ykonstant

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by ykonstant 3mo ago
Only tangentially related, but this is why I gave up on fountain pens. They are cool and elegant, far too cool to be a practical tool for me. I realized this at one time I was in Bonn; I was thinking deeply about a problem as I was holdin
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by ykonstant 3mo ago
That will certainly resonate with the generals (≧▽≦)
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by ykonstant 3mo ago
Genius! Rewrite Postgres in Rust by rewriting Rust in C!
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by ykonstant 3mo ago
Not always. As an exercise, try to find a continuous real function which is differentiable if and only if the Riemann hypothesis is true!
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by ykonstant 3mo ago
Feel poor??? Man... this is some prime ragebait title.
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by ykonstant 3mo ago
This is one of the best generalist books on mathematics ever published. I highly recommend it.
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by ykonstant 3mo ago
Unacceptable! If Oracle doesn't enter the consort, there is no way I am trusting it to be a legitimate defender of open source!
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by ykonstant 4mo ago
Oh my.
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by ykonstant 4mo ago
> For realtime communications, I prefer IRC. How on earth do you get people to talk in IRC? Am I missing something? Almost every channel I have joined is dead silent, and any time I tried starting a conversation I felt like I was askin
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by ykonstant 4mo ago
Hmmm... very disappointing that when I unchecked "politics" in Filter, that post remained in the list.
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by ykonstant 4mo ago
I would also like to know. Surely some people here have at least second-hand knowledge, and silence can sometimes be deafening.
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Common Core Standards for ELA, Appendix a [pdf](nysed.gov)
2 points by ykonstant 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ykonstant 4mo ago
The first appendix to the Common Core text for the English Language Arts contains some very interesting discussion of the role of advanced literacy outside the confines of academia. It is worth a read.
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by ykonstant 4mo ago
I was raised in a working-class family in Greece in the 1980s. We lived in what the average US person would describe as "squalor". Cockroaches crawling on our faces style. My parents made only a few luxury expenses: encyclopedia
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by ykonstant 4mo ago
It's AIive!
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by ykonstant 4mo ago
Perhaps. For now, one of my one-on-one tutoring sessions (in real analysis) this semester consisted mostly on un-teaching a student a bunch of wrong crap they "learned" from ChatGPT.
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by ykonstant 4mo ago
Ok this is your second comment that reads like pure rage bait, is there a way to notify the mods?
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
For easy access: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU4gBzEnQ6M Statements like that one deserve all the ridicule we can pile upon them.
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
>bioluminescent individuals Brilliant.
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
But I thought crime--- - He said thought crime! bots start firing the machine guns
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
Yep, that's exactly right.
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
"So you're implying..." No.
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
The technology isn't there yet (｡•́︿•̀｡)
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
I don't have a stake in this thread, but I am stealing "maladjusted weaklings" (≧▽≦)
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
Yes. Yes, it would. This is so tiring.
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
Damn, those poor and homeless are really living it up.
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
Jesus Christ.
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by ykonstant 5mo ago
Oh yes, a very unfortunate side-effect that companies are implementing with tears in their eyes, tearing their clothes apart.
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by ykonstant 6mo ago
Unnecessary emphasis can get... quite comical... indeed.
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by ykonstant 6mo ago
Is that a genuine "he could lose", or "he could lose" the way Erdogan "could lose"?

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