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by tomahunt 4y ago
Oh, I thought he had derived a math identity.
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by tomahunt 4y ago
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5679 link to the article in Science
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by tomahunt 6y ago
A 2018 paper by Strang about this approach: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00029890.2018.14...
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by tomahunt 7y ago
The story of Feigenbaum presented in Gleik's Chaos is the reason I chose to do physics.
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by tomahunt 7y ago
"Hacker school" rebranded to "The Recurse Center" www.recurse.com
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Four ways you can support the YouthStrike4Climate movement(theguardian.com)
2 points by tomahunt 8y ago|0 comments
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by tomahunt 8y ago
Theoretical physics and applied maths. I occasionally see people at the back of seminars with their laptop open, pugging away at their current puzzle with Mathematica. I've used it to test and prototype calculations and algorithms. The
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by tomahunt 8y ago
The main sections of the talk without note are: - Bert and Natural Language processing, - Tesla Autopilot Hardware v2+: NN at scale, - AdaNet: AutoML with Ensembles, - AutoAugmentation, - Training Deep Networks with Synthetic data, - Segme
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by tomahunt 8y ago
Blendle: https://launch.blendle.com , my do the trick if you want to pay something. It is originally from the Netherlands. I don't know how comprehensive it is for English periodicals.
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by tomahunt 8y ago
"Can you make the error bars a bit smaller please?".... "um no, I'm affraid they are as I've calculated "
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by tomahunt 8y ago
Time's chief art critic describes what it was like when magazine expense accounts were deep. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...
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by tomahunt 8y ago
A medical doctor friend of mine pointed out that thinking slow was fine, except in an emergency or indeed any time--limited situation where the rate of response needs to be above some threshold. Think: baraster responding to opponent, a and
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by tomahunt 8y ago
Exactly the question I would love answered. Edit: this seems roughly answered to a question by user r4um
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The Mathematics of weight loss (2013)(youtube.com)
2 points by tomahunt 8y ago|0 comments
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by tomahunt 8y ago
It would be interesting to know when this cockatoo was last seen if at all in west papua or papua new guinia. Even so it is a fascinating story.
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Fuel Cells Finally Find a Killer App: Carbon Capture(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by tomahunt 8y ago|0 comments
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by tomahunt 8y ago
Bats too? I'm very curious to know if bat populations have also fallen. They are also dependent on the insects.
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by tomahunt 9y ago
"Chaos" by James Gleick is about the same age as Hawking's book. The story of discovery there gives a great idea of the adventure in science.
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by tomahunt 9y ago
I don't think it needs to be changed. It's actually really interesting to wonder what Mathematics is going to be like in 2048.
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by tomahunt 9y ago
I was expecting a maths where quantum computation had taken over analytic number theory and theorems could be proved using brute force enumeration.Or something
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by tomahunt 9y ago
Oh,I misread this title and thought it was going to be about maths in the year 2048.
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by tomahunt 9y ago
Can you order pizza from emacs?
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by tomahunt 9y ago
Conference talk: "Networks vs. Hierarchies: A Delicate Relationship" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcy_E-231LE
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by tomahunt 9y ago
I would be interested to know if there is some good software which copies some of the mechanics of over head projector presentations. Seems there are some people producing lovingly hand written presentations using tablets The old ohp slides
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by tomahunt 9y ago
Here is also a link to a great talk on the thesis that networks are the important thing to study in history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cADSlk5CHU
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History of networks – Niall Ferguson(theguardian.com)
3 points by tomahunt 9y ago|3 comments
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by tomahunt 9y ago
I think this is the link to the original paper http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1865/2017...
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by tomahunt 9y ago
This type of calculation is used on a very regular basis in molecular dynamics simulation. The wrap-around space is implemented using periodic boundary conditions. Calculating the distance between points is most often done using what is cal
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by tomahunt 9y ago
In "Surly you're joking my Feynman" there is the story of RF talking to the painter who teaches him to mix paints, and the colours you need to get make yellow. Turns out you should talk to the person who's been mixing pa
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A spherical globe display(kickstarter.com)
1 points by tomahunt 9y ago|0 comments

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