That all depends on what one is actually looking to find in an applicant. If the goal of the question is to actually determine if the interviewee has the ability to research a problem, think it through, and implement…
For the same reason that all you can eat buffets have small plates.
May I ask why? How does one monetize URL shortening, anyway?
Fails to mention (to me) the most interesting aspect of this kind of work: the complexity and scale of these machines is such that although we may not develop more efficient algorithms for intractable problems in the…
Yes, a fact I didn't realize until the section on Goldman Sachs referred to the more favorable levels of risk carried by Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.
"Since texting is usually a binary activity (the texter sends a text for every text they receive) we can guess that Echo writes about 7,000 text messages per month" A huge oversimplification and probably inaccurate.…
I think you're overlooking the real thrust of the situation. Wiles' proof was relatively lengthy and involved, but it can be examined and studied by humans in an extremely reasonable amount of time. It only took three…
It's a clever idea, but as someone who has worked for (and listed as references) supervisors who were extremely flaky, extremely busy, or both, I would never want to judge someone based solely on whether or not their…
"That might have been the end of it, had the files not, as digital files will, leaked onto the Internet." This makes it sound like the tubes were leaky that day and because the files were "digital," they just spread out…
Thanks, this I understand.
I'm embarrassed to say that I have a degree in math but don't really follow the given proof. Can anyone explain it?
I'm having trouble finding the source (it was in the NYTimes a few months ago), but China has also undertaken a pretty sizable PR campaign encouraging people to have daughters to try and address the ridiculously skewed…
I think late night phone calls are a lot more palatable now than they were in the 90s, when phone calls for many people meant loud noises in rooms all over ones home instead of a subtle vibration in ones pocket.
I don't have too much big picture advice given that I'm roughly your age and also somewhat disoriented, but with regards to learning your math: most if not all schools will allow you to take a math placement test to…
Re: my experience with math instructors, you're probably right. I do think that there's a certain sort of base level of application information that should be imparted with any given mathematical topic (for instance,…
"I already have plenty of things to read/do when my mind does need a wonder in the evening/weekend" -- for many people, especially those in their 20s who came of age using Facebook, Myspace, AIM, etc, one of those…
I have to respectfully disagree with you. It's true that there is a large group of kids who would be better served if their teachers focused more on applications; however, I think that there's an equally large (if not…
This was somewhat buried in the article, and it deserves repetition: "In many countries, math has long been recognized as a tough subject that can be mastered through hard work, said Tom Loveless, a scholar at the…
Gearing the site towards women is all well and good, but I can tell you right now that your suggestion of using "she" and "her" on the front page will offend. If you want to cater to women, do it by changing your…
As a student of applied mathematics I pretty much agree with the gist of this post, although I'm not entirely sure what it means to "understand the math" of a field if you don't understand the concepts (or, to be…
Very, very interesting. My first concern when I saw this site was concerning no-shows and late arrivals -- I know many doctor's offices are forced to double book appointments and therefore run extremely late, simply to…
Is this really not satire? "Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more…
You can easily model something like this with regular old ordinary differential equations in Mathematica or MATLAB. The hard part would be gathering the data to design realistic equations.
That all depends on what one is actually looking to find in an applicant. If the goal of the question is to actually determine if the interviewee has the ability to research a problem, think it through, and implement…
For the same reason that all you can eat buffets have small plates.
May I ask why? How does one monetize URL shortening, anyway?
Fails to mention (to me) the most interesting aspect of this kind of work: the complexity and scale of these machines is such that although we may not develop more efficient algorithms for intractable problems in the…
Yes, a fact I didn't realize until the section on Goldman Sachs referred to the more favorable levels of risk carried by Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.
"Since texting is usually a binary activity (the texter sends a text for every text they receive) we can guess that Echo writes about 7,000 text messages per month" A huge oversimplification and probably inaccurate.…
I think you're overlooking the real thrust of the situation. Wiles' proof was relatively lengthy and involved, but it can be examined and studied by humans in an extremely reasonable amount of time. It only took three…
It's a clever idea, but as someone who has worked for (and listed as references) supervisors who were extremely flaky, extremely busy, or both, I would never want to judge someone based solely on whether or not their…
"That might have been the end of it, had the files not, as digital files will, leaked onto the Internet." This makes it sound like the tubes were leaky that day and because the files were "digital," they just spread out…
Thanks, this I understand.
I'm embarrassed to say that I have a degree in math but don't really follow the given proof. Can anyone explain it?
I'm having trouble finding the source (it was in the NYTimes a few months ago), but China has also undertaken a pretty sizable PR campaign encouraging people to have daughters to try and address the ridiculously skewed…
I think late night phone calls are a lot more palatable now than they were in the 90s, when phone calls for many people meant loud noises in rooms all over ones home instead of a subtle vibration in ones pocket.
I don't have too much big picture advice given that I'm roughly your age and also somewhat disoriented, but with regards to learning your math: most if not all schools will allow you to take a math placement test to…
Re: my experience with math instructors, you're probably right. I do think that there's a certain sort of base level of application information that should be imparted with any given mathematical topic (for instance,…
"I already have plenty of things to read/do when my mind does need a wonder in the evening/weekend" -- for many people, especially those in their 20s who came of age using Facebook, Myspace, AIM, etc, one of those…
I have to respectfully disagree with you. It's true that there is a large group of kids who would be better served if their teachers focused more on applications; however, I think that there's an equally large (if not…
This was somewhat buried in the article, and it deserves repetition: "In many countries, math has long been recognized as a tough subject that can be mastered through hard work, said Tom Loveless, a scholar at the…
Gearing the site towards women is all well and good, but I can tell you right now that your suggestion of using "she" and "her" on the front page will offend. If you want to cater to women, do it by changing your…
As a student of applied mathematics I pretty much agree with the gist of this post, although I'm not entirely sure what it means to "understand the math" of a field if you don't understand the concepts (or, to be…
Very, very interesting. My first concern when I saw this site was concerning no-shows and late arrivals -- I know many doctor's offices are forced to double book appointments and therefore run extremely late, simply to…
Is this really not satire? "Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more…
You can easily model something like this with regular old ordinary differential equations in Mathematica or MATLAB. The hard part would be gathering the data to design realistic equations.