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People (and employers) who can truly appreciate calculus wouldn't be impressed with a taken calculus course (thousands of students take calculus every year) or even a math BSc, and…

Nice list! Reminds me of this: http://imperium.lenin.ru/~verbit/MATH/programma.html

A snippet of pandas code in a notebook I saw when learning pandas, it looked like this: def to_minutes(df, col): df[col] = df[col].dt.minutes return df ( pd .read_csv('data.csv') .…

Procedural landscapes are such a fun thing. When I was in high school I read about perlin noise landscape generation technique in a random blog post. I shared the technique with a …

I guessed correctly by the title that the article is about coding a 3d image, but was waiting for the classic "two balls and a cylinder" scene, which college students naturally com…

This is a national meme in Russia. War and Peace is mandatory reading in schools, but it's always only 3-4 students in class who really read it. Most students just skim through ("r…

In Moscow metro they sometimes ask (but do not enforce) via speakers to stand on both sides of the escalator. I heard this practice was brought by McKinsey from London. In my exper…

There is a fun story of a guy who was making several thousand $ a month for a couple of years from a side project, a bunch of fan websites about reality TV show. Unfortunately in R…

What if give it the same promt but "with subtitles in French" for example?

I agree with you, but hackers sell exploits to others all the time? One can never be sure that hackers gonna send the actual exploit. You're right the scheme does not protect from …

It guarantees that the group will receive the money and the exploit will be released if the fundraising is successful.

Suppose a hacker group get their hands on a valuable exploit. They are like LAPSUS$ and are going to make the exploit public access, but also want to make some $. I wonder if the f…

In Russia we say "spherical horse" instead of "spherical cow". I suppose that's because the russian translation of "horse" ("конь") sounds somewhat similar to "cow", and the transl…

I agree such meta-questions are annoying. However, I saw many times a situation when a new guy joins some Telegram chat and asks a question, only to get an avalanche of angry and o…