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There was an excellent Dance Your PhD video about representations of braid groups and faithfulness in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MASNukczu5A If you look closely, you can…

Well, in all honesty, I’m sorry you had that experience (seriously). I hate feeling condescended to and I’ve also had that experience before, including from mathematicians. When it…

Your emotion isn’t invalid, it’s merely bad, assholeish, brings shame upon you. But it is “valid” in the sense that the reader of your comment can see that you are, at least, since…

“You shouldn’t find joy from things the way you said you do. Sounds like a you problem.”

Yes, yes, maybe (see OP’s blog post). To my knowledge, none of the negative sentiment regarding AI has ever been directed at its medical applications. Maybe the AI companies should…

I agree.

It’s not that surprising (to me) that it would recognize these features, in that the features it picks up on are intrinsic to the map. Once you have the map, which is generically o…

My Claude found a similar description (it phrased it in terms of the natural map from "cubics with a choice of root" to "cubics"). The part that seems not at all simple or obvious …

Wow! There was a little-known sequel to SimTower called Yoot Tower (named after Yoot Saito). It was a commercial flop, but I played it in the 2000s and again in the 2010s and very …

The correct description is “a smooth curve of genus at least 2”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faltings%27_theorem The reason for the confusion is that a smooth, projective plane c…

A couple more I could decode from your question marks: - rauenes: ravens - “all that heard him were adrade”: I’m guessing it means “were filled with dread”, maybe “were adread” - I…

What is different about how your app teaches language?

I have moderate-to-profound hearing loss and have worn hearing aids since I was 4. I currently have Oticon Opn1’s and have had Oticons since 2017 (and got new ones in 2022) and the…

Agreed, this is the real takeaway for those who think it’s unsurprising: they simply haven’t understood why it is surprising.

I have always found this response to the hungry judges study much more compelling than the study itself: http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-j... > […] I wan…

The phrasing “bias against AI” seems to beg the question here. The article takes it for granted that people are wrong to say they’re more interested in stories written by people th…

No, in your analogy building a helicopter capable of going there is impressive. (Though I dispute the idea that it’s more impressive simply because helicopters were invented more r…

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If there were a single element that generated the whole group, the group would be abelian.

Obama was correct in observing that he looked different from past American presidents. As for “claims to admire”, the implication that Obama doesn’t really admire MLK (and that thi…

Make up your mind, are you mad they pressured him to withdraw or mad they tried to keep him in the race? Given your voting record and the fact that you’ve just criticized the democ…

Yes, that was the point of the parent comment.

Tripled its housing supply since 1960 according to that article. Meanwhile Vancouver’s population went up by more than 4x. So it doesn’t seem surprising affordability would get wor…

Relevant context: it’s very hard to learn from research-level math talks, because the material is almost absurdly complicated even when presented well. This advice is for grad stud…

This seems very cool & deserving of more attention on HN!