kandel

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by kandel 11mo ago
Who are you? Your account is 13 hours old. Do you work with one of aggravated parties or are you a concerned bystander?
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by kandel 11mo ago
Im just an anonymous person on the internet but even I can see that this can really hurt your reputation. That start of the article painting you by using a random game you had with Zuckerberg is very low. I think the previous commentor&#x27
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by kandel 11mo ago
My pet philosophy is that math is real because the objects have persistent effects, like with the "if a tree falls in the forest..." riddle. Something that isn't real would be a story, because things do not have effects in it
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by kandel 1y ago
Well most of your examples are about failure to act based on reasoning rather than failure to reason, except the mathematics one which is unfair as research mathematics is a very hard task - either subtle errors, reasoning in new fields, or
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by kandel 1y ago
Well for me the Hessian is the second order derivative in the special case where the co-domain is of dim 1. It's just very easy to work with...
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by kandel 2y ago
I mean, it's a technical piece of code (ETH, that is), and every new piece gets a new name. It's not a more complicated terminology than you'd get for compilers or protocols - TCP wikipedia has "TCP provides reliable, or
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by kandel 2y ago
Why? It's easy to do it as a varied cost.
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by kandel 2y ago
On the other hand, a passive student will let you go through an entire proof only to raise his hand when you finish and ask something that implies he did not understand the proof from the start. Why didn't you say so? You wasted both o
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by kandel 2y ago
One could say he is dominating an opportunity reserved for small-time artists by deceit.
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by kandel 3y ago
I commented this earlier as well. Relating brings a lot of energy to a conversation, but it's also trickier. I wish I had a better solution When I was at Amaravati the head monk constantly brought up stories from his life, sometimes en
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by kandel 3y ago
How is it? It's a direct help.
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by kandel 3y ago
A lot of times I use what I think you term as unclean language to inject some energy into the conversation. Without it I feel like the conversation dies, so I relate with my own story, or pass a half-judgement, do something to fire them up.
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by kandel 3y ago
Hop on the mathematics discord and ask in their book channel. It's the big server with a picture of a torus as the icon. There are some very knowledgeable people there
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by kandel 3y ago
If I could "Computer, look through the youtube suggestions on _topic_ and return one that is half hour long and from a respected, but not too popular channel" I would be very happy
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by kandel 3y ago
It looks like math blog posts. They are written for other mathematicians but not experts in the fields, and a layman will find them unreadable.
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by kandel 3y ago
For sure there is a value for the giver. It's good for you to be charitable, so why not win-win?
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by kandel 3y ago
The rock star thing is a bit creepy. I'd like to be good at my job but not have the job turn into my entire life. Why does the conversation around tech imply that software jobs are either grey prisons or stress balls? Methinks reality
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by kandel 3y ago
Ah interesting! I thought you were saying we can express all the other analytical functions with 1,2^x.
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by kandel 3y ago
so you express x (the simple polynomial) as ln(2^(x/ln2)? or as an infinite series expansion?
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by kandel 3y ago
but the first half of wall-e is the good one!
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by kandel 3y ago
Mind explaining how to express some simple functions? Im interested
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by kandel 3y ago
I can see where he's coming from. Geometric intuition is an useful tool but in this semester's linear 2 class I developed more because I stopped using it. It's too strong of a tool and blots out "dryer" intuition an
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by kandel 3y ago
Maybe it's the shallowness of pop math? I sometimes find pop math even insulting. Not a grown up response, sure, but how many times can you hear "WaOw there are Bigger infinities???" sure it's nice that they find it cool
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by kandel 3y ago
Yeah, if you count teetotaling as anything which substance which causes you happiness you will have to look at ascetics. A few would fit this. I was thinking of any intoxicating substance which quite a few religions fit.
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by kandel 3y ago
sobriety is more radical than drugs. Being a teetotaler is far more strange socially these days than being a user.
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by kandel 3y ago
That's new for me. Which country? Here it's "Look out!" or "Let me pass!"
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by kandel 3y ago
Yeah but it is the situation. I remember a roommate saying "I love math!". When I talked with her a bit I understood she likes doing solutions of easy integrals\derivatives because they are simple, relaxing, and rewarding for her
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by kandel 3y ago
Devil's advocate: they liked the little bits of math they were exposed to. I don't know if there's a field i like. But there's something intoxicating in math. Sometimes it's very strong. I listened to a CS lecture
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by kandel 3y ago
mathematicians: Humanities are stressful because you don't know what's the right answer!
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by kandel 3y ago
why not just flick your high-lights? I guess that's a night's solution.

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