spekcular

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by spekcular 4y ago
I have a more conservative critique of traditional music theory, along the same lines. Forget pop, jazz, and rock - standard music theory courses don't even equip students to properly analyze Western art from music the late romantic pe
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by spekcular 4y ago
> If it wouldn't be the most used, would it be used as point of reference and called the tonic? Yes. The tonic is determined by what the key is, not what chord is most used. (It's hard to establish the key without slipping the
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by spekcular 4y ago
He was definitely aiming for a certain style, which involved following certain rules. There are surviving draft manuscripts where he makes edits to follow voice-writing rules like avoiding parallel fifths, etc. It seems pretty clear based o
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by spekcular 4y ago
What forthcoming improvements to async are you referring to?
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by spekcular 4y ago
It was supposed to start at 5:30 ET.
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President Biden will share the Webb Telescope's first image today(cnn.com)
4 points by spekcular 4y ago|1 comments
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by spekcular 4y ago
This kind of decision is already routinely made by committees awarding NSF postdocs, Clay fellowships, etc. What's wrong with the process they use (and independent expert panel)? Do you think they select the wrong mathematicians?
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by spekcular 4y ago
> This might be true, but it's really really hard for someone who doesn't work with them day-to-day to distinguish. It's really not (in mathematics, the field under discussion). It's not hard to look at the CV of a gr
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by spekcular 4y ago
The author writes: "Is there a hypothetical world where I would be an academic working on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture right now? Sure. It's probably a world where high-flying students are given, upon graduation, some
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by spekcular 4y ago
What empirical evidence exists for that claim? I agree with it, but I'm mostly generalizing from own experience.
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by spekcular 4y ago
No, that link will always point to the most recent version. For example, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.03562.pdf gives version 5 of https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03562 , as noted in the left margin of th
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Night Moves: Is the Overnight Drift the Grandmother of All Market Anomalies(papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by spekcular 4y ago|0 comments
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by spekcular 4y ago
I also find this baffling. To be fair, the link is about homotopy theory proper (very interesting!), not homotopy type theory (a somewhat different area of study, and less interesting, in my opinion). I actually don't remember any othe
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by spekcular 4y ago
> There are some toxic fields of research, but I don't think this attitude is particularly common in the academia. The author was formerly an economics student, where this attitude is quite common. It might have colored his perspec
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by spekcular 4y ago
Exactly. Proof writing is basically impossible to learn without this kind of social context and feedback.
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by spekcular 4y ago
You need a good tutor. I suggest finding a math major at a local university to teach you. The problem is that, from what I can infer from your description, you don't have the fundamental skills necessary to self-tech effectively. You c
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by spekcular 4y ago
The original poster did not have the "for a novice" qualifier.
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by spekcular 4y ago
This is not great advice, according to what we know from both the research literature and people who are successful in (and successful coaches of) barbell sport. Namely, it's too much intensity, and not enough variety and volume. One g
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by spekcular 4y ago
The top review on Amazon is devastating: "The author purports to provide a blueprint to restoring a technological economy after a TEOTWAWKI event, but some his listed sources are from the realm of science fiction. Not an encouraging st
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Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop(math.columbia.edu)
46 points by spekcular 4y ago|20 comments
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by spekcular 4y ago
This is a response to a recent front-page article on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31651086 .
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by spekcular 4y ago
Indeed, a similar "secure" crush confession on an MIT facebook group was exploited in this way, by brute forcing every name in the student directory.
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by spekcular 4y ago
My QM knowledge is quite rusty, but given what I remember, I don't understand how certain claims in this article can be correct. Hossenfelder seems to be referring to some well-known papers on Hyperion and decoherence. For a review, se
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by spekcular 4y ago
Google the author and check their CV for the year they earned a PhD.
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by spekcular 4y ago
I think there are a lot of relevant dis-analogies between math and chess. A chess match at the professional level is a grueling, multi-hour contest, while math research is a lot more chill. Also, the time limit matters a lot in chess. Anywa
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by spekcular 4y ago
Care to outline a precise argument for me to respond to? I'm honestly not sure one can even be extracted from pages 3 through 5, and I don't want to attack a strawman. One basic problem is that using symmetry arguments to justify
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by spekcular 4y ago
My experience in academia has taught me the following: Any slowdown in productivity among mathematicians as they age is more a result of increased administrative duties, childcare, or loss of interest than it is cognitive decline. The slowd
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by spekcular 4y ago
PNAS publishes a lot of junk. If you're connected to the Academy you can get papers through with very light review. In fact, one can even seen this happened in the Tipler paper: "This Direct Submission article had a prearranged ed
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by spekcular 4y ago
Your reference [2] is somewhat suspect. As far as I know, it is not generally accepted in the physics community that the Born rule can be derived directly from the Schrodinger equation. In fact, it seems generally accepted that such a deriv
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by spekcular 4y ago
In your opinion, what are the best electric designs available today (that aren't crazy expensive)? Would also be interested in acoustic options!

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