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With that title and reception I can imagine people bookmarking this for „later“ and feeling good about it. But who reads that stuff really? To each their own, but 700+ pages for ma…

It is also true that this a 500fold increase in prevalence when compared to the general population. The 5-year survival rate of lung cancer noticed due to e.g a sore throat is belo…

A course in Arithmetic by Serre is for me THE book to get into Number Theory

If you are interested in this kind of role, it is usually called Executive Assistant in the corporate world. Had the fortune to support my CEO and attend e.g. all board meetings (b…

A map between algebraic curves is defined by polynomials. That the map is defined over K means you can find a coordinate system such that the equations of the curves and the equati…

Good question, no there is no difference for elliptic curves, which you can think of as 1-dimensional geometric objects (curves) which posses group structure. A good map in this ca…

The statistics worked for me too, just the streak was reset.

And they broke everybody’s streak in the process while reusing today‘s word… Way to destroy a good brand.

Actually, a Banach-Tarski-like result is impossible in 2D space, since there is a Banach measure (= volume definition to all subsets of the plane) that extends the usual volume def…

Sorry, but the breathless way, that maths is often discussed on HN, makes me feel uneasy. It feels strange to see adults that opine on every subject, from nuclear fusion energy, to…

Some things that actuaries also do besides "memorizing formulas": * Asset-Liability management, i.e. hedging of future claims on the financial markets [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

The actuarial profession is quite broad, in my experience. For the teams I worked with, memorization of formulas was to their daily work as whiteboard coding would be to the daily …

Regarding life insurance product offerings: disability insurance is often advised by consumer protection groups for young professionals, who crucially depend on future income. Rega…

Ok, so this article is not about going meat free. Just about factory farming. If you "crave meat" maybe you could consider non-factory farmed meat, for all the reasons mentioned. R…

Why would the robot cost the same? If it costs the same, then there is no incentive to introduce robots in the first place. I think the wide-spread automation is a testament to the…

Maybe it really is a cultural difference. I think there is a continuum of valuations at work here: If a contractor gets his materials cheaper or does have cheaper labor available, …

You say you would feel "sad". To be honest, I would feel cheated. And to set up this smokescreen with pseudo-gardening people (or prerecorded data entry screencaptures to stay with…

Yes, to make the analogy better, say the gardener invented the robot while on your "gardening time". Edit: Writing a script might be expensive, but is the market price of this scri…

A question for the people that have a positive attitude towards keeping time savings for yourself instead of passing them on to your employer. Would you be also okay with the follo…

You're right, I was thinking about univariate polynomials. The "preprint" is only concerned with functions of one complex argument, so this should suffice.

No, it is not "well written". I'm no expert in analytic number theory, but here are some sanity checks: His definition of the critical strip (2.4) is wrong. He works with some fami…

What is the philosophical difference between an 'argument' that human minds following the laws of logic agree on "is correct" and a machine built by these minds flashing a "correct…