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DreamScatteron What is the inverse of a vector?

This article is really about geometric algebra, check out my geometric algebra software https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl

DreamScatteron UK Home Secretary considering removing right to anonymity on social media

No, stop tuning other people's lives, you're not in charge of "tuning" humanity.

DreamScatteron The latest campus cancellation is different

Do you seriously want to waste your time like that?

DreamScatteron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2021)

Location: Greensboro NC

Remote: either or

Willing to relocate: yea

Technologies: computational math, geometric algebra, physics, Julia, Wolfram, Fortran, C#, python, Gnu/Linux, etc etc, etc

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/chakravala

Email: private

DreamScatteron Facebook-owned sites were down

Do you mean Jacque Fresco?

DreamScatteron Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon

Or delete your account

DreamScatteron Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship

By the way, the nazis were successful because they used censorship. If you want to support censorship, beware that this is what enabled the nazis.

DreamScatteron Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship

Don't you think it's selfish to shame your friends if they decide they don't want to be part of a predatory social media company?

DreamScatteron Julia Computing raises $24M Series A

They are pocketing millions of dollars, but stomp their foot on the community. They are only hiring 5 more people, despite getting millions and millions of dollars. The people behind this project are not good well intentioned people. The language itself is great, due to the thankless work of many contributors who never got paid. The people behind the language are selfish and they intentionally harmed some Julia language projects, such as Grassmann.jl by banning valuable contributors who had good intentions and spent thousands of hours of their time contributing to the community.

DreamScatteron Julia Computing raises $24M Series A

I just quit using Julia language and am switching to Wolfram language.

Well, I still might use Julia personally in the future, but my days of contributing to the community are over.

The julia community is thankless, and the people at Julia computing are mean spirited and they think it's acceptable to harm people having good intentions (like me), having contributed thousands of hours of free time to help people on their forum and releasing my own packages used by thousands of people.

Julia Computing just raised a bunch of money, but they are just pocketing it for themselves while they stomp their foot on people they perceive as unworthy.

Yea, it's a good language, but the people behind it are very selfish and harmful to the free software community.

DreamScatteron Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring

yes, the number of students has to go down, very few people want to take these 400 person classes, these classes are only taken by people because some random department needs funding, so they require people to take classes they don't need.

DreamScatteron Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring

I've been saying this for years, but academia is filled with stupid administrators who are incapable of evolving the state of teaching / learning because their salary depends on having administrative bloat.

DreamScatteron Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

I've been on the bivector discord since the beginning (aka chakravala), you can find my geometric algebra library Grassmann.jl https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl

DreamScatteron It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel

That's pretty much my stance, the universities are obsolete garbage. I did give them another shot and took as many math classes as possible, but they screwed up and drove me away.

I now do all my math research independent, as the universities are unable to facilitate my math research activity.

https://github.com/chakravala

DreamScatteron Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters

The CCP can't build jet engines, while the Germans invented jet aircraft ... so no, I don't believe your claim is correct.

DreamScatteron Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

Geometric algebra for Julia: Grassmann.jl https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl

https://grassmann.crucialflow.com/dev

DreamScatteron Afraid to Google a thing because I don't want the algorithm to think I like it

Isn't there a "not interested" button on YouTube? That might fix your issue.

DreamScatteron Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality

Killing people to achieve a technology is unacceptable and unethical ... maybe in nazi germany you could pull that off, but I think you'd eventually be charged with crimes against humanity.

DreamScatteron Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality

Unfortunately, musk wants to present himself as if he is some kind of Tony Stark character like in the iron man movie. He also says the he doesn't care about college degrees, but I bet that all the people at SpaceX have the necessary degrees and are not drop outs, so that's probably also not really true about him either. The Tesla car company was also not founded by him but by someone else who actually engineered a car. I will give him some credit for SpaceX though, I think the company is doing well, but I doubt he is directly involved in engineering.

DreamScatteron Why People Feel Like Victims

Well, I have to disagree. I don't believe your story has anything to do with you being a woman in that situation. There are plenty of male people who also don't have a network and who get taken advantage of and have their ideas stolen without credit. This happens all the time on a daily basis and has absolutely nothing to do with gender. It's a real problem, but in my impression it seems to be a quite standard problem with humanity and not gender.

DreamScatteron Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg

Facebook is stupid, but in your case, you can't really blame facebook for your choice in friends and your friend's choices.

DreamScatteron Ask HN: Charisma (faked) trumps (real) technical skills?

Good comment, but I don't necessarily think that I completely lack communication skills. Perhaps I am too skilled at communicating, and people just don't like what I'm communicating to them. Of course, that is also context dependent, as nobody can be an expert communicator in every possible context.

DreamScatteron How college became a ruthless competition divorced from learning

Maybe that flawed logic / grammer you point out is itself a symptom of what the article is discussing (failure of education).

DreamScatteron In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math

If high performers are expected to tutor low performers, then the high performers ought to be paid a salary by the school. Otherwise, such an expectation of work cannot be expected. The teachers are being paid to do a job, they are the oned who are responsible for doing the job.

DreamScatteron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)

https://github.com/chakravala

I doubt anyone will hire me despite my advanced math and programming skills, so I will not provide my email address.

DreamScatteron Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

At least it's better than nothing.

DreamScatteron Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

Your problem wasn't an issue with copyright but with YouTube's approach to handling copyright.

DreamScatteron Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

Groove is just as important to many non-black people, so saying that only black people would care about this is annoying me. Anyway, I don't have the ability to downvote things, I can only speak for why I didn't like the phrasing.

Small world I guess, I used to be a random nobody, I guess now people have something to recognize me by. I also release music under the name Dream Scatter by the way.

DreamScatteron Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

I think the problem with that post is that race (black and white people) are unnecessarily brought into it. I'm sure that musicians of all races would want this issue addressed. Making it about race is extremely ridiculous.

DreamScatteron Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

That doesn't have anything to do with black or white people. We don't need black people to change this copyright system, just people in general who want to make sure that musicians get paid. Saying this is an issue between black and white people is extremely ridiculous.