> He recalls with delight that he once used a cab service whose owner recognized his name, having learned the inequality during a probability class in business school. The taxi drivers in France are cut from different cloth!
Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness
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Because I'm not going to put in the work just to see it deleted by zealous editors.
There is no basis in your purported belief that quality contributions that follow the rules will get deleted. Wikipedia editors are not out there to suppress women— The fact that this de facto happens is more likely a reflection of systemic social issues.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no basis in your purported belief that quality contributions that follow the rules will get deleted. Wikipedia editors are not out there to suppress women— The fact that this de facto happens is more likely a reflection of systemic social issues.
The basis for my belief that it happens is that I've seen it happen.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123641>
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
The basis for my belief that it happens is that I've seen it happen.
Links or it didn’t¹. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123641 >
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#46> He recalls with delight that he once used a cab service whose owner recognized his name, having learned the inequality during a probability class in business school. The taxi drivers in France are cut from different cloth!
As well as their business students, apparently.
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#47(1) https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hmaji/teaching/Spring%202018...
Re: Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness
#48I didn't know about his inequalities, but I found (1) that provides an example of using Talagrand inequality applied to the longest increasing subsequence problem (12 pages, easy to read). It seems to be a broad generalization of the Hamming distance. (1) https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hmaji/teaching/Spring%202018...
http://doc.9gridchan.info/blog/181230.ncubic.routing http://doc.9gridchan.info/blog/190104.ncubic.algorithms
Fromm mycrovtif (RIP), a guy from the plan9/9front community.
Re: Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Links or it didn’t¹. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123641 >
Here is some starting point for your search: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wikipedia-bias-1.6129073 See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_i...
Re: Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness
#50Slightly off-topic - has anyone read his book "What is a Quantum Field Theory"? Can you recommend it?
See a review here: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12819