pav3l

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   by pav3l 10y ago

   One of my math professor (Canadian) once told us a story (~10 years ago) that the US border control asked him to "state and prove Rolle's theorem" after he had told them he was traveling to a math conference. Apparently he an
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   by pav3l 13y ago

   Thanks for the answer, I deleted my original question shortly after posting because I thought it was abit disrespectful. For those who are curious, the question was: is "for Hackers" a new way of saying for those who don't f
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   by pav3l 13y ago

   "Peer-reviewed" does not mean correct, or vice versa. The study they are talking about was done by the Research Council of Norway. I am assuming the goal was to inform the public, not to get published in a scientific journal. It was not an
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   by pav3l 14y ago

   Funny how even after years of Vim-ing, using "hjkl" in a video game still trips me up.
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   by pav3l 14y ago

   I am in the process of migrating all of my analyses from Matlab and R to Python. I have been meaning to do this for quite some time and finally pandas is mature enough to be able to completely replace both Matlab and R for straightforward t
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   by pav3l 14y ago

   >why in the world would you want to spend 2 hours trying to figure it out yourself? I am sure a large portion of HN-ers (myself included) enjoy doing exactly that. I want to spend my day solving problems , not googling shit.
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   by pav3l 14y ago

   >Can you do a writeup/tutorial for your setup? Actually, Flask tutorial uses a blog application as example http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/tutorial/introduction/
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   by pav3l 14y ago

   I have planted over half million trees.
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   by pav3l 14y ago

   You too! http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Plot%5BSqrt%5BCos%5Bx%5...
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    I am pretty happy with SumatraPDF on Windows. Orders of magnitude faster than Reader too. http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-read...
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Exactly, start-up entails growth. http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Ask HN: Who uses Octave? If you had access to Matlab, would you use it instead? Why not Python/R/Julia?
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Finally there are downloadable binaries for Windows and OSX! http://code.google.com/p/julialang/downloads/list Also, previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784349
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    Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings(forbes.com)

    176 points by pav3l 14y ago|108 comments
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Endurance hunting is rarely a straight line race. Here is an example of a route for one of those hunts (it's from my first link): http://www.jstor.org/literatum/publisher/jstor/journals/cont... As you can see, even though the overall dist
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Whoever is interested, here are two very good academic articles about persistent hunting (subscription required): http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/508695 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248408... Also, here is a
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    >Philosophy of mind is probably the dominant research area in contemporary philosophy, and I think you'd find a lot that doesn't overlap at all with empirical psychology. It's not really my area of expertise, but maybe the reason that p
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    I disagree with your comment completely. It's not that philosophy teaches us how to think, and sciences teach us what to think. Philosophy teaches us how to pose questions. As soon as we are able to address those questions the problem b
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    http://vimeo.com/45558674
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Waterloo is well known in Canada for having an exceptional Mathematics program (if I'm not mistaken you graduate with BMath, not a BA/BSc with a math major).
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    I agree, even if you don't agree with Adam Curtis's politics, his documentaries are very thought provoking and well worth watching. Some of my favourites include "The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream", "The Century of self", "Pandora's Box
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Smart people can waste time too.
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    http://caniuse.com/datalist Unfortunately still not supported on safari or IE9. Don't rush to throw away those Javascript widgets quite yet.
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Facebook is not going anywhere. These are all smart business moves to make it an almost necessary part of our lives. "Facebook is like chairs" seems to quite literally describe the end goal of their campaign. I would argue they are doing a
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    For what purposes?
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    In case anyone is interested in tracking their kids, the drone software is open source: http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Any project challenging RIAA's monopoly is getting my upvote. Looks very well thought through and nicely executed.
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Thanks for D3, learning it now and it is awesome!
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Everything is evolving, people should be able to amend the Constitution. What you're proposing would make that illegal.
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    by pav3l 14y ago

    Inappropriate comment to an inappropriate article ( Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, [...] unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon [1]). [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html