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Damn, I'm doing research involving partitions right now. I used crank/rank all the time -invariants that he introduced years ago. What a shame, RIP

I don't remember if this is the exact paper but as united893 already posted, the paper was probably: https://annals.math.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/annals-... Long story shor…

Mirzakhani will always have a special place in my heart. I was an undergraduate mathematics student when I discovered her work. It was a paper on closed geodesics and there was som…

That's also what I was taught as a best practice, but it's not always possible. Well of course it's possible -there are infinitely many sets of coprime numbers! Silly engineers

That was also one of my initial thoughts. But who knows. I'm sure milk consumption varies a lot in different geographies, cultural backgrounds, upbringings, etc... I personally nev…

To be fair, it's a pretty large claim to just assume that something "went wrong with the attempts to screen out the confounding factors" and that the conclusion must be false. It's…

Exactly. As I said, they didn't reveal much of the process that "accounted for confounding" but I just wanted to dismiss everyone's initial reaction that this is just an obvious ca…

I know everyone's reaction (mine included) was: "No shit, people who drink low-fat milk probably live healthier lives in general"... But it looks like they really did account for o…

My immediate reaction as well. Seems like the perfect case of confounding. But after reading the paper, I saw this statement: > "High-fat milk consumers may have lifestyles that ar…

> It searches until it finds a seed, then goes back to the trail, maybe using the angle of the sunlight as a guide, to return to the nest, following the stream of outgoing foragers…

So no, lol

Sounds like they already pricked the patient when they couldn't find a vein in the arm, maybe?

Except their laptops and phones totally do... What are you talking about?

The way I understand it (which isn't that well either tbh) is that most modern anti-cheat softwares run off of some Hardware ID (HWID). An amalgam of ids from your GPU, CPU, OS, Ma…

It's a joke. Being distasteful and offensive was the entire point...

Damn, I should read the comments first

Why post the Quanta write up on a months old publication? OpenAI released this months ago: https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/ and IMO, did a much better job of explaining/d…

No, USB-C is a step in the right direction. It's superior in every way imaginable to USB. It can handle almost every type of transfer (data/power), its orientation-agnostic, it's s…

I agree, a lot of the code could be improved. But some of what you mentioned is fairly standard. Like "Gaussian Error Linear Units being GELU, w/b for weights/biases, etc...

Thank you... Everyone seems to be forgetting that this is a 100% opt-in service. Why do we get to say what FB is obligated to do and to what standards they have to keep their websi…

Oh man you're a walking, talking caricature aren't you haha? When did I ever say I didn't know who some of those people were? And if I didn't... would that invalidate my whole poin…

I think it's pretty self explanatory that when someone says "music has gotten more bland over the years", that they're referencing pop music. Obviously people understand that there…

Yeah, this really didn't state anything novel that anyone who's even aware of Python 3.8 wouldn't have already known...

What exactly guarantees that reality? Why can't these tools be used for good moving forward? e.g. detecting heart problems. Seems a little arbitrary to spin technological advanceme…

Thank you, as someone with no C++ background, this example makes the issue at hand much clearer.