mkprc

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A New Kind of Creative Poverty(noemamag.com)
5 points by mkprc 5d ago|0 comments
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by mkprc 5d ago
Baader–Meinhof phenomenon: Baudelaire popped up in this article two days ago. https://www.noemamag.com/a-new-kind-of-creative-poverty/
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by mkprc 7d ago
This looks really cool at first, a great "use of the internet" for anyone with one of these old receivers. But I want to vibe check with HN. Ambient notes: The site design is clearly AI-assisted. I couldn't find a human name
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Retune FM – Your receiver's radio, back on air(retunefm.com)
2 points by mkprc 7d ago|1 comments
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by mkprc 25d ago
Terry Tao is on the board of scientific advisors and posted about this a couple days ago: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/mathematical-disco...
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by mkprc 25d ago
I'm not optimistic at the staying-power of this initiative. There've been a few things like it before, like a journal dedicated to asking authors to submit more informal "ELI5" versions of their popular papers for broade
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by mkprc 25d ago
https://archive.ph/ckPEg
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by mkprc 28d ago
Also posted here, with little discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366811
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by mkprc 1mo ago
Calculus by James Stewart, Daniel Clegg, and Saleem Watson https://www.stewartcalculus.com
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by mkprc 1mo ago
Previous discussion, still active https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260250
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by mkprc 1mo ago
https://archive.ph/ecMAU
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by mkprc 1mo ago
Here's the radio station website: https://www.sealionradio.org Under the site's FAQ for “ Is this a livestream? ” > Not yet, maybe someday. You’re listening to a set of field recordings I made in the spring of 2026.
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by mkprc 2mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101040
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by mkprc 2mo ago
"Works" means "results in better average scores on exams". A fine thing, but it seems like every take I here on explicit instruction versus inquiry-based learning is so basic, these days from teachers who are rediscoveri
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by mkprc 2mo ago
For readers not working in academia, this essay and it's prequel provide a window into one aspect of the bureaucractic nightmare currently underlying US higher education.
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by mkprc 2mo ago
I'm surprised company reputation, as a metric, doesn't come up more often in discussions of enshittification. This post is spot on, but the author only focuses on the negative externalities that profit-maximization imposes on the
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by mkprc 2mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091153s
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by mkprc 2mo ago
The final section of this offer only general "Universities should..." advice — nothing concrete. I worry that the major barrier to addressing this issue is the technical competence of teachers and faculty. Course materials could j
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by mkprc 2mo ago
Did anyone else, at the beginning of a new term at university, download local copies of all the course materials from the course LMS page?
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by mkprc 2mo ago
Isn't this surrogation of university degrees for worthiness of employment getting absurd? A PhD holder is supposed to be on the frontier of some domain of knowledge. As human knowledge expands, it should be taking students longer to
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by mkprc 2mo ago
Jacob Tsimerman appears to be very thoughtful about AI's impact on research mathematics. The headline though serves as a bad omen for academia.
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by mkprc 2mo ago
The article doesn't attempt to answer the question in the title, but instead, more journalistically, quotes some mathematicians discussing the topic. I think what bothers me when asking "Can _Math_ as We Know It Survive AI?"
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by mkprc 2mo ago
I wish it were clear that someone wrote this article. It's posted under the Aventine [1] substack which is maintained by Danielle Mattoon, but did she write it? [1]: https://www.aventine.org/about/
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by mkprc 2mo ago
A vibe-coded PreTeXt editor webapp. Okay. GitHub link at the bottom 404s, but presumably intends to link here: https://github.com/harsharajkumar-273/Proofdesk
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by mkprc 2mo ago
Already posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945390
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by mkprc 2mo ago
Appears to be crankery
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by mkprc 2mo ago
The (boring) answer to "who gets the prize?" is whoever the CMI decides gets the prize. https://www.claymath.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/millenni...
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by mkprc 3mo ago
I also think about this, and worry about this. My go-to example is that the file-system in Windows used to clearly be a tree, and the file explorer was how you traversed this tree. With "Libraries" and other shenanigans with the l
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by mkprc 3mo ago
Right?! It's a bummer when a nice-looking website is now a red flag. It's become part of my workflow now browsing the web to check the About/Contact page on a website immediately; if there's no real person behind the sit
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by mkprc 4mo ago
For anyone interested in Grothendieck's opinions on kimchi … https://mikepierce.github.io/grothendieck-kimchi/translation...

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