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by linhvn 5d ago
Then your point is? One should not make Uber pay $40M to the fatal victim's family, or one should make the driver pay $40M to the victim's family (which the driver definitely does not have $40M), or one should award all the traffi
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by linhvn 6d ago
Use AI to deepen my understanding and learning some interesting math. I studied a lot of combinatorics in high school, but my understand at that time was very adhoc (that most of combinatorics problems are just a bunch of elementary tricks
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by linhvn 9d ago
"AI tends to make interesting things boring" If a conjecture can be one-shotted by OpenAI Astra, I have a hard time believing it is interesting.
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by linhvn 9d ago
If this is the viewpoint of mathematics, why does it make a difference that human or AI solve it? And forget about "understanding", because "understanding" in mathematical sense means in a very narrow way: top experts of
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by linhvn 9d ago
Throughout the history, we had made some of the best mathematicians abandon math. In turn, they apply their math skills somewhere else (hedge fund), and the companies they founded absorbed all the people from academia. This has happened num
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by linhvn 15d ago
Reform the way math is taught and researched. Right now, the aspiring mathematicians have to follow a ritual and system for 15+ years: undergrad -> PhD -> postdoc -> faculty, specializing on very narrow fields and god forbid if the
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by linhvn 15d ago
And I am outraged by their dinosaur mindset and the gatekeeping mentality that force every student to follow their same archaic system that no longer makes sense 20 years ago, let alone now.
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by linhvn 3y ago
They get a special, non immigrant work visa. If they want to apply for green card they subsequently need to apply for H-1B.
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by linhvn 3y ago
This is the similar mindset in sport athletes. On a good day, a strong driver could beat Verstappen, or a chess player could beat Carlsen. Over the course of a tournament, or a season, then Verstappen and Carlsen are unbeatable. They get to
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by linhvn 3y ago
That is true for the older generation (immigrating to US pre 1990-ish). The newer generation immigrating to US has a very different mindset now, and they embrace American values as much as the native born here.
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by linhvn 3y ago
Which people? If you are software engineers or AI researchers, sure. Otherwise, it probably won't matter to you.
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by linhvn 3y ago
I'd say it usually comes from the difficulty in hiring. Extremely difficult to convince someone to leave FAANG / quant firms to work in a no name startup with very high chance of failures, and therefore usually you need a good GTM
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by linhvn 3y ago
Yes, it was lucky that he was tutored my a Fields medalist. But he did the hard work to get himself tutored: sitting in an algebraic geometry class (that saw attendances dropping from 200 to 5 within a few weeks), reaching out to the profes
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by linhvn 3y ago
I'm not sure if this is intimidating. A draft implementation could be done without too much difficulty: https://gist.github.com/ll931110/985a4ec711c6711b120846be05e...
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by linhvn 3y ago
Traders learn bps on the first day of their job, similar to you learn version control on your first day of your SWE intern. What's the difference?
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by linhvn 3y ago
How can he make friends with other kids? Partying, dancing, playing baseball, going to date night, etc.? It's clear that he's not interested in those, and forcing him to do so only causes him to withdraw further to his bubble. At
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by linhvn 3y ago
You give the red card. Period. Nowadays, thanks to VAR, the controversial cases can be reviewed on the replay and referees have ample of time to make the call.
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by linhvn 3y ago
Wondering how much details you have considered on using Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform for dimensionality reduction on ANN search? e.g. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/pubs/FJLT-sicomp09.pd...
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by linhvn 3y ago
If you fake injuries, or fall in the penalty area, you might get a yellow / red card. So no cheaties here, especially with VAR now in place.
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by linhvn 4y ago
MIT has an expectation that students would cover their programming skills via internships or outside jobs, and thus they focus on teaching CS which is quite hard to pick up on your own. Unlike frameworks or trends which change every 2 years
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by linhvn 4y ago
Computer Science is not about learning to make software, although it is usually a byproduct, as strong understanding of fundamental allows you to design software correctly from the first principle. Programming; however, is usually done th
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by linhvn 4y ago
I remembered Alphasheets was acquired by Google a couple of years ago for doing similar thing (they programmed in Haskell which is really cool) https://medium.com/bloated-mvp/alphasheets-mvp-review-ec328e...
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by linhvn 4y ago
Yes it is small, but you want to incentivize that, because someone smart enough will make it happen. Or you can be smart enough to do both.
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by linhvn 4y ago
What is the differentiation of DuckDB compared to previous OLAP databases such as Snowflake or Singlestore?
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by linhvn 4y ago
Video illustration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP2yJqGQ2FU
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by linhvn 4y ago
As the old say, the devil lies in details. Writing a global control is no means an easy task, as 1. You need to recognize the opportunities exist in the first place. 2. You need a global controller that can aggregate and optimize for a glob
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by linhvn 4y ago
For people looking for alternatives, Kalshi (YC W19) is a regulated exchange on event contracts. It offers some markets similar to PredictIt (and more).
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by linhvn 4y ago
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31149038
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by linhvn 4y ago
Seconded this. I interviewed at MemSQL in 2013 as an intern, and that (plus other algo based questions) get me really hooked to MemSQL.