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by newprint 7y ago
Not entirely true. A lot of optimizations theory and practice are are straight-up inequalities. My claim is very simple: by being able to solve moderately-hard MO problems, you are developing excellent mathematical problem solving skills th
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by newprint 7y ago
There are numerous books devoted to Olympiad preparation, there are websites completely devoted to Olympiads, there are freely available problems sets (with complete solutions). To name the few: Hungarian Problem Books, Problem-Solving Stra
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by newprint 7y ago
To answer your question, I work in optimization. IMO (International Mathematical Olympiad) are extremely complicated problems that even professional mathematicians often struggle with them. IMO is a level on its own - Gold Standard. Not all
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by newprint 7y ago
I came back from Germany in April. Infrastructure (trains, roads, airports) are wonderful, compare that with crawling slow internet.
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by newprint 7y ago
Can I give a very practical advise to people who are reading this and trying to learn math ? As someone, who received a very strong mathematical training in a former Soviet Union, here is my practical advise: 1. Calculus books, just like th
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by newprint 8y ago
Wow, thank you very much !
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by newprint 8y ago
Notice interesting thing - a lot of women in the pictures. My mom worked with a large mainframe in early 80's and from what she told me, majority of employees were women. They had just few guys, they quickly got taken out of dating po
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Ask HN: How to stop recruiters reformatting my resume?
6 points by newprint 8y ago|6 comments
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by newprint 8y ago
www.visual.wegert.com is beautiful yearly calendar of visualizations of Complex functions. There is also an entire book devoted to exploring C.A. using visualization.
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by newprint 8y ago
My best friend is older mathematician is his late 70's. His best friend,Вадим Могильницкий, who unfortunately passed away, was an avid collectors of Richter's audio recordings and Richter's biographer. He published two books:
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by newprint 8y ago
I'm kind of torn on this. My father has been truck driver his entire life and for the last 20 years worked as a contractor, while driving his own truck and trailer, since it gives him more $$$ than average driver who works as employee.
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by newprint 8y ago
I will be down-voted to hell, but I have worked in health insurance company. Large insurance companies have doctors and layers that basically sit down and make decisions about how much they will pay (if ever) for treatment. Your scenario
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by newprint 8y ago
Last year, at age 35, I started drinking heavily. I would buy a bottle of Absolute and would not stop till I see the bottom of it. 2 bottles a week at min. About 5-6 months, I've stopped drinking without anyone's help. Yesterday a
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by newprint 8y ago
I recently started using OneNote as "drawing application" on windows 10 and even bough a $100 wacom tablet for that purpose. It is great !
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by newprint 8y ago
F k them. People who endanger other people's lives and do it intentionally, have no place on YouTube. Thing is, if anti-vaxxers were not pushing their propaganda, I wouldn't have any issues.
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by newprint 8y ago
There is no failure. It is FB business model.
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by newprint 8y ago
Good + heavy $$$ punishments. My father had heart attack few weeks ago and my brother refused to pickup a call, because he was thinking that it was a robocall. It was a call from hospital in VA, they a left voicemail.
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by newprint 8y ago
Recently bought 32" Samsung 4K display ($360). At first, I thought it a waste of $$$. But as soon as I fired-up Visual Studio, I realized how wrong I was. I'm planning to get a second one very soon.
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by newprint 8y ago
I tried to learn CMake 4-5 years ago and just gave up. Cumbersome, weird ......
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by newprint 8y ago
And on top of that, remove most of the paper manuals that come with the phones. They can be put as .pdf files, right on the phones.
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by newprint 8y ago
Are you ignoring the fact that internet and TV are much quicker to react and much more consumed source of information than newspapers ?
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by newprint 8y ago
Sorry to hear that. I would advise you to call UPS and dispute those charges. If the address existed for a while and you can google it, than it is definitely a bug.
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by newprint 8y ago
I work for UPS as software developer and surprisingly, I work for the department that is responsible for parsing addresses and matching them with actual physical addresses. We cover US, CA & EU (incl. UK). In our department, we have a g
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by newprint 8y ago
I'm going through the books - 1.How to Prove It: A Structured Approach; 2.Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics The are very different books on how to read/write proofs, but complement each other nicely. On top
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by newprint 8y ago
Any formal verification of you Algo ? Consensus algos are hard to implement correctly.
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by newprint 8y ago
...... Rent prices ??? Have you seen them ?
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by newprint 8y ago
My parents have African Grey parrot. I urge everyone who is thinking about having a bird. 1. DO NOT BUY A BIRD. In few years, you will realize that birds need to fly and not sit in the cage most of the day. They are wild animals. 2. If you
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Ask HN: How to deploy into production large software project?
5 points by newprint 8y ago|6 comments
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by newprint 8y ago
suicide.... What I find interesting, he is a poster-child of being "everywhere and tried everything" and supposedly should be the least person you expect to commit a suicide.
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by newprint 8y ago
I would curious, where can I buy this system ? Anyone one know resellers ? At $$$ listed, I would buy cheapest system in a heartbeat.

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