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by matheist 11y ago
In mathematics, multiple authors are always listed alphabetically by family name; ie there is no "first" or "second" author. In the situation you describe, the paper would probably be singly authored, and the author woul
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Interesting; I hadn't seen that before, and as soon as I saw it I thought "ooh shiny!". Is there a quick reason why I shouldn't use it?
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Mochizuki would have benefited greatly from such a co-author, in order to truly prove his result to the community. Except that, from reading the article, it sounds like he doesn't much care about proving his result to the community.
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by matheist 11y ago
X/Z are used in the 'program structure' example without introducing them beforehand Probably intentional. A big part of the skill of reverse-engineering that they're introducing here is the feeling of "I don'
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Agreed about ease. The first time I reversed anything was when I was playing a shareware game on my mom's Quadra 650 running Mac OS 7.6.1. I was maybe 12 or 13. I had reached the end of the game's limited demo, and it asked me to
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by matheist 11y ago
TIL = today I learned
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And if there are always 3 animals (like on mine), then one out of every 35 (= 7 choose 3) bots will get through it anyway. Even if each picture is uniformly and independently an animal or non-animal, one out of every 128 bots will get throu
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by matheist 11y ago
1) Consider signing up for cryonics, if you live in the United States. The Cryonics Institute[0] and Alcor[1] both provide cryonics. It's a long shot, and dying and getting frozen is the second worst thing that can happen to you, but t
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So, like level 2 of microcorruption?
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by matheist 12y ago
Write a script to post awful things about everyone. Then write a script to post nice things about everyone.