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the Ramanujan one has some relatively high powered mathematical explanation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number

majority of parents are in favour of such a ban, otherwise they wouldn't do it if social media companies hadn't made social media a total cesspit of disinformation, child grooming …

mathlib and lean are currently too cumbersome for many researchers to use in say algebraic geometry, but maybe more suitable for combinatorics where it has been applied recently.

this has templeOS vibes

Formalised proofs and Lean in particular are still too cumbersome for the ``working'' mathematician to use it day-to-day for research-level math. But clearly there is some interest…

this seems to be the way. make great technical improvement in a way that's nothing to do with AI. the only way to make executives happy is to then tenuously link it to AI usage.

In my field which involves large legacy codebases in C++ and complex numerical algorithms implemented by PhDs. LLMs have their place but improvements in productivity are not that g…

are there any tools to convert large latex documents to typst ? it looks a huge improvement, but the migration path is the only thing that's stopping me.

In places where there is not much time for code refactoring, the following is helpful: Imagine an idealised future state of the codebase, which everyone buys into, and make sure an…

So many times it’s necessary to ‘identify’ two more objects which are isomorphic, and the ‘canonical’ is supposed to justify why this doesn’t cause a problem. The reason it is nece…

This is fairly obscure but the problem he highlights can be overcome easily by localising at the saturation of S_f, for D(f)=D(g) if and only if the saturations are equal, and loca…

Stacks, like EGA before it, is a wonderful reference but a terrible textbook. I think even the authors would agree with this! Fortunately there are many other books from which to l…

Modern Algebraic Geometry is indeed highly abstract, but generally the conjuring of obscure objects is with a specific goal in mind, for example - consolidation of many types of re…

They’re all very relevant, but I try not to expect the same from OSS projects as from a VC pitch deck. After all this is work given freely.

That’s rather solipsistic

I’m generally positive on rewriting openssl in rust, but agree the comparisons aren’t completely scientific or necessarily more important than correctness. First you should compare…

one issue with OOP in practice that I've seen is the entanglement of the domain representation (member variables of a class) and the varied operations on that data (methods). Class…

The difficulty with learning 'modern' algebraic geometry is not only is it very dense and general, but that means the original motivation can become lost. So I think understanding …

Writing a type checker is conceptually much more specialised than just a scripting language. Certainly I have no idea how to write one!

Can anyone suggest a good embedded language with static or at least optional typing ? I feel this is a gap in the market for embedded languages.

couldn't agree more, see e.g. similar restrictions in well-known bastions of socialism singapore, denmark and australia. non-resident investment in manhattan is literally rent-seek…

interesting article. a few more points which may be of interest - in addition to raid it's worth having automated off-site backup. the best solution i could find is duplicity as it…

Citation needed. Plenty of people regard high-level languages as nonetheless suitable 'systems programming'. This is the first FAQ on golang.org! See also https://ocaml.github.io/o…

I don't think that one can necessarily equate systems programming with manual memory management (see e.g. Go). It's true that manual memory management will (probably) be more effic…

The article is comparing Rust principally to Python (a new dynamically typed language) and C++ (an old statically typed language). It's certainly plausible that it can bring benefi…