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by clintonc 5d ago
I agree with many of the sentiments here. But an open letter signed exclusively by Fields Medalists that purport to define precisely what the "mathematical community" (who is inside and outside) and what their goals are raises my
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by clintonc 2mo ago
I wish this were organized according to suggested/logical reading order. For example, the paper introducing the attention mechanism probably ought to precede "attention is all you need".
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by clintonc 4mo ago
My mind went to Java's checked exceptions -- not sure if anyone today believes that coloring is still a good idea.
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by clintonc 5mo ago
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by clintonc 6mo ago
I love this. Thank you.
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by clintonc 7mo ago
Strange article. Why is Go the best language for agents instead of, say, Python? Here are the points the author seems to make: --- # Author likes go Ok, cool story bro... # Go is compiled Nice, but Python also has syntax and type checking -
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by clintonc 7mo ago
I have a Ph.D. in a field of mathematics in which complex numbers are fundamental, but I have a real philosophical problem with complex numbers. In particular, they arose historically as a tool for solving polynomial equations. Is this the
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by clintonc 10mo ago
Curious to know what makes this "a proper VT100 implementation in the browser, not a JavaScript approximation of one" -- isn't Ghostty also an approximation, just implemented in a different language? Seems unnecessarily pejor
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by clintonc 11mo ago
Whale oil and solar panels both being signs of high status.
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by clintonc 1y ago
The initial board position is certainly reachable (and reached in every game!), but there are only 20 legal moves available: the 16 legal pawn moves for White, and the 4 legal knight moves for White.
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by clintonc 1y ago
Then use 1/3 instead of 1/2 for a combined length of 2/3 -- the total length of the intervals can be as small as you like. This hints at the fact that any countable subset of the real numbers is Lebesgue measure zero. Even us
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by clintonc 1y ago
There are a couple of strategies for understanding the real numbers. One is to write down a definition of real numbers, for example using rational numbers and Dedekind cuts, hoping that what you're describing is really what you mean. T
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by clintonc 1y ago
You can get that every integral domain is a field with fewer words by using a higher powered set theory result -- injections on finite sets are also surjections. The cancellation property says multiplication by any element is an injection,
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by clintonc 2y ago
It's a special move in chess called "castling". See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castling
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by clintonc 2y ago
From the page about dwm: > Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. ...sucks less than wh
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by clintonc 2y ago
Love the aesthetic, but I'm having trouble finding key information quickly. - Is this a "traditional" RPN calculator? - Does it have bonus features, like symbolic processing? - Is it programmable? I believe outcomes would be
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Ask HN: What's an example of a product you're happy to be a customer of?
13 points by clintonc 2y ago|16 comments
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by clintonc 2y ago
For me, it's a fit-for-purpose issue. Make is great when you're creating artifacts and want to rebuild based on changes. Just is a task runner, so while there's a notion of dependent tasks, there's no notion of dependent
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by clintonc 2y ago
Your example centered on a symbol which, if viewed as a subset of the plane, is not compact. I tried to argue that the set of symbols that you describe (ink of varying levels of intensity in the unit square) still is a compact set, even tho
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by clintonc 2y ago
I made a comment elsewhere on this thread that explains that symbols themselves being compact isn't so important, but that the set of descriptions of the symbols must be compact. For example, if the description of the symbol is not th
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by clintonc 2y ago
> here if anywhere :-D We can play a lot of games with "what is a symbol", but compactness pervades many of the models that we use to describe reality. The crux of the argument is not necessarily that the symbols themselves are
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by clintonc 2y ago
It's like how there are so many things named after Euler. The joke goes that everything in math is named after the second person to discover it after Euler, but many things are named after him anyway. Milnor is a titan in his fields,
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by clintonc 2y ago
This reads as a cynical description by someone who identifies as a "skilled pragmatist" (as I do, incidentally), but it doesn't seem to have a useful point of view. For example, "playing the system" and "making
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by clintonc 3y ago
The combinatorics of how the Mandelbrot set is put together is well-studied, and rather independent of MLC. The arrangement of the bulbs on the boundary of the "main cardiod" (which is where there is an attracting fixed point) is
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by clintonc 3y ago
MLC stands for "Mandelbrot Locally Connected". It's not obvious, but this is equivalent to the bulbs of the Mandelbrot set (the domains of parameters where almost all points get attracted toward periodic orbits) are dense in
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by clintonc 3y ago
True. I do, however, like having some of the amenities of a task runner without bringing in the "cruft" that's suited toward incremental builds. I like using Just ( https://just.systems/ ) for those cases.
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by clintonc 4y ago
> Don't give me strawman arguments and personal attacks,instead provide some valid counter arguments You haven't provided an argument to counter. "Nobody drives the speed limit. Are people only interested in texting and fo
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by clintonc 4y ago
> Note: In this implementation, jumping off the board is only possible if the stack can reach exactly 1 row or column beyond the perimeter. But it seems to always be the case that it is possible to jump off the board when a stack is big
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by clintonc 4y ago
What's the advantage over using Flask's built-in support for async described here? https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.1.x/async-await/ This is an honest question; I don't know much about
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by clintonc 4y ago
$2.5M is a remarkably low percentage. If this means that 98% of the fine actually goes back to consumers, that's better than I've ever heard of from a class action lawsuit.

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