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by t-ob 9y ago
I attended this talk, and it was one of the highlights of the conference for me. Mike is a great speaker and I found myself inspired to dive deeper into LLVM internals afterwards.
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by t-ob 10y ago
> I'm sure you can derive all sorts of weird metrics so that various weird identities are true On the rational numbers, at least, the p-adic metrics are more or less your whole lot, according to Ostrowski's Theorem [1]. There i
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by t-ob 10y ago
Not an exhaustive list, but the best resource I've come across for a number of these topics is this course http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html It's terse but comprehensive, and the e
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by t-ob 10y ago
I really like GMB's approach to fitness (emphasis on movement and skill over reps and kilograms lifted) and have paid for a number of their programs. They know what they're talking about, and are incredibly humble about it too. Hi
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How Lumi Tailors News to Personal Tastes(alistdaily.com)
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by t-ob 10y ago
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by t-ob 11y ago
In 2009 during my Masters I was taking a course in elliptic curves and I was having a tough time getting to grips with them. I discovered Sage and was suddenly (after an eight-hour compile time!) able to easily create and manipulate these o
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by t-ob 12y ago
I took a History of Mathematics module as an undergrad and remember our lecturer telling us the main reason "New Math" never stuck was because parents were no longer able to help their kids with their homework.
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A most peculiar series(tobrien86.tumblr.com)
1 points by t-ob 13y ago|0 comments
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by t-ob 14y ago
I read quite a lot about Noether when I took a module in the history of mathematics as an undergraduate. Few mathematicians excel so greatly as to have an entire class of ring[0] named after them! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetherian_ri
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by t-ob 14y ago
Modulo a prime ideal you're only guaranteed an integral domain. The residue ring is only a field when the ideal you're taking as a modulus is maximal. All maximal ideals are prime, but the converse is not true - for example in the ring Z[x]