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I agree -- abstract algebra is elementary and some aspects of it can (and should), be taught in high-school. AA is a domain of maths which people won't even encounter if not studyi…

During my maths phd time in France I really enjoyed so-called "colles". It was a 1h long 1 on 1 conversation with the student where (s)he was given a complex problem (way too diffi…

I attended a conference talk of a FB AI-engineer talking about her paper with backprop equations so obviously wrong my eyes hurt, and incorrect definitions of objects. It did not s…

How many of them are conservative and how many of them come from cultures with long traditions of free speech?

I meant the title of the article on the original website.

Finished a PhD in mathematics and wanted to 1) leave academia 2) move back to my country of origin. Picking up some programming was pretty straightforward, writing code is half (or…

Help your bank account by NOT buying a new iPhone.

True and well-known in the community. Wolfram is (was?) a brilliant mind and a very successful enterpreneur. He also "crossed the line" way too many times to be taken seriously.

Apart from a clickbait title this article offers zero evidence (or even plausible arguments) why the presented responses were "the best". 3k deaths in Germany is already a lot and,…

Nvidia GPU drivers and CUDA installations on Linux. Got better recently but I've spent many nights fixing these installs, wrestling with nouveau etc. Compilation of deep learning l…

Actually, Tether moved most of their tokens from Omni to the Ethereum blockchain. $2.7B of usdt are in circulation as erc20 tokens.

Linear algebra IS about linear transformations and vector spaces. The thing is that the field over which the space is defined can be quite arbitrary (finite, infinite, not algebrai…

My experience from a decade of doing professional maths is that there are no shortcuts. You only learn maths by doing hundreds (thousands) of exercises, both mundane and more excti…

A similar, though less sophisticated, scam has been around in France for over a decade. They put ads with professional photos on websites with rental offers (the price is good, alm…

Pretty funny to see Simpson's name showing up here. I have kept two souvenirs from my academic life: the original manuscript of my thesis and Simpson's very eloquent and overwhelmi…