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by mrcactu5 9y ago
i know this is supposed to be a beginner textbook, but his discussion of infinitesimal geometry uses an awful amount of Scheme Theory to justify.
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
a lot at stake this year with a discussion of the foundations. Leonard Susskind, Adam R. Brown, Ying Zhao Quantum Complexity and Negative Curvature https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02612 The Second Law of Quantum Complexity
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
a lot of these protests such as "Occupy Wall Street" or "Black Lives Matter" have the right idea, but they are not sharp enough to be meaningful. Know your audience.
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
example 12, "Tiling a Rectangle by Squares" is rather unique; it was discussed in Stanislav Smirnov's Fields medal lecture in 2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_square In his lecture he puts
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
HIV is kind of like that too, when they circumvented CRISPR. I hear the nearest cure is decades away. Hopefully they have solved ad-blocking.
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
cases like these usually depend on who is making money in the event of a decision. business make money off advertisements, therefore it's free speech
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
whoa -- I didn't know geogebra could be put on the web
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
i like this book because it has certain time and resource constraints in mind. that maybe a typical professional programmer does not have. but maybe someone from another subject can learn.
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
this NLP might be missing perceptions on parts of different groups of listeners. Different cultures may correlate language and race / gender differently
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
i think it's no coincidence Godel's proof of uncountable reals, comes around the same time as Lebesgue integration. As mathematicians started exploring what the serious use of Fourier series
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
what will be your strategy for maintaining this library?
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
Telling the truth can be costly. Overwhelmingly we massage the facts to get the point across without causing too much damage. Textbook simplify a complicated facts for students, that is not lying. Commercials aren't lying because th
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
nope. I come from one of the world's producers of coffee, Puerto Rico. Starbucks give me a break. I've seen better stuff at in the grocery aisle.
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
can this help people who are trying to learn Hanzi of any kind, not just calligraphy?
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
i don't think the law will improve the information disparity. I think employers will quickly find ways around it as they always have and it will promptly be business as usual.
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
you will see...
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
keep telling yourself that... this law is bullshit
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
umm... laws like this don't last very long. employers quickly develop work arounds. I will be interested to see what hiring managers try (or fail).
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
i write particularly bad resumes (as my colleagues have told me) and I find resume critiques dreadful. A tool like that produces the basic item is truly helpful.
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
my favorite data science paradox is the "curse of dimensionality" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
we have experienced droughts in Puerto Rico. this could likely lower our water prices as well. http://www.noticel.com/noticia/177413/la-sequia-es-para-larg...
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
it's so strange to see Victor Granville, there is also Andrew Granville and he writes professionally on patterns of the primes. "Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy" (Quanta Magazine, 2016) A previously unnoticed propert
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
I haven't seen it yet... what's with that final four (common to all languages)?
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
it looks beautiful. sometimes applications like this are hesitant to share their source code b/c of their business model or something. are there any good "hackable" web browsers these days?
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
terry tao has a great discussion of the entropy power inequality http://mathoverflow.net/questions/167951/entropy-proof-of-br...
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
I like pulling apart the different Chinese characters into the radicals.
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
can Python now be used instead of Java? for example Go language, I heard is not a total substitute for Java for Android
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
is this an effective tool for beginners?
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
these formula books have been around for a long time. and you can generate your own! a lot of people here are engineers? I wonder have you guys tried proving some of them?
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
one day I woke up and realized the mathematics curriculum is almost completely arbitrary. there is no reason to teach algebra, geometry, trigonometry in that order by the middle of graduate school everyone is self-teaching and you may

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