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by replicant 3y ago
Not the person you are responding, but I also used Spivak for single variable. For multivariable calculus I used Marsden and Tromba. The other Spivak is a great book, but maybe too much for a first approach to the subject.
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by replicant 4y ago
As others have argued, one can learn mathematics without its history, but it is very helpful to motivate many of its abstractions. A good example of this are some of the textbooks of David Bressoud. In a "Radical approach to Analysis&q
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by replicant 4y ago
"All of statistics" by Larry Wasserman. I took a bunch of courses that taught stats as a bunch of independent tools for different problems. AOS helped me to build some a strong foundation. "Fundamental university physics Volu
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by replicant 5y ago
I loved those games when I was a kid. I replayed LBA 1 in 2010 and it had aged quite well. Looking forward to see an analysis from Fabien Sanglard.
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Ask HN: How relevant is the technical work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb?
1 points by replicant 6y ago|0 comments
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by replicant 6y ago
A very formulaic article, start with an anecdote that could fit many other articles (it seems Feynmann always shows up when we are talking about learning), refer to some Twitter conversation, add a formula or graph which provides no insigh
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by replicant 8y ago
As soon as I finished my PhD in computational science, I left to the Bay Area. I did consider some positions in academia, but as others have described, the low impact of the problems I was working on and the path to permanent position didn&
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How we recoded HADOPI(thomas.maurice.fr)
2 points by replicant 10y ago|0 comments
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by replicant 11y ago
Only to the undesirables students. Quoting the paper, "The Mathematics Department of Moscow State University, the most prestigious mathematics school in Russia, was at that time actively trying to keep Jewish students (and other '
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Jewish problems (2011)(arxiv.org)
120 points by replicant 11y ago|95 comments
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by replicant 11y ago
Another point of view on why it is not striking that we can model heat conduction well. The heat equation is well-posed, which among other things, means that the solution depends continuously of the input data. And we observe this in many p
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by replicant 11y ago
I totally agree. I spent a couple of weeks playing with it a little bit everyday, until I managed to come up with an algorithm.
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by replicant 11y ago
It is about triangles. The idea that sine is the solution of this ODE for f(0)=0 and f'(0)=1 is quite modern. I would say a course on trigonometry usually covers (my experience): trigonometric functions exact value of them for the a
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by replicant 11y ago
As young students, we are taught that these functions are ratios of sides on right angles. It is fairly intuitive for them that provided they can draw a right triangle, they just need to measure the sides. And it is easy to accept that some
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by replicant 11y ago
I think I am missing something because, I am unable to see why it is huge burden to introduce sine and cosine without their rigorous definition. At which age, are students taught trigonometry? And what does a course on trigonometry covers?
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by replicant 12y ago
I resort continuously to this list, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-...
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by replicant 12y ago
I never considered this possibility. Could you recommend some link where I could read about the field and see if I have chance? It is not really what motivates me, but it is worth informing myself before discarding it.
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by replicant 12y ago
Thanks :) After reading the comments, indeed, I will be considering this possibility.
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by replicant 12y ago
This path is really appealing to me. Now, knowing that there is a demand for the people between the two worlds, I will spend some time looking for offers, and prepare a CV accordingly. Moving to US seems a bit harder, but I wouldn't mi
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by replicant 12y ago
I am in UK.
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Ask HN: Mechanical engineer that wants to work in the programming field
46 points by replicant 12y ago|36 comments
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by replicant 12y ago
> Now, 30+ years later, it's a bit rusty, but I can still read it pretty well, and can sort-of understand written Portuguese as well. I don't want to be picky. But I would not attribute your ability to read Portuguese to your m
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by replicant 12y ago
Unrelated question, isn't it a bad idea to update the seed for every sample?
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by replicant 12y ago
I have a similar story to tell. As an undergrad in a course of robotics, we had to program a wheeled robot and all the robots would be place in an environment with obstacles. The robot should avoid crashing with the obstacles and the other
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by replicant 12y ago
You know what would be interesting, to perform this analysis to all past world cups, looking at the group results and computing the possible outcomes of the brackets. And then, compute some statistical indicator like the p-value (sorry I am
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by replicant 12y ago
I have checked the book on Amazon through the look inside and it has not convinced me. I have the impression that it is the kind of book that spend loads of pages to talk about a simple idea. I am more inclined towards books that are not v
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Video Lectures on OpenMP, MPI and Xeon Phi release(terboven.com)
4 points by replicant 12y ago|0 comments
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The probability of living in a simulation (dreamer.logdown.com)
1 points by replicant 13y ago|0 comments
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by replicant 13y ago
The first 2 examples are not dividing the work between the threads, but having each of the threads repeat the full work, which is not poor OpenMP use, but wrong use. I would have also used the collapse directive and played a little bit with