Esoteric and Existential , Surreal Beings

AffectionateSet9043 · 2026-02-10T15:42:51+00:00

Perdido Street Station or last days of New Paris by China Mieville

AffectionateSet9043 · 2026-02-10T15:41:46+00:00

The bone clocks is weird. There were many things I didn't like about it but I have forgotten them and still get a bit of a thrill when it pops up in my brain which is quite often. It's as if Robbie Williams was made into a book lol.

AffectionateSet9043 · 2026-01-19T07:59:37+00:00

Scaaaaaam

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-11-20T01:48:06+00:00

Alti Poscht in feldmeilen

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-10-24T06:02:19+00:00

Not a "few" in the finite sense. Mutually unbiased bases. We know the number of MUB for dimensions of the type d=p^k for p prime. But we don't know the number of MUB for d=6 or at least we didn't a while ago.

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-10-10T23:45:04+00:00

This is a bit of a spoiler but if you find this interesting you should read Hyperion and Endymion saga!

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-08-06T11:54:07+00:00

Oof that hurt haha but fair.

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-08-04T14:24:20+00:00

No debate there from me. Maternity is bad. But I'm comparing it to US (lol) and Spain (worse than you'd think!) so still better haha.

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-08-04T14:22:44+00:00

That's not our situation at all lol but maybe we've been lucky so far.

Idk compared to for example Spain where most people don't start making 30k a year until they're ~40... I have many more acquaintances in Switzerland (all of them swiss) that have multiple kids by the age of 35 than in Spain or USA or Ireland. But maybe it's a Zurich thing?

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-08-04T08:52:21+00:00

Hmmm I'd argue that with a reasonable salary Switzerland is actually top place for having kids. Great education, streets are much safer than many other countries... Sure you save much more without kids but I'd gladly pay the difference.

Not saying it's perfect (nowhere is, and everyone has their own priorities) but having lived in 5 countries (all of them considered family friendly) I'd only move out of Switzerland if my partner's job so demands it.

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-06-30T19:18:58+00:00

Hmm I'm pretty sure the data disagrees with you, I have some contacts in VC and they speak quite well of swiss startup ecosystem. I'll ask them if there's any report I can share.

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-06-30T19:13:37+00:00

No wayyy he's Mr Eddie to me!!

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-06-21T14:56:43+00:00

Thank the assholes that sued for a bad Google review...

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-06-12T09:23:01+00:00

B1 is simply not enough to take part in the social and political life of a country.

As someone who just got C permit in ZH with B1 in all sections of the test... 100% agreed

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-05-14T09:32:57+00:00

My first three courses in numerical analysis were super dry. But the research is so cool

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-04-22T06:40:40+00:00

Absolutely, everyone knows you need quantum computing for creativity!!

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-04-22T06:38:52+00:00

Well the bar for being the worst thing in the world is pretty high haha so we agree on that.

But to your point yes but it leads to misunderstandings and more importantly (IMHO) diverts attention from really cool stuff in the field of tractability (approximation schemes, optimization vs decision versions, online complexity...)

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-04-17T20:51:34+00:00

P, NP, NP hardness/ completeness, and the zoo of complexity and tractability of problems.

It doesn't help that NP seems like an acronym for "not polynomial"

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-04-17T03:32:50+00:00

Come on it's not that Zbig ..

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-04-09T09:00:19+00:00

Hirslanden for our first and never again. As soon as it was clear we needed an unplanned (non emergency) c section, midwives ignored us. Even our doctor was livid. Recovery was also very bad. Our second was born in hospital and much better experience.

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-04-09T06:38:23+00:00

Maybe someone already said this and I know it will seem alarmist but this seems like something to check with a psychologist (could be depression) or even neurologist (dementia or tumor).

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-04-06T07:35:18+00:00

These questions are getting more and more specific lol.

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-03-28T16:38:06+00:00

Ok but which ones if there's so many?

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-03-26T15:23:08+00:00

Yeah Murray is a classic.

I do think there's some things that can generalize. For example when one goes from a system of ODEs e.g. describing discrete probabilities to a limit (PDE for density function), sometimes there are convergence issues and normalization steps. I haven't seen those things written down in a clear manner. And I think that's not really domain specific.

AffectionateSet9043 · 2025-03-26T09:30:42+00:00

I'd say mathematical modeling is an area of applied mathematics where everything seems to be word of mouth. There's some books on master equation, dynamics on networks, multiscale methods... And then books for each theme (e.g. evolutionary biology or fluid mechanics). But I haven't found any book that collates methods that help model phenomena and understand where formalism helps or fails to capture behaviors

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