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A quick google shows that the OP is indeed in academia.

Maybe things were different back when OP took calc but I’d bet any standard calculus textbook used for instruction in the past 20 years mentions this many times.

Most academic jobs are crap precisely because they are not tenured faculty positions at good universities.

I already agreed that the op was hinting at an important problem. The link is weak because the op put hardly any effort into explaining the (possible) connection to these two parti…

This particular comment was probably downvoted because he basically just took the hottest buzzword of the last decade and inserted it with a very weak link to the topic at hand. Yo…

Why did you pick out that quote if it misrepresents the linked article?

I don't know about the first quote, but the second quote is not saying that the study of philosophy is useless. Just that it's useless for science.

https://payup.wtf/blog/doordash-tip-theft "That’s right — the more you tip in-app on DoorDash, the less DoorDash pays the worker."

> What percentage of coders do programming on a turing tape? Is this partial evidence that turing tapes are trash? Does that question even make sense? Yes it is. Turing machine mod…

> No one "does mathematics" in ZFC. How is this not partial evidence that ZFC is trash? What percentage of coders do programming on a turing tape? Is this partial evidence that tur…

Now I'm not sure what your point is. Are you suggesting that HoTT is to python as ZFC is to turing machine tape?

That's a flawed analogy. Mathematicians do use 'higher level languages', that's precisely why most of them don't care about HoTT vs set theory. Just like a web dev usually does not…

You don't need anything like HoTT to start using multi-letter variable names. E.g. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geome...

Do you understand the concept of correlation? "Usain bolt won the olypmic gold medal many times (n=8). If winning the gold medal was so rare, what are the odds that people like Usa…

It's certainly different from what seems like the standard usage in the past few years, but I woudn't say it's a misuse. Here's is google's dictionary definition "a special right, …

> However, if it was such a rare thing, what are the odds that someone like me would exist? Someone wins the lottery every week. What are the odds of winning the lottery? Is playin…

I think people are using the word in different ways. The person you are responding to is using it as a description of the current state.

https://ibb.co/BGj5nDn Consider the following graph. The nth fibonnaci number is the number of possible walks from n to 1. (I made a mistake in the picture, there should be an edge…

Thank you!

Does anyone know of a program for mac which allows you to type using Vim input? Of course it's probably too hard to make it compatible with all the different types of text boxes, s…

Any name given to object is necessarily going to be an incomplete description of said object. It's a tradeoff between the length of the description and the precision of the descrip…

Why call it 'natural selection' then. That's just 'selection'.