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by 141205 4mo ago
Hardy would agree with the viewpoint that you espouse but it would be pushed back against by Arnol'd, Poincare, Gauss, Von Neumann, and even Grothendiek: Arnol'd and Poincare were vituperatively against the division between "
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by 141205 7mo ago
"The bulk of US college students attend colleges who do not have the resources to build high-quality, industry relevant curriculum, train teachers to teach with modern pedagogy, and efficiently manage dorms, student affairs, and other
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by 141205 7mo ago
Am I misunderstanding your post?: you're implying that HYPSM increase their matriculation by ten times? These "elite" colleges,—one of which I've attended for graduate school,—have serious issues already with becoming de
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by 141205 7mo ago
Great article. I recently went through Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon; the sequence of eccentric personalities in this article reminded me of a similar section that Pynchon has in the bay area. Unfortunately the personages interviewed here are
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by 141205 7mo ago
You would forget that this would cause exponential growth: in a couple decades, a single lab could produce more people seeking tenure track than an entire country's worth of positions; there need to be smarter ways to provide the requi
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by 141205 8mo ago
There's a big difference between cutting off all foreign-born talent—and addressing the serious issue of graduate school turning into an immigration racket; the current issue with graduate degrees is a very close mirror to the issue wi
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by 141205 9mo ago
I know absolutely nothing about string theory, or the culture of high-energy physics, but I don't buy the pecuniary argument you are making. You aren't considering the downwind effects of allowing academic rot. The Bourbaki—and th
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by 141205 9mo ago
I was driving from Sacramento to Reno, and there was a bad snowfall up in the mountains. I ended up getting struck in a small country town, and couldn't get up an iced hill. I thought I was going to be stuck there the entire day (at le
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by 141205 11mo ago
This is cool to look at, but isn't this just obtained by taking the absolute value of the first equation minus the second? These are very pretty visualizations—but trying to present them as some kind of "sea change" in perspe
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by 141205 1y ago
I'd like to know about your experience in modern academe. I've gone to top-ranked schools in America (UT Austin, Stanford). My experience with the average foreign graduate student is not "top research talent." Most of t
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by 141205 1y ago
Wonderful, now we're at a point where Hacker News has people defending a fundamentalist antisemitic hate group that's quite literally performed suicide bombings and launched rockets at civilians. Maybe you haven't felt terror
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by 141205 2y ago
To add to what the other guy said, rotors (by extension Clifford Algebra) is better. A fatal issue with Quaternions is that while they handle rotations perfectly, things like the norm or cross product of two vectors is messy. This is unsurp
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by 141205 3y ago
Ouch. Out of curiosity could you link to the Nature article in question?
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by 141205 3y ago
>They just know it. Tell that to cane toads.
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by 141205 3y ago
> Even engineering undergrads have to learn formal logic in their first semester. I got my engineering B.S. from a top 5 college in the US, and have known many people who have gone to similar schools. None of us have had to take a class
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by 141205 3y ago
Yes, but I think this presents the core of the problem in modern pedagogical methods when it comes to mathematics. The Bourbaki attempted to reduce math to a highly axiomatic foundation, while disregarding the intuition and visualization th