of field theory is that radicals are not really special, this is what I mean. You are thinking in a more sophisticated way than most newcomers to the subject.
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I'd say one of the fundamental lessons of field and Galois theory is that they're not intrinsically special. They're just easier and more appealing to write down. (For the most part, anyway. They're a little bit specia
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by impendia 2y ago
Analytic number theorist here -- "Fundamental interpretation of primes" is a bit much, but this has been understood for a long time. The short version of the story is - The primes are closely related to the Riemann zeta function,
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Lol. Did you figure out what that was supposed to mean?
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I'm a math professor, who got through most of Rudin as an undergrad. Felt like a form of hazing at the time ;) In my opinion, Rudin is a great book if you're reading it under the guidance of a good teacher. For self-study, I don&#
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by impendia 2y ago
What, exactly, is this "a lot more"? I am an academic who publishes regularly, and I'm having difficulty figuring this out. They clearly employ lots of bureaucrats, middle managers, and lawyers. They are constantly trying to
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by impendia 2y ago
I am a research mathematician, a professor at a US university. Anyone can do research. It is much harder to do research that other researchers will read and take an interest in. "The strict formats, all the requirements before you can
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by impendia 2y ago
> What I find extremely annoying is that no one is charge saw this coming. I remember when US airlines started charging for checked baggage. Many more people started carrying on their bags, resulting in slower boarding and deplaning, and
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by impendia 2y ago
It seems like the Australian government has an opportunity here: pass stringent money laundering laws, go aggressively after those in violation, seize any ill gained foreign-owned properties, and auction them to Australian citizens. And sta
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by impendia 2y ago
I have my real email address in my profile, and I've only been contacted once that I can remember (and it was by a non-troll). I have no argument with anyone who prefers to remain anonymous, but the negative consequences you described
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by impendia 2y ago
I am a mathematics researcher. I agree with most of what you say, but > Reviewers are pushed to accept papers instead of rejecting them, because a rejected paper makes no money The only pressure I ever get is from editors (i.e., other
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by impendia 2y ago
I tried it out, and also couldn't distinguish the colors. > Just to clarify, do you mean for the semi-transparent pieces (the generated ones without "locking in") or even the manually placed pieces? Are these visually dist
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by impendia 2y ago
Apologies if this question sounds rude, but what does your app have over ChatGPT? I tried asking ChatGPT a few therapy-style questions; the answers were a bit generic but I could see getting some interesting responses if I tried harder. I&#
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by impendia 2y ago
Not much. Americans use "whom" some, especially in formal writing and/or speech, but colloquially "who" is much more common. For example, as an American a sentence like "Whom did you invite to the party?"
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by impendia 2y ago
Read everything Atul Gawande has written. The following article, "Why Doctors Hate Their Computers", would be a particularly good place to start: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/wh
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> South Carolina (lots of banking tech jobs there) I'm curious, where? I've lived in Columbia, SC for thirteen years, not that I'm looking to switch jobs, just interested to know what I've apparently overlooked here!
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by impendia 3y ago
Apparently John wasn't even off by a "the": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8d-SQF-F90
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by impendia 3y ago
I'm an academic mathematician; feel free to ask me particular questions. Two column format is not typical in mathematics; here is an example of one of my papers, with formatting is highly typical for my field: https://arxiv.
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As a working mathematician, I would say "obvious" is most often used for omitted arguments whose analogues are widely established elsewhere. As an elementary example, in an analytic number theory paper one might need to know tha
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by impendia 3y ago
I wish you luck in your endeavors! I am a math professor, and FYI your (1)-(3) are not common practice in math departments which I've seen. Math professors and TAs are generally happy to encourage students to learn on their own. As for
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I'm in academia and doing research. It's a racket.

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