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Looks amazing!

I'd love to buy an ebook version though. Or even better - an audiobook.

I don't understand, its factors are 101 and 109, both are more than 100.

That's funny. "100" was a stand-in for sqrt(11009), I didn't anticipate that all factors would actually be above 100. 

Well, you check if it's a multiple of every prime below sqrt(11009) ~= 105.

Though if you suspect he's intentionally chosen a tricky number, a product of two large primes, you can look at the square numbers larger than 11009. In this case 11025 = 105^2, and 11025-11009 = 16 = 4^2, so 11009 = 105^2 - 4^2 = (105+4)(105-4) = 109×101

While I'd rather not test this empirically, I think I'm feeling pretty motivated to do this, and yet I can't. I'd really like to solve this issue without resorting to hiring a professional assassin on myself.

2Pattern
Are there any writing contests? (Those might not go around putting gun to people's heads, but: They might offer rewards. Have prompts or guidelines. Places that do that sort of thing might also offer resources to help, or be affiliated with such.)

That poem was amazing.

How does a person factorize 11,009 in their head?

5Mitchell_Porter
Basically you do long division by every prime less than 100. 

You guys will probably find this Slate Star Codex post interesting:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/

Scott summarizes the Predictive Processing theory, explains it in a very accessible way (no math required), and uses it to explain a whole bunch of mental phenomena (attention, imagination, motor behavior, autism, schizophrenia, etc.)

Can someone ELI5/TLDR this paper for me, explain in a way more accessible to a non-technical person?

- How does backprop work if the information can't flow backwards?
- In Scotts post, he says ... (read more)

7samshap
TLDR for this paper: There is a separate set of 'error' neurons that communicate backwards. Their values converge on the appropriate back propagation terms. A large error at the top levels corresponds to 'surprise', while a large error at the lower levels corresponds more to the 'override'.