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notthingnill

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    You can also use a computer algebra system (CAS) to perform computations and get the output in mathml, for example the free CAS maxima. wxMaxima is something like jupyter notebook …

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    I wonder if some variation of this experiment would be useful for retina detachment, personal interest (my retina was completely detached and I was left with 0.60 vision in the lef…

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    A lot of work for a null reward. So not really.

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    "The big idea is taking local data and seeing if it patches together." I wonder if those new techniques are different from the usually used like: weighted averages of random forest…

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    Five minutes reading https://johnhw.github.io/umap_primes/index.md.html Without using any category, topology of sheaf theory, this is what I believe is in this paper: (1) the prior…

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    I would be disappointed to discover that the collective intelligence that I find in HN is not well represented when I speak with any member of the HN community, so better to contin…

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    I think your idea can be developed today by selecting online forums centered on topics. The main problem is moderation and how to plan the journey.

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    Thank you for your free book. Another great book is Gilbert Strang's book: Introduction to Linear Algebra. Also Boyle: Linear Algebra and its Applications. Perhaps your free book c…

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    Apart from Gauss elimination, I think eigenvalues, eigenvectors, scalar product, orthogonal subspaces, and the relation to statistics are important. Statistics associated with SVD,…

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    In Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World, Tim Harford describe the strategy of the initial period of Amazon, and compare Bezos with Erwin Rommel, the deser…