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I have done a fair amount of programming together with mathematicians. Now I am even teaching some high school kids coming from a mathematics background how to program. Most of these people format their code so hideously it's hard to believe. I've even...
Started by marcog on
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Other than that, mathematicians are usually disorganized on many aspects of life.....
I guess that mathematicians of code often, so they tend not to value structure.
If they are failing at style, they are failing in general, IMO .
To teach.
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My client has a server that is being subjected to brute-force login attempts from a botnet. Due to the vagaries of the server and the client's client, we can't easily block the attempts through a firewall, port change, or login account name change.
The...
Started by Porks on
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by 12 people.
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The....
Something to consider: if you have a password that doesn't change, and the brute force attacks are testing a universe of passwords that includes yours, the brute force attack is guaranteed to hit eventually and you will remain vulnerable after that .
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Anyone got a good explanation of "combinators" (Y-combinators etc. and NOT the company)
I'm looking for one for the practical programmer who understands recursion and higher-order functions, but doesn't have a strong theory or math background.
(Note that...
Started by interstar on
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by 9 people.
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I gave what I think is a pretty good and reasonably short explanation of the Y-combinator on the Boston Perlmongers... .
This is a good article:
http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/WhyOfY.pdf
The code examples are in scheme, but they shouldn't be hard to follow .
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The Most Underappreciated Mathematicians Of All Time
I was thinking this morning about all of the talented mathematicians that get short shrift, if any shrift at all. Of all the guys and gals that come to mind, for my money, Fibonacci and Emmy Noether...
Started by Patrick1000 on
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by 10 people.
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Well, it's unlikely: : (Post 7991817) How many mathematicians....
How many mathematicians do you hear about in pop culture at all? How many non-mathematicians are looking for examples who even professional mathematicians rarely heard of...
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Great mathematicians? who is great in mathematics in these aryabhatta or ramanujam or archimedes or newton or euclid
Started by Ajay on
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Panini is known as "Indian Euclid"...
Euclid is considered as the greatest mathematician.
To name a few, we can say Isaac Newton.
mathematicians...who made their own great contributions to the field.
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I got the idea for this thread from an interview that Larry Swedroe just posted.
I was getting a PhD right about the time that "rocket scientists" first caught the attention of Wall Street (early 1990s). At the time, I never seriously considered that ...
Started by baw703916 on
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There were a number of mathematicians / scientists of mathematicians / scientists /....
mathematicians die, but mathematics to run the models and exploit the inefficiencies.
And being a part of something vastly bigger than yourself .
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Started by antonfire on
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Dear Mathematicians,
At what point in the development of your mathematical skillset do you begin.
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Under which situation would you end up with more money:
a.) $3,000 a month for fifteen years starting today
b.) 0$ a month for fifteen years then $1,500/month for 25 years. "Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." -- John Wayne
Started by iaxestupidquestions on
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- TJ
TJ....
(assuming no interest would be paid) When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty .
If I understand the question, the a) result would be 540000 and the b) result would be 450000 .
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Greetings... It's been a while since I've been around here, work has been hectic and kept me on the road much of the last 6 months.
Now I have a question way off-topic for the forum, but I'm hopeful of finding an answer from our community of engineers...
Started by lynnr on
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by 10 people.
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Do you have any known values at this point? Assuming you're looking for xc and yx, you can get the radius by using r = a*sin([180-A]/2)... .
I'm a bit confused.
Is there more than just the standard of 2+2 = 5 ?
If so, sorry, I can't help ya... .
Dua Yea....
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We have a functional body for statistician/mathematician in nigerian, join the body and lay the complaints there for a start. i believe nigeria will be driven to greater height by the use of our knowlege.
Started by cessienboy on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at nairaland):
On November 07, 2011, 06:36 PM we have a functional body for statistician/mathematician in nigerian, join.
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