qmalzp

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by qmalzp 8y ago
First project sounds like Coinbase.
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by qmalzp 8y ago
Him, Tao, Emerton, Kisin, Coates, Calegari Bros... all Australian. Must be something in the water.
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by qmalzp 8y ago
I'm not sure how many people care. It's like finding out Pepsi owns Aquafina.
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by qmalzp 8y ago
N.b. the article uses d for the dimension, and n for the moment index. I haven't cranked out the details, but I believe that this is already true just assuming the fourth moments of the distance are integers. That is, for n != 1, 2,
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by qmalzp 8y ago
If you pass the interview as a generalist, Google absolutely prefers for people to work in their Mountain View office. 1. The cost of relocation is minuscule compared to the total cost of employing someone, so I don't buy that argument
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by qmalzp 8y ago
When talking about chess: "But even the most powerful program can be defeated by a skilled human player with access to a computer—even a computer less powerful than the opponent." Is that true? Can a state-of-the-art chess engine
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by qmalzp 8y ago
Google doesn't open a 500-engineer research lab in Grand Rapids, MI because there are not 500 Google-caliber engineers already living in Grand Rapids, MI. This is not a statement about the average talent there, but simply that the star
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by qmalzp 8y ago
What if you replace it with p(x|y) = 1, p(x|!y) = 0, and time(y) < time(x) That rules out the rooster counter-example. If y is a boolean, I guess the only thing you can "do" to it is negate it.
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by qmalzp 8y ago
As a former mathematican, I was at first a little offended and dismissive of his claim. But, perhaps what one can say is that mathematicians don't seem to distinguish "causation" with "implication". After all, if th
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by qmalzp 8y ago
I think the first point is only true for symmetric matrices (which includes those that show up in multivariable calc). In general, the eigenvectors need not be orthogonal.
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by qmalzp 8y ago
I completely disagree. One of the main reasons I prefer Instagram is precisely that it's not packed to the brim with features I don't use.
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by qmalzp 8y ago
It does seem reasonable that there would be a cap, but I wonder how much cutting the pensions of a few thousand highly paid retirees will impact the budget.
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by qmalzp 8y ago
Perhaps a more apt analogy is that mental arithmetic tricks are to math what stenography is to writing.
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by qmalzp 8y ago
Category theory is basically a language. If one wanted to formulate an explicit conjecture corresponding to the original Langlands program, it could possibly be phrased as some kind of equivalence of a category of automorphic representation
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by qmalzp 8y ago
> 3. There are ways to make money online without ads begging you to click on them, and they involve real-world goods and services that your website can help connect people for? Yeah, I could even imagine a scenario where you help connect
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by qmalzp 9y ago
The average gap is log(n), but the maximal gap is not well understood. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram%C3%A9r%27s_conjecture , current results are Unconditional: n^0.525 Conditional on RH: log(n)*sqrt(n)
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by qmalzp 9y ago
Fun fact: compositions of the two operations x -> x + 1 and x -> (x==0) ? 1 : (x == 1) ? 0 : x generate all possible operations.
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by qmalzp 9y ago
Consider it something like a benchmark of human progress.
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by qmalzp 9y ago
Nit: the largest prime discovered is 2^(277,232,917)-1 not 2^(277,232,917-1)
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by qmalzp 9y ago
That top pay grade is less than the starting compensation for PhD's at the big tech co's. Not to mention free food, potential for career growth, and an open non-militaristic culture where you can wear a hoodie instead of a tie.
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by qmalzp 9y ago
Probably because at the end of the day, he doesn't want to fight some legal battle, he wants to do mathematics.
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by qmalzp 9y ago
I have never seen a theorem prover applied to even basic 100-year-old results in Algebraic Number Theory. I think you underestimate the difficulty in translating a mathematical idea into a format a computer program can understand.
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by qmalzp 9y ago
You can try requesting as desktop from the mobile browser. I've gotten it to work before, though now when I try it, it crashes the browser?!
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by qmalzp 9y ago
So brave.
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by qmalzp 9y ago
Use messenger.com?
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by qmalzp 9y ago
Tl;Dr It's slightly more accurate to say if F(s) = 1^s + 2^s + 3^s + ... Then F(1) = -1/12. This is still a lie, but the truth is that F(s) does make sense for a large domain of s, and there is a unique and canonical way of extend
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by qmalzp 9y ago
Snapchat would like a word with you. (No pun intended)
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by qmalzp 9y ago
I'm happy with my path: Youthful idealism -> number theory Mature pragmatism -> pivot to CS It was entirely luck that my passion was so closely related to the current gold rush.
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by qmalzp 9y ago
I concur.
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by qmalzp 9y ago
If you're talking about Scholze's lectures about his cutting-edge work, there is not a chance they are accessible to undergraduates; when I attended one as a fourth-year PhD student specializing in algebraic number theory, I would

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