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helsing.ai 1y ago

Helsing and Mistral announce strategic partnership in defence AI

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www.galoisrepresentations.com 5y ago

Ramanujan Machine Redux

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samcurry.net 6y ago

Hacking Starbucks and Accessing Nearly 100M Customer Records

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ascmag.com 6y ago

Virtual Cinematography for the Mandalorian, Using Unreal

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Startups That Launched at YC's W19 Demo Day 1

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www.abelprize.no 7y ago

2019 Abel Prize to Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck

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inference-review.com 7y ago

A Crisis of Identification

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lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com 7y ago

Medical AI Safety: Doing It Wrong

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www.candyjapan.com 7y ago

Candy Japan 2018 Year in Review

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www.wired.com 7y ago

The Future of Crime-Fighting Is Family Tree Forensics

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github.com 7y ago

UnCaptcha2

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Remembering the startups we lost in 2018

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www.reddit.com 7y ago

Training on the test set? An analysis of Spampinato et al

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www.wired.com 7y ago

Self-driving cars and advertisement

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

From Airbnb to city bikes, the ‘sharing economy’ has been seized by big money

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venturebeat.com 7y ago

Google’s Duplex is rolling out to Pixel owners – here’s how it works

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Google matrix: fundamentals, applications and beyond (conference videos)

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

SoftBank Deal Values Food Startup Zume at $2.25B

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www.technologyreview.com 7y ago

Video doorbell firm Ring says its devices slash crime, but evidence looks flimsy

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blog.ycombinator.com 7y ago

YC October 2018 Hackathon Recap

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blog.acolyer.org 7y ago

Rosetta: large scale system for text detection and recognition in images

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Lenovo’s Yoga Book C930 swaps the keyboard for an E Ink display

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code.fb.com 7y ago

Facebook and NYU School of Medicine launch research collaboration to improve MRI

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (2004)

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blog.picnic.nl 7y ago

Hyperloop for grocery delivery by Picnic

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www.quantamagazine.org 7y ago

2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

The 2018 Fields Medals Go to Birkar, Figalli, Scholze and Venkatesh

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lwn.net 7y ago

Deep learning and free software

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www.technologyreview.com 8y ago

35 Innovators Under 35, 2018 edition

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www.underglass.io 8y ago

Underglass: An analysis of the world's best digital products

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Commenting as a mathematician who sometimes uses the Bourbaki books as reference for research: this is probably not a good idea. These books have a very dry style and in particular rarely contain detailed examples, motivation for definitions, or intuition for theorems.

They are great for reference if you already know the subject, but if you want to learn something, you'd be better off using introductory textbooks for the various fields you're interested in. I'm happy to make recommendations, and you can also look up syllabi for math undergrad at Stanford, Princeton, etc.

The company is based in Switzerland and is French speaking. Any chance "AdVite" means something different in French?

No, it doesn't mean something different in French.

As a professional mathematician, I see it the same way a musician views musical notation. Sure, writing the name of each note on the stave would be easier to read at first, but the seemingly complex notation then allows for a much quicker understanding (see how talented pianists can sight read very complicated scores; I doubt this could be possible with a more verbose notation). Similarly, I have no trouble parsing (correctly written) LaTeX mentally.

I feel that the author saying LaTeX is bad because it is (in particular) not based on a GUI/point-and-click system, and preferring Microsoft Equation Editor/Outline to it, reveals a big misunderstanding.

I also don't see how Mathematica's notation is any better; I view it as way worse.

Postdoc Myths 7 years ago

This is exactly one of the points raised in the text. Non-TT assistant professorships are indeed postdocs, which often come with more teaching load than other fellowship-based postdocs. This is for example the case of the "Hills Assistant professorship" at Rutgers

Postdoc Myths 7 years ago

This is so simply not true, or highly subfield-dependent. Unless you are a superstar, there is no way you get a TT job without a postdoc in math.