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by llamaz 10y ago
I think he/she is just being playful and humorous. But since I'm studying math along side EE, I feel like I should comment about the role (or lack thereof) of proof in practical applications. MRIs fall into the field of electrical
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by llamaz 10y ago
Often if you understand the equations you can "half re-derive" them from the given information. That is, you can start to work them out from first principles to jog your memory, then write the rest from memory. Other times, e.g. i
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by llamaz 10y ago
Nothing is too abstract for a grown adult. It's expected that by that stage you will struggle through whatever is thrown at you. In fact the book list I've copied and pasted are the recommended texts from the "computer engine
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by llamaz 10y ago
I'd recommend he read the "structure and interpretation of computer programs". It's written for audience who would, at the time, have found programming novel, but would be at home with math. Hence it's written in a
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by llamaz 10y ago
He wants to learn to code, not how to become a mathematician. As an EE student, there are plenty of engineers who know nothing about those topics (except maybe linear algebra) that have successfully completed the image processing/compu
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by llamaz 10y ago
My sister is a doctor. In Australia at least, they generally don't bother with interviews or resumes. Right out of university they write down preferences for where they would like to work, and based on their grades they are assigned a
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by llamaz 10y ago
"almost groups" are called semigroups. Somehow people have written multiple books on the subjects.
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by llamaz 10y ago
You're right. In that case 1 < infinity, so [0, 1] is not the same "size" as the real line.
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by llamaz 10y ago
you can't trivialise procrastination. Multiple books have been written on the subject, many of which go into the details of biology and economic theory.
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by llamaz 10y ago
There probably is _some_ mathematical formalism out there where there are less prime numbers than natural numbers. For example, most mathematicians would agree that there are as many reals in [0, 1] as there are in the real line. But accord
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by llamaz 10y ago
Bach was also known to have interesting melodic lines not only in the bass and soprano, but also in the middle voices.
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by llamaz 10y ago
Despite the Zeitgeist [1] of naming things after war or terrorism [2] hopefully words still have meaning [3]. [1]: spirit of the times/current fashion/popular tendencies [2]: which causes war/terrorism to lose meaning because
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by llamaz 10y ago
Good obscure xkcd reference
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by llamaz 10y ago
no you're right, I was thinking of Camus. The lineage is Schopenhauer -> Nietzsche -> Heidegger -> Sartre, with Camus and Kierkegaarde by themselves. Some criticism: Sartre isn't as respected as the others in academic phi
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by llamaz 10y ago
Sartre did not consider himself an existentialist, in the same sense as Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Kierkegaarde. He considered himself an absurdist, whatever that means. Also, Nietzsche was explicitly opposed to bhuddism, although this was m
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by llamaz 10y ago
If you think inheritance is central to OOP, then you are mistaken. The most important aspect of OOP is dynamic dispatch (e.g. objects accessed through Java interfaces), and that's closely related to the idea of messaging. Have a read o
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by llamaz 10y ago
Maybe at Carneigie Mellon, or the better universities. In a typical uni comp sci is a programming monkey degree (at least in Australia...)
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by llamaz 10y ago
I think oppenheim's book, and the 6.007 mitocw course explains fourier analysis pretty well
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by llamaz 10y ago
He probably didn't study electrical engineering, or switched out of it before signals and systems.
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by llamaz 10y ago
The general consensus is that his videos are very good. It's just his insistence that the real numbers shouldn't be used that is not accepted. Some mathematicians (1% of 1% of mathematicians) agree with him, most don't. edit:
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by llamaz 10y ago
I'm don't think anyone should buy from IBM after they bundled malware with that one laptop
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by llamaz 10y ago
What? I'm dual booting ubuntu on a macbook air right now. It works perfectly, apart from the webcam (well...until I upgraded to xenial and systemd. Now I'm using OS X. I'm not really helping my case here)
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by llamaz 10y ago
I agree. In his own time, Bach wasn't very well known. Handel on the other hand was an international superstar. Now the tables have turned.
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by llamaz 10y ago
> you literally do not possess you don't seem to understand what the word literally means, and are appropriating it to further your own intellectual dishonesty. "Literally" has such an intuitive meaning and I find that you
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by llamaz 10y ago
Thanks for the links :) I've saved them and hope to eventually make my way through them
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by llamaz 10y ago
> I've seen too many project's that have drunken the cool aid and has resulted in 5-10 level deep inheritance tree's with their own branching logic trying to fit behavior to a specific taxonomy. I don't think you unde
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by llamaz 10y ago
I agree with the overall message, so my criticism is of the writing itself: (i) The writing is way too vitriolic, and centered around a single experience with a single person. I don't think there's anything wrong with anecdotal ev
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by llamaz 10y ago
It is typical of a hamburger eating American to generalize an entire generation.
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by llamaz 10y ago
> dabbling in schemas and rule systems / logic programming (as a substitute for conditional statements That sounds interesting. Could you elaborate or post a link?
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by llamaz 10y ago
> or has thought for a few moments As is obvious even to a child...

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