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AI co-mathematician: Accelerating mathematicians with agentic AI(arxiv.org)
3 points by aoki 4mo ago|0 comments
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by aoki 9mo ago
Wait, Matthew Salomone is the lead of Klein Four! https://youtube.com/watch?v=BipvGD-LCjU
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by aoki 10mo ago
> Back at the SFMTA, Armando told me the Breda vehicles are being replaced, and with them their destination displays will be swapped for newer LED dot-matrix units that are more efficient and easier to maintain. By the end of 2025 the si
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Japan's famous Suica Penguin JR train pass card mascot is "graduating"(soranews24.com)
3 points by aoki 10mo ago|0 comments
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by aoki 11mo ago
That’s viXra
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by aoki 1y ago
Once upon a time, editors requested submissions in single-column, double-spaced form because they (or the in-house writers) would actually mark on the printed-out paper. Mysterious glyphs, squiggly arrows, and indecipherable handwritten te
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Why Did Endurance Sink?(cambridge.org)
2 points by aoki 1y ago|0 comments
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by aoki 1y ago
The deepest compartments (below the waterline) are often like this. It is not always possible for taller equipment spaces (engineering, magazines) in small ships. Crew berthing is often below the waterline and accessed via deck hatches as y
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by aoki 1y ago
Can’t speak for the Norwegians but that is not how at-sea watchstanding works in, e.g., the US Navy. The OOD is the captain’s delegate in operating the ship. In peacetime steaming, there may not be another khaki (officer or chief petty offi
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by aoki 1y ago
In the modern US military, it’s a truism that if anything seriously goes wrong on a ship, the captain has ultimate responsibility and will be fired. (Whereas before WW2, future admirals like Nimitz ran their ships aground and were not fired
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by aoki 1y ago
Pure math has a far greater vulnerability to this than applied math. Top journals have impact factors of around 5.0. Respectable but tiny specialist journals can have impact factors less than 1.0 (like, 0.4). Meanwhile, MDPI Mathematics is
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by aoki 1y ago
The issue in all fields became significantly worse as developing countries decided their universities needed to become world class and demanded more international publications for promotion. Look at the universities in the table in the pape
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by aoki 1y ago
Fortunately, medical researchers discovered Tai’s Formula for the area under a piecewise linear function. No calculus required! :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%27s_model
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by aoki 1y ago
Well, at least “smearing” isn’t a default choice anymore
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by aoki 1y ago
Ah, the “financial exigency” escape hatch
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by aoki 1y ago
I think they mean predatory journals and conferences. Setting up a predatory journal costs nothing, whereas actually holding an in-person conference of any kind costs money. A good time to repost about the famous VIDEA conference: https:&#
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by aoki 1y ago
Have nerdy kids and you can make references to “Romanes eunt domus” and shrubbery again
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by aoki 1y ago
The pricing is not about the cost of storing and serving the articles. It is partly direct revenue replacement and partly “stick” to get institutions to subscribe to APC allowance buckets.
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by aoki 1y ago
ACM went hybrid access (optional APC for Gold open access) in 2013. Before that, there were no APCs. As of 2026 authors will pay APC unless their institution pays (by subscribing, or directly). If you are in a developed country and not affi
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by aoki 1y ago
Everything related to HAMURABI, such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40953536
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by aoki 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Paravia_en_Fiumaccio
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by aoki 1y ago
The early 90s were the era of (1) Pentium (2) PCI (3) multiplatform Windows NT. Most vendors switched to desktop/deskside designs based on PC bus and PC components, it would be more cost competitive (volume economics) and could run NT&
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by aoki 1y ago
The Sumida Hokusai Museum is almost entirely a display of replicas. They are very upfront about being a “learning” museum - they do hold the original prints but display them in rotation. We were there last year and there was exactly one ori
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by aoki 1y ago
> 20 years ago (in 2005), did anyone voluntarily, happily label themselves autistic, without any disgnosis, outside of such psych classes (outliers for obvious reasons)? The “Aspie programmer” meme has been around since the turn of the c
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by aoki 1y ago
From Wikipedia: “The complete, unexpurgated, and definitive edition, edited and transcribed by Robert Latham and William Matthews, was published by Bell & Hyman, London, and the University of California Press, Berkeley, in nine volumes,
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by aoki 1y ago
reads article at 11pm And so to bed!
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by aoki 1y ago
For those downvoting: As measured from the planetary surface(=sea floor in this case), as opposed to sea level
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by aoki 1y ago
> Does Asymptote get much use these days? Kids who get most of the way through AoPS (typically) end up learning some Asymptote as that is the supported way to draw figures on the AoPS website
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by aoki 1y ago
I believe they are saying that there are multiple rounds, each with different games - some with honest optimal strategies and some with dishonest optimal strategies. A dishonest person can always choose the optimal strategy for each game,
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by aoki 1y ago
> Although numerous papers continue to be submitted to USENIX ATC with significant research being reviewed, accepted, and presented, the community has evolved, and now attends conferences other than USENIX ATC. From 1,698 attendees in Sa

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