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by kkylin 5y ago
I've also gotten through about the first 1/3. Based on this, and the table of contents, it goes into much more depth (both in terms of implementation and non-trivial illustrative examples) into a number of topics that are either
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by kkylin 5y ago
I've not yet read the article, just the abstract. But the abstract is pretty precise, and being "measurable" is a very weak constraint. For (computationally) complex functions like a hash, my first guess is the "escape
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by kkylin 5y ago
I'm an academic (applied math) and want to respond to this: academic papers are the way they are for lots of reasons, many of which (not so good) have been mentioned on HN. There are a couple that I do not see very often however: (1)
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by kkylin 5y ago
As a native Mandarin speaker, I don't tend to think of the "ten" as a ten. If anything, for me it conjures up an image of the number of 0s. So, the "hundreds" part in "four hundreds" would just means fou
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I generally agree with you, with the addition that when I write a "table of contents in a paragraph," I try to always help the reader figure out what they can and cannot (or should not) skip. Sometimes people just want a rough id
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Reminds me of two things that readers of this post may also find interesting: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/dont-prematurel... https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/be-sceptic
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by kkylin 5y ago
Hey! I still have my copy of Beneath Apple ProDOS. Much more complicated beast.
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Just looking at the screenshots makes me tear up a little. I loved my SE/30 and everything I could do on it. Wish I'd kept it.
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I bike with my mask on for that reason. As a bonus, it also helps with my allergies. (I do wear a helmet -- as much out of fear of getting hit by a bike on campus as by a car off.)
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Clever idea! I have no knowledge about any of this whatsoever, but would venture to guess that in states where this kind of thing happens, licensing to become a distributor may be very difficult. For example, the total number of licenses m
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by kkylin 5y ago
Indeed. I see where everyone on HN is coming from. But if you're a physicist, and you've come across a lot of "deep learning applied to physics but the model has no physics in it" (and there's plenty of that), the
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I don't disagree with your point, but do want to add that not publishing on "fundamental truths" isn't the same as not asking those questions. Not everyone's going to have something novel, plausible, and fundamenta
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And ventilation, apparently. I was told [0] that it had been designed with open spaces in mind. And when research groups decided they didn't like people walking through spaces where people are working (esp working on hardware ) and
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That's awesome! Now, if only one could find a working 3.5" floppy drive to read all those old disks...
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Neat, thank you for posting. Though the biggest problem for me is not technical, but finding a collaborator who uses Emacs...
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Addendum: I was looking for this short article from Physics Today ( https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.882562 ) but page 2 is behind a paywall. Then there's the book ( https://www.amazo
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by kkylin 5y ago
Wilczek himself has been writing / speaking about ether. A couple things I could dig up on short notice: - https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-feynman-diagrams-are-so-i... - https://news.asu.edu/2017020
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by kkylin 5y ago
The video told me most of what I wanted to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzAoJzlkzZ4 Article has a link to the lab, which may have more information (I didn't check).
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Many online conferences I've attended this past year have both a Zoom meeting for registered participants and a YouTube "simulcast" for people who don't care about asking questions. I haven't run one and don't
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by kkylin 5y ago
AFAIK HN itself runs on Arc ( http://arclanguage.org/ ), which is implemented in Racket (formerly in PLT). Does that count? Edit: in addition, I used PLT (Racket's predecessor) for my own scientific computing needs, e.g
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Those with a bit more math background may enjoy Cohen's own perspective on the discovery of forcing: https://projecteuclid.org/journals/rocky-mountain-journal-of... (Not technical as these things go, but helps to
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I'm a mathematician. I spend a lot of time staring into space and mumbling to myself. Sometimes, though, when I'm just zoned out, my wife would ask: "Are you working on something?"
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In addition to everything everyone else said, I have loved all of Ted Chiang's short stories. And almost everything Neal Stephenson's written, with the exception of REAMDE (which I personally found rather forgettable). I would al
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I have to admit my memory about these things is quite hazy. About the mathematics, I do not have anything useful to add. About the history, you may be right, but my recollection seems mostly compatible with the brief history recounted in
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by kkylin 5y ago
No, but Nash was the first (AFAIK) to prove that every Riemannian manifold can be isometrically embedded in an Euclidean space of sufficiently high dimension. See, e.g., [1,2]. Previous embedding theorems (see Whitney embedding [3]) prese
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by kkylin 5y ago
People who like this may also be interested in Nelson's little book on probability using infinitesimals: https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/books/rept.pdf
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I'm an applied mathematician, and faced with the same choice years ago I stuck with academia. I have no regrets, but don't think I would have regretted (too much) leaving either. For me personally, the money hasn't been a ha
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Just compare Bardeen to Shockley.
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I suppose brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus first? (I haven't tried it yet, and not sure I will.)
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PS I have tried Pluto and find that I don't like it very much in its current form, though I kind of like the idea.

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