Daniel McLaury

@divbyzero@mathstodon.xyz I was surprised by this statement, and then I read more carefully and saw that this is not f(x) = exp(x) - log(x), but rather f(x, y) = exp(x) - log(y), and at that point it's totally obvious. By setting y = 1 you recover the exponential function. By setting x = 0 you get 1 - log(y), which you can play around with a bit to extract log(y). And then you have exponentials and logs and subtraction and that's obviously enough to give you everything.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @rebane2001@infosec.exchange I'm certainly no expert on this topic, but my understanding is that unicode is just the assignment of codepoints to characters, and that there are all sorts of different unicode encodings such as utf-8 and utf-32. So perhaps in principle the thing you're describing would already be a legal unicode encoding if you just give it a designated name. (Disclaimer: as I said I have no idea what I'm talking about here.)

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz @mansr@society.oftrolls.com So what I'm taking away from this is that we need someone to get a bucket of sand and a cattle prod and start cataloguing what happens?

@isaackuo @romeu Actually he may have a point.

@robpike@hachyderm.io I've read all of your books but this is my first time realizing you're British

@dperkins What do you mean by "played together nicely"? There are cases where mathematicians tried to have other mathematicians killed by Stalin to take their jobs, of course, but have there been actual cases of mathematicians deliberately advancing arguments they knew (or suspected) to be false?

@tao@mathstodon.xyz This is how it's always been, right? Hilbert is far better known than any of the people who solved Hilbert's problems. (Except maybe Nash, due to a movie that doesn't even mention that aspect of his life as far as I recall.)

@oschene I want an FMV version where we see a clay tablet and the individual strokes being added or erased by hand.

@counting_is_hard Can we just appreciate how bad an example of teaching this is? Cramming a major result into the last minute of class, ignoring the questions of the lone student who's even *kind* of understanding what she's saying. Just tell the students to read it out of the textbook at that point.

@brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange "404 Media reported the FBI has pulled deleted Signal message text out of that database using standard forensic tools." How? It seems like that would either involve the sender sending plaintext to the Google servers, or else the receiver decrypting the message and then sending the plaintext to a Google server in order to create a notification on the same phone that just decrypted the message. Is Signal doing one of those things?

@stux@mstdn.social "What's the charge for being pushed from a moving vehicle, jaywalking?"

@mansr@society.oftrolls.com @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Technically everything is "the result of an event that *could* occur without a human in sight."