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by mayd 3y ago
Many would disagree with your characterisation of pure mathematics, computer science, or both. And I am certain that computer science yields nothing to pure mathematics in her pursuit of abstraction.
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by mayd 3y ago
As the late Martin Gardiner opined: "Every few decades an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognised at once as a major literary event. This is such a work." N
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by mayd 3y ago
Case 1: Suppose there are n doors and Monty does not know what is behind any of the doors. You choose one door at random. Then Monty opens (n-2) of the remaining doors AT RANDOM until there is only one other door left. By chance non
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by mayd 3y ago
For those who want to see quirky Australian children's television programming for older children may I suggest this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Twist
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by mayd 3y ago
It continues to surprise me that Principia Mathematica (PM) still gets mentioned so regularly in discussions related to computer science topics. As far as I can tell, PM was one of the least influential works in any branch of mathematics or
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by mayd 3y ago
The scientific method is the only method of enquiry that is valid if you are doing science. In science, skepticism of every theory, new or old, is expected, encouraged and valued, because, according to the scientific method, every theory i
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by mayd 3y ago
> I give Wolfram a ton of credit The ability to give credit is something of which Steven Wolfram is in very short supply! Never mind Wolfram's obvious debt to John Conway, John von Neumann and Alan Turing, among many. From an interv
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by mayd 3y ago
Thank you very much!
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by mayd 3y ago
> I learned to trust nothing that man says. I admit I did get a little caught up in Musk's web of hype in the early days but fortunately my natural scepticism was strong enough to resist him. Eventually, I found a few detailed ana
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by mayd 3y ago
I love corporate/financial/technology/mathematics thriller film genres but they seems to be a very small niche. Good ones are especially rare. My favourite is "Michael Clayton" (2007), and "Margin Call" (
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by mayd 3y ago
I found this very watchable, and nostalgic, despite the sometimes glaring technical inaccuracies. Lee Pace elevates any show in which he appears.
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by mayd 3y ago
You are incorrect. Natwest was forced to release internal documents about the debanking of Nigel Farage under an FOI request and it is clear from the evidence that he was debanked because of his politics. From the Guardian 30 July 2023: &lt
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by mayd 3y ago
the collective noun for cows is herd - not flock. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names >
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by mayd 3y ago
I would definitely choose Strang to begin learning Linear Algebra. He develops the geometric intuition you need for applying it in other subjects such as Calculus or Statistics or Physics. Linear Algebra is not just Abstract Algebra, at l
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by mayd 3y ago
> Isn‘t there anybody close to the Feynman of Linear Algebra? That would probably be Gilbert Strang. While, as a maths person I would prefer a bit more rigour, his choice of topics and his teaching skill make his the most outstanding int
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by mayd 3y ago
It gives me little shock every time I realise I have lived long enough to see the world turned upside down. What was once regarded as an anodyne statement of fact has become increasingly contested and is even rejected by a sizeable section
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by mayd 3y ago
And Brazil.
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by mayd 3y ago
Can't fix. Won't fix.
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by mayd 3y ago
My experience is similar. I got drawn into the I. T. security field in the early 1990s Internet era due to my technical background and experience. It was fun and rewarding at first. But by the late 2000s the huge burden of responsibility
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by mayd 3y ago
Great stuff! Mysticism and occult symbolism is what attracted me to mathematics in the first place. It's all great fun.
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by mayd 3y ago
> We didn't want to believe that all these smart people really were into stupidity like turning lead into gold. Alchemy was not stupid in the 17th century. You have the benefit of three centuries of subsequent scientific advances,
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by mayd 3y ago
Not in my zone of the international DRM prison system.
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by mayd 3y ago
I strongly disagree. While rigorous mathematical proof (logic) is a big part of modern mathematical research output, it is an impenetrable barrier to learning for most students, including maths students. I doubt any mathematician ever lear
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by mayd 3y ago
> This is the problem I find with the 3blue1brown videos. They're pretty but I never get any understand from them. So relieved to learn that I am not the only one!
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by mayd 3y ago
The difficulty of the Monty Hall Problem is not due to vague language (although some statements of it do suffer from vagueness). It is a genuinely astonishing result that many professional mathematicians, including statisticians, have trip
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by mayd 3y ago
A good introductory book is this one: "The Statistical Sleuth. A Course in Methods of Data Analysis" (3rd Edition) by Fred Ramsey and Daniel Schafer < http://www.statisticalsleuth.com/ >. Another good book at
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by mayd 3y ago
This discussion leaves unclear the the role of Pythagoras of Samos in the discovery of the Pythagorean Theorem. The statement of the theorem appears to have been known before the time of Pythagoras. He is credited with giving the first pr
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by mayd 3y ago
Most would call it surreal.
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by mayd 3y ago
Someone who is a Greek expat and pays attention to current events in Greece is more likely to be better informed than you (a non-Greek) simply because they know the history Greece better than you, and most importantly, they know the Greek l
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by mayd 3y ago
Then I suppose it's a good thing that Einstein did not live long enough to have his own Physics Youtube channel.

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