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I interviewed at Palantir last month, and the process is still very similar to what you've described. However, regarding the last point, after the product demo they did directly ad…

I started building a shed this winter: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cMVk5TpIdQ0x0WvZ2 I'd say it's an excellent way to get a feel for what it takes to build a home. There are a TON of…

Thanks for the link. The author is an editor of the Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics, which also contains very high quality writing and a book I recommend to anyone inter…

I agree with splitting up CF stacks this way. It reduces the the blast radius, that saved me on a number of occasions when stack updates went sideways. The problem introduced by th…

That's not how I'd interpret this sentence: "We have skin and other barriers that protect the cells." It sounds to me like the author claims that humans have skin, which is true, a…

I wonder, how many people downvoted this without following the link to the comic? It's relevant, intelligent, and funny.

I always liked how Feynman dealt with complex numbers in 'QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter'. He focuses on the intuitive concept of a particle having a spinny arrow atta…

To follow one of the more common patterns for identifying a class of functions, it could have been named after one of the early pioneers in the field. But yeah, it would be hard to…

Many people have recognized the need for improvement in mathematics education, and I think it really is evolving in positive directions. I worked at DreamBox Learning for a few yea…

I can't think of any examples of mathematical objects being renamed, do you have any? There may be some amount of drift over time, but you can go to the research library of any uni…

But you propose to simply relabel as function, which doesn't work in general because random variable corresponds to a specific type of function. You could compromise by calling it …

Of the parallelepiped generated by the columns of the matrix. ( https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/determinants-volumes.h... ) The result of the determinant might be negative, w…

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ComplexPlane.html The definition of a vector space says nothing about whether it does or does not have a multiplication operation defined on it. A vect…

What would happen if we started renaming mathematical objects to reflect changes in the English language? English will continue to evolve, and the vast body of mathematical literat…

Intuitively elements of R2 are not numbers, they're vectors, or points in a 2 dimensional vector space. You can also treat complex numbers as vectors in the 2 dimensional complex p…

Gravitation, by Misner, Thorne, Wheeler ( http://a.co/dczH4eS ) Fully understanding the math in this book requires a solid background in linear algebra, calculus, differential equa…

Absolutely. And in mathematics, advanced structures and theorems are built up layers by layer upon more elementary material. A professor who has mastered presentation of undergradu…

No, I was never under that impression. I once had a discussion about the creation of the book with one of Federer's students who had also helped proofread it. The book was essentia…

I think many highly productive mathematicians are very good at organizing formulas and facts in such a way that they can be retrieved easily from memory based on context. Maybe som…