ducttapecrown

Joined 10 years ago

Karma
370
Submissions
208
Member since
Apr 21
mathematician looking for work on the west coast
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
I feel like LLM's will change advertising like internet search changed advertising.

Here "like" means similarly in magnitude, not direction. If I could predict the future etc.

Comment · 8 months ago
It is not the technology that sucks ever more money out of the populace, it's the people at the top!
Comment · 8 months ago
NYTimes competing with NYTimesPitchBot for funnier headlines, I see. What a bizarre and awesome piece of science. I like crystals for the miracle of uncountable numbers of atoms transferring symmetry from the smallest scale to the visible scale.
Comment · 8 months ago
It's mentioned in the article that the chimpanzees only relinquished the crystals in exchange for many bananas, so it seems they're more into crystals...
Comment · 8 months ago
This is just a general pattern: applied mathematicians are often using things pure mathematicians haven't proved to be true yet. The examples are widespread for the generalized Riemann hypothesis. There are statements we aren't sure about, but there's also a lot that we are sure about but not sure about the proof of.
Comment · 9 months ago
Can you list some better books for those of us who liked Le Guin and are interested in what could be better?
Comment · 10 months ago
The dots need to be the vertices of equilateral triangles for the Voronoi diagram to be hexagons, the above is a rectangular grid rotated 45 degrees.

You can overlay a regular hexagonal tessellation over a regular triangular tessellation to see this.

Comment · 10 months ago
Location: Seattle

Remote: US time zones

Willing to relocate: to SF

Technologies: math, English, Python

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YlO2X6hwkPyf-CkdWparf7Tfle_...

Email: samdeclanla {at} gmail.com

Mathematician, want to work on AI. You only need to double my salary as a Ph.D. student and I'm on board lol.

Comment · 11 months ago
Why is the scrolling janky?
Comment · 11 months ago
Terry Tao is writing about this on his blog.
Comment · 11 months ago
The bull case is that everyone losing their jobs will accelerate and bring about the socialist revolution, giving us universal basic income and universal healthcare.
Comment · 1 year ago
How long did it take for mobile repair shops to proliferate? Surely solar repair shops will also appear.
Comment · 1 year ago
It reads more like mysticism than a serious claim of novelty, chill out.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton