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Nick Alger
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Researcher at the Oden Institute (UT Austin) working on numerical methods for PDE-constrained optimization and inverse problems

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Editing someone else's question to add context
Jul 29, 2015
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What's wrong with a user posting different and independent answers to a question?
Nov 8, 2012
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Closure of extremely basic questions
Apr 6, 2012
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Are we answering questions or teaching people how to answer their own questions?
Aug 10, 2012
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Net gain for a poor question
Sep 20, 2014
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Clearly Rejected Answer - Upvotes and Rep
Dec 4, 2016
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When a user refuses to typeset responses and posts numerous low-quality answers
Aug 8, 2016
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Should we answer questions related to untimed IQtests?
Dec 3, 2012
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Proposing a definite policy on contest questions
Oct 3, 2012
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Why do some answerers prefer full solutions to hints for homework and homework-like questions?
May 24, 2012
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Intuitively, what is the difference between Eigendecomposition and Singular Value Decomposition?
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Motivation for Ramanujan's mysterious $\pi$ formula
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What are some examples of a mathematical result being counterintuitive?
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What is the intuition behind Chebyshev's Inequality in Measure Theory
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Why is Newton's method not widely used in machine learning?