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by m00n 3y ago
With that title and reception I can imagine people bookmarking this for „later“ and feeling good about it. But who reads that stuff really? To each their own, but 700+ pages for material that is done in my experience in the first 2-3 weeks
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by m00n 4y ago
It is also true that this a 500fold increase in prevalence when compared to the general population. The 5-year survival rate of lung cancer noticed due to e.g a sore throat is below 10%.
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by m00n 4y ago
A course in Arithmetic by Serre is for me THE book to get into Number Theory
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by m00n 4y ago
If you are interested in this kind of role, it is usually called Executive Assistant in the corporate world. Had the fortune to support my CEO and attend e.g. all board meetings (because I did the minutes). This is at a >10$ bn revenue e
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by m00n 4y ago
A map between algebraic curves is defined by polynomials. That the map is defined over K means you can find a coordinate system such that the equations of the curves and the equations of the morphisms have coefficients in K and not some lar
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by m00n 4y ago
Good question, no there is no difference for elliptic curves, which you can think of as 1-dimensional geometric objects (curves) which posses group structure. A good map in this category should respect the geometry (be a so called rational
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Interpreting the first few days of the Russo-Ukrainian war(warontherocks.com)
2 points by m00n 5y ago|1 comments
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by m00n 5y ago
The statistics worked for me too, just the streak was reset.
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by m00n 5y ago
And they broke everybody’s streak in the process while reusing today‘s word… Way to destroy a good brand.
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by m00n 5y ago
Actually, a Banach-Tarski-like result is impossible in 2D space, since there is a Banach measure (= volume definition to all subsets of the plane) that extends the usual volume definition (e.g. for circles). The crucial idea that makes Bana
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by m00n 5y ago
Sorry, but the breathless way, that maths is often discussed on HN, makes me feel uneasy. It feels strange to see adults that opine on every subject, from nuclear fusion energy, to virology and financial markets, like they know it all, to s
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by m00n 5y ago
Some things that actuaries also do besides "memorizing formulas": * Asset-Liability management, i.e. hedging of future claims on the financial markets [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_and_liability_managem
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by m00n 5y ago
The actuarial profession is quite broad, in my experience. For the teams I worked with, memorization of formulas was to their daily work as whiteboard coding would be to the daily work of a sw-eng.
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by m00n 5y ago
Regarding life insurance product offerings: disability insurance is often advised by consumer protection groups for young professionals, who crucially depend on future income. Regarding savings products, nothing wrong IMO, with tax subsidiz
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A deep dive into reverse engineering set top boxes (2016)(youtube.com)
2 points by m00n 8y ago|0 comments
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by m00n 8y ago
Ok, so this article is not about going meat free. Just about factory farming. If you "crave meat" maybe you could consider non-factory farmed meat, for all the reasons mentioned. Regarding your 3 points: 'Availability' i
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by m00n 8y ago
Why would the robot cost the same? If it costs the same, then there is no incentive to introduce robots in the first place. I think the wide-spread automation is a testament to the much lower price of robots compared to human labour, no?
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by m00n 8y ago
Maybe it really is a cultural difference. I think there is a continuum of valuations at work here: If a contractor gets his materials cheaper or does have cheaper labor available, I don't see any obligation or market process to pass th
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by m00n 8y ago
You say you would feel "sad". To be honest, I would feel cheated. And to set up this smokescreen with pseudo-gardening people (or prerecorded data entry screencaptures to stay with the article) is outright fraught, IMHO.
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by m00n 8y ago
Yes, to make the analogy better, say the gardener invented the robot while on your "gardening time". Edit: Writing a script might be expensive, but is the market price of this script really a lifetime of data-entry salary? Seems
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by m00n 8y ago
A question for the people that have a positive attitude towards keeping time savings for yourself instead of passing them on to your employer. Would you be also okay with the following situation: You have someone remodell your garden. He co
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by m00n 8y ago
You're right, I was thinking about univariate polynomials. The "preprint" is only concerned with functions of one complex argument, so this should suffice.
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by m00n 8y ago
No, it is not "well written". I'm no expert in analytic number theory, but here are some sanity checks: His definition of the critical strip (2.4) is wrong. He works with some family of polynomial functions who agree on the s
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by m00n 8y ago
What is the philosophical difference between an 'argument' that human minds following the laws of logic agree on "is correct" and a machine built by these minds flashing a "correct light"? IMO the only advantag
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by m00n 8y ago
To take one of your examples that I happen to be familiar with: Wiles' proof of FLT. I can assure you that in the >20 years that this proof has been out, thousands of professors, postdocs and grad students have read and reread every
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by m00n 8y ago
I was thinking along these lines, too. But the problem with job satisfaction is: Do you rely on self-reported job satisfaction or objective quantitities like absenteeism or turnover? Both are hard to make comparable between different fields
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by m00n 8y ago
"Completely worthless" is not what comes to mind, when it provides your living. If it doesn't fulfil you, and you have a math degree, why not change careers?
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by m00n 8y ago
What interpretation of "valuable" do you propose instead? A discussion of remuneration was exactly what I expected when reading the headline.
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by m00n 8y ago
May I ask who will lose his professional credentials, when your AI does not follow established practises and insurance coverage goes belly-up?
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by m00n 8y ago
Interesting to see, how the usually data driven crowd on this site largely dismisses a data point and the usual talking points are reversed: 40h work-weeks that pay great -> Must be boring. Economics study is done by economists -> Pro

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