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by sgillen 5y ago
Yes but it's famous because it's the exception to the rule. It's definitely a failure to replicate, but that does not necessarily mean that math has a replication crises in the same way the social sciences do.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Did you read the article? This saga is explicitly mentioned and does not detract from the authors point IMO.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Who is the target audience here? And who exactly is paying for this? Researchers who care about open access can and do already upload their work to arxiv and/ or scihub in addition to publishing their work in formal venues.
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How It Feels to Be an Asian Student in an Elite Public School(nytimes.com)
12 points by sgillen 5y ago|2 comments
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by sgillen 5y ago
How? In the fine print for most of these contracts it says something like “up to 1Gb, actual rates may vary based on network load” or something similar.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Symbolic math in matlab is vastly inferior to Mathematica, and the deep learning and reinforcement learning toolboxes are vastly inferior to the offerings in python. However for control system design or digital signal processing I think mat
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by sgillen 5y ago
I think Matlab is starting to realize this, at least at the institutional level they are starting to offer all the toolboxes for a fixed price (much much lower than buying all the boxes individually)
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by sgillen 5y ago
Though I agree we have good solutions to this, I also think it's a more nuanced problem than it seems at first glance. See for example this stack overflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75677/conver
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by sgillen 5y ago
True, but the airplane still needs to leave the blast radius before the bomb impacts the ground, the 50MT version still needed a large parachute to meet that requirement.
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by sgillen 5y ago
I would bet most techy people my age (mid 20's) are aware of Wolfram Alpha, but maybe not Mathematica.
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by sgillen 5y ago
I recommend trying to befriend some of the graduate students at your field. Maybe try to get involved with research with your professors. In my experience those who go for a PhD tend to be from a wider variety of backgrounds, and more intel
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by sgillen 5y ago
Ah, I see what you are saying now. Have you seen this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2819347/dijkstras-algori... stack overflow post yet? It seems to be provide a way to modify Dijkstra's to do what you
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by sgillen 5y ago
Are you certain you have not rediscovered a previously known algorithm? a common variant of Dijkstra's algorithm finds the shortest path from one node to all other nodes in a graph, using in O((V + E)log v) time and O(V + E) space (and
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by sgillen 5y ago
Well the article title is clickbait, the author wants the web to move to plaintext, but doesn’t actually seem to suggest moving away from plain html and css. (Still a bit silly though since the author does mention latex as an alternative to
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by sgillen 5y ago
Yes but I think the idea of this new paper is to measure the effect of gravity on time dilation for a system that is also subject to quantum effects.
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by sgillen 5y ago
The closest analogy I can think of are just basic data structures. Dictionaries, lists, tuples, sets etc.
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by sgillen 5y ago
At a certain number of points you can change the color of the banner at the top, so that’s pretty huge.
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by sgillen 5y ago
I think the college experience in the US varies pretty widely depending on what sort of college you are at what you are studying, and your own attitude. An average state school, a small liberal arts college, an MIT/caltech, business sc
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by sgillen 5y ago
From the end of the article: >> Blaze is certainly more tuned for performance and uses nefty techniques under the hood like padding, explicit loop-unrolling and turning divisions to multiplications to create more opportunities for FMA
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by sgillen 5y ago
True, but this article is about "insecure overachievers" who work at "elite professional organizations". I think there's a decent argument that these people are largely driven by prestige AKA social relevance.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Maybe the problem is that it’s much easier to make a game now than it was back then. But as a result people who maybe don’t really know what they are doing can make games using huge tech stack.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Well raising money early is likely appealing to the founders of the companies, which may help YC attract better talent, creating a virtuous cycle.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Do you believe that using a biological computer for research is ethically any different than an animal analogous intelligence in silicon?
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by sgillen 5y ago
I don’t know, the article says people today are just ignoring “the data”, but you can make “the data” support almost any story you want. You can (as this article does) point to crime statistics and say “see look, black people commit more cr
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by sgillen 5y ago
Honestly for AI/ML/RL I would recommend spending your budget on a nice desktop workstation and remoting into it with whatever cheaper laptop you prefer.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Well I believe the droughts and wildfires are not really occurring in Siberia, which is the area I think some are speculating will become a breadbasket. Edit: I was wrong.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Maybe if you want to invalidate those studies you can try leaving the knives out in the rain 10-100 days in a row!
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by sgillen 5y ago
I would say this does not have to be thought terminating.
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by sgillen 6y ago
> So, I think maybe someone else could find this useful? If you can offer jobs that pay ~$200/hr that one wouldn't otherwise get it would be of extreme value. The question is, could you actually provide this as a service? If so
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by sgillen 6y ago
It's being downvoted because it comes across as someone arrogantly dismissing an important work because they have no idea what they are talking about. If they instead asked "why is this noteworthy? in my ignorance this seems obvio

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