qmalxp

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by qmalxp 11y ago
I haven't heard one media outlet claiming e.g. Dylann Roof was influenced by video games, and I think they would have a stronger case nowadays with games like Hatred on the market.
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by qmalxp 11y ago
I do.
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by qmalxp 11y ago
I'm pushing 30, have a well-paying job, and a long-term significant other, but I never plan on "becoming an adult" if it means religious affiliation, griping about the talking heads like my father, or giving up video games an
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by qmalxp 11y ago
I totally agree. IMO it doesn't even have to be a CS course; my experience TAing calculus helped immensely with whiteboard interviews. I think it's the process of pacing yourself through the problem. If I see some fancy integral,
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by qmalxp 11y ago
Usually with caps like this the break is phased out. So if you make between e.g. $20k and $25k, maybe only x% of your rent is paid for, where x is between 0 and 20.
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by qmalxp 11y ago
Unfortunately, she was not American.
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by qmalxp 11y ago
The purpose of the SAT is to be a unbiased barometer; say what you will about it, but everyone takes the same test. Unfortunately, a 4.0 GPA from an obscure high school may tell you very little about a candidate. I don't know how much
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by qmalxp 12y ago
From Rounders: "Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker EVERY YEAR? What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas?"
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by qmalxp 12y ago
The bar is lower or higher for MS/Amazon?
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by qmalxp 12y ago
Yes.
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by qmalxp 12y ago
Not a normally distributed example, but: (1,1), (0,0), (1,-1) X and Y are uncorrelated but not independent.
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by qmalxp 12y ago
FWIW I regularly got destroyed by the homeschooled kids in math competitions in high school. That said, they were a weird bunch.
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by qmalxp 12y ago
To bolster your point, I averaged about $25k/year at UCLA math in the 2010's, and I had a car by the time I graduated (granted I tutored to Beverly Hills high school students on the side). I would even say there's a substanti
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by qmalxp 12y ago
Because grad schools produce more (graduating students) than they consume (hiring faculty).
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by qmalxp 12y ago
I was just thinking today about how cool a modern open world version of SimAnt would be. Oh well. Edit: Someone posted a link to this but then it got deleted: http://www.formicarium.org/
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by qmalxp 12y ago
This kind of thing happens in math a lot. Any time you use the axiom of choice to prove something exists, it's non-constructive. It exists, but you can't get your hands on it. I wrote a comment down below about how one could in pr
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by qmalxp 12y ago
I think it is possible, in principle, to find a number which you can be pretty sure is BB(n). The problem I think is being sure that this number really is BB(n). Like you run all n-state Turing Machines for a super long time, and take the m
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by qmalxp 12y ago
Maybe in applied math. In pure math that question would immediately reveal you as an outsider.
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by qmalxp 12y ago
I probably should've thrown in combinatorics, which certainly existed before calculus or linear algebra, and certainly plays a role in applied math. I would say graph theory is part of combinatorics, and set theory is part of logic. Ca
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by qmalxp 12y ago
Re: 4). As a pure mathematician, I would argue Calculus and Linear Algebra are the father and mother of pure math as well (okay maybe not logic).
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by qmalxp 12y ago
Pretty sure if a taxi driver was accused of rape in India, no one would bat an eye.
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by qmalxp 12y ago
dual tap is kind of like clicking twice