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by bainsfather 3y ago
I've been considering reading this book - can you tell me what I might get from it in addition to what I learned in undergraduate maths/physics courses? I found these courses allowed me to do calculations (e.g. contour integrals,
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by bainsfather 3y ago
2 years in prison, as I understand it.
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by bainsfather 3y ago
I read the Quanta article because I am interested in optimisations for deep neural nets. Am I right in concluding that your work doesn't apply to that area, as it is looking at a much 'easier' case?
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by bainsfather 3y ago
None of our animals' waste is any hazard to you, unless you slip on it! You are right that it can be done badly, as can many other things. I'd say you are actually arguing against badly regulated animal farming (especially since
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by bainsfather 3y ago
I have learned something new today (re manure from dovecotes). However, I think this is another example of something that is 'just too small to matter' in terms of feeding the world's population today. Often I see 'nice
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by bainsfather 3y ago
A bit after halfway, following: "In this case, .. , and we have", I think you need a "-" sign rather than a "+" in your equation?
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by bainsfather 4y ago
Thanks. I see it for sale for £4 second hand, so maybe I should buy it for the novelty value alone. I presume I shouldn't try to refresh my java from it though.
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by bainsfather 4y ago
Is it still good? I see it was published in 1997. I like the style of these books, and might read this one - I'm just worried that Java has changed quite a bit since then. Is it still, say, 90% OK?
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by bainsfather 4y ago
Yes, this is true. If we knew that this pandemic came from a lab, that would have massive implications for how tightly we control this type of lab research - both in terms of whether we do the gof research, and also in how we run and regula
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by bainsfather 4y ago
Can anyone recommend a 'friendly' overview of the 'calculus approach'? The paper linked in the article from 2003/2008 has been split up into 3 rather technical articles - I was hoping for something easier that just
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by bainsfather 4y ago
I bought myself a 2nd hand slide rule on uk ebay last year. Price was something like £5-£10 including postage, for a rather battered and 'cheap' example. I really liked learning about it, seeing how it worked, etc. Such an ingen
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by bainsfather 5y ago
Thanks! And that is from the "Construction Project Manager’s Pocket Book (Routledge Pocket Books)"? Presumably it has been added to the 2nd edition, because I cannot find that passage in my (1st edition) copy. (edit - yes it is
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by bainsfather 5y ago
I did a text search of your reference [0] and it doesn't seem to contain information on bribery. (I searched for "bribe", and also "ethics" - which does exist but not in reference to bribery.) Could you provide a(no
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by bainsfather 5y ago
Consider a different case ... One can make a good case that Britain's guarantee to Poland in 1939 was done badly. Britain failed to convince Hitler that she was serious, and that invasion of Poland would lead to war. We can agree that
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by bainsfather 5y ago
I thought this was of interest because: It illustrates the difficulties/risks faced by the insiders who are actually 'doing the dirty work', know what is going on, and want to stop it and/or blow the whistle. When the
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The whistleblowing bankers who were sent to jail(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by bainsfather 5y ago|2 comments
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by bainsfather 5y ago
I followed your link, but am confused and/or doubtful: how do you replace 150mm of rockwool with 20mm of anything other than a good vacuum? It says that they are 'very low internal pressure' - but if it contains any kind of
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by bainsfather 5y ago
I stumbled across this article last week. I've always wanted to figure out "for myself" how to solve a Rubik's cube. I've also always wondered what Group Theory was and what practical uses it might have for me - rea
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Group Theory via Rubik’s Cube [pdf](geometer.org)
2 points by bainsfather 5y ago|1 comments
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by bainsfather 5y ago
I know what you mean. In my case also, I think it is a combination of me being better informed about the world and the economist declining somewhat over time. BUT I started reading it 25 years ago, and still do read it a bit. In terms of
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The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge(quantamagazine.org)
83 points by bainsfather 5y ago|21 comments
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Meet one of the lorry drivers plugging Britain’s shortages(economist.com)
3 points by bainsfather 5y ago|0 comments
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by bainsfather 5y ago
Thanks, I will.
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by bainsfather 5y ago
I ordered one about 1 year ago, but never received it. Possibly because I didn't have a 'proper' organisation (e.g. a university dept) that I could list in the form.
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by bainsfather 5y ago
Stan Ulam's autobiography - Adventures of a Mathematician - talks a bit about this, from his early days in Lwow. It's a good book about interesting times and interesting people - if this wikipedia article interests you, then may
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by bainsfather 5y ago
Could someone explain what is being done here? I see they are using a GAN, and doing unsupervised training. But then they appear to compare their model to supervised-trained models. How do they do this? Do they tack a supervised-trained m
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by bainsfather 5y ago
I have a distant relative who works for Springer Nature, and previously worked for Elsevier. She's a nice person who I rather like. I have tried discussing the ethics of her employer's journals business in a polite way. She told
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by bainsfather 5y ago
I follow cricket and (association) football quite a lot, and think I understand a fair bit of what goes on in games. But there are many things that I never notice, and that the commentators (especially in football) do not point out. So I
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MLB: Trevor Bauer and the $40m brain behind baseball's biggest bluff(bbc.com)
1 points by bainsfather 5y ago|1 comments
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by bainsfather 5y ago
The article's title is a tad hyperbolic, but it is worth reading nonetheless. About halfway down , it states the rules: Every hour, you have to come to the start line and run a 4.16666... mile course (so 100 miles per 24 hours). When

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