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yup. deeply regret my time as a postdoc. especially the last few years in the pandemic have been the absolute worst work experience in terms of culture and job satisfaction. it's k…

As an experienced mathematician once told me: "The way I read papers is by first reading the abstract. Then I try to state the results and prove them myself. When I get stuck I go …

> Do people think that algebraic geometry might be thought of as the root of all geometry? I certainly don't think of it this way. There are many geometries and spaces that cannot …

I think we're probably thinking of the same papers. There was a competition /session at last year's neurips and there's related papers linked from their webpage. https://www.ecole.…

> I don't have a personal website It's so easy to make a free blog on github (like sub 5 minutes) with some version of jekyl. You should probably just do it.

There are ways (called heuristics) to solve some NP hard problems faster than exhaustive search. Of course, for theoretical reasons, a heuristic is not guaranteed to be faster on a…

> And that is in itself a dangerous moral and ethical lapse. More importantly, it can be a dangerous business lapse.

This would be my concern too. People fail to understand how in heatwaves there ceases to be cold air to move around. Everything heats up. It's brutal.

As someone who was in Europe for one of the heatwaves of recent years, and whose appartment was in one of these older buildings designed this ways with thick walls etc., I can atte…

Yup. > Despite all that, what I’m hoping for is that someone will come along and tell me that I got it all wrong. “When you do it as follows, the system works: $explanation” Becaus…

FWIW I lead with this whenever I find myself teaching lin.agl. and I agree it's the most important point of context for students entering the subject (and presumably embarking on u…

Ditto. More broadly, I am bored by efforts to rehash the same introductory material from whatever your given technical topic is (math, programming, machine learning). There's alrea…

You may find this airbnb paper relevant. They use skip-grams to generate feature vectors for their listings. https://www.kdd.org/kdd2018/accepted-papers/view/real-time-p...

> Perhaps I was wrong to expect mention of explicit discsussion of spectral graph theory? I mean, this is a link to a pdf titled "chapter 3" buried deep in the directories of someo…

> I would have expected some mention of the spectrum of a graph beyond simply defining what the eigenvalues are. Pardon my ignorance, is the spectrum of a graph something more than…

Blackwell is engaged in activist investing. Their goal is to make profit by changing how the company is run. This deck is surely part of that campaign. Thus it may contain truths, …

Sounds like inspiration for the next LinkedIn cringepost. If you learn 1 new skill each day for a year... then you will be able to apply the 365 skills you've learned in 365! = 251…

This is a disappointing version of something much funnier that would be found in McSweeney's.

The first thing to know is your goal. Your goal could be things such as: to glean core concepts and methodologies, to determine how a paper relates to another research work (such a…

And this makes everything else in the survey easier. Topic sentences and presentation skills are useful but most important is having something original and substantial to say. The …

Even more fun would be the same graphic produced as an animation in the time dimension.

tldr tldr (Since your version is for people who already understand undergraduate math, this version is for people who already understand upper-level undergraduate/graduate math): I…

The opening is a value proposition at its core. Attention is a commodity to be earned. Recognizing this is the key to good openings.