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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Nima Arkani-Hamed is a nortorious loudmouth. I went to his lecture from 1-3 and we got an encore from 3-5 and another from 5-6. It is no surprise his paper is verbose clocking at 154 pages. Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmanni
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
I remember starting to grasp what "big data" meant when I had a phone interview with Twitter. @ Imagine you have some numbers spread over some computers -- too many to fit in one computer find the median. ▪ Uhh, sort them? @ Can y
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Accessing LaTeX graphics features directly is really cool,I would just use numpy and d3.js or flotr or something. Why not use the MathJaX CDN directly? I even wrote an IDE (basically stolen from MathOverflow) to type markdown and have it re
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
there are easier ways to hack NES these days
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
I think Google is being less than transparent here, but I couldn't tell you why. The NSA scandal seems to be the straw that broke the camel's back. How many passwords does Google hold? Maybe a billion? Google has decide it'
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
I'd like to learn more from these spam-bots about how they are making money off my passwords. Perhaps I can quit my (wonderful) day-job and sell v1agra.
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
experts are a really strange feature in our society. at one point they may have been at the top of their game. they grow older the game chances, they retain their titles. we do it out of respect -- how do we tell these guys they are wrong
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Isn't Blink the opposite, where experts are supposed to have the uncanny ability to detect fraud?
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
from a pure math point of view: You can solve the cube – with commutators! http://lamington.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/you-can-solve-the-...
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Looks like you were trying to complete data found with Optical Character Recognition by maximum-entropy. This is awesome. What are some other use cases for this? With APIs much of the data I use has already been formatted in JSON or CSV alr
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
[Statistical parsing]( http://nlp.stanford.edu/courses/lsa354/ ) is often used in Natural Language Processing, where can't decide which how to arrange sentences into trees, so they pick one at random among acce
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Newbie here, mostly familiar with OOP. What is the difference between how Clojure and other functional programming languages declare types.
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Why is RapGenius interested in this ??
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
How were they able to collect all the Wedding announcements. Doens't NYT limit the number of articles or what portions of text they can retrieve?
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Currently I use MathOverflow's `ask question` feature. This is a great 1st rails project. Also there should be mathematician's Twitter.
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
i didn't know you could put that on instagram...
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
execution
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
what about the risks of being called stupid??
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
I really wish they'd use PDF instead of powerpoint. It's really surprising there's this much math in videogame programming. There is all kinds of awesome geometry algorithms out there but I didn't know if they were used
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Where does the blog style come from ?
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Black Hole Information as Topological Qubits(arxiv.org)
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
it's a beautiful letter K. will they add it to Unicode?
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
for the uninitated, what does he mean decentralization?
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
why can it detect humans and not other moving objects? knowing how many people on the other side of the wall will change our sense of privacy
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
the internet is made for porn ♫♫♫ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bQo05WkHyc
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
how do they take out all the porn? i'm serious!
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
The public has unprecedented access to information b/c of the stuff publicized on HackerNews. Should come as any surprise the White House also has this access? I just assume Barack is LOLing everytime I crack a funny on twitter.
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
PhD's and Startups are similar enough experiences that they can be constrasted. Every PhD is unique - REALLY unique and only a few people in the world understand. Startups these days seem to be as individual. I agree that PhD's and startu
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Science is broken. It's just this site is redonkulous.
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
This differential geometry book is convenient. If only someone could port this book into Python.

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