Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

The artistic instrument that enables the ultimate art: coding, See also: Section "The art of programming".

Much more useful than instruments used in inferior arts, such as pianos or paintbrushes.

Unlike other humans, computers are mindless slaves that do exactly what they are told to, except for occasional cosmic ray bit flips. Until they take over the world that is.

Subcase of symmetric multilinear map:

Requires the two inputs $x$ and $y$ to be in the same vector space of course.

The most important example is the dot product, which is also a positive definite symmetric bilinear form.

A branch of mathematics that attempts to prove stuff about computers.

Unfortunately, all software engineers already know the answer to the useful theorems though (except perhaps notably for cryptography), e.g. all programmers obviously know that iehter P != NP or that this is unprovable or some other "for all practical purposes practice P != NP", even though they don't have proof.

And 99% of their time, software engineers are not dealing with mathematically formulatable problems anyways, which is sad.

The only useful "computer science" subset every programmer ever needs to know is:

Funnily, due to the formalization of mathematics, mathematics can be seen as a branch of computer science, just like computer science can be seen as a branch of Mathematics!

An algebra over a field where division exists.

DNA amplification is one of the key DNA technologies:

The first found and most important known epigenetic marker.

Happens only on adenine and cytosine. Adenine methylation is much less common in mammal than cytosine methylation, when people say "methylation" they often mean just cytosine methylation.

It often happens on promoters, where it inhibits transcription.

Vs SQL SERIALIZABLE isolation level on PostgreSQL: dba.stackexchange.com/questions/284744/postgres-repeatable-read-vs-serializable

nodejs/sequelize/raw/parallel_create_delete_empty_tag.js is an example which experimentally seems to be solved by REAPEATABLE READ, although we are not sure that this is truly the case and why. What is clear is that that example is not solved by the SQL READ COMMITTED isolation level.

In PostgreSQL, this is the first isolation level which can lead to postgreSQL serialization failures, this does not happen to SQL READ COMMITTED isolation level in that DBMS. You then have to retry the transaction.

Ciro Santilli's definition, key characteristics:

One of the most simply classification algorithm one can think of: just see whatever kind of point your new point seems to be closer to, and say it is also of that type! Then it is just a question of defining "close".

Scikit-learn implementation scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/neighbors/plot_classification.html at python/sklearn/knn.py