throwgeorge

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by throwgeorge 6y ago
what is the point of this? usually this type of comment is when there's something inscrutable in the title of a post but the title of this post is literally "Who Is Alexander Grothendieck?"; if you didn't know who he was
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
your last link is 404; this is it https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
lol what circles do you travel in? i was on a call last week where this guy that works for DOD took issue with me working at Facebook. the irony is quite delicious there.
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
>abstract algebra is effectively a sort of secret maths techniques abstract algebra (rings, groups, fields) is taught in absolutely every undergrad math program in the country (in the world?). there's nothing unique to harvard in th
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
lol i don't understand your point "harvard doesn't have secret math - the proof is all of these publicly available math lectures from world renowned mathematicians" the value of harvard math profs isn't reaped by th
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
the GT2 RS has a base price of $294,250. I doubt these pistons cost any increment that anyone that buys a porsche will care.
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
what exactly do students on F and M visas have to do with employment? they can't work to begin with.
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
https://omscs.gatech.edu/explore/faq/admissions >Your diploma will read "Master of Science in Computer Science," exactly the same as those of on-campus graduates. There will be no "online" d
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
watch the hands not the mouth - take a gander at the demographics of microsoft/facebook/google and you'll see how much they actually support diversity initiatives
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
i guess you're right it isn't completely transparent but i think they are welcome https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/fe6y66/im_...
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
>However, in my years of being here, I had never read this piece before, and I frequently feel pretty alone as a woman when there are comments that make me uncomfortable. It is just nice to know that there are other women in the space wh
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
>2. The Fed gov’t has ~20,000 laws, it has more than it can count, can you tell me that you haven’t broken a single one? Could a creative prosecutor find something you’re guilty of if they had enough information on you? people should rea
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
>Plagiarizing some work doesn't really hurt the work, it hurts you. and a job well done is its own reward right? i think it's very pretentious to say that to a person who's attending school in order to improve their lot in
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
>it's true 100% of the time. lol that's not what it means at all. almost sure/almost everywhere/complement has measure 0 means exactly what it says: the set can be covered by a countable cover whose measure is zero. t
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
This function is closely related to the cantor ternary set which is uncountable but has measure zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_set This and other wacky analysis things is what inspired me to study pure math
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
the gradient doesn't exist but subgradients do exist (at points of non-differentiability) and that is still useful (case in point as someone else mentions ReLU) https://see.stanford.edu/materials/lsocoee364b/0
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
there was a comment posted by rayiner that was quickly deleted >It’s a Constitutional (and undoubtedly contractual) requirement. Police officers are employed pursuant to a contract. A contractual benefit is considered a property interest
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
i'm a phd student at uf (in cs not ece) and from what i can tell nothing has been done to discipline tao. there were mutterings when his student committed suicide but nothing since then.
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
>real Enums added as a language-feature along with type-hinting are almost 100% on-par with statically typed languages sorry i don't understand this. i'm not trying to be pedantic but: statically typed (and type-checked) langua
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
Prosecutors have even stronger immunity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutorial_immunity >Firming up what had long been held as common practice, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 ruled in Imbler v. Pachtman that
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
i've been looking for it as well and haven't been able to find it. i wouldn't be surprised if journalists are keeping it close because fb puts a watermark in streams to catch leakers. so it's not available to keep the le
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by throwgeorge 6y ago
what possible incentive could Rolex have to lie? if it actually happened they couldn't possibly claim insurance having controverted the police.