j2kun

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   by j2kun 11y ago

   I don't know why this comment is so downvoted. At its roots (which is what the headline is referring to), mathematical inquiry is an activity invented by humans for their own amusement. We mathematicians do what we do because it brings
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   by j2kun 11y ago

   What I didn't say is that I wrote one :) So I don't think I need one.
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   by j2kun 11y ago

   But the mathematical ones are the best ones :)
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   by j2kun 11y ago

   In the CS community a new (sub)subfield has emerged called "Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning" (FATML). It's a young research topic, but I find it quite interesting. http://www.fatml.or
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   by j2kun 11y ago

   I would be interested to see a list of "successful use cases" of network science in the natural sciences. Are you claiming there are none as of yet?
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   by j2kun 11y ago

   Yet young boys grow up identifying with the hero.
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   by j2kun 11y ago

   The problem with not having a math background is that you will succumb to all the people who throw around buzzwords but don't know what the hell they're talking about. You need to be able to recognize (and assert authority over) s
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   by j2kun 11y ago

   The reason I don't think it's so obvious is because, while the input knots may be finite structures, the transformation between the two might be unbounded in size. E.g., one can repeatedly "blow up" a knot presentation b
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    by j2kun 11y ago

    Submitting in the comment box on the blog failed with "Could not open socket," so I'll post my question here. Now that you have a notation (even if it may not be complete, you've raised the question in exercise 5), I am
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    by j2kun 11y ago

    It's still a much more serious issue than insurance, especially considering that truck driver is the most common job in many US states.
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    by j2kun 11y ago

    Google groups is a godsend. Students post a question, and more often than not other students answer it before you can, and either way the question is publicly answered for everyone to see and refer to later. Far better than an idolized prof
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    by j2kun 11y ago

    I'd say pick the max over all subfields. I myself am about to get a PhD in mathematics yet I have an irrational fear of differential equations.
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    by j2kun 11y ago

    Welcome to the club!
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    by j2kun 11y ago

    I'm curious about HN readers so I made a poll: where you do see yourself in Tao's hierarchy? http://goo.gl/forms/KuXqj0wgZu Edit: for those who are interested in the results, here's a one-click link htt
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    by j2kun 11y ago

    I am always jealous of how cool and flashy the work at SIGGRAPH is.
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    by j2kun 11y ago

    While I don't care much for IQ as a statistic, I do believe that discipline and hard work are important. The author gives a quote from Euclid and two physicists, but for the aspiring mathematician, or anyone who is bewitched by the myt
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    by j2kun 11y ago

    This quote sums it up pretty well: > Voevodsky himself is careful to distinguish the various ways computers should or shouldn’t be put to use. “Lots of people don’t understand the difference between using computers for calculation, for c
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    It's never too late to pick up a graph theory book.
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    They would certainly have to be bounded integers, right?
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    Here's a more or less complete list of references for the known approximation and inapproximability bounds for TSP and its special subproblems. http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/9241/approximati...
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    In the field I'm talking about (cs theory) conference papers are routinely capped at 10-15 pages.
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    One issue with a daily news feed about the most cited papers in a specific field: fields move much more slowly than that. Even in theoretical CS or machine learning, where we have multiple conferences every year with fast turnover and hundr
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    Have you seen professor wages recently? It would be much cheaper to lobby to counter the law than it would be to give wages that would draw professors to a shitty job. If they wanted wages, they'd leave academia anyway.
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    The market would fix this should the bill become a law. All professors and applicants who care about their jobs will just leave Iowa or never go there in the first place. I wonder who will suffer then?
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    It should be clear that the obvious notion of uniformity is the intended one. I.e., it should be uniform with respect to the usual Lebesgue measure on the sphere. And your method is extremely complicated. You can solve this problem with 5 l
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    For some reason it won't handle certain characters... Input: Feature: 37, threshold: 4386, + Feature: 11, threshold: 1, + Feature: 10, threshold: 13, + Feature: 0, threshold: 34, + Feature: 39, threshold: 44,
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    I would consider signing up. The problem is finding a place, funding, and someone to administrate it.
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    What are these 12/15 fastest growing professions anyway? I'd like to see a lot more detail about the claims being made and how the numbers to back them up. Saying "there's a lot of evidence" is not evidence.
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    by j2kun 12y ago

    I hosted a tea this afternoon and it was really relaxed. We talked about everything from our dream jobs to improv shakespeare to what makes math beautiful. We swapped some stories, drank tea, and after two hours just said goodbye and left.