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stablemap··on Google MBA Internships 2018 (Japanese - English, Bilingual)
Does this page have an advantage over Google’s?

https://careers.google.com/jobs#!t=jo&jid=/google/mba-intern...

stablemap··on The 7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need to Lead Smarter
Forgive their title, if you can.
stablemap··on Payment Request API
Maybe this helps too:

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/discovery-and...

stablemap··on SciPy 1.0.0 Release Notes
Note that these are attached to beta 1, so this is not yet finished. I'd be curious to hear from people who work with the package directly and not through scikit-learn as I do.
stablemap··on Boston Based Startup Goes Live with app that gives Job applicants an edge
I think you should introduce yourself through a Show HN, focused on features, instead of a press release.
stablemap··on Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
This will be in Safari 11 too: https://webkit.org/blog/7734/auto-play-policy-changes-for-ma...
stablemap··on Allergan Pulls a Fast One: Patents Transferred to Indian Tribe
Some earlier discussion on an article in the Times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206796

stablemap··on Course Notes – J.S. Milne
It's a third year course! If you want a more leisurely treatment I hear good things about Cox's book "Primes of the Form x²+ny²". Even if you don't reach the CM part you will have gained a lot of motivation for it, all the way back to Disquisitiones.
stablemap··on Course Notes – J.S. Milne
Most of these texts were originally intended for graduate courses at Michigan. In any event, I think it's helpful to note that algebraic groups are to algebraic geometry as Lie groups are to differential geometry; it's not a primary subject, even if the name does not emphasize this.
stablemap··on Course Notes – J.S. Milne
His book on linear algebraic groups finally comes out via CUP in a couple of weeks. I haven't read recent drafts but it should address a real need:

http://www.jmilne.org/math/Books/iag.html

I've found his notes most useful when, because of the medium, he is able to provide more background, detail and examples compared to the standard texts.

stablemap··on How big oil will die
Discussion from a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14715405
stablemap··on Deeplearning.ai: Announcing New Deep Learning Courses on Coursera
Many weeks end with an interview that might be interesting independent of the course -- the first is a long one with Hinton.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning...

stablemap··on Learn GraphQL with GitHub
They put up recordings later, hosted on Vimeo; for example:

https://resources.github.com/webcasts/GitHub-communicating-w...

With some digging you can get an MP4.

stablemap··on Some professional news
Hi, just saw this. I'm loathe to go against the submission guidelines. I didn't expect this to do "well" but thought it was a significant enough move.
stablemap··on How Shor's Algorithm works (2007)
But I think if I reply to him then he can't delete and the whole thing recurses.

I am sorry for this derailing.

stablemap··on How Shor's Algorithm works (2007)
@GordonS It's an HN convention for the title. If you would delete your comment then I think I would be allowed delete mine and would gladly do so now that the submission has been "fixed".

Of course an algorithm like this is evergreen.

stablemap··on How Shor's Algorithm works (2007)
From 2007 (now fixed).

These are some of the hardest papers to write and make visible; I was disabused of a few beliefs and the treatment of number theory didn't upset me so this was great, particularly the Fourier bit at the end.

stablemap··on Cybersecurity Humble Book Bundle
The first book, for example, is about $21 in paperback from Amazon and I'm having trouble finding a printer around here who would give me those 416 pages for less. Maybe it starts to make sense if you print several at once.
stablemap··on Iran sentences Princeton graduate student to 10 years for espionage
The story is on what I consider the boundary but I thought it interesting to academics. I don't disagree with flagging it, really -- the Post has already sent my checks.
stablemap··on What makes maths beautiful?
The original word has a plurality to it; I think it is we who did violence to "maths".
stablemap··on Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Dissident Who Won Nobel While Jailed, Dies at 61
I think the NYT's writing is good here but there's no need for two topics -- mods deleting mine seems a good idea.
stablemap··on Photos: Life inside of China’s massive and remote Bitcoin mines
The original piece in ChinaFile has more pictures from Liu and a similar amount of context.

http://www.chinafile.com/multimedia/photo-gallery/inside-wor...

stablemap··on Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
I've seen keyboard cameras.
stablemap··on Galois Theory for Beginners (2010) [pdf]
It's a five page article in the Monthly, but I'd hesitate to include either topic even in a book.
stablemap··on Galois Theory for Beginners (2010) [pdf]
Some authors would write the following: σ is a permutation of the numbers 1, ..., n and

(σf)(x_1, ..., x_n) = f(x_{σ(1)}, ..., x_{σ(n)});

nothing truly different, but possibly more comfortable. Another thing to say is that a field automorphism can't move the base field Q: all we can do and all we have done is move around these formal variables. So with the rest of your notation,

(σf)(x_1, x_2) = f(x_{σ(1)}, x_{σ(2)}) = f(x_2, x_1) = x_2 - x_1

stablemap··on A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World
There is, in my experience, a difference between the courses required of mathematics majors and the courses that students who might want to be mathematicians are expected to take.
stablemap··on The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan [pdf]
It doesn't look to be one. The Archive is an important resource but I wonder how they're able to host, for example, large ROM collections without running into trouble.
stablemap··on Georgia Tech's free math textbook collective
I should have described the differences, but I would have wanted to perform some interpretation and did not feel comfortable doing so.

For example, one item [1] there that interests me is a set of student-taken notes that has been on the lecturer's website [2] for seven years. My prediction is that it will never be changed or fed to a publisher. I think that in trying to avoid conflict with publishers and blame for unstable and error-filled texts the sentence you quote saps the enthusiasm of the visitor.

[1] https://www.ams.org/open-math-notes/omn-view-listing?listing...

[2] http://math.stanford.edu/~conrad/252Page/index.html

stablemap··on Georgia Tech's free math textbook collective
I think the HN title is misleading: one professor was collecting links and encouraging change, and I wouldn't infer much more.
stablemap··on Georgia Tech's free math textbook collective
The AMS is trying its hand at curation as well. The project shifts some of the work onto authors and seems most useful for undergraduate subjects at the moment, but the names behind it should help.

https://www.ams.org/open-math-notes

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