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by qmalzp 9y ago
Very similar story happened to me.
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by qmalzp 9y ago
The day Wikipedia changes its presentation is the day I start worrying about Wikipedia.
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by qmalzp 10y ago
*freshman and sophomore year
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by qmalzp 10y ago
Europeans
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by qmalzp 10y ago
This is true for more advanced topics as well. One piece of advice I give people is to not be afraid to re-learn topics. Even getting an A in the class doesn't mean you've really "got" it. I don't think I really &qu
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by qmalzp 10y ago
"Amazon and Netflix broke down even the movie industry and ended the $70 per tape movie sale price." Is that a typo? When were movies ever $70?
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by qmalzp 10y ago
If the minimum exponent of a problem as natural as 3-SAT ended up being ~1000, that might be even more fascinating than the fact that it's polynomial.
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by qmalzp 10y ago
I was seriously considering switching to iPhone for my next phone after my S.O. had a terrible experience with Google customer support, but my car doesn't have Bluetooth. I don't plan on getting a new car for at least another 5 ye
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by qmalzp 10y ago
In addition to esports, I think there's just been a growth of more niche non-traditional pastimes due to technology allowing people with those interests to connect. An example I'm most familiar with is skateboarding. It's som
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by qmalzp 10y ago
I would argue he occupied a lot more mindspace than most Nobel Laureates.
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by qmalzp 10y ago
Depends on how you look at it. Going from 84% to 90.9% employment rate represents an 8.21% increase in the proportion of black people who are employed. Going from 90% to 95% employment rate represents a 5.55% increase in the proportion of A
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by qmalzp 10y ago
Does anyone else think the static design of Wikipedia is a good thing?
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by qmalzp 10y ago
Your video is about how FB is viewed as lying to content creators because it counts a view as having the video play for 3 seconds, which content creators believe is too small a threshold. The article here is about how the average view lengt
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by qmalzp 10y ago
Honestly, many of those things would maybe be okay on Facebook. The subject of this photo in particular was the controversy. From the article... A Facebook spokeswoman said: “While we recognise that this photo is iconic, it’s difficult to c
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by qmalzp 10y ago
I think what you're talking about lies between index funds and day trading, and it's called value investing. You buy stock in companies that you believe in for whatever reason (maybe you know someone really smart who works there a
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by qmalzp 10y ago
You can think of the even and odd parts of a function as decomposing the function into its +/-1 eigencomponents with respect to the operator f(x) -> f(-x). You can think of the exponential Fourier series of a function as a way to de
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by qmalzp 10y ago
Immediately made me think of this: http://www.theonion.com/article/ayahuasca-shaman-dreading-an...
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by qmalzp 10y ago
It helps that the fundamental theorem of arithmetic is a significantly more approachable topic than perfectoid spaces :)
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by qmalzp 10y ago
Catch-eye claims to be able to do this [1]. Never tried their software myself. [1] http://catch-eye.com/
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by qmalzp 10y ago
Page 19 seems to address this a bit.
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by qmalzp 10y ago
I mean Feynman's argument really seems to show that it should hold for sufficiently large N. I think one could reasonably argue that it's a statistical accident that FLT holds for N >= 3 as opposed to say, N >= 100. I think
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by qmalzp 11y ago
I propose "Silicon League" to refer to {Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, CalTech, ...?}.
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by qmalzp 11y ago
Am I the only person who thinks algorithmic/big O puzzles are kind of fun? Like they're super high stress when you're interviewing, but basically everything is super high stress when you're interviewing.
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by qmalzp 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I think math lends itself to this because the work is so esoteric that often the advisor doesn't even completely understand the work, much less can claim credit for it.
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by qmalzp 11y ago
Porn is also perfectly legal and you won't find that on Facebook
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by qmalzp 11y ago
I reckon Scruffy is good for inventing a new field, Neat is good for pushing it to the limit.
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by qmalzp 11y ago
That works out to $180k per employee. If average income per employee is $100k, at a 5% state income tax rate, it would take 36 years to make back the money.
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by qmalzp 11y ago
From the paper: "Another noteworthy feature of our work is that we need not restrict ourselves to the leading coefficient in the Taylor expansion of the L-functions: our formula is about the r-th Taylor coefficient of the L-function re
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by qmalzp 11y ago
People used to believe lightning was what happened when the gods became angry. Now we know the source of lightning is an electrostatic discharge.
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by qmalzp 11y ago
Can confirm. I work at a company in the Google ballpark, am a former mathematician, and would probably make a good CS'ist, but my old website was copy-pasted HTML from another professor's.

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