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tanderson92··on Linear algebra done right
Maybe you need to speak to better math professors.
tanderson92··on eigendrum
Selecting different materials would not change much. Call the frequencies \lambda_1, \lambda_2, \lambda_3...

You can prove that changing the material has no effect on the relative frequencies: \lambda_2 / \lambda_1, \lambda_3 / \lambda_1, etc. are completely independent of the material.

The shape is the determining factor; changing the materials (and hence the wave speed) just dilates the whole spectrum.

tanderson92··on Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
https://xcancel.com/nihilunbounded/status/207910986973986045...
tanderson92··on Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme
Disagree; it irks me to read AI slop, and writing is meant to be persuasive and engaging to human readers.
tanderson92··on Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme
When you say you 'wrote this up', you mean you had an AI write (at least) chunks of it.
tanderson92··on SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
Amazon has been in the S&P500 since 2005.
tanderson92··on Why Gentoo?
There have existed portage replacements in C++ in the past. What you will find on reading the history is that personalities in the Gentoo community can play a more important role than technical excellence.
tanderson92··on Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
TPOT has a lot of spillover into the rest of twitter at this point; I assure you people in his twitter circles see their stuff all the time.
tanderson92··on Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging
People do not graduate with a STEM PhD with hundreds of thousands in debt; that is not how the education system works pretty much anywhere in the world.
tanderson92··on US will overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots
Interesting. In context that is not the claim what I am contradicting in the comment chain, despite that it is the literal reading of what I said.
tanderson92··on US will overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots
There is no change in the HPV recommendation.
tanderson92··on Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
I was literally contributing to Gentoo Linux at age 13. Before, my dad started me on Slackware.

edit: downvoted. Some of you all simply have no belief in or respect for the intelligence of children.

tanderson92··on Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix
They have.
tanderson92··on The Vatican observatory looks to the heavens
This isn't true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoperimetric_inequality
tanderson92··on AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected
No, you are not hallucinating: https://web.archive.org/web/20250520152757/https://news.ycom...
tanderson92··on AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected
The present title is more friendly to VCs and the tech industry, shocking no one.
tanderson92··on Solving physics-based initial value problems with unsupervised machine learning
This is basically all work in the physics-informed ML literature. (As another commenter points out and links to, more and more people have been increasingly frustrated with the hype of this subcommunity).

What is more amazing is that they have conned their way into the funding agency priorities and have broadly affected hiring at universities.

tanderson92··on Approved fracking compounds can form PFAS a.k.a. “forever chemicals”
You have it completely backwards. NY Times is notorious in journalism for forgetting to mention others' articles or putting them towards the very end of the article.
tanderson92··on Approved fracking compounds can form PFAS a.k.a. “forever chemicals”
Classic NYT burying other publications' beating them to the story.
tanderson92··on Breaking the “Lattice Barrier” for the Hidden Number Problem
Extremely so.

I also hear emerging possibilities for machine learning techniques in this dynamic space.

tanderson92··on The Journalist and the Pharma Bro
In my humble opinion, generally speaking, lay persons (and even specialists who have not done a proper evaluation) should avoid psychiatric diagnoses of individuals they casually know, as the implications of such a ``diagnosis'' can cause significant distress.
tanderson92··on An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
For those wanting to learn more about this you can read about: Gabor theory.
tanderson92··on Mackenzie Scott Gives $1.7B to Historically Black Colleges and others
She co-founded a business.
tanderson92··on The Money Laundry: Tracking Criminality of the Banking Industry
Doesn't appear to include state-level settlements. For example, Deutsche Bank's latest settlement with NYS DFS.
tanderson92··on Qualified Immunity: Explained
It's actually worse than that, if you can believe that that is possible: https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1198&c...
tanderson92··on Biggest Oil ETF Could Go ‘Lights Out,’ Warns Wall Street Strategist
Same difference.
tanderson92··on Biggest Oil ETF Could Go ‘Lights Out,’ Warns Wall Street Strategist
Equity in a limited liability corporation incurs the holder no liability.
tanderson92··on I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)
Not so unexpected: Tracy Alloway is one of the hosts of a jointly very-entertaining and highly-informative podcast by Bloomberg, Odd Lots.
tanderson92··on An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
The academic job market can be unforgiving, and for those who also have industry leads/offers it can be helpful to know whether there may be future offers from academic institutions when deciding whether to commit elsewhere. Even without industry offers, it isn't like all academic job offers come in at the same time and you may be second pick at your preferred institution so it could take some time for a possible offer to come through. If you're still getting website hits from a place it's a fair bet you're still under consideration and you maybe don't want to commit elsewhere.

It's not really about an ego boost, and in any case, egos can take a pretty major bruising during the very anxious weeks.

tanderson92··on An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
Yes, but there are hacks to get that back: I have been using https://ipmeta.io/ with success.
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