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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Now it seems you're moving the goalposts on what counts as privilege. Do you have any quantitatively backed reason to believe Fields medallists are more likely to come from the financial aristocracy than say Abel prize winners?
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
If you're wondering why you're being down voted, it's because very few people believe mathematical discoveries and proofs are going to be automated any time soon. FCT was exceptional in that the theorists were able to reduce
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I agree with all of this, but don't see what it has to do with age. The best 50-year-old mathematicians also heavily tend to come from privileged backgrounds. Privileged upbringing is simply one required component of what it takes to b
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Yeah, the last thing I'd want is to be surrounded by people. I want open road!
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Hm, yeah not sure what I was thinking. Maybe expected number of attempts?
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Spotted the Google employee.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
It's unintuitive, but I believe the probability ends up being 1-ln(2) if you think of n as being uniformly random.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Note that this article is not about the random number generating scheme, but about post-processing to get a random number within a certain range. That said, the author specifically points out xoshiro as a random number generating scheme to
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
They do (source: personal experience).
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
My significant other and I frequently brush our teeth at the same time, and we have just one sink. Is that uncommon?
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Most of the criticism in the article seems to be external, though. No mention of such practicalities as mobility within the house or ease of maintenance, just the aesthetics of the exterior.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Yeah, I'm not a deep learning researcher, but I didn't understand the incredulity at 100 GPU's. Surely Uber has that many lying around, so why not overkill on the hardware when testing? This leaves no doubt that the feature i
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Prey by Michael Chrichton is a nice predecessor of this as well.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Not OP, but I used leetcode extensively while prepping for interviews and it worked out well for me. Like she/he said, just spend a few hours a day doing these problems; I even went back to problems I'd previously solved to see if
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Yeah, there are 26^n length n strings of lowercase alphabetical characters, but only ~26*n different hashes with that function.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Yeah it seems like the real bottleneck is that in these super dense areas, there might be a ton of shards in a mid-size radius. This is inevitable since in the middle of Manhattan, there are just a lot of people in a small area. One solutio
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Why wouldn't the party simply fire the "redundancies" and pocket the money?
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I think you missed the year in Shab's account start date.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Chin up. You're probably in the top 5% of the country in income. If you're in Washington, feel free to tack on another 9% or so to your income in state taxes you don't have to pay.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I wouldn't say I regret it, but that almost doesn't feel like an applicable word; it felt inevitable to me, so it's hard to imagine any other path. Like, at the end of undergrad, all I wanted to do was think about math all da
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Yeah, fair enough. It's more like it could be more fun, if you're obsessed with the field, and your advisor isn't terrible, and your program doesn't encourage cutthroat competition (by e.g. admitting more student
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
The irony of this reply is that I did do a PhD, in pure math at a top 10 school, and while I might describe it as hard, lonely, frustrating, tedious, and high pressure, I would also describe it as having been fun. Certainly more fun than my
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I don't think Google has ever turned away an applicant for being "too smart". That being said, five years in a PhD is probably not as good for your career as five years' experience at $BigNameTech. PhD is probably more f
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
That's fine, but then "hours worked" at best measures how much time was physically spent "at work", and will be entirely disconnected from how much time guys like McCarthy, Turing, Einstein, and Feynman thought abou
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Academics and entrepreneurs don't get paid by the hour.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Does anyone else have about a 40% success rate on clicking Twitter links? Maybe I'm rate-limited because I don't have an account, but the level of reliability I see clicking a few links a day isn't exactly compelling.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
And hey, you can always go fishing in WoW.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I would also add that by and large this isn't done because of ego, but simply brevity. Seminal papers are often already hundreds of pages long, so to add every detail would bloat them to thousands of pages. And in any case, "skipp
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Just of out of curiosity, are you American? There are slight grammatical errors in the post that don't seem to be that of a native English speaker's.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Didn't even have to click the link. I still generally don't fear the police because I do think that video was an exception, but yeah... that man was murdered.

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