mikorym

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by mikorym 7y ago
I can't speak French, so my comment is based on what other mathematicians tell me. Unfortunately, Grothendieck, Galois and as far as I know, Bourbaki is not fully translated. And unless someone actually spends many years doing it, a lo
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by mikorym 7y ago
IMH (and biased) O, a lot of great coders are implimentors, or let's say applied computers scientists. That is great for building incredible open source software and a lot of other things that I would not be able to do given a 1000 y
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by mikorym 7y ago
What do you mean... Bourbaki is in French.
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by mikorym 7y ago
> It doesn't sound like this actually federates with anything else. I think it's for the people who consider that a feature.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Separate question: Is it possible to configure your terminal to forward to your local vim installation through SSH?
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by mikorym 7y ago
French mathematics is famous for being written as prose and by extension for being much more instructive than an English equivalent (provided that said mathematics was discovered by a French person).
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by mikorym 7y ago
Binary Search. (And its antithesis, exponential growth.) In my opinion it is the single most important piece of computer science insight with the constraint that you only have less than an hour. I often use binary search as a sort of though
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by mikorym 7y ago
What is the size of an accepted message in bytes?
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by mikorym 7y ago
To these people [the very rich], taxes are costs. And costs are there to be reduced, ideally to zero. [1] [1] https://www.cumex-files.com/en/
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by mikorym 7y ago
They mention farming applications... but is there any chance of this actually becoming available for farmers?
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by mikorym 7y ago
Wasn't that Porsche before the Cayenne too?
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by mikorym 7y ago
I don't know about the genetics part, but what I have noticed is that Jewish "leaf nodes" tend to be great mathematicians or otherwise intellectual. What I mean by this is a child/person of Jewish descent, that is no lon
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by mikorym 7y ago
I have to say it's really frustrating to duplicate functionality (in any way). This is what has happened to Slack, Quip, Salesforce and for that matter Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. I want one way to view code (Vim), one way to view
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by mikorym 7y ago
> Needless to say, von Neumann‘s main contributions to the atomic bomb would not be as a lieutenant in the reserve of the ordnance department, but rather in the concept and design of the explosive lenses that were needed to compress the
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by mikorym 7y ago
In an answer to the question of why there is no evidence of intelligent life beyond earth despite the high probability of it existing, Szilárd responded: "They are already here among us – they just call themselves Hungarians." [
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think the next logical step for Apple is to use textual analysis on this HN thread to optimise for what the following change should be...
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by mikorym 7y ago
Mathematicians and computer scientists have it easy in some sense. You can always argue that math is more difficult and hence your reward is this freedom from expensive lab work, but I think that argument is disingenuous when you look at th
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by mikorym 7y ago
Maybe in theory, but if you look in particular at the reference labelled [1], it seems like they prefer to act as though it doesn't exist and if other people try to get vertical search going, then they simply block their startups.
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by mikorym 7y ago
p^2 - 1 = 24n [1] [1] https://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/fifteen.htm
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by mikorym 7y ago
I wonder if this is why corrupt politicians are called "fat cats". I thought it was just for the rhyme.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I started to work instead of doing a PhD and I think it was a good decision. The sad part is having less time and progressing more slowly with research (outside of one's job, whatever it may be) but maybe it's better than not havi
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by mikorym 7y ago
What would the performance impact be if they simply took away speculative execution (but not cashing)?
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by mikorym 7y ago
What kind of signal analysis do the oil companies do these days (like wavelet transforms)? My (in my opinion failed) HonsBSc project was on signal analysis of GC-MS (Gas Chromatography coupled to Mass Spectrometry) signals. If I had to do i
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by mikorym 7y ago
Trying not to be ignorant here, but what is the use case? Are there no Linux tablets (with a keyboard)? It kind of looks as though you would use this if you are a very tech savvy electrician...
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by mikorym 7y ago
> what does this have to do with OP OP made the point that Google does not want to address this problem and may even facilitate it (maybe passively). However, they have actively prevented progress on search engines that may be more diffi
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by mikorym 7y ago
> It's almost 2020... Google knows about this Google also knows about vertical search [1] and actively destroys anyone who pops up with a good new algorithm and hope for a startup. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by mikorym 7y ago
You mean "large-scale", as in many computers?
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by mikorym 7y ago
There are different ways of explaining this (like conversely talking about what computers and computation are) but my personal preference is to explain it in terms of time. We don't understand physics well enough to know whether time (
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by mikorym 7y ago
This reminds me that such people also think that the visual experience of browsing the internet is somehow "fixed". My impression of social media is that one of its draws (pitfalls actually) is that it gives the impression of diff
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by mikorym 7y ago
Mathematician here, I don't think the singularity as popularised through people like Ray Kurzweil would happen. In particular, their metaphor of an "infinity" point seems to me like the incorrect application of mathematical i

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