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by srean 6mo ago
Thanks for replying anyway. BTW by quoting "lecturer" I meant his/her behavior was in dissonance of his/her role
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by srean 6mo ago
Such a bizarre story and a "lecturer". Can you say more now, like what subject was he/she was teaching.
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by srean 6mo ago
Indeed. In the particular non-hypothetical case I mentioned, the lab monkeys were a little too close to human babies in their behavior and appearance. That did not help at all. Those who do not want partake in specific class of animal testi
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by srean 6mo ago
Why not experiments on convicted criminals, inmates, prisoners of war, political prisoners ... The line is somewhat arbitrary and personal. It makes sense to the person. To be honest, I don't know what decision I will take if a trolley
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by srean 6mo ago
I can understand. One of our family friends just could not continue draining monkeys of blood for biochemistry research. I have been to his lab. The monkeys would panic whenever their cages were touched. I can one needs a level of sociopath
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by srean 6mo ago
KalMann is correct. Jordan canonical form decomposition is more general. Every matrix in an algebraically closed field will have such a decomposition. This is not true for spectral decomposition. Only diagonalizable matrices will have a spe
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by srean 6mo ago
Pedantically speaking you may be correct about Numberphile, but many times Numberphile provided the exposure and critical nudge to follow up on a piqued curiosity. That did end up imparting new skill. However I will push back on the claim t
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by srean 6mo ago
Probably to prevent the HN hug of death.
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by srean 6mo ago
Very interesting. I don't understand crochet yet but love the math of weaving symmetric patterns on a loom. I somewhat understand the absolute basics of a knit. I understand braids better. All from a pattern appreciation and puzzle sol
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by srean 6mo ago
"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea" -- Saint-Exupery This is exactly what Numberphile does. Those who are
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by srean 6mo ago
This is a great book but and as the author himself notes, it's not an ideal first linear algebra book. Strang can be great as a first book. He focuses more on what rather than why, so if one wants to delve deeper, it needs to be supple
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by srean 6mo ago
It's usually not even the display. When I go on a trek, the end of trek landmark is nowhere nearly as significant as the experience of reaching it. If I were to be magically transported there without the lives experience it would take
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by srean 6mo ago
Running into a comment of yours after a long time. Used to enjoy your commentary on maths/stats related topics. Hope you are doing well.
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by srean 6mo ago
ML models on some Samsung phones did exactly that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107601 It was probably a result of an explicit company charter but such things can happen with modern ML models quite unintentionally
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by srean 6mo ago
Would you be happy if ML detects that you are trying to capture the moon and replaced your shot with a memorized picture of the moon with match ing size and orientation ? Autoencoders can presumably do this except that it would be operating
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by srean 6mo ago
It's a matter of degree. Life time physical or emotional scarring would, to pull out an example, be US slavery degree. I grew up when corporeal punishment was a thing in schools. No physical or emotional scars. Wish this is extended to
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by srean 6mo ago
The two were dealt with very differently. Aether: observations show lack of aether so we update the theory that makes aether unnecessary. Dark matter: observations show lack of observable matter so we keep hunting for decades locating it. T
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by srean 6mo ago
Another interesting case to analyze would be where the array is 2d and values increase to the right and upwards.
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by srean 6mo ago
That would be both fun and correct. It really comes down to what semantics we attach to "=" when one of the sides is an infinite series. The "equals to" sign that we have used prior to that mental exercise was for finite
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by srean 6mo ago
Loved the video. Thanks.
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by srean 6mo ago
For the longest time I did not know that Vi was his daughter.
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by srean 6mo ago
Thanks a bunch. I did not know about vZome. Thanks for the introduction.
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by srean 6mo ago
They seem to have reversed how Japanese books flip.
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by srean 6mo ago
Yes, US sponsored chemical weapons attacks on Iran claimed 30 to 50 thousand Iranian lives that is still grieved like an open would today. To say nothing of downed civillian passenger jet by the Americans and the coup to oust Mossadegh. Not
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by srean 6mo ago
Ah! This HN post must have been where I had seen this first. Thanks for the comment.
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by srean 6mo ago
Fantastic ! Would love to read more about your experiences.
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by srean 6mo ago
Could you check the URL ? I think something broke during the copy and paste
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by srean 6mo ago
Any zometool aficionados here https://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/zometool.html
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by srean 6mo ago
Escher would be generations younger. However, I am curious about whether Hokusai encountered any Islamic art. Tesselations and symmetry play a big role in that one. I submitted ed this link as a separate HN post. https://news.yco

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