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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Say you go out and you see a sports bar and the FIFA world cup is on. France vs Sweden is playing on the TVs in the bar and the place is packed with fans of both countries. You look at a few people (wearing the national football colours)
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Pretty sure he was not when I posted my comment. It currently says "more on him at the end" and that bit seems not to have been written yet. Also there are two mathematicians called "John Conway" so it's good form
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
It's pretty bad form to give the doomsday algorithm and not give credit to John H. Conway who invented it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
If you want actual legal advice pay for an actual lawyer. You aren’t going to get it asking a bunch of randoms on a tech forum. Since we’re techies we tend to think about technological nuances and have a certain literal frame of mind (eg “T
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
That’s not true at all. He does precisely the thing you want him to do and also gives a pedagogical justification in the preface. > This book usually develops linear algebra simultaneously for real and complex vector spaces by lettin
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
They already do this at massive scale during the training process (apart from the paying the author part).
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
And Bach did indeed write variations on B-A-C-H[1]. But lots of composers have self-referencing cryptograms and other riddles in music. You would find far more in Scriabin, Bartok or Alban Berg for example. It also doesn’t fit the narrativ
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Yeah. My brother was really into GEB but for the exact reason you laid out I never even gave it a chance because just from the title it really seems to trivialise the artistic achievements of Bach to have him be included in that list. The o
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
It stands to reason that a different vendor might watermark in a different way, doesn’t it?
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
They may have learned mechanics by studying Newton but they can’t have learned calculus. Principia includes geometric series and limits etc but given as geometric arguments so you don’t come out of newton’s principia knowing how to do calcu
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
In a high-functioning security and compliance team they tend to say “no” only in really dire circumstances. Good security and compliance teams spend a lot of time asking exactly what it is the people are really trying to do and then find a
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Organisationally it never works to have a group whose only job is to say no to some other group. The incentives are diametrically opposed and as a structure it can’t last. If you had an AI company and want it to be ethical you have to find
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
In the case of a blog that purports to be personal reflections, commenting that it is actually AI output is a comment on the content, not merely the form.
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Software is mathematics. The idea you can patent software is as ridiculous as patenting a particular number or the technique of Riemann integration or whatever. I have my name on a couple of software patents[1] and everything about the pro
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
You misunderstand. I have a tremendous respect for Fermat. I just meant he didn’t feel compelled to be totally rigorous. There are examples of contemporaries complaining about him skipping steps and hand waving etc. That was just how he did
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Pretty sure Fermat didn’t have a proof. For one thing, Fermat wasn’t actually a “professional” mathematician. He was a lawyer and judge and was known for having remarkable intuition but not really troubling himself too much with details of
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Langlands is a massive programme but originated with Langlands conjecturing in 1967 about some deep connections between two seemingly unconnected areas of mathematics (number theory and harmonic analysis). In particular, he started with wh
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
I don’t use a remarkable but use an ipad and stylus for note taking a lot, so can totally get why people like remarkable even though I what I do is better for me[1]. The reasons for me: 1) I had a ton of paper notes, looking back, curating,
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
The actual source this comes from has a 90% confidence interval in the published number. When people talk about the economy gaining or losing jobs they are talking about the bureau of labor statistics "nonfarm payroll" number. T
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
It’s worth pointing out for people who are not aware of it, you can install the github cli[1] and view, merge, close etc prs and issue from the command-line. As well as (for me at least) being a significant step up in terms of productivity
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
> What dreamy capabilities do we get that we don’t enjoy today? The next gen will have an alarm with snooze button.
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
…and you get to do that because you pay for clean water and sewage treatment. But that doesn’t mean some company can use the public sewers to dispose of as much bacteria-contaminated water as they like without paying for that externality.
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
I’m not sure you can just make a direct comparison between protein amounts, so that control may not work as you intend. As I understand it, your body metabolises dietary protein into amino acids, which it then uses to synthesise the protein
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Strongly disagree. The obvious counterexample is in the foss world is ffmpeg, which I would submit is deeply understood by Fabrice Bellard. As a sibling points out, there are also various worthwhile single author projects. Outside the wor
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Yes, and I think the reasons set out in TFA are interesting, which on my reading are: 1) Code is the least interesting bit in some ways - they’re trying to build not only rust but a community of experts around rust which is able to maintain
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Airdrop Hershey’s chocolate over Tehran.
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
“Abelian” in this context means “commutative”. That is, if you have some operator * then it is abelian if a * b = b * a for all a and b in the domain of *. If that id not the case it is “non-abelian”. The name “Abelian” is after Nils Henrik
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Decimal odds give the total payout (including stake) if you win a bet of 1. So if I place a bet of $1 at decimal odds of 2.5 and it pays out I receive 1 x 2.5 = 2.5. So payout = stake * odds. American odds (also sometimes called “moneyline
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
He rebutted the argument about moving the goalposts by moving the goalposts. It’s better by dint of sheer bravado.
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by seanhunter 2mo ago
Learning this rule will mean you miss out on the opportunity to use one of the best words in the English language, which is “boustrophedonically” (meaning alternating left to right with right to left “as an ox ploughs a field”[1]). C is par

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