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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
I think that's just another example of what OP is referring to. Erdős, a mathematician, invoked God.
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
From Scott Aaronson's blog (linked in the article): > Another Update: In the comments section, my former student Shalev Ben-David points out a simplification [1] of Huang’s argument, which no longer uses Cauchy’s interlacing theorem
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
The paper discussed showed on reddit a few months back [1]. Another paper showed up shortly after claiming the exact opposite [2]. Some discussion of contradiction this can be found in this part of the thread: [3]. I myself am very interest
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
My (relatively uninformed) understanding was that you couldn't transfer information via quantum entanglement. Is that not correct?
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
I also find that stuff distracting in slack, but I think that's because I'm trying to stay on top of "work stuff". I don't think it'd be so distracting if I was just hanging with friends or something.
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
> While by no means an expert, I'm inclined to respectfully disagree with the assessment of /u/scythmic_waves. Not a problem! These are all just my opinions. > Analysis, Topology, and proof-based Linear Algebra are cert
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
> I found that even Introduction to Statistical Learning made a few too many assumptions when I tried to work through it. Not at all surprising. From the preface: > One of the reasons for ESL's popularity is its relatively access
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
So by "graduate level", I don't mean that at no point could any undergrad follow the material. I'd wager that you're correct, most seniors, and many juniors or sophomores with the right sequencing, can follow the ma
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
> Would Elements of Statistical Learning be my next book? Honestly no I don't think so. ESL is likely too advanced. I would use that screenshot I posted above as a litmus test. Do you understand that notation? The `E` with the subsc
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
To echo some of the other comments here, this is a text that's really only appropriate for those who already have a graduate-level grasp of statistics. I love that it's freely available, but ESL is not an introductory text. For ex
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
Yeah my eyebrow was already up reading this article but when I saw "Fitness" as a non-essential I lost all faith. I don't agree with the premise, though I can sorta see where the author is coming from, but if you think that f
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
If you have trouble selling a product without that stuff, does it make a difference?
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
Honestly these two comments speak to how confusing sharrows are.
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
Slippi is _amazing_. And as a fan, I'm obligated to point out that it was just one heroic developer: Fizzi. Fizzi made Melee playable at IRL speeds over an internet connection, completely coincidentally, just before Covid.
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
Slightly OT: I'm not sure I've ever seen a "Visual Abstract" before and I kind of love it. You can pack way more information into the same space and in a much more digestible format than a purely text abstract.
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
> (Unless you think photons are conscious, which I'm assuming you don't.) Well, panpsychism is a thing and is actually having a bit of a renaissance.
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
Seconded!
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
> Think I'm gonna checkout 3blue1brown after this - he can probably close that gap for me. You might like this lecture from MIT's OCW: [1]. It's my favorite source for motivating the Laplace transform. It's a bit diff
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
I'm sorry, is this showing a _causal_ relationship between political bias and perceptions of reality? The headline and article make it sound like that, but it could just as easily be that your perception of reality causes your politica
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
Why do some of the equations show up as rendered by MathJax, but others still read `$\mathbb{R}$`?
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
Hi! Super cool project you've embarked on. I know everyone I work with (those who write Elixir, anyway) is very interested in its progress. > I'll update the documentation to make this clearer. Thanks! Much appreciated.
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
I haven't seen them, thanks! > Type checking unrestricted message passing would be difficult, but I can imagine a subset that's typeable. I'd love to see a discussion on this somewhere. I can totally imagine a world where
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by scythmic_waves 6y ago
To add to this, it's worth noting that Elixir would have difficulty _ever_ becoming statically typed because of how message-passing works. For example, if you look at Gleam [0] -- the recent project that's trying to create a stati
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by scythmic_waves 7y ago
IKR? > (Almost) Everything should be pubsub? Gee thanks, I'll just go make everything pubsub. Except the things I shouldn't. The distinction will be clear I'm sure. I'm not saying I disagree with all their points. But