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notyoutubeon Taking dietary supplements full of antioxidants could help cancerous tumors grow

I wonder what that means for vegan people taking "large spectrum" vitamin supplements, e.g. veg one ?

notyoutubeon A half-hour to learn Rust (2020)

Isn't that one weird trick more or less defeating the whole purpose of rust's ownership/borrowing model by moving the problems one level up the ladder?

Having seen that kind of opinion stated elsewhere, it seems what most people would like is rust minus borrowing, and I feel I would get behind that too.

notyoutubeon Mousetrap.jl: a GUI library for Julia and C++ that wraps GTK4

I'd like to see a comparison to GTK4.jl [1] and GTKObservables.jl [2].

[1] https://docs.juliahub.com/Gtk4/rFcBQ/0.5.0/ [2] https://juliagizmos.github.io/GtkObservables.jl/stable/

notyoutubeon Ask HN: For advice: I'm a mathematician looking for a plan B outside of academia

Yeah, in my experience, all those "interesting but practical fields" have plenty of people with experience in exactly that field, be it academic researchers, or more practically oriented people. They don't need some random mathematician that still has to learn everything.

notyoutubeon Ask HN: For advice: I'm a mathematician looking for a plan B outside of academia

As someone in a similar situation, it feels like most job adverts expect prior experience in whatever the domain is. I expected that learning on the job was a thing, and that the "mathematician" (ergo, knows how to learn, or so they say) badge would suffice. Can anyone speak to that?

notyoutubeon Ask HN: For advice: I'm a mathematician looking for a plan B outside of academia

Thanks, after hearing about promoting oneself so many times, I guess I know what I have to do!

notyoutubeon Ask HN: For advice: I'm a mathematician looking for a plan B outside of academia

I think you're underestimating the amount of very advanced stuff already done in PL theory, and overestimating how applicable pure maths is to that.

Afaik "category theory [as an] underpinning of type theory" is quite far from true: you can model some type theory with category theory, but it's mostly about modelling, the correspondence is very finicky once you get to the details, and it doesn't help _that much_ for practice. Then, knowing the bit of CT that a typical mathematician knows is not going to amount to much or anything very helpful, in practice, and for the things it will help with (probably going to be quite theoretical cutting edge research), you'll have plenty of people that studied exactly that working on it…

I'd like it to be the case, but being able to describe Yoneda and knowing about assembler is, I think, a far cry from getting you anywhere near these jobs.

notyoutubeon Ask HN: For advice: I'm a mathematician looking for a plan B outside of academia

I've been out of a PhD for 6 months or so with no job in sight, and would like to get into more creative stuff, but I don't see how that's possible without spending an unforeseeable long amount of time without any salary. How did you do?

notyoutubeon Edge detection doesn’t explain line drawing

Yeah, bad PhDs, bad!

Edit: People being arrogant or know-it-all is probably not especially correlated with having obtained a PhD, but more with overall frame of mind, and I find this comment to be a uselessly negative ad-hominem.

notyoutubeon Rain Panels: Harvesting the energy of falling raindrops

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/05/04/construction-begins-o...

I saw the construction of this thing by chance the other day. Is it so obvious it's a "shenanigan" if they're still researching it?

notyoutubeon The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler

I'm close to the end of Peter Green's translation of the Iliad, and though hard to plough through at times, the style was not as drab and "old" as I would have expected; the difficulty was mostly due to scenes often being kind of long, essentially bullet point lists and/or with strange content -- i.e. content more than form.

I'd be interested to know what people have to say about that translation, and the one of the Odyssey by Green too.

notyoutubeon The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”

Given that the whole point of the website and the discussion is the fuzziness that any such rule implies, I'm pretty sure they _do_ see the point, but decided to play the interpretation game anyway. What's your point?