MaxBorsch228

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by MaxBorsch228 3y ago
People (and employers) who can truly appreciate calculus wouldn't be impressed with a taken calculus course (thousands of students take calculus every year) or even a math BSc, and those who can't, how would they assess how hard y
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
Nice list! Reminds me of this: http://imperium.lenin.ru/~verbit/MATH/programma.html
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
A snippet of pandas code in a notebook I saw when learning pandas, it looked like this: def to_minutes(df, col): df[col] = df[col].dt.minutes return df ( pd .read_csv('data.csv') .assign(dur=df.finish-df
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
Procedural landscapes are such a fun thing. When I was in high school I read about perlin noise landscape generation technique in a random blog post. I shared the technique with a friend and he was very excited. A week later he presented a
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
I guessed correctly by the title that the article is about coding a 3d image, but was waiting for the classic "two balls and a cylinder" scene, which college students naturally come up with in path tracing assignment in computer g
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
This is a national meme in Russia. War and Peace is mandatory reading in schools, but it's always only 3-4 students in class who really read it. Most students just skim through ("read diagonally", as we say), use summary or w
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
In Moscow metro they sometimes ask (but do not enforce) via speakers to stand on both sides of the escalator. I heard this practice was brought by McKinsey from London. In my experience this sometimes works on very short escalators, and on
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
There is a fun story of a guy who was making several thousand $ a month for a couple of years from a side project, a bunch of fan websites about reality TV show. Unfortunately in Russian, but Google translated version is tolerable: https:&
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
What if give it the same promt but "with subtitles in French" for example?
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
I agree with you, but hackers sell exploits to others all the time? One can never be sure that hackers gonna send the actual exploit. You're right the scheme does not protect from that, my initial shower thought was more about the &quo
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
It guarantees that the group will receive the money and the exploit will be released if the fundraising is successful.
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
Suppose a hacker group get their hands on a valuable exploit. They are like LAPSUS$ and are going to make the exploit public access, but also want to make some $. I wonder if the following scheme is theoretically possible: 1. Put the encryp
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by MaxBorsch228 4y ago
In Russia we say "spherical horse" instead of "spherical cow". I suppose that's because the russian translation of "horse" ("конь") sounds somewhat similar to "cow", and the translated
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by MaxBorsch228 5y ago
I agree such meta-questions are annoying. However, I saw many times a situation when a new guy joins some Telegram chat and asks a question, only to get an avalanche of angry and overreacting "go read nometa.xyz a hundred times" r