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Double limits understood visually https://projecteuclid.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-american-...
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Thanks for the list. I have been on the lookout for a specific book I was suggested as a kid. This was when our high school Physics was traveling a few paces ahead of our mathematics curriculum. All I remember is that the Indian paperback e
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https://rulebasedintegration.org/
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True. Knuth had a paper where he suggests using (a slightly modified) O notation for teaching calculus. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/calc From the Arxiv paper: > Students have to memorize a diversity o
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Good example. Regarding the tragedy , grandiose narcissists usually have very vulnerable egos and cannot bear exposure. Their entire notion of self is held together by their grandiosity. The tragic part is that most narcissists are produce
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Why should someone not be shamed if they do things shameful ? Trying to understand your logic here. By harrassment do you mean public exposure of his lies that earned him his fame ? What is the alternative you propose ? Cover up ? Look the
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by srean 2mo ago
More conversations here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305250
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Dan despicable Ariely is a good example because he also milked personal tragedies. Ariely et al that you mention weren't questioned or exposed any less though. There was Elizabeth Holmes too. The point is, if you cannot bear getting ex
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https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge Reams of lifted passages look quite obvious.
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It seems to have sunk. Sadly the window of opportunity is pretty small on HN.
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That's right. In these missed eclipse the moon is usually a little too high or a little too down. The moon revolves on a plane that is tilted respect the Earth's plane of revolution. These two planes of revolution intersect at t
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Beautiful. This needs to be an HN post on its own. Please post. I will upvote.
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Yup, same here, except now I don't have to look at the list anymore. Have ended memorizing it.
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> because the test distribution could be arbitrarily different, In that case all bets are off for all machine learning algorithms anyway. If the changes are not arbitrarily different then some of the lost performance can be recovered.
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Unless I have to travel to a destination with a drastically different weather or I have to stay longer than ten days, it usually takes me no more than 15 to 20 minutes to get packed. With my undiagnosed ADHD I usually start an hour or two b
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I had vouched for your comment but it did not have any effect. Please email Dang, it seems to be a false positive of some sort. Love your long comments. > Oh I've posted much longer than that (see the one I linked) without getting f
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@DonHopkins your comment is flagged dead. Is it because of its length giving false signals ?
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Oh! I thought this would be about migraine.
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I see them on sale, so probably they do. However, regardless of whether they do or do not, if they have kids they should. Globes communicate so much better than maps. In fact even better is to build one.
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Agreed. Modern rigour is, well, quite modern.
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Why is it poor taste? He is not preventing anyone. Neither is he evergreening patents. Many things that are on the market can be made and sold by someone else for less. If you want you can put up a GPL version.
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Many accomplished mathematicians were not professional mathematicians. Surprisingly enough, many were in fact lawyers. Descartes was himself a lawyer (by training) then there were Leibnitz, Cayley, Viete. If you include Physics you will get
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Like ... death to traffic.
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Yes right ? How dare someone build something entertaining and tell about it.
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This would qualify more as a Ballista than a trebuchet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista
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https://felix-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ This would be a good starting point. More in the manual.
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Could one compare choreography with this model https://felix-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro_corout... Note this is for cooperative threading.
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A long long time ago I had a fun time making Mobius strip structure out of link list(s). Each edge of the ribbon was a linked list, connected to each other by rungs . It looped back on itself but connected crosswise . Then if you nuked a
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Knot theory: How many times is it possible to twist a rope on itself(english.elpais.com)
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