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by mrcactu5 13y ago
In 2004, Roger Penrose published "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" which is 1100 pages long. http://staff.washington.edu/freitz/penrose.pdf "One of my mother’s closest friends, when she was a young girl,
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
Bloomberg bought himself a 3rd term in New York City. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_New_York_City#Ter... Maybe he can afford to modify the Constitution.
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
I don't really care for Sheryl Sandberg or Marisa Mayer, but I like Anne-Marie Slaughter. Heard her speak a few times, when I was at Princeton. I really think this discussion is about "What [White] [American] Women Want". It's a shame tha
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
You can take relative weights (a,b,c) and take the partial sums: (0,a,a+b,a+b+c) random() gives values in [0,1], so divide your numbers by a + b + c. Generating random structures is the tip of a very big iceberg.
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
I enjoyed reading "This Time is Different" I think their discussions of debt has motivated us to look at this concept in more depth. Maybe we can improve on their crude excel spreadsheet analysis. Then someone should do it!
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
i like how Microsoft is quietly reinventing itself -- by stealing everyone else's great ideas. Nonetheless...
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
i have a blog with no readers! it's my notes from attempts to write my PhD thesis. Heroku makes it a cinch to self-publish http://mrcactu5.herokuapp.com/blog You're no longer restricted to WordPress either since you can use MathJax CDN
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
we say grouping students by "ability" but don't we just wind up grouping students by correlated variables like gender, race, socioeconomic status, geographic location ? the equality of education and allocation of other resources is not homo
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
math research would be much more relevant if they talked to engineers (and hopefully are listened to). In college a I was told "quantum mechanics = linear algebra" then I hear "electrical engineering = linear algebra". They were right. The
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
Math Ninja -- interested in problems related to quantitative aspects of webdev: ui/ux, data analysis/visualization. Resume -- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17949100/John%20Mangual%20CV.pdf Github -- https://gist.github.com/monsieurcactus
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
I'm in math grad school, and I'm really surprised CS majors don't know this stuff or find it useful. Probably this should be changed.
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by mrcactu5 14y ago
john baez has been blogging for years on math and physics * http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html math is separated from the other disciplines in a very artificial way. but I am also skeptical of any one book who makes as bold claims th