mbustamanter

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   Möbius strips and differential equations(hidden-phenomena.com)

   86 points by mbustamanter 1mo ago|23 comments
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   GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization(old.reddit.com)

   601 points by mbustamanter 2mo ago|391 comments
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   Catastrophe theory; geniuses and maniacs (2011)(glassbottomblog.blogspot.com)

   37 points by mbustamanter 2mo ago|1 comments
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   Experience using AI software to prove Euler sum results [pdf](davidhbailey.com)

   11 points by mbustamanter 3mo ago|0 comments
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   The quadratic sandwich(fedemagnani.github.io)

   147 points by mbustamanter 4mo ago|15 comments
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   Using calculus to do number theory(hidden-phenomena.com)

   136 points by mbustamanter 6mo ago|21 comments
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   The Riemann hypothesis (or, how to earn $1M)(hidden-phenomena.com)

   1 points by mbustamanter 7mo ago|0 comments
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   by mbustamanter 10mo ago

   One of the most fascinating characters out there for sure, without fail his posts make me consider a new perspective. He left HN unfortunately, he might be too brash for this site (or this place is too wimpy for him).
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   Iterative DFS with stack-based graph traversal (2024)(dwf.dev)

   39 points by mbustamanter 1y ago|9 comments
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    by mbustamanter 1y ago

    I read The Steadfast Tin Soldier for the first time when I was a kid but it didn't have a special meaning for me until my late teens, when I first fell in love.
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    by mbustamanter 1y ago

    It's easier to walk up to the woman that's been eyeing you at the party, speaking from experience.
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    Ten Digit Problems (2011) [pdf](people.maths.ox.ac.uk)

    54 points by mbustamanter 2y ago|2 comments
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    by mbustamanter 2y ago

    There is a comment on the r/slatestarcodex subreddit with supposedly true information about him (which I found googling 'who is gwern'), but it left me with even more questions. EDIT: grammar
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    Revisiting the Classics: Jensen's Inequality (2023)(francisbach.com)

    89 points by mbustamanter 2y ago|8 comments
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    by mbustamanter 2y ago

    For anyone interested who could not follow the reasoning in the paper, it is explained extensively in this video [0] by Michael Penn. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFKbVTHK4tU
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    by mbustamanter 3y ago

    Symbolic mathematics is severely underexplored in undergraduate studies, and the little exposure I had was generally tied to proprietary software such as Mathematica and MATLAB. I learned to use it as an imperfect extension of pen-and-paper
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    by mbustamanter 3y ago

    The moments captured in my images are fresh, but my perspective on them changes. I am doing an experiment in memory and trying to memorize the name of every U.S. county, with the aid of a map. Several months in I can say that the brain in
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    by mbustamanter 3y ago

    In order to have a mature discussion about this topic, it's necessary for people to know about the economic and political history of Argentina. It's impossible to understand their current situation without going back to the 1940s.
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    Data structures as topological spaces (2002) [pdf](mgs.spatial-computing.org)

    170 points by mbustamanter 3y ago|46 comments
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    by mbustamanter 3y ago

    He is known by all members of the Chilean Navy [1], he is not obscure in this part of the world. By the way, I am chilean and lived most of my childhood just a block away from Lord Cochrane street [0], in downtown Santiago, which is one the
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    Voronoi Diagram and Delaunay Triangulation in O(nlog(n)) (2020)(codeforces.com)

    109 points by mbustamanter 3y ago|33 comments
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    Chess and solution pool with linear programming (2018)(yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com)

    81 points by mbustamanter 3y ago|3 comments
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    by mbustamanter 3y ago

    As an occasional general aviation pilot (I found this HOWTO after trying to find tools to aid in flight plan calculations), I think it would be great if we took it a step further and make a full-fledged Linux avionics system, but it seems u
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    by mbustamanter 3y ago

    I read the two first or so papers of the book and understood them, but I coulnd't get past because I lack the sufficient probability theory (I'm a functional analyst). Now it's been in my queue for some time but I hope to get
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    Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk (1738) [pdf](psych.fullerton.edu)

    48 points by mbustamanter 3y ago|8 comments
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    Thinking Fast and Slopes(drorpoleg.com)

    42 points by mbustamanter 3y ago|8 comments
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    Mark Spitznagel says the ‘greatest credit bubble in human history’ is set to pop(finance.yahoo.com)

    57 points by mbustamanter 3y ago|59 comments
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    Are Horseshoe Crabs Endangered? Conservation Status and Threats (2022)(treehugger.com)

    1 points by mbustamanter 3y ago|0 comments
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    by mbustamanter 3y ago

    Didn't the german chancellor say recently that Germany would have to take in 1.5 million immigrants a year so that its pension system wouln't collapse? I personally don't think that is the solution but Spain is going through
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    The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)(explained.ai)

    224 points by mbustamanter 3y ago|40 comments