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what happens if you're not in the top 3% of freelance talent. what happens if you're actually not that good? I am not kidding. By design that site eliminates 97% of applicants -- be it front-end or mobile development or Python o
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symbols with equal amount of open and close parentheses in order are counted by Catalan numbers (())()(()())(()) these count different arrangement of parentheses for function application. this guy is describing something like cont
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Non CS-major here (in fact I did math). I don't know anything about kernels or micro-kernels. Easy cases, even grossly over-simplified cases would be relevant. I know that every time I run a command into bash Linux is doing all sorts
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I don't see what the big deal is. AirBNB can turn normal citizens into landlords. The best hosts will actually take care of their apartment. So in theory the Free Market protects the interests of both hosts and renters. Maybe? Th
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I get the sense startups were more optimistic in previous years. Emphasis these days is more about making money. Perhaps I could be talking to the wrong people.
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does anyone actually fall for these?
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slightly old and slightly technical -- the discussion on MathOverflow -- not nearly as good as the Sokkuri House example http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106560/philosophy-behind-m...
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Pixar has a course through Khan academy. The algebra gets quite advanced! https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/animate I don't mind if the images are too realistic -- just some good shading here
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are you kidding? what is the vector space being use in word2vec?
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doesn't this turn Mathematica into a scripting language for Haskell?
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
we learn about such paradoxes in statistics class -- no matter how many times we resolve them in class -- I routinely trip over them in real life. As so startups, Moms, large companies, US Presidents, car drivers and pretty much everyone e
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
Tesseract is not specific to JavaScript right? I do recall there being a version for Python
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this is really excellent I am part of a meet-up of theorists who do build websites... but are also curious how frameworks like React work under the hood. What algorithms they use, frameworks, etc. It's possible to build a nice web-sit
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here's a nice answer on MathOverflow http://mathoverflow.net/questions/251470/topology-and-the-20...
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I don't think the standards are lower (certainly they weren't at Princeton) -- University standards may not perfectly align with the job market, perhaps?
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this is at a time when Obama is bragging about our low unemployment rate (as it is an Election year)... http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 often we can construct the narrative first and find supporting data lat
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
maybe I don't want Twitter owning my Tweets however, I do agree... This is not the first Twitter clone on here?
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the same proof is discussed on math.stackexchange http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/61482/proving-the-id...
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how hard is it to add a single letter to your font. say a triangle? I suppose I could use a Delta, and get HΔPPY -- I guess that's how the t-shirt was made. in general, though -- is Metafont still the way we add new fonts to TeX these
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
let me give a ridiculous argument that all 3 events A,B,C are equally likely: * event A involves getting one 6 from six dice * event B involves getting two 6's from twelve dice * event C involves getting three 6's from eig
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
What about Lady Gaga? (Stefani Germanotta) Article says she was part of this study.
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by mrcactu5 10y ago
I am concerned about the metrics these guys are using to measure aptitude and their measures of success. Top 95% income bracket -- I mean that's nice. Than again, I am not inside that 1 in 10000 range -- this study certainly does not
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This is a conjecture that desperately needs resolving with solid statistics and in-depth interviews. This thread is not representative -- include engineers and professionals who may do math for a living. That's not everybod
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similar: Lou Kauffman's "Box Arithmetic" http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/Arithmetic.htm
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just curious -- what motivated you to write a new text editor?
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Observe that Gauss was part of the Polcastro family tree. It takes a lot of clicking to verify as much https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=18230 Pfaff https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.ph
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Homotopy Type Theory by Vladimir Voevodsky is another possibility. This is an attempt to link Topology and Computer Science https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/ Back in the day there was Feynman's Lectures on Com
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In order to appreciate how phenomenally basic this derivation is: here is a derivation using Euler's infinite product expansion of the sin(x) function. http://www.jstor.org.sci-hub.cc/stable/10.4169/amer.math
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it is also a bit shorter - what really gets me are the hand-written equations and constants.
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this is so thorough! I lived in Tokyo for 3 months during the end of 2010 -- so this is a great review!

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