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by ww2 13y ago
Maynard is too eager. He talked too much that is a coincidence. But the fact is that he is a member of the polymath project and all the works are consequences rather than coincidence.
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by ww2 13y ago
That is only a tactic move. it is Zhang's work inspired him to look for a quick better alternative. Zhang showed " there is gold! " And then Maynard ran towards that.
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by ww2 13y ago
Deductive reasoning, building blocks of proof are used in everyday life, rather than the ability to recognize geometric pattern.
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by ww2 13y ago
I did. And part of my comments are even from the later part of his article on the criticizing of high school geometry. he talked from the real subjects of geometry side, and looked down the formal language presentation in the textbooks. But
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by ww2 13y ago
The problem with this metaphor is that math is not only a form of art. Only for a very small fraction of population, math is art. For the rest, some basic maths are necessary skills for surviving in this society, like the skill to following
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by ww2 13y ago
agree. Those who replied "thanks" in the thread do not have any sense.
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by ww2 13y ago
backward compatibility is not an issue. Otherwise why there are 3.x branch. This is just a lame excuse.
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by ww2 14y ago
the curve functions are amazing but also awkward representations of the underlying objects. This echos Wolfram's claim that current science could be an awkward form of the underlying truth.
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by ww2 14y ago
Julia's benchmarks just turned me off. They are ignoring the "reasonable idioms" of each language, and specifically focusing only on RECURSIVE and ITERATIVE algos. And also ignoring other competing peers like lua based GSL Shell. Please re
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by ww2 14y ago
No. This is not. Not ONE gambling. It is thousands of thousands of gamblings with a consistent winning ratio. cannot be oversimplified to a symmetric chance of win or lose.
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by ww2 14y ago
starx/xmonad push this to a limit.It is just much more not feasible.
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by ww2 14y ago
I feel sick to read this. The kids learned the world in a twisted way. I really think kids should know how transistor work before work on computer. Otherwise he took too much unreal things for granted.