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by tangentspace 8y ago
I interviewed at Palantir last month, and the process is still very similar to what you've described. However, regarding the last point, after the product demo they did directly address the potential for misuse of the product. They des
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I started building a shed this winter: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cMVk5TpIdQ0x0WvZ2 I'd say it's an excellent way to get a feel for what it takes to build a home. There are a TON of details, especially if you don&#
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WhatsApp Co-Founder’s ‘Rest and Vest’ Reward from Facebook: $450M(wsj.com)
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Amazon patents driverless car tech to navigate traffic, construction and weather(bizjournals.com)
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Google expanding again in Seattle, with new tower next to Amazon(seattletimes.com)
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Thanks for the link. The author is an editor of the Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics, which also contains very high quality writing and a book I recommend to anyone interested in mathematics and engineering. I agree that this is a
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The Long-Distance Marriage That’s Built to Last(wsj.com)
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Important Algorithms That Helped Define Math, Computing, Physics(interestingengineering.com)
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I agree with splitting up CF stacks this way. It reduces the the blast radius, that saved me on a number of occasions when stack updates went sideways. The problem introduced by that approach is how to manage a large number of CF stacks. Fi
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by tangentspace 8y ago
That's not how I'd interpret this sentence: "We have skin and other barriers that protect the cells." It sounds to me like the author claims that humans have skin, which is true, and that skin forms a barrier that protec
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I wonder, how many people downvoted this without following the link to the comic? It's relevant, intelligent, and funny.
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I always liked how Feynman dealt with complex numbers in 'QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter'. He focuses on the intuitive concept of a particle having a spinny arrow attached, the arrow rotates as the particle flies thro
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by tangentspace 8y ago
To follow one of the more common patterns for identifying a class of functions, it could have been named after one of the early pioneers in the field. But yeah, it would be hard to do worse than random variable, which is illogical and misle
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Many people have recognized the need for improvement in mathematics education, and I think it really is evolving in positive directions. I worked at DreamBox Learning for a few years, they produce an adaptive math learning program for eleme
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I can't think of any examples of mathematical objects being renamed, do you have any? There may be some amount of drift over time, but you can go to the research library of any university math department and find books from pre-WWII th
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by tangentspace 8y ago
But you propose to simply relabel as function, which doesn't work in general because random variable corresponds to a specific type of function. You could compromise by calling it a probability function, but then you start to collide w
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Of the parallelepiped generated by the columns of the matrix. ( https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/determinants-volumes.h... ) The result of the determinant might be negative, which doesn't make sense for a volum
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by tangentspace 8y ago
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ComplexPlane.html The definition of a vector space says nothing about whether it does or does not have a multiplication operation defined on it. A vector space having a multiplication operator h
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by tangentspace 8y ago
What would happen if we started renaming mathematical objects to reflect changes in the English language? English will continue to evolve, and the vast body of mathematical literature would have to be constantly rewritten. Wouldn't tha
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Intuitively elements of R2 are not numbers, they're vectors, or points in a 2 dimensional vector space. You can also treat complex numbers as vectors in the 2 dimensional complex plane.
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Gravitation, by Misner, Thorne, Wheeler ( http://a.co/dczH4eS ) Fully understanding the math in this book requires a solid background in linear algebra, calculus, differential equations. But I find it an incredibly interestin
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Using Topological Data Analysis to Understand the Behavior of CNN's(ayasdi.com)
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Absolutely. And in mathematics, advanced structures and theorems are built up layers by layer upon more elementary material. A professor who has mastered presentation of undergraduate material on a topic also likely teaches a graduate cours
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by tangentspace 8y ago
No, I was never under that impression. I once had a discussion about the creation of the book with one of Federer's students who had also helped proofread it. The book was essentially an outgrowth of his personal and course notes, sinc
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I think many highly productive mathematicians are very good at organizing formulas and facts in such a way that they can be retrieved easily from memory based on context. Maybe something analogous to a hash function from computer science. S
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by tangentspace 8y ago
Is it being characterized as a major discovery somewhere in this article? I see it described as an elusive problem, and it's claimed that the solution is a major paper worthy of publication in Annals of Statistics, but mostly it just c
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I've worked through various exams and research problems leading to a math PhD, and I see the similarity. I fail to see how someone articulating an observation about that "glorifies" the interview questions. I've heard st
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I don't get any odd vibe like that from this article. They are pretty upfront about the business motivations in this post: > with the launch of our Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform Google Compute Engine, we noticed an interestin
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I've worked in a number of professional environments, and attire ranged from steel-toed work boots and rugged clothes covered with mud, to full suit-and-tie, and a range of in-betweens (but never beach gear). So I never associated atti
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by tangentspace 8y ago
I see a guy with a shirt and tie, but no suit jacket. A few other people have long sleeve shirts. I couldn't speak for them as to whether they are uncomfortable and sweaty, but based on personal experience hiking with long sleeves to a

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