mixedmath

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   by mixedmath 5y ago

   I gave up pretty recently, within the last 5 years. My travel computer struggled to handle use of slack and gmail at the same time. When I transitioned away from the gmail app, I also transitioned away from using gmail as my primary account
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   by mixedmath 5y ago

   getmail, fetchmail, and offlineimap all work well for this. I currently use getmail and offlineimap (on different boxes) to fetch emails over IMAP, and configure mutt to use my usual smtp to send.
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   by mixedmath 5y ago

   The website it at: https://www.lrb.co.uk/ I see it's published twice a month. I also see that it has an RSS feed that doesn't seem to have an obvious link on the front page: https://lrb.co.uk/feeds
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   by mixedmath 5y ago

   If you have a math-savvy person in your circles, it might be a good idea to set up a chat with them. I think a good beginning point would be to identify a specific problem or concept that you've encountered that gave you some difficult
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   by mixedmath 5y ago

   Could you expand on how the ethos of Stallman is at odds with libertarianism a bit more?
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   by mixedmath 5y ago

   I like this list. In a time when there are many listicals and claimed "curated" collections that are little more than lists of affiliate links, I find value in actual curated lists with actual opinions. It helps that I think many
7. 97.▲
   by mixedmath 5y ago

   When you say log n slowdown, what is n here? The length of the program? Or something completely different?
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   by mixedmath 5y ago

   I frequently hear about how amazing the experience of coding interactively with lisp is. I learned a bit of lisp (at the level of Practical Common Lisp) and scheme (via SICP) once upon a time, but I never coded interactively. Is there a way
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   by mixedmath 5y ago

   As per Betteridge's Law, the answer is "no" and the article takes its time getting there. This is really an article about how athletes can have lower resting heart rates with some notes on how one might try to actively reduce
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    > As luck would have it, a widely circulated publicity still showed Russell Crowe intent behind "0 < Pi < 1" taken straight from that paper. That's funny. I see this as the first image in the gallery here [1]. I wond
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    I have this set up with vim and evince as well. It's very handy.
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    I was one of the (evidently very few) users of Wave. While it had many features, the one I remember now very fondly was proper message threading. It wasn't until years later that I used my first email program (mutt, of all things) with
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    These are exceptionally clear notes. They're easy to read and feel comprehensive. I also note that the author is the current CPython developer in residence (a recently created position).
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    I play it on linux. It runs just fine on my Ubuntu+awesomewm without me having to run through any hoops.
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    This comment is related to the title but not the content. Several years ago I read "The Planiverse" by Dewdney [1], which I thought was delightful. The premise is that a CS professor and his students simulate a Game-of-life/L
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    I'm growing more interested in actually understanding some of the internals that you mention here. I know this is a bit of a tangent, but is there a better way to approach understanding python's internals than reading the source (
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    I particularly like the iterated development approach to teaching on this site. That is, one starts with some minimal working code, states a goal, and then modifies the code to accomplish that goal --- repeatedly. This is a very powerful wa
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    This is a long article. The central suggestion is that there should be limitations on what people can do with content that enters the public domain. I think some of the interesting aspects of this article can be exposed in a small hypotheti
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    This is good scientific writing. The article discusses some nuance and hints at the complexity of the topic, but presents results in a widely understandable way.
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    What are some useful ways you've used your own data?
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    Now there are so many math fossils on google+. Activity is elsewhere. The math blogosphere remains pretty healthy. Thankfully many mathematicians maintain useful and interesting personal sites. If Wordpress suddenly died, there would be a b
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    I was beginning my math PhD around this time, and I remember seeing so much math discussion on google+ (which is mentioned frequently in the linked page). I don't know why this was the case, but it really was true --- there was so much
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    I read this and think it's well written. I see it's published in The Intelligencer, which is apparently an offshoot of NYMagazine. I'm not particularly familiar with either, but I hadn't realized that news-type things wo
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    This is a nice article. I know of a couple other resources. First and foremost is the site modernnomographs [1]. Popular mechanics once included a perpetual calendar nomograph [2]. Possibly pynomo [3], a python tool to make nomographs, woul
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    I think this is easier to see if we consider a milliter of water and stick with celsius. 1ml of water weights 1 gram, and raising this ml of water one degree celsius is 1 (little c) calorie. Drinking 1 ml of ice water (at about 0 degrees ce
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    I think this is a beautiful article. There's code, there's math. There are many plotted examples using a variety of different plotting techniques (in total, representing a 2d array as data, or in black/white, or with a terrib
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    Here's a concrete example. The first matrix in the post is f = [[1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1]]. In linear algebra, we would interpret this as a linear map. A true equation would be f([1, 2, 3]^T) = [6, 6, 6]^T (where I'm using ^
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    Gosh, I'm tired of MDPI emails asking for reviews in 10 days, or asking for papers, etc. They are terrible. I also made the mistake of reviewing for them once. It was a very easy review, as the paper (also mathematics) was absolute cra
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    For those unaware, this is exactly the main point of the story "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow. I liked the story and would recommend it.
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    by mixedmath 5y ago

    MathJax works well for me, but I also don't make extensive use of macros. It's also possible to demacro your tex. I'll also note that Terry started his site a long time ago, when mathjax either didn't exist or worked poo