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    Comment #48219191

    damn, the rhetoric in this thread put out by (I presume) Americans is like in 2006 when I got my first Neostrada and I first joined Mac vs PC wars dont mean to offend, just didnt r…

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    Comment #46785196

    Yeah, my writeup is I guess what you get when you first remember it _wrong_ and then need to overcorrect.

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    Read it as `ln (-s x) y`, not `(ln -s) (x y)`

    I could never remember the operand order for `ln -s x y`, and now I've realized why: the command supports two simultaneous parsings. `(ln -s) (x y)` — the intended reading. `-s` fo…

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    Comment #45813790

    ok but she was talking about riemann

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    Comment #43048087

    know what this will be about without reading Python 3.12-style type annnotations are a good example imo, no one uses the type statement because dataset inertia

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    Comment #40757197

    The first and only time I've ever felt like I really know Chinese was when I came across the phrase '洋汽扑鼻' in "Fortress Besieged" by Qian Zhongshu. It literally means 'the breath o…

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    Comment #40757161

    I really don't think it's all that different, sorry. The difference is that there is a more direct and established way of talking about these things in China, because it has such a…

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    Comment #40643370

    Well that's all fun and games until you start putting off paying Internet bill for two weeks because it turns out that you misconfigured your password app and it actually didn't sa…

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    Comment #40534774

    I have now read the paper and it alone is enough to make me seriously consider devoting significant amount of my time to the author's project. Here's why: In my introductory statis…

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    Comment #40424115

    I really like this. I remember my first serious math book, which was this old-school set theory and topology book, and being all excited about learning set theory up until I encoun…

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    Comment #39978075

    I kinda have this idea that while psychedelics like LSD are the easiest to catch a ride with, it is specifically tea that can get you furthest. When I was reading "Dream of the Red…

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    Comment #38463671

    Yeah, and we have more than measure zero -- the subsets of the input space on which a fully ReLU MLP is linear are Boolean combinations of hyperspaces. I was coming at it from the …

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    Comment #38439553

    I just skimmed through it for now, but it has seemed kinda natural to me for a few months now that there would be a deep connection between neural networks and differential or alge…

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    How do you best approach internship search mentally?

    I'm doing Masters in Machine Learning after getting a BA in Mathematics, and I've been looking for an internship. I have a year of job experience in IT, and I've been shortlisted s…