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by sno129 2mo ago
This is such a ridiculous and incorrect comment; I don't even know how to respond.
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by sno129 2mo ago
I do have a PhD and agree much more with the parent comment than yours. Granted, my PhD was in math, not CS, so I'm sure the experience was different. For instance: > there are no problems like this in academia (at least not CS) bec
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by sno129 3mo ago
Don't really know what point you're trying to make here. Maybe Garnett is more westernized, but that doesn't make it more readable. IMO Garnett's not great (at least for Anna Karenina, which is all I've read by her)
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by sno129 9mo ago
I wouldn't consider the Hodge diamond the "crucial idea from string theory." It's a pretty basic/fundamental concept in geometry and really doesn't a priori have much to do with string theory. The decomposition
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by sno129 1y ago
My academic work was very close to June Huh's; my Ph.D. thesis was directly inspired by his Fields Medal winning work. His accomplishments have undoubtedly moved the field forward and connected various ostensibly disparate areas of mat
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by sno129 2y ago
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNxvUrWQ_Q
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by sno129 2y ago
I'm assuming you don't have a Ph.D. if it sounds generic to you. I think it's really impossible to explain to somebody who hasn't gone through it how much a Ph.D. changes the way you think. Whether it's worth the ti
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by sno129 2y ago
On the other hand, the amount of people that consume excess amounts of caffeine also seems overrepresented among such people.
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by sno129 2y ago
I have not been paid because my salary is funded by an NSF grant and they've shut down the payment system and cancelled payments. (It is still down.) I'm not in the social sciences, I'm in mathematics. The instability this ha
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by sno129 2y ago
Write Vim instead. /s
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by sno129 2y ago
Plenty of mistakes in textbooks and research articles, it's possible the probability is already even lower.
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by sno129 2y ago
As a professional mathematician, I strongly disagree with the claim that "higher math" abandons worked examples. Any course or book that does not devote a significant amount of time to examples is a bad course or book. Even Grothe