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by tychonoff 16y ago
Consider the famous 100 year old paradox: this sentence is false. Watson won't be able to assign a truth value to this gramatically correct sentence, but would it have the insight that it just stumbled upon a philosophical problem that's so
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Computing will continue to aid mathematical discovery, proving (useful) theorems like Four Color, or even formulating their own (useful) theorems before proving them. For example, in Einstein's Special Theory, there's not a lot of deep math
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by tychonoff 16y ago
As an independent consultant for decades, I've found the opposite to be true. Clients don't care about my age since I'm just passing through. I've never taken a programming course, but a Mathematics education has really helped. It also help
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by tychonoff 16y ago
It's pathetic that you need to offer this for free. The net is swamped with illiterate postings so your service should be in hot demand.
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by tychonoff 16y ago
The NoteSlate is trying to define the product itself, archetype, electronic paper. We are trying to define this archetype for general public, bit against their today`s usual network expectations. Huh? Memo to vendor: edit your copy before r
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Trend Micro says this page is dangerous.
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by tychonoff 16y ago
The author quotes long division as an outmoded skill. So let's all use our IPhones instead, insuring that the genius of arithmetical computation and algorithmic thinking, which took generations of scholars to discover, will be abandoned for
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by tychonoff 16y ago
From my own experience, he's too enthralled with mathematics, which in many ways is like having a photographic memory. Use it to your advantage, but spare us the advert (just the results would be fine).
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Nice overview of some IBM accomplishments. Really liked the part about their role in Apollo 13.
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Metaphors!
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Skip the chocolates. Instead, confirm their confidence in you by doing something useful as quickly as possible. Minimize cultural differences (ie. try to fit in without sacrificing anything important). Don't pander - you were hired for a
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by tychonoff 16y ago
I never forgot a quote attributed to Liebnitz in my high school trigonometry book, which went something like: "Although the world may be a dream, I would call that dream real enough if, using reason well, I was never deceived by it"
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by tychonoff 16y ago
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/series/steven_strogatz...
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Scientists calculate how high heels can go(eurekalert.org)
1 points by tychonoff 16y ago|0 comments
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Without reference to the formal notion of limits in real numbers (invented in the 19th century), the expression 1=0.999... is meaningless. So one shouldn't be surprised at the confusion and dumb arguments surrounding it.
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Walter Rudin's book is a masterpiece. I read this book 35 years ago for my comps, and remember it as one of the best. Bear in mind there's no easy way to learn mathematics - it's going to be hard no matter what approach you take because th
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Guess what RIM's PlayBook and a nuclear reactor have in common(financialpost.com)
3 points by tychonoff 16y ago|0 comments
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Traffic Safety Using 3D Optical Illusion (theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by tychonoff 16y ago|2 comments
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Why Gandhi hated iodine(fullcomment.nationalpost.com)
9 points by tychonoff 16y ago|1 comments
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40-million-cubic-metre avalanche(vancouversun.com)
2 points by tychonoff 16y ago|0 comments
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by tychonoff 16y ago
I left mathematics 20 years ago (PhD, logic) by way of Prolog (logic programming) and then drifted towards relational databases (with some side trips into scheduling using graph theory). You are in a good position - mathematics is a powerfu
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by tychonoff 16y ago
On page 25, the subscript for E in the second equation should be k, not m?
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by tychonoff 16y ago
US population way out of date (ditto for Canada)
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Free logic books: http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=33
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Find the algorithm (quizyourprofile.com)
0 points by tychonoff 16y ago|1 comments
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Will China soon take the lead in mathematics?(newyorker.com)
2 points by tychonoff 16y ago|1 comments
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by tychonoff 16y ago
Free math books: http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/mathematics.php
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by tychonoff 16y ago
I hope the G summiteers like insects.
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by tychonoff 16y ago
I never forgot his wonderful book Principles of Mathematical Analysis, which I read from cover to cover as a grad student in the late 70s.
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Why you should invest more in your tech support team(businessinsider.com)
1 points by tychonoff 16y ago|0 comments

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