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this must have been so much work. SICP is an intricate masterpiece. So many projects like this fail mid-way. Even if all you do is change the CSS style, that's an accomplishment in itself.

those curves on like every other page, are those the conductor's hands?

every few years I get an operation, this year it was 4 wisdom teeth extractions. they gave me 21 oxycodones, I took 18, threw 3 down the trash. (this was on top of maximum strength ibuprophen)

for acute pain, discipline.

this is graduate school of information science, not the mathematics department of University of Tokyo

here's the exam (in Japanese)

http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kyoumu/documents/26english.pdf

http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kyoumu/docs/26a%200119.pdf

http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kyoumu/docs/26b%200119.pdf

don't you mean work with hippa?

you can't write on a computer screen -- even with touch screens it's rather clumsy.

books took several thousand years to evolve.... give them some credit.

Just something totally ridiculous. These spyware / malware competitions remind me of poker in that these are games of imperfect information and we just throw hoops tring to gain a tiny bit more information than the next guy, to improve our bets.

everyone on Instagram puts music tracks to their videos. they could be ironing their clothes but they will attack a hip-hop track our country music tune and get 10000 views quickly

these tutorials read like a computational geometry textbook. I have gotten stuck even on simple algorithms like the intersection of two lines. at least in the beginning it may be hard to compute bugs

These diagrams may be helpful in discussing the entanglement of the anyon worldlines

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13787283

this isn't esoteric at all. We are discriminating against Korea when we do not accommodate their alphabet.

China and Japan obviously have to accommodate themselves as there is no possibility of having one key for each Kanji (or Chinese character). There was a nice documentary showing arcane Chinese characters or different descendants of the same Chinese characters.

Does this encode the font or merely the character (as an entity)?

all these wonderful graphic languages exist. now it's time to put them into practice!

I have had trouble understanding class numbers. Usually they measure the "failure" of unique factorization. So how does these failures become a special type of number, that multiply to form a group?

Here is an article explaining why exp(pi*sqrt(163)) = is near an integer: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/4775/why-are-powers-of-exp... http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4544/why-is-e-pi-sqr...

I have met all three of the mathematicians pictured.

have you considered creating an instagram channel and just talking about things you like?

when I record, I get to see my own body language, my phone changes my speaking voice and picks up my very strong Bronx accent.

I remember asking why i was rejected from Palantir and vaguely recall the phrase "too mathematical".

After years of trying I have been unable to make the transition from Mathematics into Data Science and have since shifted my attention to other things.

HIV is a pretty rare disease. About 1 in 300 people in the USA. So I don't understand 1 in 4 gay men are HIV+.

sci-kit learn is excellent, but their implementations are a bit to complicated to learn from.

this is for people who don't just want to tune parameters but build the whole thing from scratch

I can buy buy a pie all the fix-ins from a bakery, or I can buy the ingredients myself, and make it to exactly my liking. it may not be a professional.

I was a teaching assistant at UC Santa Barbara for 3 years, I can tell you, students might slug through the calculations , but none -- or a precious few -- really get the big picture.

Mostly, it is that calculus pedagogy is a disaster. And it hasn't been updated to include recent advances in technology (such as Data Science)

Strang is an amazing lecturer. I can tell you, that far into your Masters and PhD these same basic issues resurface. There's at least one project I can think of where the entire problem hinges on taking one derivative.

this is very sad. I live blocks from Lehman college but that was a few decades before my time (if he taught in 1979). Unrelated, there is also Melvyn Nathan who does additive combinatorics.

i observe it was written in Haskell

https://github.com/rumuki/rumuki-server/tree/master/app

it's a little bit pink for my taste. There's a way to change the CSS, right?

im a huge fan of the Elm broswer. and have been using Elm with atom along with elm reactor. That has worked adequately. Most difficulties are ironed out by making sure the Elm code compiles. Then at least all the parts are fitting together.

But maybe I have written code that compiles, but doesn't express what I am wanting.

coookie monster and the fairy keep exchanging apples <----> bananas

how does this help me solve NLP

i read arXiv on my android smart-phone using Xodo PDF viewer , which lets me highlight and underline in color.

Reams of paper saved and I can read anywhere... but I can't do scratch-work on my cell phone!

as an end-user, I was suspicious of AMP because it changed the websites slightly and didn't let me share the URL.

now I see there are legal (intellectual property) reasons why that is wrong as well.

i love languages and i am enjoying seeing Go mature as a language. At the moment I do have my hands tied with Elm and Haskell.

Originally I am a Python programmer. Any advice for people transitioning for Python? What are some of the advantages of Go?

Sorry for being too Western. I think of Lychee's something as a rarity and a delicacy but I can find them in Chinatown.

When I was in mainland China, near Guangzhou, I remember a woman trying to sell me lychees by the pound -- or whatever unit of measure -- if only I could understand the price she had wanted.

If I understand correctly, these are children from impoverished regions, who only eat Lychees? and they get a type of food poisoning?

we are discussing Deep Learning at the math meetup @ BuzzFeed!

https://www.meetup.com/Math-and-Algorithm-Reading-Group/

this could be helpful to iterate through tree-like structures. Such as trees. * I was going to mention Calkin-Wilf * discussed below.

Conway games also take values that are fractions but only dyadic numbers (2^k as denominator) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Numbers_and_Games

i am having my doubts these days.

i would like to read my programs as proofs. then I ask myself what is the Amazon.com front page proving?

we talk about proof writing in Haskell or Agda. What about Python? Can we prove things there?

And finally I think about the statements I would actually like to prove? Much of mathematics requires second order logic or beyond, such as the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

So for me the triad between Math and Logic and Computer Science is less than air-tight and will remain that way.

i am intrigued by this. Discrediting NYT and CNN and that fact the checkers are themselves fake.