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by vlasev 13y ago
The problem is that it's a lot easier for a musician to find an audience than a programmer to find an audience. Music is nearly universal but programming is quite obscure for people who don't know how. Everybody has seen a guitar
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by vlasev 13y ago
A small but important victory
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by vlasev 13y ago
A bit of nitpick on point 3) - it's a logarithmic scale. The difference between +10 and +5 is 148 times and between +5 and +50 it's about 3.5e+19 which should be quite doable by something as large as a galaxy...
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by vlasev 13y ago
Look at the Wikipedia article on the Russian Armed Forces[1]. Look at the budget of 907 billion dollars (44% GDP) for 2013. That's ridiculous isn't it? I tried changing it to the proper 90.7 billion (4.4% of GDP) but it reverted b
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by vlasev 13y ago
These two things don't seem to be that contradictory. You need to have some kind of success and resources to help more people in a meaningful way. It's not impossible for example the likes of Bill Gates etc who give away massive w
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by vlasev 13y ago
The mistake you are making is that you think it'll take you 15 min/day to "restore state" every day. If you end up doing the same thing several times you'll get better at it. It's much harder if you skip days.
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by vlasev 13y ago
The point he's making is against unnecessary rigorization of introductory calculus and I think you are getting a bit too hung up on the "function-based approach". I repeat - introductory calculus. There's lot of time and
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by vlasev 13y ago
I agree that student evaluations are mostly garbage but they have saved me from bad professors at times. You just have to know what you are looking for. The reason evaluations are bad is that you can't just put a point scale on a profe
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by vlasev 13y ago
This is a very interesting study, thanks for sharing it. With risk to go against what I said earlier, I have to admit that I've seen the same thing in my own learning and that of some of my peers in my math program. The first two years
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by vlasev 13y ago
Great person != great teacher. To be honest, if you watch [1] his lecture, he doesn't grab me as a good teacher. In fact I would probably fall asleep in his lectures. I've seen a lot of professors and how they teach during my unde
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by vlasev 13y ago
Perhaps it is because this is a crystal and there is a relationship or redundancy between the different axes of orientation. EDIT: Actually, this [1] paper says in the abstract that they use wavelength, polarization and the three spatial di
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by vlasev 13y ago
Not quite. The amount of new experience in that trip is so much that if you perceived it at your normal rate in your daily life, it would seem like it took a lot longer. It's like filming something with a high-speed camera and then lat
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by vlasev 13y ago
Oh my god! I didn't know that the the united states is literally crisscrossed by roads in a relatively square grid fashion, as in [1]. This kind of detail was invisible in the previous version. Here is a frightening image of China [2].
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by vlasev 13y ago
Actually, it's WORSE. 1 light year = 9.454 x 10^15 meters 22 light years = 2.080 x 10^17 meters SF to Paris, round trip = 1.877 x 10^7 meters Number of trips = 1.108 x 10^10 In layman's terms, it's about 11 billion trips! Her
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by vlasev 13y ago
Would you know WHICH 300 phones to check without the program?
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by vlasev 13y ago
Here's another explanation, which I think is much better. http://www.farmersalmanac.com/blog/2008/09/16/farmers-almana...
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by vlasev 13y ago
Here's a cool picture showing the layers of a star before collapse http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Evolved_s...
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by vlasev 13y ago
The problem is more complex than that I believe. I can say that my experience with mathematics has been very similar up until a certain point during my undergraduate years when money became really tough for me. All the stress and uncertaint
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by vlasev 13y ago
I saw a statistic claiming there are about 5 graduate students for every professor in the American graduate schools. Unless you want to really pursue the academic path, maybe a phd is not worth it.
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by vlasev 13y ago
We find places near water more desirable, especially coastlines. A lot of big cities are on coastlines
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by vlasev 13y ago
Here are a couple of ideas to make the video better 1. Use a better microphone. The quality of your voice is not very good in the video. 2. Don't keep re-using the computer generated shots, it gets somewhat annoying. Here are some ideas tha
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by vlasev 13y ago
I'm from Vancouver and we have several car-sharing services here - Car2Go, ZipCar, Modo. There are not only dedicated spots all over the place, but recently a bylaw was passed to allow cars from car-shared services to park in all spots that
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by vlasev 13y ago
Number 2 will not work without ample advertisement. And you also have to think which people do you want to want your product.
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by vlasev 13y ago
The right question to ask yourself is would have your experience been any different if you worked on a Master's in pure math instead?
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by vlasev 13y ago
It's often such a PITA to find free research papers if you don't have access to the paid journals. If it's just one paper, it's not such a big issue. The trouble is one of scale. A researcher usually puts a lot of time into looking for all
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by vlasev 13y ago
I have to disagree with you on points 1-3. They are the minor points. I think number 4 should be on top of your list. Number 4 and then number 3 together probably make up 90% of the real reason why people end up doing a phd.
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by vlasev 13y ago
What you are talking about when you talk about those large salaries is something of a pipe dream for most people pursuing degrees. I too was lured into more education with high prospects but the truth is that it's really difficult to get in
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by vlasev 13y ago
> The avatars of algebraic equations in complex numbers give us geometric shapes like the sphere or the surface of a donut; solutions in natural numbers modulo N give us other, more elusive, avatars. If anyone is wondering what those "a
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by vlasev 13y ago
Here is an illustration I made with Mathematica just for you http://i.imgur.com/8JIocR6.png
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by vlasev 13y ago
What if one uses cameras set at different sensitivity, kind of like how one makes HDR photos?

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