seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Interviewing Brian Cox in an hour. Any questions from here?
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seycombi | 9 years ago | on: [REMINDER] UCBerkeley Content Unavailable Beginning March 15, 2017
There are several previous discussions. The oldest one appears to be this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856
This post is just a reminder, in case you want to use this weekend to get some courses.
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: [Video Lecture] Steven Skiena: CSE373 Analysis of Algorithms
notes, etc: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/373/
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: [Video Lecture] Steven Skiena: CSE519 Data Science
notes, etc: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/519/
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Why Quantum Computers Cannot Work I – Prof. Gil Kalai
Gil Kalai and Scott Aaronson should debate this (and put the video on the internet).
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Einstein's Letter to President Roosevelt – 1939
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: We have broken SHA-1 in practice
>...That means Git and unknown number of other widely used services that rely on SHA1 have THREE MONTHS to wean themselves and their users off the insecure function
https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/at-deaths-door-for-...
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (v0.3) [pdf]
Video lectures with this textbook at "Online Cryptography Course" https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/courses/OnlineCrypto/
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Scientists unveil new form of matter: time crystals
Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08057
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem, Proof Sketch
From same youtube
Impossible Programs (The Halting Problem) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGLQiHXHWNk
Math's Existential Crisis (Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrKLy4VN-7k
Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem, Proof Sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svOTZEbj3ys
Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem, Proof Sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fvkbvWaRPk
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: When intuition and math probably look wrong (2010)
Argument by Gary Foshee
"My solution was based on set theory. Look at the entire set of all families with two children. Then look at a subset: those with two boys. Then look at another subset: those with a boy born on Tuesday. If you look at it that way, then 13/27 is the correct answer."
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: When intuition and math probably look wrong (2010)
Best advice (in general not just this particular problem) I heard was by Joe Blitzstein (Harvard): Practice, practice, practice.
Much of statistics/probability is about pattern recognition, and developing pattern recognition requires lots of practice.
I enjoyed and learned a lot from his Harvard course Statistics 110: Probability
Video Lectures http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/youtube
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Soft Weight-Sharing for Neural Network Compression
Soft Weight-Sharing for Neural Network Compression - Karen Ullrich, Edward Meeds, Max Welling (13 Feb 2017) https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04008
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe (RI, David Tong)
Cambridge Lecture (videos) on Quantum Field Theory by David Tong http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft.html
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Daniel Kahneman Admits Priming Studies are Underpowered
TL;DR
>> We computed the R-Index for studies cited in Chapter 4 of Kahneman’s book “Thinking Fast and Slow.” This chapter focuses on priming studies. The results are eye-opening and jaw-dropping. The chapter cites 12 articles and 11 of the 12 articles have an R-Index below 50. This result confirms Kahneman’s prediction that priming research is a train wreck and readers of his book “Thinking Fast and Slow” should not consider the presented studies as scientific evidence that subtle cues in their environment can have strong effects on their behavior outside their awareness.
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Disney severs ties with YouTube star PewDiePie over antisemitic videos
ongoing discussion @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13642113
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Big Picture of Calculus (2010) [video]
If you want to get into the details of Calculus
Professor Leonard https://www.youtube.com/user/professorleonard57
Herbert Gross MIT Calculus Revisited: Multivariable Calculus https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1C22D4DED943EF7B
Herbert Gross MIT Calculus Revisited: Calculus of Complex Variables https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD971E94905A70448
Herbert Gross MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3B08AE665AB9002A
MIT 18.02 Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2007 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4C4C8A7D06566F38
MIT 18.02SC: Homework Help for Multivariable Calculus https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF07555F3CC669D01
MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2006 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL590CCC2BC5AF3BC1
MIT 18.01SC: Homework Help for Single Variable Calculus https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL21BCE50ABFF029F1
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Donald Trump 'Trigger Event' Could Send Microsoft Soaring
relevant: the Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13613826
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Public Must Fight against Prism and Tempora Surveillance (2013)
a good place to start https://www.privacytools.io/
seycombi | 9 years ago | on: Neural network trained to solve quantum mechanical problems
Solving the Quantum Many-Body Problem with Artificial Neural Networks - Giuseppe Carleo, Matthias Troyer (2016) https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02318
Some scientists argue that “if a theory is sufficiently elegant and explanatory, it need not be tested experimentally”. Where does prof. Cox stand on this issue?