j2kun

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   by j2kun 3y ago

   I think this is the real point: it's not a test of whether people agree on what is allowed, but on how pedantic people are in an abstract setting. I think agreement would be much higher if people were told to evaluate the "spirit&
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   by j2kun 3y ago

   cyclotomic polynomials are common, and probably people borrow the pronunciation, but I have always heard that pronounced as "cycle"
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   by j2kun 3y ago

   cycle
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   by j2kun 3y ago

   One of my favorite parts of this was actually the peripheral material he sent the Klein bottle with. A packing slip, invoice, a list of "quality assurance" checkboxes, all brimming with math jokes.
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   by j2kun 3y ago

   You do still need the controlling party to agree to enact this solution, which is a form of compromise. If you're willing to do that you may as well be willing to cede control to a nonpartisan third party. In either case the outcome wi
6. 426.▲
   by j2kun 3y ago

   > catch them off guard and put them on the spot No, it's the researchers who first claim their work is applicable, in their papers, in lectures, etc. I have read entire books with titles like "Applications of X" and later
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   by j2kun 3y ago

   In undergrad my friends and I made a shirt: Pro-axiom of choice Because every vector space deserves a basis
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   by j2kun 3y ago

   People are welcome to do whatever they like. I'm expressing an opinion, my value judgement, that the math done for its own sake is just not as beautiful to me as math that has applications. You call it laziness, and I call it a refined
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   by j2kun 3y ago

   I find them valuable, especially when trying to study a new codebase. In the current era where we get immediate feedback on everything we post online, it's harder to see the value that comes from writing good commits, and the value can
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    I have sort of a contrarian take on this, at least by traditional academic standards. I think applicability is extremely undervalued in modern mathematics. Tao references algebraic geometry in the interview, but the people who do algebraic
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    I'm sure his company's legal staff has reminded his employees to not engage in political action while appearing to represent their company. My company sure does.
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    I think you misunderstood the meaning of "out of touch" in this context.
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    > I also don't understand why (academic) publishing is so PDF focused Because academics still often publish physical books. You prefer to have lots of tools and write custom extensions to programs. And you'll have to maintain t
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    There is an entire field of research on improving the constants of exponential-time algorithms for NP-hard problems.
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    The abstract is more informative: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14605 We obtain a (log(2n))^O(n)-time randomized algorithm to solve integer programs in n variables. So the work is theoretical: a better exponential
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    The recommendation to use Markdown+MathJAX fall short when you want to write longer documents with numbered section, subsection, and theorem/definition/figure etc tracking and referencing. I'm sure with Sphinx and reStructure
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    They have been working on these ideas since like 2021 they said, so I don't think it's that recent.
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    If the answer was yes, the title wouldn't be phrased as a question
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    Using a reasonable proxy is not "pure clickbait", though it may be misleading. It adds an additional assumption about the Google results not being tampered with by Startpage, but it seems like a reasonable one, compared to the alt
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    For reference: https://www.tuxarena.com/static/tut_nano_syntax.php
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    I wonder which sort of features they could have in mind, if learning the basic modes is too hard for the intended user of the plugin.
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    I mean it works until the default prompt changes to not have "sorry" in it, or spammers add lots of legit products with "sorry" in the description, or some new product comes out that uses "sorry" in it, it then
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    This article directly contradicts an article written by Netflix engineers Xavier Amatriain and Justin Basilico, who were in charge of putting the BellKor algorithm in production: https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-recommend
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sorry
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    Wait, so they knew _in advance_ that they weren't going to use the result? Before they even started the competition? Or is this ret-conning once they decided not to use it. I feel like I can't really trust Reed's word on it,
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    You can print hardcover on demand too these days.
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    The company Galois notably supports this sort of arrangement (you pick your hours and your pay is scaled accordingly). I think their corporate structure could be applied more widely.
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    > For example, the book describes R^2 as a "pair" of real numbers. From page 15: > The one piece of new notation is the exponent on R^2. This means "pairs" of real numbers. Your interpretation of this quote is unch
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    Nice. Now do it on a Mobius band: there's a "ceiling" and "floor", and when you go out the left, you end up on the ceiling on the right, and vice versa. Two ghosts chasing you, one on the ceiling and one on the floo
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    by j2kun 3y ago

    I wrote a book: https://pimbook.org You might find it useful for your situation. The PDF is pay-what-you-want if you don't feel like paying for it.