#Mathematics

Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy our home, my dad stunned me with how quickly he could compute loan payments in his head. I
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At the beginning of this crisis, Sweden ignored @WHO advice, and did no lock down.In the UK, innumerate right-wing pundits opposed to lockdown suggest that Sweden is doing wonderfully well,
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[crypto]Update: I misinterpreted the EHR Data company update.A friend kindly pointed me to the video currently on the front of their website. At 18:00 the CTO explains they will store
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Goose bumps. I am preparing my talk for India's FP conf and ran across some quotes from Joe Armstrong passage. I read them avidly. Bear with me as I list
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@Steve_Sailer's old piece on the topic:https://vdare.com/articles/lynn-on-the-jews-yes-it-s-intelligence-but-there-s-something-else-too"Lynn's latest, The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement, tabulates
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The truth is sexuality is everywhere: the way a bureaucrat fondles his records, a judge administers justice, a businessman causes money to circulate; the way the bourgeoisie fucks the proletariat;
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Ah well, that's a bummer... This is a plot of some preliminary data from a series of simulations I ran to test some analysis... the curve should show 1 direction
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The outside and the outside view The outside view from rationalism. You try to look at a system from an impersonal perspective, treating yourself as if you were a third
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This “interesting challenge” from @littmath set me off on a very interesting journey. I thought maybe I should share some of what I found on that journey, because I really
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On this day in 1993, our founder, Ivor Bulmer-Thomas died. Just days before, he was working on the repair of our church at Sutterby. A proud Welshman, Ivor changed the
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A couple more thoughts on this bit of advice in response to @extremefriday 's call for suggestions for overhauling her department's math history course.Confining non-Western traditions to the past is
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I'm going to talk a bit about the P vs NP problem generally, though this thread is a nice introduction to the relevant concepts:https://twitter.com/ApproximateJoe/status/1143679674473734147 To get it out of the
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WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY: A THREAD. Several emails from parents of teenagers asking for my take on what I would've done differently, if I knew what I know
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Mathematician John Horton Conway died on Saturday at age 82, reportedly from COVID-19. In “Genius At Play,” @sioroberts’ 2015 biography of Conway, she described him as “somewhere between ‘The Hobbit’s’
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this entire exchange will be the end of me hi pls don’t take my oomfie’s series of tweets seriously of course this is twitter and we’re all having fun
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I’m going to make a Montessori thread today with some of my favorite lessons we have in our room. I’ll try to add some for the younger kiddos too! So
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