StevenXC

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by StevenXC 2y ago
It's very unclear to me how you seem to expect medical research to be done in the cloud. Overhead is crucial to create and maintain research infrastructure necessary to advance medicine and science.
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by StevenXC 2y ago
I wrote a small novel but lost it due to user error, so here's a hot take with much less nuance from a college math professor. Just like calculators meant we needed and could pivot the skills we ask our students to learn, AI will also
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by StevenXC 2y ago
Algebraically, where | denotes concatenation, and z is a string of 0s: x = y | 1 | z -x = ~x + 1 -x = (~y | 0 | ~z) + 1 -x = ~y | 1 | z x & -x = (y & ~y) | (1 & 1) | (z & z) x & -x = 0 | 1 | z
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by StevenXC 2y ago
As an math educator, I think there's a huge flaw in this study. The investigators failed to follow up to see why the mistake was made. They leap to assuming the player is trying to "deny the antecedent", but I think there&#x2
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by StevenXC 2y ago
the kids are alright. Reminds me of when I organized a real life version of Pac-Man on the quad in 2006, inspired by this game ran on the streets of Manhattan in 2004. https://www.pacmanhattan.com/
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by StevenXC 2y ago
It's just a little spark of inspiration.
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by StevenXC 2y ago
3.0 has a "bug" that makes it risky to use materials without very careful attribution: https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-...
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by StevenXC 2y ago
Like most inequities, those who are in the benefiting group frequently don't realize that privilege.
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by StevenXC 2y ago
Nice to see JRMF trending on HN. JRMF puzzles and festivals are a great way to engage general audiences of grade school students in mathematical inquiry and problem solving.
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The Lurch Project: a word processor designed to check the reasoning in proofs(lurchmath.github.io)
1 points by StevenXC 2y ago|0 comments
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by StevenXC 2y ago
I like the phrasing used by https://houseofgraphs.org/ — while there are an infinite number of mathematical objects in any category, there are only "a few thousand that can be considered really interesting."
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by StevenXC 2y ago
Those interested in databases of mathematical objects may want to check out https://mathbases.org
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by StevenXC 2y ago
Literally Doug Bowser.
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by StevenXC 3y ago
Calculus 1 instructors, everywhere, screaming > TikTok is finally concave down
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by StevenXC 3y ago
https://Topology.pi-base.org (a database of certain mathematical objects) started as a wiki, but transitioned to using GitHub pull requests and custom software to support automated deduction. Folks interested in open collaborati
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by StevenXC 3y ago
SymPy is open source, mathematica is not. Additionally, SageMath (which depends on SymPy) is the more comparable product (and is open source).
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by StevenXC 3y ago
A major Boeing campus is in Huntsville, AL, which is going to affect that average for sure.
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by StevenXC 3y ago
They didn't make a business using an open source project; they turned their open source project into a monetized non open source project.
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by StevenXC 3y ago
I've seen stranger things.
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by StevenXC 3y ago
Same story here. It's a shame.
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by StevenXC 3y ago
Also relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_data_analysis
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by StevenXC 3y ago
Frozen (2013), i.e. 11 years ago
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by StevenXC 3y ago
Are people still on Reddit since last summer?
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by StevenXC 3y ago
Little surprised there isn't a prompt to upload the copy of the ROM we all legally dumped from our personalized copies of the cartridge.
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by StevenXC 3y ago
As a solely mobile user of HN, my fat fingers much prefer your layout to the current one, which requires a lot of precision or zooming in to find relevant links.
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by StevenXC 3y ago
It can be annoying, and reviewer #2 is a jerk, but I'd be highly suspect of any scientist that doesn't respect the importance of peer review.
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Let's Split Up, Gang(split.clontz.org)
1 points by StevenXC 3y ago|0 comments
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by StevenXC 3y ago
It's kind of like a Vine.
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by StevenXC 3y ago
I'm a donating supporter of the Mathstodon.xyz instance, but (sadly?) most of "math Twitter", at least the education-focused university faculty, ended up on BlueSky. I think there's a strong appeal for "a straight f
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by StevenXC 3y ago
Probably not what you mean by "at work" but as a non-CS STEM academic that needs to help my colleagues get dev environments so we can collaborate on research software, devcontainers are a game changer. I work a lot with folks that

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