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by vlasev 9y ago
It was tongue-in-cheek haha. That's why I said "relative", because they are not algorithms.
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by vlasev 9y ago
I think the average person knows algorithms by their close relative - the "recipe"
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by vlasev 9y ago
Well, plain LaTeX is quite readable, so IMO, it's good enough of a compromise. It does get difficult with a lot of parentheses though.
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by vlasev 9y ago
This stuff is not so that you'd go out there and live a life like Alex. It's more of a, face some of your own irrational fears, sort of thing.
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by vlasev 9y ago
And that's the point. A lot of us walk around with certain fears that would be best to be put behind us. This kind of thing helps, indeed.
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by vlasev 9y ago
Apparently, meditation can reduce the size of your amygdala [1], and this reduces your fear response, so yea. I'm not saying you can become like him, but you can make some headway in that direction. [1]: https://blogs.scient
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by vlasev 9y ago
Combine that with the tyranny of the rocket equation and it becomes sensible.
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by vlasev 9y ago
Or recast as one long one and cut it up.
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by vlasev 9y ago
Mine is - Good sleeping mask that doesn't press on my eyeballs - Good earplugs - Not doing anything crazy for a few hours before sleep - No coffee/caffeine if possible
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by vlasev 9y ago
It's a curious fact then that the author is James Livingston, a 67-year old professor of history at Rutgers, who has also written numerous books. > all you need to say is "Robots are going to replace us, jobs are going to go aw
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by vlasev 9y ago
We already dress up in ballroom dancing, whether it's for social dancing or for competition.
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by vlasev 9y ago
The kind of thing that I would like to be able to do is have a bunch of different virtual accounts that I can use for various different things. Pretty much the envelope spending system, but with cards. I'd be able to take in paychecks
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by vlasev 9y ago
The letter "e" is often used as a generic edge name in a graph. Usually "v" is for vertex in that context.
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by vlasev 9y ago
So let me get this straight...You are mainly a software developer who has an issue with math notation that is meant for mathematicians? Could it perhaps be that you haven't taken enough math to become in tune with how it's done&#x
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by vlasev 9y ago
A mathematician doing math is more akin to a processor executing instruction than a developer doing programming. When you have to reference a variable X in your head 1000 times (an underestimate) in the process of working on a problem, it m
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by vlasev 9y ago
> whether/how scalars and vectors are distinguished This becomes less of an issue once you go through some abstract algebra. But typically, constants would come from the start of the English alphabet, and vectors, from the end. >
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by vlasev 9y ago
DO N tricks of that sort in a row for a chance of 1 - 1/2^N of fooling them!
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by vlasev 10y ago
If we twist things the other way - this shows that you can buy happiness...
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by vlasev 10y ago
How exactly do you generate those "fractal" caves, "echoes" and sequences?
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by vlasev 10y ago
The oddest one of them all
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by vlasev 10y ago
One summer after I had already done a group theory class, I went through most of the exercises in the textbook, and there were many. And after that, I understood the material much better than before. One could probably just do number 3 if a
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by vlasev 10y ago
Your assessment is somewhat unfair and kind of misguided. The differences between math and programming are quite large. I think there are two main reasons for why we have symbols in math and more verbose expressions in programming. 1. Mediu
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by vlasev 10y ago
A variation of this should do the trick: \newcommand[3]{\triangle}{{}_{#1}\overset{#3}{\Delta}_{#2}}
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by vlasev 10y ago
Let's see how this notation holds up to nesting...
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by vlasev 10y ago
> (Thunderfoot seems to be a feminism/politics/atheism channel?) That's why the GP is saying Thunderfoot's science stuff.
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by vlasev 10y ago
An important question is - do your peers also suffer from similar things?
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by vlasev 10y ago
For the lazy: https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV.pdf
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by vlasev 10y ago
We are. We have our very own driver-less light rail in Vancouver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)
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by vlasev 10y ago
Just a thought: What if they only replace retiring/stopping/dying drivers with a driver-less alternative and close off the profession for others?
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by vlasev 11y ago
The syntax is pretty much the same in Mathematica: - ToExpression[string, TeXForm] for expressions coming from TeX - ToExpression[string, MathML] for expressions coming from MathML But how do you grab the TeX formula? TeX'd up formulae

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