mrcactu5

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   by mrcactu5 10y ago

   Many base their theories on images, downloaded or drawn by hand, embedded in long pamphlets. A few use basic equations. Some add videos or applets. Some work with 3D models of Styrofoam, cardboard or wires. Actually t
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   by mrcactu5 10y ago

   #6 scaling the ladder of abstraction This is one I have a tough time explaining to students who are so focused on the task at hand they don't feel there's time to sit back and reason in generality.
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   by mrcactu5 10y ago

   discussion on MathOverflow http://mathoverflow.net/questions/31113/zagiers-one-sentence... they also find a involution based proof that p = x² + 2y² if and only if p = 8k+1 or p = 8k+3 it is possible to turn this
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   a thorough discussion on Numberphile (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyJlRUBoVp0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsIw8LHXM8
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   by mrcactu5 10y ago

   are there public data sets of images the scale of 15MB/s ?
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   by mrcactu5 10y ago

   The Bach data consists of 5727 notes from Partita No. 2 [11], with all notes mapped into a 12-symbol alphabet consisting of the 12 half-tones {C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B} with all timing, volume and octave informat
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   by mrcactu5 10y ago

   half the chapters are empty...
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   by mrcactu5 10y ago

   they're attaching that thing to the mouse's brain?
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   by mrcactu5 10y ago

   I have never seen a probabilistic approach to FLT but there is a branch of math called Probabilistic Number Theory https://people.math.ethz.ch/~kowalski/probabilistic-number-t... I am also not 100% sure Feynman wrote s
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    I had trouble finding the pdf of the article http://imsear.li.mahidol.ac.th/bitstream/123456789/175066/1/... are they sure these metals are non-toxic?
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    what is that on his head? is that even a toupee?
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    I recommend this video (from Harvard Math Department) "Locally symmetric spaces, and Galois representations" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFdm0B9KLcQ He connects Galois Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry and off yo
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    Is coconut strongly typed? Is it closer to Haskell or to Lisp / ML?
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    in my experience, when I am stuck figuring out types, I just let the compiler do it. As the error messages are so well-formed, it tells me exactly which lines are inconsistent and how to put the types back together. most compilers tell you
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    This is not the Washington Post. It is the Washington Times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times Founded in 1982 by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon, the Times was owned by News World Com
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    Is this the Washington Post? or the Washington Times? the Washington Times strikes me as having "conservative bias" as shown in their piece on the Democrat's War on Piece.
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    Business service robots will bring forward the day when we need to think hard about how to spread the massive wealth created by the automation of everything. So instead of allocating half of all wealth to the top 1% we&#
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    Did I read correctly that you are using Elm with Cordova? Perhaps you are using Elm to compile to HTML / CSS / JS which Cordova compiles to native code?
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    Wait so I am going to pay money to send my shit to these guys?
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    The intrinsic important of MCMC is clear. What kinds of applications would be of excitement to startup-oriented readers here on YCombinator? Also why is this called Quantum MCMC rather than just normal Markov Chain Monte Carlo? By coincide
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    by mrcactu5 10y ago

    Isn't this the idea behind Crossfit? I was always surprised the workouts were actually quite short maybe 10-15 minutes total of movement. Yet strangely I was losing weight and toning up fast. From one week to the next. Even in a rea
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    by mrcactu5 11y ago

    are we limited to certain libraries for now? I am guessing we can't do pip install, but maybe this version of Python can interact with other javascrupt (e.g. JQuery)?
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    by mrcactu5 11y ago

    Here is a map of the US according the distance to major cities. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2626281/The-m... Electoral college reform (fifty states with equal population) http://fakei
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    by mrcactu5 11y ago

    Does this guy live in New York?? The 4 train does not stop at Van Cordlant-242 St. That would be 1 train. I should know since I ride it every day. http://erikbern.com/assets/4_trips.png
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    by mrcactu5 11y ago

    A long and detailed list of prime number structures in Haskell https://wiki.haskell.org/Prime_numbers And a long list of algorithms. Many of which are surprising and probably not that efficient. The first few are: https:
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    what happens to mediocre people? are we fucked? and being successful at one time does not necessarily guarantee later success. Mozart died alone and with no money. Turing killed himself at the age of 41. It's not hard to look for m
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    by mrcactu5 11y ago

    I am concerned... OK the AlphaGo AI plays better than any human, but does it understand why? When I learn Go, there are all sorts of techniques such as joseki, life-death, tesuji. AlphaGo implicitly learned these techniques, since it learn
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    by mrcactu5 11y ago

    #1 huge fan of Elm -- was this build with start-app?? #2 i used the app and noticed you can collect data to build discriminant classifier. Even simpler - a Naive Bayes classifier since outcome is binary - Like / Dislike #3 (continuati
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    by mrcactu5 11y ago

    Non-transitive dice: A > B more than half the time. B > C more than half the time. C > A more than half the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice
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    by mrcactu5 11y ago

    here is a very theoretical account by Luca Trevisan of Stanford http://theory.stanford.edu/~trevisan/books/crypto.pdf