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by yellowcake0 5y ago
With how I've defined form, I'm not sure how you could. Who in their right mind does math on a computer, math is implemented on a computer, but it's done by hand.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
> How important is form when I'm programming mathematics? Not important.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
The difference is that form is important in mathematics and not very important in programming. Therefore symbols are used because it makes it easier for the eye to recognize patterns. For example these equations look similar, x^2+4x+5=0 y
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
Terence Tao wrote that mathematical maturity is developed in three stages: the pre-rigor stage, the rigor stage, and the post-rigor stage. The rigor stage usually begins during the second or third year of university, and ends about half way
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
I admit it's a blue collar approach, but it's served me well when my goal is optimization or some such and I just need to get on with it.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
If you know single variable calculus and basic linear algebra, then you can often muddle through by just remembering that the derivative of, (1) f: R^n -> R is a vector (2) f: R -> R^n is a vector (3) f: R^m -> R^n is an n x m matr
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
To be fair, I've never heard someone use the word defenestrate unironically.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
Oh come now, are we really so delicate that one brusque comment gets our back up? Does the man have to be obsequious everytime he discusses his language in an informal setting?
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand, why did you agree to help him, did he have some sort of leverage over you?
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
All Quiet on the Western Front It's a quick read, and can be finished in a single sitting if one has the mind to. It had been on my list for a long time, and lived up to its expectations. The narrator's description of death as, &q
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your significant other. I developed permanent neuropathy and muscle problems in my lower legs after a course of Levaquin for a respiratory infection. Constant fasciculations, cramping, and pain.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
I assumed the implication would be clear from the analogy. In the last 20 years the US has invaded two of Iran's neighbors, Iraq to the west, and Afghanistan to the east.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
My intention was to point out the irony of Chinese nationals wanting to immigrate to the US, ostensibly because China is ruled by a bunch of "crazy psychopaths". When the reality is that the US is also run, at least in part, by a
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
> They are funding proxy wars throught the Middle East. Would it be more honorable if they just invaded countries in the Middle East instead, the way the US does? Of course the US is funding proxy wars as well. If a beligerant and much
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
The question is, are their psychopaths crazier than our psychopaths.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
Theta is the angle, r is the radius. Thus PMs are good at figuring out in what direction to concentrate their effort, and then the engineers make progress in that direction. That's how I interpreted it at least.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
Yes such things are being done, see this paper for example: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.31.425021v1....
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
Personally, I've become convinced that AI is just an elaborate jobs program scheme thought up by washed out PhD students to bilk gullable venture capitalists out of endless amounts of money.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
Could be because 42 is not a semiprime.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
I would add, Fourth, the ability to effortlessly drop down several layers of abstraction: Pointer types, all packages including Base are written in Julia and can easily be extended or patched on the fly, homoiconicity, seamless integration
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
Just released episode of Fresh Air on China's surveillance state: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953515627/facial-recognition-... Xinjiang is the laboratory for these new surveillance technologies.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
Well, there's also the Human Microbiome Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Microbiome_Project Although if you thought the genotype -> phenotype problem was hard, the microbiome -> phenotype probl
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
There is no way to vote against the interests of Raytheon.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
The website is currently unavailable so I can't read the article. However p-hacking, to which I believe the parent comment was referring, is a separate issue. I agree that the incessant belaboring of the difference between correlation
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
Cancer isn't caused by abnormal methylation patterns. The ctDNA are just fragments of DNA which have been shed by the tumor and are now circulating in the blood stream.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
Probably many of the same ones that are used in the later stages. My understanding is that the prognosis is much better the earlier one begins treatment.
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by yellowcake0 6y ago
This Nature paper, Non-invasive early detection of cancer four years before conventional diagnosis using a blood test https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17316-z Major breakthrough in cell-free diagnostics. Th