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Happened to me as well; also in Boston.

It kind of depends on how you define prime numbers.

Usually, one says an element p of a general ring is prime if p|ab implies p|a or p|b. This property does not necessarily hold for the "smallest" divisor of a given element of your ring, as used in proof 1.

On the other hand, you might be interested in irreducible elements, i.e. those p for which a|p implies a = 1 or p, up to a unit (i.e. a divisor of 1). In fact, you can write any element of your ring as a product of irreducible elements, but not uniquely, not even uniquely up to units. In other words, you can have irreducible elements a, b, c, d, such that ab = cd, but none of them divides any of the others.

Huh? There is an abundance of shows in America about rich people.

Hm yeah, I was thinking of something more natural, like requiring the G(n,z)'s themselves be analytic on some domain. Anyway, sure the Riemann zeta is important, but I'm not sure how it's canonical.

What bothers me is that it seems there could be many ways of writing 1 + 2 + 3 + ... as the "specialization" of a formal series depending on a variable z, and for which the formal series converges to an analytic function on some domain away from the specialization. I can imagine there's a way of doing this in such a way that the function's analytic continuation to the specialization evaluates to any number you want, not just -1/12. However, I'm having trouble cooking up such an example.

Also, the lowest or "first" key on most pianos is an A.

Hang in there, it gets better.

I have a much bigger problem with the driver who is too busy talking on the phone or giving me their card to even take the exits the GPS is telling them to take. I can't wait for self driving taxi services.

I just don't understand what I'm supposed to get out of it. 30 minutes a week is plenty for me and we usually run out of stuff to talk about anyway. What if I have no issues with coworkers, I'm not burnt out, and I like my projects?

Here's where I think it cause problems: right now, if I feel like working from home on a given day, and I have no meetings, I just do it. If I was supposed to meet with my manager every single day, then now it's like I'm cancelling that meeting, so now I'm self-conscious that he thinks I'm slacking, and I would probably just not bother and drag myself in every day. Boom, reduced morale.

Just a counterpoint: I would be incredibly annoyed if my manager suddenly wanted to start talking to me for 30 minutes a day. I much prefer the hands-off, stay-out-my-way-and-let-me-do-my-job approach, which thankfully is exactly what my current manager does.

Yeah, I don't even think most people in the US would use the word migrant to talk about someone from Canada. When I hear "migrant worker", the image in my head is agricultural workers coming from Mexico.

Maybe Google figured it out from the activity your link provided in the last 8 hours, but when I click on [1], the top result is [0], and there is a prompt asking if I meant "united.com".

So since the "internet" existed in the 70's, nothing exciting happened in the 90's?

There were no self-driving cars in 2006, and electric cars seemed like a far off dream.

I don't understand the idea that VR will make business travel unnecessary. What problem does VR solve that video conferencing doesn't? The ability to turn your head?

The reason business travel, and in general non-remote work, is worthwhile isn't necessarily the pre-planned meetings, it's also the familiarity developed by meeting somebody in person, shooting the shit over lunch, and being able to casually mention an idea or anecdote without the overhead of a "call."

It's not just any department, but a department that specifically deals with diversity and race issues.

I don't think the Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Student Affairs Outreach has any role so pragmatic as aiding in grant preparation. I think they spend most of their time responding to emails and attending meetings about recruitment strategies and whether the college is sufficiently committed to diversity.

I would also say the fact that Ginsberg is not a victim only bolsters his point. He really has nothing to gain by making these statements.

Adjuncts are supposed to fill in the gaps when there are more classes than can be taught by the full time faculty. The real problem is that as admissions increase, rather than creating more tenure track jobs, they create an adjunct position for 1/3 the pay, and use the other 2/3 to create an administrative position. From the article:

"Even while keeping funding for instruction relatively flat, universities increased the number of administrator positions by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, 10 times the rate at which they added tenured positions. In the old days, different professors would take their turn as dean for this or that and then happily escape back to scholarship and teaching. Now the administration exists as an end in itself and a career path disconnected from the faculty and pursuit of knowledge. Writing a few years ago for this publication, the Johns Hopkins professor Benjamin Ginsberg described colleges and universities as now being “filled with armies of functionaries—vice presidents, associate vice presidents, assistant vice presidents, provosts, associate provosts, vice provosts, deans, deanlets, and deanlings, all of whom command staffers and assistants—who, more and more, direct the operations of every school.” So while college tuition surged from 2003 to 2013 by 94 percent at public institutions and 74 percent at private, nonprofit schools, and student debt has climbed to over $1.2 trillion, much of that money has been going to ensure higher pay for a burgeoning legion of bureaucrats."

I didn't mind them, but I definitely scrolled until they were off screen when starting to read the text below.

What if reality is politically incorrect?

Couldn't one use the same reasoning to argue that open-sourcing an iOS app isn't really "open source", since you need proprietary hardware to properly run it?

https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partII

I took these to prepare for first-job interviews coming out of grad school. Got an offer from a company frequently mentioned on this site, so I guess they helped.