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A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007)(sites.math.rutgers.edu)
91 points by susam 5mo ago|21 comments
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by susam 5mo ago
This is fantastic! The voting statistics of the community would have been very interesting. I have emailed the moderators to see if they would consider giving this post a second chance at /pool.
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by susam 5mo ago
I meant the latter. I think the question is fine. It can lead to a good discussion, similar to what we are having in this thread. It has been a long time (almost 20 years), but I remember that most interviewers who asked this seemed to b
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by susam 5mo ago
I believe they were referring to thaumasiotes's thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141294 I think the objection thaumasiotes has raised there is valid and I have made an attempt to answer it as well in
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by susam 5mo ago
I searched K&R to see if there is any language that implies a += a++ + a++ to be undefined. I couldn't find anything. I found the following excerpt which is closest to what I claim, in spirit. But still, it does not explicitly s
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by susam 5mo ago
The code in the post seems very similar to the one in my own post from 2010: https://susam.net/sequence-points.html int a = 5; a += a++ + a++; I do remember that this particular code snippet (with a = 5, even) used
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Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot(utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by susam 5mo ago|0 comments
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London's Smallest Public Sculptures(lookup.london)
40 points by susam 5mo ago|6 comments
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by susam 5mo ago
I remember dBASE IV from my childhood days when my father, who had no computer background, was required to take computer training by his workplace. My father and his colleagues were given free evening computer lessons by their company, taug
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The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)(openculture.com)
364 points by susam 5mo ago|193 comments
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Freenode IRC Mathematics Seminars (2010)(freenode-math.fandom.com)
2 points by susam 5mo ago|0 comments
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by susam 5mo ago
It's not mathematics that you need to contribute to (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36744690 - July 2023 (65 comments)
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by susam 5mo ago
> From one of the answers [...] Thank you for highlighting that answer. It is one of my favourite pieces of writing about the culture of mathematics. I just want to add that that particular answer is now affectionately known as Thur
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by susam 5mo ago
Good pedagogy is a problem even for graduate-level mathematics students and professional mathematicians. The proofs in many graduate-level mathematics textbooks are, in my humble opinion, not really proofs at all. They are closer to high-le
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by susam 5mo ago
Yes, that's fair. Indeed my so called improvement requires continual maintenance to add new parameters to the blocklist, which somewhat defeats what is perhaps the main purpose: convenience. While it is clear that your solution works w
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From RSS Feeds to Atom Feeds(susam.net)
1 points by susam 5mo ago|0 comments
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by susam 5mo ago
This corrupts a URL like: https://example.com/?p=20&utm_source=spam to: https://example.com/ when in fact we want the following: https://example.com/?p=20 A possible impr
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by susam 5mo ago
From Debian 13.2 (Trixie) + Bash + curl 8.14.1: $ curl -s 'https://httpbingo.org/get?' | jq .url "https://httpbingo.org/get" But on macOS + Bash/Zsh + curl 8.7.1: $ curl -s
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Notes on using GNU Emacs' Tramp system in an unusual shell environment(utcc.utoronto.ca)
29 points by susam 5mo ago|0 comments
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by susam 5mo ago
Independence tells us how to compute the probability of a sequence like HT or TH: P(HT) = P(H)P(T) = p(1 - p) But the question I am addressing is not just "what is the probability of HT?" It is "given that the two flip
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by susam 5mo ago
I'll start with the clarification that the moderators have changed the URL of the original post from < https://susam.net/no-query-strings.html > to < https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings >
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I’ve banned query strings(chrismorgan.info)
576 points by susam 5mo ago|297 comments
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by susam 5mo ago
And for people who like equations, here is my attempt at explaining it. Assume each flip is independent and the bias remains same in each flip. Let P(H) = p, P(T) = 1 - p. Then P(HH) = p^2, P(HT) = p(1 - p), P(TH) = (1 - p)
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The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (2012)(blu-ray.com)
9 points by susam 5mo ago|3 comments
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by susam 5mo ago
I very much prefer a well-written product guide compared to a product tour. A guide does not interrupt me when I am trying to get work done. I can read it at a time that is convenient to me. I can bookmark it, revisit it and share it wit
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by susam 5mo ago
You are quoting a point from my summary and extrapolating what my post might be saying. Even in that quote, I do not say that the user must be responsible. The point is that responsibility and accountability should remain with some hum
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by susam 5mo ago
I recently wrote a blog post where I argued that there are a few principles we should consistently follow when talking about AI: https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html To summarise them: 1. Do not anthropomorphise
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Voltage Tester vs. Multimeter(techtownforum.com)
2 points by susam 5mo ago|0 comments
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From RSS to Atom(susam.net)
3 points by susam 5mo ago|0 comments
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Introduction to Atom(validator.w3.org)
137 points by susam 5mo ago|69 comments

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