Matthew Saltzman
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Matthew Saltzman
@SaltzmanMJ
Professor of Math Sciences at Clemson Univ.. President of COIN-OR Foundation, Inc. Operations research, computation, software design, Linux, public affairs.
Clemson SC USA Присоединился Mayıs 2011
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In 1997, a tiny nation made a decision that shocked the world.
Now, they produce 2X more tech graduates than other developed nations.
While others debate AI in schools, one country is building the future.
Here's their revolutionary approach:
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I read Google's paper about their quantum computer so you don't have to.
They claim to have ran a quantum computation in 5 minutes that would take a normal computer 10^25 years.
But what was that computation? Does it live up to the hype?
I will break it down.🧵
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We inherited our citizenship system from the British common law. Like most British colonies, we got our legal system from them. Our Constitution, with references to "common law" (7th Amendment) and "law and equity" (Article III) confirms the British basis of our legal system. 2/
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Folks, birthright citizenship isn't just some interpretation of a few weirdly phrased passages in the 14th Amendment. We had birthright citizenship BEFORE the 14th Amendment. It's actually one of the oldest and most fundamental principles of American law. 1/
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@Red_Baron_17 @Katy_Read @RedTapeEraser @RadioFreeTom @RogerAttick The continuing story of a quack who's gone to the dogs...
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@Katy_Read @RedTapeEraser @RadioFreeTom @RogerAttick He is not reasonably competent, he has a history of selling pseudoscience pills.
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The perpetually undervalued least-squares:
minₓ‖y−Ax‖²
can teach a lot about some complex ideas in modern machine learning including overfitting & double-descent.
Let's assume A is n-by-p. So we have n data points and p parameters
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The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) announced that College of Engineering and Computer Science Dean @J_Cole_Smith will be part of the INFORMS Fellows Class of 2023. #SyracuseU #STEM
ecs.syracuse.edu/about/news/dea…
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Our View: It’s almost criminal South Carolina hasn’t yet expanded Medicaid program - Charleston City Paper charlestoncitypaper.com/2024/07/12/our…
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@LynnSTeague Unfortunately, so will we get the government they asked for...
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Looking at the pathetic voter turnout for the primaries and runoffs — A lot of South Carolina non-voters are going to get what they asked for, a government they doesn’t care about them any more than they care about government.
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Theyhe SC Dept. of Education canceled AP African American Studies, @thegrio spoke with teachers, school administrators & superintendents to find out why SC essentially canceled the ONLY accredited HS course in Black History.
THey all had the same answer.
A thread.
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Thread. The effort to rewrite history goes on (and on, ...)
Michael Harriot@michaelharriot
Theyhe SC Dept. of Education canceled AP African American Studies, @thegrio spoke with teachers, school administrators & superintendents to find out why SC essentially canceled the ONLY accredited HS course in Black History. THey all had the same answer. A thread.
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There's a reason why South Carolina's primary elections give an advantage to candidates who are wildly out of touch on issues including reproductive freedom:
Extreme partisan gerrymandering.
Nick Reynolds@IAmNickReynolds
Polls show near-total abortion bans and the current six-week ban are unpopular among South Carolinians. Challengers "aligned their platforms in opposition of what the majority of voters actually want." On Tuesday, they won anyway. w/ @AlMThompson: postandcourier.com/politics/south…
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@LynnSTeague @SCDailyGazette Oh FFS, they just did it because they prefer the status quo.
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We must need more SCOTUS justices, since the existing crew can’t do their work in a timely way. It might help, though, if they stopped taking every right wing culture war hypothetical thrown at them. scdailygazette.com/2024/03/28/fed… via @SCDailyGazette
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@LynnSTeague That insulation works both ways. They can't hear us and we can't fire them.
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"A combination of extreme gerrymandering and a lack of knowledge about state legislatures will likely continue to insulate state legislators from demographic changes." Yes, we noticed that. Our legislature is out of sync with the people of South Carolina. tandfonline.com/eprint/PVHA6RD…
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This adds some more to the sheer inanity of this attempt to drain our public schools of funding to benefit those who don't need it postandcourier.com/opinion/commen…
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Some (but not all) of the reasons that the universal school voucher bill is a horror story. postandcourier.com/opinion/editor… via @postandcourier
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The General Assembly should allow SC utility regulators to do their jobs. Instead, there is this bill. thestate.com/news/politics-…
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Following your state's Primary Election, fill out this voter feedback survey. Your participation will be immensely helpful, as @UCSUSA calls for equitable ballot design, fair redistricting maps, and the public release of election data. act.ucsusa.org/4a3P2RH
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@EmilyLTucker @RyanRadia @ProfAmyCohn To keep it up, make sure all bolts are installed on all door plugs.
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You often hear about the fatality rate per 100 million or 1 billion passenger miles in transportation statistics, but over the last 15 years, U.S. airlines have averaged less than 1 fatality per passenger *light-year* traveled
Ryan Radia@RyanRadia
3 weeks ago marked 15 years since Feb 12, 2009—the last multiple-fatality accident involving a U.S. passenger airliner (Part 121). 11.6 billion passengers have since boarded a scheduled U.S. airline flight, with just 2 passenger fatalities (Part 121: Southwest 1380; PenAir 3296)
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