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noAlchemy

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    Comment #6819133

    Fun fact about Type II topoisomerase: even though it only has local information (the area where it acts) it manages to move in the correct direction (lower unknotting number) about…

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    Comment #6368190

    Good point, but if you wanted to work with an arbitrary distribution in the plane as a generalisation of this I think you'd need to look for an equal-area map from R2 to S2? (eg ht…

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    Comment #6101588

    I know I'm not the GP, but might be able to be some use here. Context: always wanted to do a maths PhD, but ended up stuck running a small business (50-70 hrs/wk) for a number of y…

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    Comment #5904676

    I've had a look (but not intensively, it's a back-burner thing for me at the moment). Everything seems very heavyweight and aimed at big businesses with long supply chains. For a s…

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    Comment #5904349

    How's your maths? Here's something I'd pay quite a lot for: intelligent inventory optimisation in an easy to use SaaS format. Quite mathematically intensive to do well, so most SME…

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    Comment #5664812

    I can support this from the other side. Coming out of a maths degree at a reasonably good university, a lot of the mathematicians who became teachers were those who struggled and p…

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    Comment #5517366

    I'd also say that the other side of this is neglected, namely how to get others to listen better to you. Those who have issues listening well are probably less likely to be looking…