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by smath 2y ago
Gardeners books and sci-am columns are an amazing resource to get kids and teens interested in math. In the present time, I find Simon Singh’s parallel.co.uk has been doing interesting work holding weekly math circles for kids - deftly enga
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by smath 2y ago
About 12 years back I wrote a script to draw what I called “prime factorization trees”. I had recently discovered graphviz and it seemed interesting to combine prime factors with graphviz: https://thebayesianobserver.wordpress.co
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Good summary, even if I disagree with the 3rd piece being called a golden age. But my question is why ignore the cholas, pallavas and pandyas? Only because they didn’t capture the whole subcontinent? Our schools history books were Delhi cen
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by smath 2y ago
The Mauryans and Mughals settled and did not rule with the goal of extracting / plundering. The British EIC did the latter. Arts and culture can prosper sustainably only when basic needs are well met, otherwise it is only the privilege
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by smath 2y ago
Doesn’t this contradict Robert Shiller who shows that housing returns are flat in the long term?
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by smath 3y ago
This was my immediate thought too. We need perhaps a long lived website that captures misjudgement on the part of people in power and update their scores over a long period of time. A kind of public record, ledger. A kind of wikipedia, but
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by smath 3y ago
I've thought about making the switch for a longg time. What I worry about is: * Will they work on all cell towers, i.e. are all towers backward compatible? Can anyone confirm? * Losing out on whatsapp and google maps.
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by smath 3y ago
That would be giving away some of the secret sauce on the part of the cloud providers. They are selling security as (part of their) service. There are some community shared lists of botnets ofcourse, but they may not be vry real time or v
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by smath 3y ago
Related article from 1 year ago on Darth Vader’s voice being AI generated going forward: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/james...
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by smath 3y ago
I was thinking of an audio-based personal assistant running on the sunglasses, a la https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1640416314773700608
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by smath 3y ago
Any word on whether they will let custom code/apps run on this, or is it a walled garden? Whisper + LLM with these would be nice. These glasses could also be great for vision impaired folks.
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by smath 3y ago
I don’t see an option to “try before I buy” (without setting up an account) but maybe it’s there? That’d be useful to win over users. Account set up is friction
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by smath 3y ago
Hey Carlos, I remember you (nanocubes!!). I was in the security research group. Re stories: — the building has a well!! — apparently it is well stocked with enough food for a month for 20-30 ppl. I never independently verified this. — lots
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by smath 3y ago
Ha, I used to work inside this building in 2010.
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by smath 3y ago
% change is over what time frame? YoY?
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by smath 3y ago
I think what this article misses is that 'value' is a personal/subjective thing. Value is not the same as price. To me, the value of a house might be higher than to you (say because I am more desperate to move out of a tiny a
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by smath 3y ago
Super important, and vastly underrated question. The article does partly address this.
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by smath 4y ago
Oh I just mean when comparing (A) block hole in a black box, vs (B) a non-black-hole start of the same mass, B will likely be over a large volume, and hence will produce different spacetime curvature.
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by smath 4y ago
You mention point mass. Yes, the volume also matters. If your second black box contains the same mass but over a bigger volume, then the spacetime curvature it will cause will be less extreme than the black hole in the first box. The book I
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by smath 4y ago
Fixed
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by smath 4y ago
I attended an amazing talk by David circa 2006 at Princeton where he demoed his probabilistic text entry system called Dasher [1,3]. I think it was made into an iOS app later. I also fondly recall his videos on Gaussian processes - best exp