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Do you mind posting brief notes indicating how far the reading group has progressed after each meeting? Thanks for taking the initiative to host this.

For PhD students, the masters is integrated into the 5 years they spend doing their PhD. They are expected to take courses as a "pre-candidate" and do primarily research after they…

Most Diophantine equations. Someone has already mentioned FLT above. Problems of this sort is almost one of the defining characteristics of number theory.

See https://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/buffer-cache.html .

When people talk about different language, they mean more than just notation. For example, I can write "2 | 4" as "4 = 0 in Z/2Z". There is more than just a notational difference h…

Concepts and ranges are pretty big too.

An argument for a smaller keyboard (and this is definitely a personal thing) is that I try my hardest to avoid using keys that are more than one key away from a finger in its resti…

> Rot mathematics is where it goes wrong. Not sure what you mean by "rot mathematics". > Meta mathematics, abstract, detached from real life, as alot of the academy with its publis…

TAOCP?

This isn't true. Most mathematics published in journals is new.

Things are not so cut and dry. Rent in the college town my university is located in is high and people have to sign year-long leases the year before they actually occupy the apartm…

Most people are here to have discussions, and not necessarily read news.

I would love an expert's thoughts on whether something like MathJax/KaTeX can take advantage of WebAssembly for faster rendering. Seems like a perfect use case to me.

Seems like you're thinking of Intel Management Engine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine )? From what I understand, IME and SGX are separate technologies.

I would like to invite you to share your setup.