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by wolfkill 8y ago
Having lived in Argentina, I can confirm that this is indeed the case! There is also a version called terere in which cold fruit juice is substituted for hot water.
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by wolfkill 9y ago
I'm not convinced that such an intrinsic truth exists apart from application.
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by wolfkill 9y ago
Fair point!
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by wolfkill 9y ago
I'm not convinced this does logically follow. There is a view point that God is the source of math only in the sense that God created humanity with the limited capacity for understanding the world around them and one way this capacity
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by wolfkill 9y ago
I work in applied mathematics and specifically in CFD. This may make me not a "true mathematician" to some of the mathematical community. In fluid dynamics nearly everything is an approximate solution to an imperfect model. In
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by wolfkill 9y ago
As a mathematician and a believer in God, I get uncomfortable when people start attributing math to God. I see math as being very much a construct of the human psyche and as astounding as it is, there are enormous gaps between mathematical
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by wolfkill 9y ago
I had a friend in high school who's father survived a skydiving accident "breaking every bone in his body." What made the biggest impression on me was that not only did he have to recover physically, but he had to deal with
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by wolfkill 9y ago
I was wondering!
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The case of the phantom caller(gimletmedia.com)
1 points by wolfkill 9y ago|0 comments
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by wolfkill 9y ago
I'd agree, Raleigh area would be a great choice. It is growing with lower cost of living than other tech centers.
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by wolfkill 9y ago
Research Triangle Park- between Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park
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by wolfkill 9y ago
It is my opinion that 1) We continue to need new textbooks: Despite relative little change in core materials for subjects like Calculus, there is a need for adaptation of texts to include current applications and methods. 2) The best use o
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by wolfkill 9y ago
There is an interesting discussion on the origin of the word Easter in the comments.
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Medieval Origins of Easter(tor.com)
2 points by wolfkill 9y ago|1 comments
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by wolfkill 9y ago
I love audiobooks, and have discovered the wonderful wispersync feature to seamlessly pick up my kindle or audible audiobook, which ever is most convenient. I highly recommend the Aubrey/Maturin series read by Patrick Tull. Currently
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by wolfkill 9y ago
This book helped me to visualize Krylov space methods better than any other resource I have seen. It got me through my numerical analysis qualifying exam. I do agree that the last chapters are lacking in depth. I also recommend his book
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by wolfkill 9y ago
My wife is from a small town in Mexico where there has been a recent surge in violence and kidnappings. Her family is there and we go visit once a year or so as we can. Last time I was there there was a couple of moments that made realize
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by wolfkill 9y ago
Oh the dreaded "details left as an exercise." Personally, if I can't fill in details readily myself, I use Google or "just take there word for it" and hope it doesn't bite me later.
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by wolfkill 9y ago
In the area of numerical analysis, I'd recommend works by LeVeque and Trefethen.
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by wolfkill 10y ago
This post mostly describes me. I am a PhD student in applied mathematics and returned school to get my PhD precisely because I wanted to get a job outside of academics, most likely as a data scientist or scientific programmer. 2.5 years i
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by wolfkill 10y ago
This is fantastic! Besides listing text/topic recommendations, it has lots of pdf documents.
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by wolfkill 10y ago
Last week I went to a couple of lectures by the author and also went to view the St. John's altarpiece at the NC Museum of Art. It is beautiful and fascinating. The exhibit is very well done and I highly recommend it to anyone in the