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by nicklaf 11y ago
From TFA: "After the deal the combined company would be named Broadcom, sources close to the deal told Reuters."
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Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7745561 My favorites: > I decided to re-implement Javascript in Javascript. It failed. Here is my story > ReactOS running IE6 in a JavaScript x86 emulator: we put a brows
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by nicklaf 12y ago
Do you believe that it would be possible, in principle, to build a robot that looked and acted extremely similar to a human being? It could carry on conversations, make decisions, defend itself against antagonists, etc. in a similar manner
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. William Blake
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Thank you, you are correct--I should have been more careful. Just claiming the idea of plugins (and not interactive browsing in general) is less ridiculous, but still dangerous.
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Eolas, one of the more notorious patent trolls to hit the web, began as a UCSF spinoff, founded by a UCSF employee in 1994. Eolas claimed to have invented the first interactive web browsing experience, and patented[1] the concept of interac
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Hermann Minkowski. Died suddenly of appendicitis at the age of 44. "In the early years of his scientific career, Albert Einstein considered mathematics to be a mere tool in the service of physical intuition. In later years, he came to
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by nicklaf 12y ago
The phenomenon you've observed in the arrogant individuals exhibit what Carol Dweck calls a "fixed mindset". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck#.22Mindset.22
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Thank you!
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Does anybody have URLs for the videos? Clicking on the video link for a lecture asks you to install Silverlight.
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Has anybody here used DBpedia? If so, how do you see it in relation to Wikidata? Do the projects overlap? Or, might they serve complementary purposes, with, say, DBpedia extracting data from Wikidata (rather than from Wikipedia drirectly
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Thank you for your kind words. I do plan to set up a homepage for my research and thoughts; once I do, I'll link to it in my HN profile.
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Negative, but I do plan to set up a sort of homepage for my research sometime in the future. When I do, I'll link to it in my HN profile.
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Thank you for your kind words! I'll be certain to take up your offer should I ever find myself in Vancouver (I live in the SF Bay Area). I enjoy writing about the things I work on and think about, so consider it my pleasure.
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You're welcome! As for statistics, I have to admit that this subject is something of a blind-spot for me. This is in part because the subject of statistics, per se, is actually a separate discipline from pure mathematics. For example
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According to Wikipedia, 10% of all people get what's called "Plantar Fasciitis" at some point. In my late teens, I began to have very bad bouts of this syndrome, whenever I sprinted. The more I ignored the pain, the longer i
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Footnote: this story is oddly similar to the top story on the first archive.org snapshot of SN: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...
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"Syntax is by far the least interesting thing about any new programming language, but they spend paragraphs talking about braces and semicolons." I can't seem to locate the quote for this, but I believe there is a famous witt
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That is excellent advice. If the student is struggling to write proofs in her or his real analysis text, s/eh should definitely seek out "How to Prove It".
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I'd like to mention one more thing, which is very important to keep in mind when studying pure mathematics: if you feel like you don't quite understand something, do NOT, under any circumstance, "pressure" or force yours
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William Dunham's "Journey Through Genius" is a fantastic book. It is one of the best pieces of expository writing on mathematics that I have ever read. Almost anybody can pick it up, it reads like a novel; it dives directly
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Hubbard & Hubbard is a fantastic book; for the right audience, it may be all that is needed. I'd say that every mathematically minded engineer or physicist certainly should have it. It does a fantastic job of exposing the fundame
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This is a fantastic post!
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Those are great books, every single one of them. Anybody who remotely takes category theory seriously should have Aluffi's book, even if s/he chooses to learn from another book. There isn't really anything that compares in t
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The difference is the emphasis: mathematicians focus on proofs, and therefore have to write proofs of theorems that ensure their validity in all cases. Many of these cases are what physicists would call "pathological", and so the
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You're certainly welcome! I should probably mention one thing. In your post, you mentioned electronics, which does not so much require an understanding of mathematics, but rather a competence in solving differential equations in physi
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I would be very careful before unleashing a beginner on this book. It would be too easy, IMO, for the reader to end up with the wrong idea that mechanical proofs like the ones in this book are all that are needed in mathematics, since it&#
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Well, if you really take to heart what Spivak and Pugh have to say (and are thinking hard about the problems), there is a very good chance that you will be inspired enough to do further research that will lead you to tangentially related ma
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I absolutely, positively second the recommendation of "Real Mathematical Analysis" by Charles Pugh (don't miss the advice he relates from his colleague, on pages 9&10, with the heading "Metaphor and Analogy", wh
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Interesting. One might go further and postulate an inverse relationship between the focus of a company and it's ability to attract 'good people'. It's tempting to argue that the kind of long-term vision usually shared b

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