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Был в обсерватории ГАИШ, наблюдал Луну, Юпитер (Каллисто, Ио, Европу, Ганимед) и Уран! Впечатлений масса, мой ноут и stellarium пригодились
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A regular lightbulb isn’t “incoherent”; it just depends on how fast you look. At, 10⁻¹⁶ s → you see clean EM waves 10⁻¹⁴ s → perfect interference patterns 10⁻⁶ s → classic messy bulb light Coherence isn’t a property of source; it’s timescale.
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These 5 codebases taught me more than my CS degree:
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GPUs process thousands of pixels in parallel, but what happens when we write a single pixel to the framebuffer? How is it done? Watch a CPU paint each pixel in this amazing RISC-V visual simulator (load the bitmap example): eseo-tech.github.io/emulsiV/
Roadmap: Understanding GPU Architecture from Cornell cvw.cac.cornell.edu/gpu-arch…
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To understand SIMD, start with memory organization. Algorithmica nails it - again. en.algorithmica.org/hpc/cpu-…
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He was taught a bitter lesson on adulthood
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[Download 698-page PDF eBook] Everything You Always Wanted To Know About #Mathematics* (*But didn’t even know to ask) A Guided Journey Into the World of Abstract Mathematics, Theorems, and the Writing of Proofs: math.cmu.edu/~jmackey/151_12…
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Calculus in short
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How LLMs Really Do Arithmetic

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Lagrangian standard model. The longest equation in math and physics. [bityl.co/NHzh]
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Vector differential operators in Cartesian coordinates #maths #calculus #Physics #Eeanimation
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Proof that i^i is a real number
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“High-Dimensional #Probability — An Introduction with Applications in #DataScience”, by Roman Vershynin UPDATED 339-page PDF 2nd Edition here: math.uci.edu/~rvershyn/paper… + Author's website: math.uci.edu/~rvershyn/paper… ———— #Statistics #Optimization #MachineLearning #Mathematics
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This is a clip of a video by Alan Becker. Full video can be found here: youtu.be/B1J6Ou4q8vE
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"Pen and Paper Exercises in #MachineLearning" Download 211-page PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2206.13446 Author’s GitHub: github.com/michaelgutmann/ml… ————— #DataScientist #AI #ML #DataScience
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Supercomputing for AI - Foundations, Architectures, and Scaling Deep Learning. [804-page masterpiece] Read it online: jorditorresbcn.github.io/sup… Buy it: amzn.to/4qS4pFz GitHub repo: github.com/jorditorresBCN/su…
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116 years of Barnard's Star: 1940 to 2056. Proper motion and parallax are visible. The field of view is ~ as wide as the full Moon. #astronomy
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Mathematics and Logic Symbols ✍️ Quantifiers and Sets: ∀ - For all (universal quantifier) ∃ - There exists (existential quantifier) ∈ - Element of ∉ - Not element of ⊂ - Subset of ⊆ - Subset or equal ⊇ - Superset or equal ⊄ - Not a subset of ∪ - Union ∩ - Intersection ∪̸ - Not a subset ∅ - Empty set ∖ - Set difference Logical Operators: ⇒ - Implies ⇔ - If and only if (equivalence) ∧ - Logical AND ∨ - Logical OR ¬ - Negation ⊤ - True ⊥ - False ⊕ - Exclusive OR (XOR) → - Conditional implication ≡ - Equivalent Numbers and Constants: ℕ - Set of natural numbers ℤ - Set of integers ℚ - Set of rational numbers ℝ - Set of real numbers ℂ - Set of complex numbers ∞ - Infinity π - Pi e - Euler’s number Operations and Relations: ∑ - Summation ∏ - Product √ - Square root |x| - Absolute value of x Δ - Change/difference ∇ - Gradient ⊗ - Tensor product ≤ - Less than or equal to ≥ - Greater than or equal to ≠ - Not equal to ≈ - Approximately equal ∝ - Proportional to Geometric Symbols: ∡ - Angle ⊥ - Perpendicular ∥ - Parallel Reasoning and Statements: ∴ - Therefore ∵ - Because
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I’m 54, a physicist, have spent decades using mathematics to study the universe, solve problems, and build things. If your work touches numbers, now or in the future, and you want to learn math properly, this thread shows a from-the-ground-up math you’ll actually need:
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