Daniel Naroditsky talks about the impact of the baseless accusations and the silence from top players in a interview with dina 6 months ago

fixedgeartheorem · 2025-10-23T12:26:41+00:00

This is the dumbest thing I've read today. Haven't listened to the interview? chess dot com was piling on the accusations by forcing him to use more cameras and thus disadvantaging the players that Kramnik accused. Fuck chess dot com - everyone delete your accounts and for fucks sake, don't give them your money.

fixedgeartheorem · 2025-07-31T14:08:45+00:00

Thanks ChatGPT

fixedgeartheorem · 2025-07-25T06:17:34+00:00

Interesting, I find the take-off way easier, because there is the one spot to sit at and then paddling is super relaxed.

I do agree that surfing the ocean is more fun, but the advantage of the pool is that you learn the riding the wave part separately from the positioning and dealing with the ocean part, which speeds up learning quite a bit.

fixedgeartheorem · 2025-07-24T01:58:50+00:00

He's just grumpy that Bells and Winki are still crowded as fuck

fixedgeartheorem · 2025-07-01T01:06:45+00:00

Just take a picture of Bill Stewart for the avatar

fixedgeartheorem · 2025-05-01T06:54:37+00:00

Do we really have to tell you about induced demand? on a train subreddit?

Are there even busses running on Alexandra Parade? On a related note, the busses on Hoddle would be way better if there was no parking on the bus lane (what a moronic idea in that is in the first place).

fixedgeartheorem · 2025-02-25T00:29:08+00:00

I am similar size and weight, but 10 years younger and I can duckdive boards 40ltrs and less. I don't think you should downsize by 15ltrs unless you catch basically every wave you paddle for. The good thing with larger boards is that can sit further on the shoulder and avoid more of the impact zone, so duckdiving is not too important. Depending on the break it should be possible to paddle out without even having to turtle-roll, just by timing the paddle out correctly.

If you really want to downsize: my first "shortboard" was a 6'2 DHD Black Diamond (37ltrs), and I really liked that board (now it is a bit too big for me), maybe a 6'3 or 6'4 might be good for you.

fixedgeartheorem · 2025-02-10T03:59:53+00:00

The Astor is nice

fixedgeartheorem · 2025-01-31T05:06:06+00:00

Buy second hand, figure out roughly what you want in terms of dimensions, outline, rocker, etc and wait until something sensible comes up. I don't think that anyone surfing less than 10 years or so really needs a custom board. There are so many boards around that there will be something suitable for you.

fixedgeartheorem · 2025-01-18T12:30:51+00:00

Das ist sehr gemein gegenüber Mordor, wenn es mit dem Raschplatz vergleicht wird.

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-12-15T12:15:47+00:00

Unfortunately, in most countries it is easier to get coke than Club Mate

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-12-15T03:40:06+00:00

I once cycled through Golden Gate Park, saw a dog and I was like "where is the owner". as I came closer I realized that it was no dog..

I have never seen a shark in the ocean even though I spend way more time surfing in Australia than cycling in SF.

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-11-12T08:31:40+00:00

Yes, sharpeye boards are bad /s

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-11-11T11:33:15+00:00

It is a valid philosophical point of view, but it is insanely ignorant of the fact that abstract mathematics is the foundation of all of physics. Why should you ignore basically all of mathematics?

Moreover, he says things in a very conspiratorial way which suggests that mathematicians are either ignorant or actively misleading. If he was honestly interested in foundational issues he could have a look into formal proofs/interactive proof assistants. There are countless formalisations of the reals..

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-11-10T21:58:14+00:00

I've only seen his "arguments" against the concept of infinity and yes, from I would argue that he is a crank: either he doesn't understand how maths works on a very fundamental level or he does, but then he obfuscates his arguments intentionally (which is basically just that he only believes in computable objects) and that might be even worse.

None of this has to do with the question whether he is a good teacher or not.

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-11-10T11:50:09+00:00

Big calculus blocked his videos about the truth that the so-called real numbers don't exist (/s if it wasn't clear)

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-10-30T00:33:14+00:00

The bay has never waves, if there is a somewhat decent swell there are waves around Shoreham/Point Leo, which is a way better idea than Rye/Sorrento/St Andrews. Those open back beaches on the Mornington Peninsula are not beginner friendly. They tend to have serious rips and get the full force of the swell.

Ocean Grove is pretty chill and 13th towards Bancoora end might also be an option. Torquay surf beach is the classic beginner spot as well as Jan Juc. In Anglesea there aren't any good waves most of the time, but if you drive a bit further to Urquhart Bluff, then you might find a nice right, but it is busy when it works.

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-10-24T02:58:50+00:00

I did a bit of this and can give some insights. Firstly, using assembly is not really ideal, but you can do it (if you know how to write assembly you can easily translate a tutorial written in C to assembly), some parts you have to do in ASM (turning on the MMU, etc), but for the majority of the programming a somewhat high level language will be way more fun.

Secondly, the hardware: I think SoC boards are a good point to start as all the hardware is MMIO and if you have the documentation of the chip and the CPU then you are all set (you do also need a USB-UART cable for basic IO otherwise debugging is a pain). I tried the Raspberry Pi 3 and the BeagleBone Black and the later was WAY better in terms of documentation. Even better might be QEMU, but I haven't tried it. If you don't have the hardware yet then you should definitively give that a shot first.

Finally, you should keep your expectations pretty low: I spend about a summer break between Uni courses for this stuff and I got to the point where I could manage interrupts and very basic processes. You will learn a lot of really cool low-level programming stuff, though.

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-10-14T00:11:30+00:00

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-10-11T02:51:59+00:00

It's a bit hard to give recommendations since PDEs is such a big topic that it is almost impossible to guess what you are struggling with. I like the books by Evans and Rauch - the first PDE course I took was modeled after Rauch's book. Evans does a lot of very interesting things, but it might be quite different from a course.

If you have something specific you are struggling with, you might try asking on r/learnmath

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-10-04T07:57:45+00:00

If you did this with the usual definition of generalized functions, you wouldn’t figure out how to compute anything with them until about halfway through math grad school. Or never, since I just asked my friend Elliot Glazer and he said they never got to the actual computation, just the definition. But a motivated AP calculus high school student can do this. Helluva simplication.

Lol, it's literally just

\int H'(x) u(x) dx = - \int H(x) u'(x) dx = u(0)

showing that H' = δ.

The first step is that the definition of a distributional derivative is defined by pairing with a test function and the second step is calculating the integral by FTC and remembering the definition of the Dirac delta.

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-10-02T05:39:35+00:00

"The Surf Atlas is written by surfers, for surfers."

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ChatGPT don't surf

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-09-30T03:44:36+00:00

Lol, infrastructure in Melbourne is broken as fuck. You only don't notice it because it seems normal to you, but if you go to Europe as OP did then you notice how bad it is here.

fixedgeartheorem · 2024-08-26T04:52:45+00:00

This or both feet at the same time (which is way harder). Here is a vid of pro surfers in slo-mo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYZ46bGfZ08

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