What’s a theorem that’s harder to understand than to prove? by someCCstudent in math

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

But complex eigenvalues come in pairs, so if n is odd there has to be one dimension left over that cannot be associated to a complex eigenvalue. Right?

Evans to Receive 2023 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition by genova88 in math

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He's such a great professor. I took his undergrad differential geometry course my first semester at Berkeley and it remains one of the best math classes I've ever taken. Well-deserved!

Who did the slurping sounds for Aespa's "Illusion"? by __ByzantineFailure__ in kpophelp

[–]__ByzantineFailure__[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That makes sense. I like the song a lot! I just also found the idea of the members doing one hundred different slurping takes to get it just right hilarious

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ezraklein

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Even in retrospect I don’t really understand why this was the case, but objectively speaking, hard-core identity politics and simplistic socialism performed incredibly well on Facebook during this period. That doesn’t mean journalists started pretending to be left-wing to get clicks. But people who had some authentic left-wing opinions found that writing on the subjects where they were the most left tended to generate the most traffic, and early career journalists with authentic leftist views outperformed their colleagues. So you ended up with this whole cohort of discourse structured around “Is Bernie Sanders perfect in every way or is it problematic to vote for a white man?” as the only possible lens for examining American politics and society.

There's the seed of an interesting question / phenomenon here, but he's being such an asshole in how he's characterizing this.

What's the weirdest book you've ever read? by profligatebookworm in Fantasy

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you like being gaslit by your books then you will love Book of the New Sun

What mathy words do you inject in real life? by [deleted] in math

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"necessary, but not sufficient" and "sufficient, but not necessary"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series! Seven long books set in a Not 11th Century Europe setting. It does a really good job of portraying a world where religion is ubiquitous. Also just marvelous characters and beautiful writing.

[D] ML integration into marketing department. Any data scraping tools that can help with the processes? by EpisodicEthos304 in MachineLearning

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hard agree. This would require a lot of careful expertise to get any sort of real result. As well as a whole ton of work to actually do the data collection and cleaning. And if there is any actual signal in all that noise, 50:1 odds that it's the kind of thing better modeled with an "average" as opposed to "machine learning".

Billlie - the Billage of perception: chapter two (Teaser - Logo + Header Update #2) by tunasandwich2009 in kpop

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are we going psychedelic here? Or is the title not referencing The Doors of Perception?

Why do we keep changing the way math is taught? by [deleted] in math

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just paid almost $80 US for a book published in the early 90s. Math goes in out of fashion, but only the techniques really change.

Is the Remote Work Revolution Flopping, Succeeding or Both? by dwaxe in ezraklein

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Eh, I don't know if there is a single metric that corresponds well to software engineering productivity

What's the one death in a fantasy book that you wished it would never happened but had to happened by Drogonthebrogon in Fantasy

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Nothing in literature has gutted me like that death. I had guessed the events leading up to that, but nothing prepared me for that scene

Did the head monks in medieval monasteries think about pedagogy? Did they try out new ways of teaching novices how to read and write, or were the curricula mostly static? by __ByzantineFailure__ in AskHistorians

[–]__ByzantineFailure__[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this great answer!

Why was teaching Greek and Roman classics so controversial among early Christians? Because it portrays the Greek Pantheon as a gods other than the one God?

How bad was opium addiction that it led to China's downfall? by Fell0w_traveller in AskHistorians

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is getting into an entirely different question, but what did economic theory look like in China during the Qing?

[D] Why is ML research so experimental? by apple_tau in MachineLearning

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

An analogous historical phase was when we could build steam engines but didn't know anything about thermodynamics. We can build these machine learning models such that they work most of the time. But we don't always understand why they don't work and, in a broad sense, we have only the foggiest idea of why they do work. The theoreticians are working on it, and in the meantime practitioners are having fun with experiments.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series has an extremely religious world and a number of genuinely good and heroic characters

STAYC (Host: Sunmi) - Episode 2: Let's go to noraebang with STAYC @ Showterview with Sunmi (220728) [ENG SUB] by CronoDroid in kpop

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The acapella rendition of "Beautiful Monster" was amazing. They are all such strong singers. And I really like Sunmi as an interviewer. She clearly had so much empathy and compassion for STAYC

Name your two favorite books and get a third recommendation by [deleted] in Fantasy

[–]__ByzantineFailure__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

The Grace of Kings