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The bravery of the people signing this anonymously is inspiring.

> Terrence Tao was a good example of what happens when an exceptionally smart person stops getting funded by an American University: not moving to another country, but got VC money…

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Thanks, I hate it.

Their boss does nazi salutes at political events. They’re nazis.

I think the Icelandic data is a bit skewed upwards. It’s showing senior and principal level salaries in large companies, most “normal” devs earn maybe 70% of that.

That's pretty cool. Unfortunately school holidays mean I can't take time off whenever, but I can definitely use the idea to plan time off around those.

A distribution is not a function. It is a continuous linear functional on a space of functions. Functions define distributions, but not all distributions are defined that way, like…

For any smooth function (like the conjugate) it makes sense to ask whether there exist holomorphic functions that approximate it arbitrarily well. However: Suppose that for every n…

Good for you to stick up for the _checks notes_ nazis.

I read Playboy for the stories and take Viagra for the memories.

> I may be biased as I am a trained Mathematician, but I always feel when someone says "Math is Hard", that is because they had bad teachers. I dunno, man. I have a PhD in complex …

Thank RÚV, the Icelandic national broadcaster, which setup cameras weeks ago and has been live streaming the area since then for capturing the eruption.

> they are objects (I call them oracles) that answer Yes or No when asked if the number ought to be between two given rational numbers. So a real number is a function from pairs of…

This notation maybe makes some things in trigonometry or Fourier analysis easier to do. Then a wild polynomial appears and all of the sudden we have to write (d bar) x = 1 / 2 pi.

Honestly every single one of those execs is very replaceable too.

> Bret Victor is very much Alan Kay's protege and has unfortunately inherited the curse of people cherry-picking particular ideas and missing the bigger picture. Maybe it's time we…

As the post points out this involves some claims about infinite sets that are maybe not super obvious to laypeople (every infinite set of natural numbers has a least element). But …

Iceland does the same: https://github.com/island-is/island.is

I grew up with the Icelandic layout. When I started programming professionally I taught myself the en-us layout and stared using that instead. It is much easier on my hands and fin…

There you go, arguing a trivial point at length instead of doing interesting math. This is why tau is not worth anyone’s time. There’s no one weird trick to understanding math.

I’m a mathematician. Tau is bikeshedding. It’s far removed from being either interesting or useful. But it is a useful litmus test for whether a person’s options on math are worth …

> SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen(). https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

> 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known Not one of them being "edit your writing".

I work at Booking. We do not do this and never have. Other OTAs do, like Expedia. It’s the merchant vs. agent model.