A process for a Gamma distribution
Looking for a process whose distribution has a non-integer shape parameter, on MathOverflow.
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A life online · Alejandro Rivero
My questions extend beyond physics and programming: education, language models, astronomy, science fiction and the machinery of the Web. The accounts are linked through Stack Exchange network account 187321; the entries below are a selection of previously unlisted contributions.
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Subgroups with as many roots as the group
A Lie-group question on MathOverflow.
Actual hints of Picard's ancestry?
A question about evidence within Star Trek, on Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Googlebot's crawling algorithm
A Webmasters question from the period of the video-transcript search project.
Upgrading Ubuntu LTS before the point release
A practical systems-administration question on Server Fault.
A noncommutative sphere between dimensions
Asking for a quantum or deformed sphere interpolating between Sⁿ and Sⁿ⁻², on Mathematics.
A bandit with only some levers available
Looking for the name of a constrained multiarmed-bandit problem, on Artificial Intelligence.
How to build addition with sets?
The first of a cluster of Mathematics Educators questions about the foundations of arithmetic.
Venn diagrams for factors, GCD and LCM
Asking about classroom experience with set diagrams as an arithmetic teaching tool.
Textbooks that show the injections into a sum of sets
Following the set-based arithmetic questions into textbook notation and exposition.
Can resurrected bodies have rights to the Iron Throne?
A Game of Thrones question about succession and resurrection, on Science Fiction & Fantasy.
How does a 4K Retina display double up pixels?
A display-scaling question on Ask Different.
Is there a precise definition of Supermoon?
A question about the boundary between an astronomical quantity and a popular label.
Dimensions of keys and values in additive attention
An early neural-network attention question on Cross Validated, predating the 2023 Bing conversations already in the chronology.
Can the number of neural-network layers be learned?
A question about learning architecture as part of training, on Artificial Intelligence.
A more general traceless normalized matrix
A Mathematics question about a matrix construction.
Constructing normals to a parabola
A classical-geometry construction through an external point, on Mathematics.
Precision and recall with no predictive power
A Cross Validated question about interpreting classification metrics.
Is there such a thing as a relativistic maneuver?
A question on Space Exploration.
Dimensions admitting supersymmetric actions
A Physics question returning to dimensional restrictions on supersymmetry.
Planck area in place of ħ in a path integral
Asking whether an author or school of quantum gravity uses this choice, on Physics.
Geometric engineering in quantum field theory
An answer on MathOverflow, continuing the geometry-and-physics strand of the older discussions.