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by tnecniv 10y ago
Are you sure math is doing much better than tech? The others I know are much more balanced but I thought that women were underrepresented in math as well.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Same as |. Like many things in math, there's a wildly accepted notations.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
As others have said, "such that." It's worth noting that some people use a vertical line instead to mean the same thing.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
It's worth noting that JFK and Henry Kissinger were big fans of the game Diplomacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Ah I hear it now! Somehow I missed that on the first listen and was very confused.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I thought the parent was referring to playing a fifth on the top two strings with a slide, not the blues shuffle (which dates back to at least Robert Johnson).
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by tnecniv 10y ago
That lick is my go to when I'm in the middle of a solo and need a minute to think about where to go (and he definitely plays it cooler than me). Even if lots of people today aren't aware of him, they're probably aware of the
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Mathematica is a really awesome tool.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
This was my exact experience during my first two years in undergrad. It was especially frustrating because my grade was varying from an A to a C based on what felt like dice rolls. I normally ended up just thinking "oh I had bad luck o
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by tnecniv 10y ago
The real value of the lectures, especially in higher level classes, is the color that the professor adds based on past experiences that normally doesn't come out in a text book. Whether that's worth four years and a couple hundred
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by tnecniv 10y ago
At my university, all of this content was part of the CS education except for maybe the eigenvalue stuff depending on which courses you picked.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I agree, maybe because I learned to program way before I got into rigorous math. I really wish the community standardized notation more.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> This is probably not a view shared by many here, but if math problems were to be communicated in more natural ways, far more people would be interested in the sciences. To the mathematician, this is the most natural way. Sparse, simple
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by tnecniv 10y ago
You can breeze through it in an afternoon and it ends up being strangely applicable to life.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Let's not forget the complete lack of package management, where it guesses at which of the many overlapping functions you intended to call.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
It's worth noting that MATLAB is a horrible language despite it's massive success. I feel like I'm baffled by something new in the design every day.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I've done mathematical programming in both C++ and MATLAB. As much as I hate MATLAB as a language, it's way faster and easier to prototype things. There's a huge library of vetted functions for scientific things I'm inte
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by tnecniv 10y ago
What's your working setup with Julia? I'm looking at switching over from MATLAB as soon as the semester is over.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Having a strong background in math and algorithms is very useful because it opens up the number of problems you can solve. However, knowing these things doesn't mean you will face problems that require them. I've had jobs where I&
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by tnecniv 10y ago
What kind of features do you look at? Obviously I don't expect you to be able to talk specifics, but I'm curious about the generalities. Also, how did you settle on logistic regression? Have you tried any other models?
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by tnecniv 10y ago
The general class of model that you can use to create synthetic data is called a generative model [1]. The style of learning that pits one of these generative models against a discriminative one (the class you can't generate data from,
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Not to mention it gets special treatment as a program and the behavior of it in the task bar is weird and non-intuitive for inexperienced users.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Rumor is it's going to be this summer at the annual conference.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I'm sure there's some correlation between teaching ability and money raising, one of the more important aspects of being dean. They both stem from being a good people person.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> but it's still vastly ahead of a degree in law, which seem to be the most common preparation for political careers in North America. Those are kind of fundamentally different things, aren't they? A PPE degree is an undergradu
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Bishop is good but reads a little too much like a literature review sometimes. That may or may not be a problem depending on what you are looking for.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I'm sure it varies quite a bit from person to person. LSD does have a mood enhancing element.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I'm pretty sure I'd just fall down a YouTube hole and never recover.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Thanks for the insight!
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I'm not a mathematician, but I had a math prof tell me that most publications only contain proof sketches, not full proofs. Can someone in the field comment?

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