radioactivist

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by radioactivist 7y ago
I disagree. One paper per year for someone who started publishing in the 50s wouldn't be insane to me (though, low to my eye) -- but publishing one paper every few decades would be insane by any standard (and you couldn't get
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by radioactivist 7y ago
Something seems a bit wrong with the graph "Publication rate by career length" -- should the y-axis be "Average number of published papers per year "? (I can't imagine that someone whose first paper was in the 1950
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by radioactivist 7y ago
There is a story in a similar spirit about showing that one of the supposed Mersenne primes (2^67-1) was in fact composite -- (probably apocryphally) by simply doing the arithmetic by hand on a blackboard during a talk. For more details, se
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by radioactivist 9y ago
As an isolated example of this kind of thing, consider the shape of the Earth as discussed in Asimov's "Relativity of Wrong" [ http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm ]
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by radioactivist 10y ago
He's also well known in solid-state physics for the "Goodenough rules" [1] (more commonly called the Goodenough-Kanamori rules, but that has less of a ring to it). [1] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/
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by radioactivist 10y ago
Well, in the case of Eigen it's an entirely header based library, so the compiler can optimize some things. Not to mention the template based meta-programming strategies [1] Eigen itself uses to simplify and optimize during compilation
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by radioactivist 10y ago
The author is I think being a bit unfair to C++ when it comes to matrix/array handling. Their example of things that would be difficult to do in C/C++: A = B A = 3.24 * B C = A * B B = exp(A) norm = sqrt(sum(A * * 2)) Quoting: &qu
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by radioactivist 10y ago
This article and the discussed work was put out last December (see http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02206 ). Scott Aaronson weighed in around that time; see http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2555 .
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by radioactivist 11y ago
A note: The original post is correct in what it says. It is saying if one draws N independent samples from an exp(1) distribution then the minimum is distributed as exp(N). This is true. Because of this, for any finite sample there is a sys