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by gunnihinn 7mo ago
The bravery of the people signing this anonymously is inspiring.
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by gunnihinn 7mo ago
> Terrence Tao was a good example of what happens when an exceptionally smart person stops getting funded by an American University: not moving to another country, but got VC money and created a new company. What company did Tao fund wit
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by gunnihinn 1y ago
Thanks, I hate it.
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by gunnihinn 2y ago
Their boss does nazi salutes at political events. They’re nazis.
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by gunnihinn 2y ago
I think the Icelandic data is a bit skewed upwards. It’s showing senior and principal level salaries in large companies, most “normal” devs earn maybe 70% of that.
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by gunnihinn 2y ago
That's pretty cool. Unfortunately school holidays mean I can't take time off whenever, but I can definitely use the idea to plan time off around those.
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by gunnihinn 2y ago
A distribution is not a function. It is a continuous linear functional on a space of functions. Functions define distributions, but not all distributions are defined that way, like the Dirac delta or integration over a subset.
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by gunnihinn 2y ago
For any smooth function (like the conjugate) it makes sense to ask whether there exist holomorphic functions that approximate it arbitrarily well. However: Suppose that for every n > 0 there exists a holomorphic function f_n such that |f
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by gunnihinn 2y ago
Good for you to stick up for the _checks notes_ nazis.
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by gunnihinn 3y ago
I read Playboy for the stories and take Viagra for the memories.
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by gunnihinn 3y ago
> I may be biased as I am a trained Mathematician, but I always feel when someone says "Math is Hard", that is because they had bad teachers. I dunno, man. I have a PhD in complex differential geometry and think math is pretty
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by gunnihinn 3y ago
Thank RÚV, the Icelandic national broadcaster, which setup cameras weeks ago and has been live streaming the area since then for capturing the eruption.
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by gunnihinn 3y ago
> they are objects (I call them oracles) that answer Yes or No when asked if the number ought to be between two given rational numbers. So a real number is a function from pairs of rationals to a two-element set (plus some sanity conditi
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by gunnihinn 3y ago
This notation maybe makes some things in trigonometry or Fourier analysis easier to do. Then a wild polynomial appears and all of the sudden we have to write (d bar) x = 1 / 2 pi.
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by gunnihinn 4y ago
Honestly every single one of those execs is very replaceable too.
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by gunnihinn 4y ago
> Bret Victor is very much Alan Kay's protege and has unfortunately inherited the curse of people cherry-picking particular ideas and missing the bigger picture. Maybe it's time we lay some of the blame for us idiots just not g
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by gunnihinn 4y ago
As the post points out this involves some claims about infinite sets that are maybe not super obvious to laypeople (every infinite set of natural numbers has a least element). But we can rephrase this to avoid mentioning sets: For any ratio
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by gunnihinn 4y ago
Iceland does the same: https://github.com/island-is/island.is
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by gunnihinn 4y ago
I grew up with the Icelandic layout. When I started programming professionally I taught myself the en-us layout and stared using that instead. It is much easier on my hands and fingers; it really does show that the people who came up with t
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by gunnihinn 4y ago
There you go, arguing a trivial point at length instead of doing interesting math. This is why tau is not worth anyone’s time. There’s no one weird trick to understanding math.
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by gunnihinn 4y ago
I’m a mathematician. Tau is bikeshedding. It’s far removed from being either interesting or useful. But it is a useful litmus test for whether a person’s options on math are worth listening to or not.
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by gunnihinn 4y ago
> SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen(). https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
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by gunnihinn 4y ago
> 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known Not one of them being "edit your writing".
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by gunnihinn 5y ago
I work at Booking. We do not do this and never have. Other OTAs do, like Expedia. It’s the merchant vs. agent model.
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by gunnihinn 6y ago
This is America. Schwarz was not prosecuted for his crimes but for his failure to monetize them.
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by gunnihinn 6y ago
There are very old reports saying the Rome build times are quite long, longer than a day even. Has this changed?
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How Silicon Valley will solve the trolley problem(magnusson.io)
3 points by gunnihinn 6y ago|0 comments
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by gunnihinn 6y ago
Calm down, Bret Stephens.
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by gunnihinn 6y ago
Maybe the travel, restaurant etc industries have stopped paying for clicks so Google gets less cash? My work cut down on PPC by a lot and we spent a lot of money on it.
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by gunnihinn 7y ago
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