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This post is intended to accomplish several things at once. First and foremost, I want to explain (not just in the post) why I have been interested in Borel determinacy and in the natural proofs barrier. Roughly speaking (or should I say tl;dr?) I think that Martin's proof of Borel determinacy has features that might...
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I'm a (50%) professor of mathematics and (50%) professor of molecular & cell biology at UC Berkeley.There have been plenty of days when I have spent the working hours with biologists and...
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Merging quantum mechanics and gravity is a famously hard physics problem. Explaining why merging quantum mechanics and gravity is hard is, in turn, a very hard science communication problem. The more popular descriptions tend to lead to misunderstandings, and I've posted many times over the years to chip away at those misunderstandings. Merging quantum mechanics...
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[AI summary] The pseudo-inverse is a powerful tool for solving matrix equations, especially when the inverse does not exist. It provides exact solutions when they exist and least squares solutions otherwise. If multiple solutions exist, it selects the one with the smallest norm. The pseudo-inverse can be computed using the singular value decomposition (SVD), which is numerically stable and handles cases where the matrix does not have full column rank. The SVD approach involves computing the SVD of the matrix, inverting the non-zero singular values, and then reconstructing the pseudo-inverse using the modified SVD components. This method is preferred due to its stability and ability to handle noisy data effectively.
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