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by telegraph 17y ago
That all depends on what one is actually looking to find in an applicant. If the goal of the question is to actually determine if the interviewee has the ability to research a problem, think it through, and implement the solution, then the
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by telegraph 17y ago
For the same reason that all you can eat buffets have small plates.
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by telegraph 17y ago
May I ask why? How does one monetize URL shortening, anyway?
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by telegraph 17y ago
Fails to mention (to me) the most interesting aspect of this kind of work: the complexity and scale of these machines is such that although we may not develop more efficient algorithms for intractable problems in the traditional sense, they
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by telegraph 17y ago
Yes, a fact I didn't realize until the section on Goldman Sachs referred to the more favorable levels of risk carried by Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.
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by telegraph 17y ago
"Since texting is usually a binary activity (the texter sends a text for every text they receive) we can guess that Echo writes about 7,000 text messages per month" A huge oversimplification and probably inaccurate. Especially since most ph
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by telegraph 17y ago
I think you're overlooking the real thrust of the situation. Wiles' proof was relatively lengthy and involved, but it can be examined and studied by humans in an extremely reasonable amount of time. It only took three days for Wiles to pres
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by telegraph 17y ago
It's a clever idea, but as someone who has worked for (and listed as references) supervisors who were extremely flaky, extremely busy, or both, I would never want to judge someone based solely on whether or not their references promptly ret
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by telegraph 17y ago
"That might have been the end of it, had the files not, as digital files will, leaked onto the Internet." This makes it sound like the tubes were leaky that day and because the files were "digital," they just spread out over the Internet li
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by telegraph 17y ago
Thanks, this I understand.
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by telegraph 17y ago
I'm embarrassed to say that I have a degree in math but don't really follow the given proof. Can anyone explain it?
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by telegraph 17y ago
I'm having trouble finding the source (it was in the NYTimes a few months ago), but China has also undertaken a pretty sizable PR campaign encouraging people to have daughters to try and address the ridiculously skewed gender ratios, especi
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by telegraph 17y ago
I think late night phone calls are a lot more palatable now than they were in the 90s, when phone calls for many people meant loud noises in rooms all over ones home instead of a subtle vibration in ones pocket.
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by telegraph 17y ago
I don't have too much big picture advice given that I'm roughly your age and also somewhat disoriented, but with regards to learning your math: most if not all schools will allow you to take a math placement test to determine where you need
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by telegraph 17y ago
Re: my experience with math instructors, you're probably right. I do think that there's a certain sort of base level of application information that should be imparted with any given mathematical topic (for instance, that calculus is about
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by telegraph 17y ago
"I already have plenty of things to read/do when my mind does need a wonder in the evening/weekend" -- for many people, especially those in their 20s who came of age using Facebook, Myspace, AIM, etc, one of those things we do to occupy our
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by telegraph 17y ago
I have to respectfully disagree with you. It's true that there is a large group of kids who would be better served if their teachers focused more on applications; however, I think that there's an equally large (if not bigger) group of stude
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by telegraph 17y ago
This was somewhat buried in the article, and it deserves repetition: "In many countries, math has long been recognized as a tough subject that can be mastered through hard work, said Tom Loveless, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who
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by telegraph 17y ago
Gearing the site towards women is all well and good, but I can tell you right now that your suggestion of using "she" and "her" on the front page will offend. If you want to cater to women, do it by changing your aesthetic and emphasizing t
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by telegraph 17y ago
As a student of applied mathematics I pretty much agree with the gist of this post, although I'm not entirely sure what it means to "understand the math" of a field if you don't understand the concepts (or, to be unaware of the math if you
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by telegraph 17y ago
Very, very interesting. My first concern when I saw this site was concerning no-shows and late arrivals -- I know many doctor's offices are forced to double book appointments and therefore run extremely late, simply to maintain profitabilit
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by telegraph 17y ago
Is this really not satire? "Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extrover
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by telegraph 17y ago
You can easily model something like this with regular old ordinary differential equations in Mathematica or MATLAB. The hard part would be gathering the data to design realistic equations.