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throwgeorge

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    coincidentally enough cantor's diagonalization was formative for me as a budding mathematician.

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    Comment #24077619

    >This smells like sour apples from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job. do you work at FB? how can you smell anything? are…

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    Comment #24074472

    >Blackstone is buying Ancestry.com from private equity firms Silver Lake, Spectrum Equity and Permira. it was already owned by PE

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    Comment #24062615

    >You seem to have well informed flexible friends, who are willing to try something "new". you're saying this about someone that claims all of their friends use only one app. the fa…

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    Comment #24039691

    what is the point of this? usually this type of comment is when there's something inscrutable in the title of a post but the title of this post is literally "Who Is Alexander Groth…

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    Comment #24030749

    your last link is 404; this is it https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...

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    Comment #23976085

    can you use webasm with cloudflare workers?

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    Comment #23976053

    >some kind of efficient approximation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore... > how good is it at extrapolating can't be very good (abstract says bounded ti…

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    Comment #23958679

    you're a troll that's aiming to make light of legitimate uses of the word. shame on you.

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    Comment #23943965

    i don't know how far off you are but i had access to an 8GPU allocation last fall and all I had to do was ask. longer term would've cost money though. Interesting fact was someone …

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    Comment #23943916

    HiPerGator is the existing HPC cluster https://www.rc.ufl.edu/services/hipergator/

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    Comment #23930609

    lol what circles do you travel in? i was on a call last week where this guy that works for DOD took issue with me working at Facebook. the irony is quite delicious there.

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    Comment #23869186

    >putting their result on arXiv so they can put AI research on their resume are you kidding? it's resulted in a huge amount of researchers publishing results in journals so they can…

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    Comment #23840341

    lol i'm like playing wacamole here. who's talking about the entire degree? we're talking about algebra 1.

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    Comment #23833174

    >abstract algebra is effectively a sort of secret maths techniques abstract algebra (rings, groups, fields) is taught in absolutely every undergrad math program in the country (in …

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    Comment #23831888

    lol i don't understand your point "harvard doesn't have secret math - the proof is all of these publicly available math lectures from world renowned mathematicians" the value of ha…

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    Comment #23827376

    the GT2 RS has a base price of $294,250. I doubt these pistons cost any increment that anyone that buys a porsche will care.

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    Comment #23752946

    what exactly do students on F and M visas have to do with employment? they can't work to begin with.

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    Comment #23743470

    https://omscs.gatech.edu/explore/faq/admissions >Your diploma will read "Master of Science in Computer Science," exactly the same as those of on-campus graduates. There will be no …

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    Comment #23696603

    watch the hands not the mouth - take a gander at the demographics of microsoft/facebook/google and you'll see how much they actually support diversity initiatives

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    Comment #23681884

    i guess you're right it isn't completely transparent but i think they are welcome https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/fe6y66/im_...

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    Comment #23681154

    >However, in my years of being here, I had never read this piece before, and I frequently feel pretty alone as a woman when there are comments that make me uncomfortable. It is jus…

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    former republican congressman what a coincidence

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    Comment #23661694

    not sure why you're being downvoted but conspicuous consumption and capital's drive to constantly create new markets makes perfect sense to me as an explanation for decadence (a wo…