mmmmmmmike

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   by mmmmmmmike 2y ago

   Yeah, and even given that, there’s the question of how exactly it deforms from its flattened shape to make a spiral (and if this changes the area). I wouldn’t agree with the “correct” answer if the tape was very thick, but given that the an
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   by mmmmmmmike 3y ago

   I think that’s more about what he chose to publish. He was known for discovering things and keeping them to himself. As I understand it, he actually first came to conjecture quadratic reciprocity after doing incredible amounts of calculatio
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   by mmmmmmmike 5y ago

   One thing I distinctly remember they _weren't_ doing better was letting you just watch your video in piece. The controls were obtrusive and always visible, the background was bright white, and the suggested videos took up a huge chunk
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   by mmmmmmmike 8y ago

   Sort of. A Euclidean structure has “addition” but not “multiplication”. Having an additional operation that’s required to be associative, have inverses, distribute over addition, and play nicely with the norm turns out to be such a constrai
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   by mmmmmmmike 9y ago

   Many theorems let you know that something exists but don't tell you how to compute it efficiently (an orthogonal basis, eigenvalues, inverses, etc.) Also, sometimes algorithms can be invented and empirically shown to have good complexi