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You (or others) may like Struik’s A Concise History of Mathematics [1]. It’s also quite easy to read cover-to-cover. My other favorite, Stillwell’s Mathematics and Its History , is…

First of all, many rolling release distros don’t follow upstream as fast as possible—there’s often some testing window. People go on and on about backported security patches and st…

For something with “math” in the title, this article sure has a lot of basic statistical mistakes (like, things you learn not to do in an intro course).

* You can think of it as a factor graph with linear residuals and Gaussian noise functions in factors that connect a chain of variables, with all but the most recent variable margi…

Also, why run all of Microsoft’s spyware and deal with their forced updates just so you can get through to a slightly slower and less compatible version of Linux.

This website never fails to amuse me… What is the intention of this comment? That Debord is “far right” or a reactionary? That people who read him are? That it’s interesting that a…

I am about the age of the people this article is talking about. This is laughably out of touch. Take a look at the right communities on TikTok or Instagram or Discord (they’re not …

I’m not even sure where to start with this because it’s such a vulgar misreading of Hegel… Hegel generally rejected the “thesis, antithesis, synthesis” triad (which mostly comes fr…

It’s good to have something like this. Last time I worked with libav the only available good documentation was the official examples and the ffmpeg (the tool) source code itself, a…

Yep. Animals are the most common way that diseases are introduced to humans, and industrial animal agriculture brings these animals into close proximity with themselves and us. Rem…

An interesting side point is that the graph optimization approach used here is somewhat similar to modern graph-based visual SLAM The graph in the article can be seen as a factor g…

This is a good list of the incidents precipitating this event, if you don’t have time to read the thread: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Camerfirma_Issues

> impersonating Nat Friedman using a bug in GitHub's application. This is not a bug, it's a part of how Git fundamentally works. If you want to mitigate it you have to sign your co…

Joe Barnard (the guy behind BPS.space) has some great videos behind the controls involved in this project on the BPS.space channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILl8ozWuxnFYXI…

I agree that they’re liable for some things in the court of public opinion (which happens to have a very short attention span and limited agency), but I don’t see how they’re legal…

+100 on this. A social environment that encourages this is a huge motivator. A good FIRST Robotics team is one way that you might get this (not all teams will have great student ex…

The thing is that this is not a huge issue in practice. I stick to uniform initialization in 99% of cases and it works out pretty well. I have far fewer bugs from initialization sc…

Most of your reply isn’t really correct. > A vaccine is also an attenuated version of the virus so if becoming immune from the virus doesn't last long it won't last long from a vac…

Google bullies you with Captchas if you have `privacy.resistFingerprinting` on.

Sounds like a good public service. I’d much rather have my data deleted until it’s secured than have it stolen by someone else.

Out of curiosity, is English your native language?

> Our word used to mean something. > But now? How can we hold a higher ground than China when our own police forces use the very same tactics against our own protesters? How can we…