xanderlewis

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Hitomezashi(hitomezashi.com)
2 points by xanderlewis 2y ago|1 comments
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Why and How to Avoid the Flipped Quaternion Multiplication(arxiv.org)
1 points by xanderlewis 2y ago|0 comments
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
It’s not a ‘topological’ map (though there is such a thing) — it’s a ‘topographical’ one. This is an error I see often.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
It’s actually Sacha Baron Cohen in a new mask.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
> any kind of theorem or idea communicated to another mathematician needs to be serialized into language which would make it computable Are you aware of how little of modern mathematics has been formalised? As in, properly formalised o
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
> UI still looks like it's from 2005. Are you sure this is a problem?
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Europe is more united than ever, thanks to Ukraine. Or, rather, thanks to Russia.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
A plane is just a burrito.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
What in particular did you find difficult about dealing with them?
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Same size, same first and last bytes, and same SHA-256. …and you’re not worried about shark attacks, are you?
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Well done.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
This is really interesting and I’m surprised I’ve never even heard of it before. Now I’m imagining antennas breeding and producing cute little baby antennas that (provided they’re healthy enough) survive to go on to produce more baby antenn
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
I actually don’t need those caveats; I added them because I knew if I didn’t someone would come and argue, even though their counterexample probably won’t stand. > not that they did the genuinely important research when they were getting
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
If part of your criteria for evaluating whether or not a PhD is a good idea is ‘making financial sense’, then you’re doing it for the wrong reasons.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
These days it’s more like math departments under CS departments (which are seen as highly important, as a CS degree is more fashionable than a maths one and mathematics is seen as an abstruse academic pursuit in the worst sense and a financ
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
In the same vein, it's annoyingly difficult to argue against accusations of being argumentative.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
In that case I don't see your point. We're talking about words that are entirely foreign — not loanwords.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
I already pointed this out above. It translates to ‘universe’ as in ‘space’ but not really ‘universe’ in the sense of ‘universal’. Anyway… this business of translating individual words is basically nonsense.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
I don’t think it is. It’s not random. Words are borrowed because they’re useful and fill in some gap or serve some new purpose.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Your second example is a bit disingenuous since the word ‘pyjamas’ is a perfectly normal English word, regardless of its etymology. As for the first: there isn’t a silly trend of naming everything after randomly-chosen German words, so at l
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
I'm not as bothered by it as you seem to think; I was more just pointing out that the trend of naming everything after random Japanese words is a bit stale — especially if there's no relation to Japan and you don't speak Japa
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
It’s true that the concept of ‘universality’ wouldn’t be expressed using a word like uchu — perhaps more likely something like fuhenteki (普遍的) or just fuhen ? — but this is how one Japanese dictionary chooses to define uchu : あらゆる存在物
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Sorry to be negative, but it does seem kind of overdone now. Funnily enough in Japan the same thing happens with seemingly randomly-selected English words, so I suppose it's not completely without precedent.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
It's a very cool design. The scrolling is weird but I like it.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Is there any reason to use the word uchu? It seems like almost everything (colour schemes, AI models, startups, tools, apps, ...) is named using a single randomly-selected Japanese word these days. But... why?
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Yeah! I've heard this many times, but it never sticks in my mind.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
You can never really know. I'd rather take a chance and know I got it wrong than never take the chance and never know I got it right.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Pure mathematics. There's virtually no one who does (genuinely important) research who doesn't have a PhD. And those who do manage to tend to contribute to relatively more accessible fields like combinatorics or things that can
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
> it didn’t lead anywhere It didn't lead to a job, you mean? There's a lot out there to be gained from education other than getting a job afterwards .
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Based on what? Do you have PhD? Have you any insight at all into what it might be like, or is this all just based on recycled tropes? > needless proliferation of education. Almost sounds Trumpian, except the word 'proliferation&#x27

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