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by v64 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what university did you go to? I attended the University of Texas and there was very little overlap between the math and CS curriculums [1]. The classes in common were lower division calculus (8 or 12 hours, depending if y
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That's why I specifically called out futures trading. From [1]: > In the financial markets, options and futures are examples of zero-sum games, excluding transaction costs. For every person who gains on a contract, there is a counte
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> as does the joy in solving a problem This is it for me. Futures trading is a zero sum game (negative sum if you factor in fees), so writing a program to automatically extract value from an ever changing market is a nontrivial and ongoi
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by v64 9y ago
Holy crap that video. It makes me think of the scramble suit from A Scanner Darkly[1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWne23FfKW8
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Ultimately, the point becomes moot because we focus too much on "normal" sets. Such a definition does nothing to help us answer questions like, what is the least element of the irrationals?
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I'll take this over nothing at all any day of the week.
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With your ordering, what is the least element of the open interval (0,1)?
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I once had a homework assignment to attempt to construct the choice function for the set made up of all non-empty subsets of the reals. A lot of intuitive ideas come to mind and it's a good exercise to show why they don't work. Yo
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I think the canonical example is that WO means there's a well ordering of the reals. We have to accept it as true, but what the hell would that look like? It's generally assumed that such a well ordering wouldn't be construct
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> several people i've worked with graduated from respected CS programs yet could barely program their way out of wet paper bag How do you reconcile the fact that the individual could barely program, but they graduated from what you
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Her LinkedIn profile, before it was scrubbed, showed her as an employee of those companies, but her job title for each was listed as "Professional". It's not entirely clear what her previous roles were and exactly how relevan
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I agree that having an unrelated background doesn't entirely disqualify a person from a position, but when the consequences of failure are high and more money is at stake, then selection should be much more stringent. She probably woul
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Part of the reason why the US Dollar is so valuable is because of its extensive use in illicit operations. Even if a cryptocurrency is used for illegal purposes, that use increases its value for licit activities, as niche as they may be.
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> How are you encumbered with normal currency? A simple example would be if I want to pay someone a large amount of money (>$10,000) privately. Using credit or a check creates a financial record. Cash is the only way to keep the trans
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by v64 9y ago
Cash can be used for illegal purposes too. Private, unencumbered, tax-free transactions have licit purposes as well.
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Even better, if you're the maker on a limit trade on GDAX, there's no fee.
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Disclaimer: I have a math background, but this isn't my field. The continuum hypothesis was proved to be independent of ZFC. From glancing at the first few paragraphs of the actual paper [2], it's been established for decades that
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by v64 9y ago
Let d(n) be the sum of the divisors of n (for example, d(6) = 12 because 1, 2, 3, and 6 divide 6 and 1+2+3+6 = 12). Let h(n) be the nth harmonic number, that is, h(n) = 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/n. Let ln(x) be the natural loga
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by v64 9y ago
If you've got some free time, can you look into whether or not the real part of every non-trivial zero of the Riemann zeta function is 1/2?
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That's not how infinity works, which is why many results involving infinity are counterintuitive. For instance, consider the natural numbers and just the even natural numbers. Intuition says these two sets must differ in size, because
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by v64 9y ago
Here's [1] an article from 2015 describing Casey Mann, Jennifer McLoud, and David Von Derau's discovery of the 15th type of pentagon. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numb...
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But is there a particular reason like a news event that they're trending right now?
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I would hope given the title character's nature that this was done intentionally :)
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Agreed, but we have a system in place for lobbying the government via our elected representatives. It's not always effective, and it has its problems, but it exists and it works for many cases. If Amazon changes their mind on this, the
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My interpretation is that, if this is something that will always be needed, it should be the responsibility of the government beholden to the taxpayers and voters, not at the whims of a corporation whose motivation or dedication may change
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I think you meant to link to this [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(novel)
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by v64 10y ago
> You won't get the tax breaks. Or in the case of a lot of folks like myself, it's worth it to break tradition to avoid jumping into a higher tax bracket due to the marriage penalty [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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I don't doubt any of your story (I'm from outside Tyler and have a similar trajectory), but I know you know folks back in Port Arthur that never made it out. I won't speak for you, but I know my hard work was augmented by a h
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Agreed, which is why I think this information is additional evidence and not a smoking gun. I do think given what is public knowledge, the prospect of the CIA using an experimental new technique on a target like Hastings is suspect. Ultimat
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I think given what we knew until today, it was prudent for his family to deny the theories. Now that we have evidence showing car hacking isn't just some theoretical exploit, but something they were actively looking into around that ti

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