jvkersch

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by jvkersch 1y ago
The educational track in South Korea is extremely competitive, and everything hinges on how well you do on the Suneung (a kind of SAT on steroids). If you drop out, it is usually because you have intergenerational wealth, exceptional non-sc
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Simple Denoising Diffusion(github.com)
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by jvkersch 4y ago
Stranger Things exploited this to good effect, though, with descriptive captions like "tentacles wetly squelching" and the like. See https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/stranger-things-seaso... .
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Korea poised to enter upper tier of startup hubs(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jvkersch 7y ago|0 comments
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by jvkersch 7y ago
I spent a few months in Songdo visiting my in-laws (and often return) and I generally concur. Specifically, I found that the area had much more of a community feel than these articles let on (local interest groups for expats and Koreans ali
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Lambda Calculus: PyCon 2019 Tutorial (Screencast)(youtube.com)
3 points by jvkersch 7y ago|0 comments
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by jvkersch 8y ago
I see the reverse engineering skillset as not essentially different from low level systems programming, and as such it's very valuable even outside of "pure" security research. I work as a Python programmer building scientifi
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by jvkersch 8y ago
A counterexample would be a dataset that forms a fractal in the ambient space. I don't know of a realistic example of this, but it seems plausible if you think of scale-invariant phenomena. Other ways of getting fractal-like structures
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I love notebooks(docs.google.com)
3 points by jvkersch 8y ago|0 comments
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Computing comfortably at 30,000 feet(mgsloan.com)
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by jvkersch 8y ago
Reminds me of another turbulent IMF intervention: South Korea's bailout in 1997. See https://www.koreaexpose.com/imf-economy-south-korea-asian-fi...
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by jvkersch 8y ago
That's a good point, and probably what GP was hinting at. Thanks for pointing that out :)
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by jvkersch 8y ago
It's worth checking out Peter Woit's homepage at http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/ and looking beyond the blog and his role as a string theory skeptic. He teaches a number of classes and has a book about qu
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by jvkersch 8y ago
Lemaitre was also a first-rate geometer. He wrote a paper on quaternions and elliptic geometry (geodesics on a sphere) that was published with a Latin abstract in a journal of the Pontifical Society of the Vatican. My library didn't ha
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by jvkersch 8y ago
In the US/UK civil engineering is often taken to mean constructing buildings (very roughly, in a nutshell), whereas other countries (in particular continental Europe) use the meaning that you quote. So you can have a Belgian civil engi
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by jvkersch 8y ago
Not quite -- the comment refers to the fact that R^d has the structure of a normed division algebra in dimensions 1, 2, 4, and 8. This means that you can multiply things together in a nice way when you're in one of those spaces. For R^
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by jvkersch 8y ago
Yoga. It's the only time in the day where my brain is not in overdrive. Also, as a 36-year old with a sedentary lifestyle it's surprising/horrifying how stiff I've become. I'm just following the beginner movies on y
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by jvkersch 8y ago
Hence, a very poor approximation to pi is given by 365 × 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ / 10^10.
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by jvkersch 8y ago
My bread has increased in quality so much by (a) mixing the ingredients (without the yeast, or with only a little bit of the sourdough starter) the night before (i.e. making a poolish), and (b) taking a full day to prepare: you knead a litt
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by jvkersch 8y ago
I agree but I do like the fact that it's written in Markdown and hosted on GitHub. I don't know many recipe books that allow for issues to be raised and that accept pull requests ;)
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by jvkersch 8y ago
Related: there are zones off the coast of Belgium and France that have been used as ammunition dumps after the 1st world war. There's one such zone ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paardenmarkt ) that is close to a v
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by jvkersch 8y ago
My (admittedly extremely limited) experience is that this is a sound strategy _for established entrepreneurs_, not for tentative business owners who are just getting started. My wife and I were thinking about opening a restaurant, and as ha
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Intro to solving differential equations with Julia(stochasticlifestyle.com)
2 points by jvkersch 9y ago|0 comments
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by jvkersch 9y ago
I'm not the original poster, and I'm about to write something gross, but I commute for long times too and I find the sweat less of an issue than I originally expected (I do live in a climate that is not overly hot and humid, thoug
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by jvkersch 9y ago
Interestingly, there is some push-back against treating H. pylori too aggressively. While it is linked to stomach cancer, there is also some evidence that losing H. pylori is linked with increases in other diseases like type-2 diabetes (but
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by jvkersch 9y ago
Korean websites also suffer from the early adapter phenomenon. Many were build when ActiveX controls were the new hip thing and everybody was on the same version of Windows, and same with flash. Add to that that some websites require loggin
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Free Book: Math and Computation (Avi Wigderson)(math.ias.edu)
2 points by jvkersch 9y ago|0 comments
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Are all fish the same if you stretch them?(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
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by jvkersch 9y ago
Oooh, oooh, pick me! This job is open to… U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals Oh :(
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by jvkersch 9y ago
For algorithms (or things that aren't snippets of code, for that matter), I keep a notebook. Writing in a notebook with a pen forces me to make the learned item as simple as possible (e.g. by making a drawing), and the "aesthetics

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