noAlchemy

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by noAlchemy 13y ago
Fun fact about Type II topoisomerase: even though it only has local information (the area where it acts) it manages to move in the correct direction (lower unknotting number) about 90% of the time. AFAIK, no-one knows how.
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by noAlchemy 13y ago
Good point, but if you wanted to work with an arbitrary distribution in the plane as a generalisation of this I think you'd need to look for an equal-area map from R2 to S2? (eg http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambe
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by noAlchemy 13y ago
I know I'm not the GP, but might be able to be some use here. Context: always wanted to do a maths PhD, but ended up stuck running a small business (50-70 hrs/wk) for a number of years. Managed to keep studying through this and ha
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by noAlchemy 13y ago
I've had a look (but not intensively, it's a back-burner thing for me at the moment). Everything seems very heavyweight and aimed at big businesses with long supply chains. For a small ecommerce retailer, you don't want much
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by noAlchemy 13y ago
How's your maths? Here's something I'd pay quite a lot for: intelligent inventory optimisation in an easy to use SaaS format. Quite mathematically intensive to do well, so most SMEs don't have the skills, but directly sa
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by noAlchemy 13y ago
I can support this from the other side. Coming out of a maths degree at a reasonably good university, a lot of the mathematicians who became teachers were those who struggled and pretty much gave up at some point in undergrad. Pushing many
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by noAlchemy 13y ago
I'd also say that the other side of this is neglected, namely how to get others to listen better to you. Those who have issues listening well are probably less likely to be looking out for advice on how to do so, so what can we do when we f