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Caleb Stanford

San Diego, CA and Davis, CA, United States

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~cdstanford

Assistant professor of computer science at UC Davis (starting July 2023).

  • PhD, Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania (2022)

  • ScB, Mathematics and Computer Science, Brown University (2016)

Previous username: 6005

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Top Questions
249 votes

How do towels stay on hooks?

newtonian-mechanics forces friction everyday-life asked Jan 23, 2018 at 21:10
physics.stackexchange.com

41 votes

Generating function solution to previous question $a_{n}=a_{\lfloor n/2\rfloor}+a_{\lfloor n/3 \rfloor}+a_{\lfloor n/6\rfloor}$

sequences-and-series combinatorics limits recurrence-relations generating-functions asked Sep 27, 2013 at 20:59
math.stackexchange.com

22 votes

Decidability of diophantine equations over {=, +, gcd}

lo.logic nt.number-theory decidability asked Dec 26, 2020 at 21:52
cstheory.stackexchange.com

20 votes

Why $6$ races are not sufficient in the $25$ horses, $5$ tracks problem

recreational-mathematics puzzle asked Jul 14, 2015 at 18:38
math.stackexchange.com

20 votes

What function satisfies $F'(x) = F(2x)$?

combinatorics reference-request generating-functions delay-differential-eqns asked Jul 18, 2015 at 7:04
math.stackexchange.com

19 votes

Riemann zeta function Euler product for primes equivalent to $3$ mod $4$

number-theory riemann-zeta infinite-product asked Aug 30, 2015 at 19:40
math.stackexchange.com

19 votes

A generalization of arithmetic and geometric means using elementary symmetric polynomials

inequality symmetric-polynomials means asked Dec 26, 2014 at 2:07
math.stackexchange.com

18 votes

What is the minimum size of a partial order containing all partial orders of size 5?

co.combinatorics order-theory posets computer-algebra asked Oct 27, 2020 at 17:46
mathoverflow.net

14 votes

Why are graphs represented as adjacency lists instead of adjacency sets?

graphs data-structures hash-tables asked Dec 9, 2021 at 20:53
cs.stackexchange.com

13 votes

Are there infinitely many $\alpha \times \beta$ Chomp boards where player 2 wins?

combinatorial-game-theory asked Sep 6, 2016 at 22:42
math.stackexchange.com

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Top Answers
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Referee wants me to add a plot – because the paper has none
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129
Colleague blames me for not spotting typos when I only reviewed the structure and content
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93
$-3^2 = 9?\ $ Correct syntax for a negative number with an exponent.
math.stackexchange.com

87
Rejection from a legitimate journal, with reviewers recommending me to try a Beall's list journal
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79
Is it immoral to advise PhD students in non-industry-relevant topics in middle-lower ranked universities?
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73
Are all "numbers" just one unit value transformed by a function?
math.stackexchange.com

68
Are 'please cite my paper' emails socially accepted?
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63
why don't we use machines with random access memory as our basic model of computation?
cs.stackexchange.com

58
Why is it forbidden by the IEEE to post 'author-submitted' papers on ArXiv?
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53
Is it ethical to ask students to proofread a textbook?
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53
How to center a table in Google Docs?
webapps.stackexchange.com

48
Whom to cite from an article: the reporter or the person who provided a quote to the reporter?
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47
Advisor to spend some funds to buy things that make group members feel better working at home. Is it selfish to request a tablet and stuff?
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47
Show that $e^x > 1 + x + x^2/2! + \cdots + x^n/n!$ for $n \geq 0$, $x > 0$ by induction
math.stackexchange.com

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Is this a new method for finding powers?
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40
What is the formal, rigorous definition of a programming language?
cs.stackexchange.com

38
Advisor wants first author. Do I have any leverage?
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38
Painting the plane, and finding points one unit apart
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38
Is it wrong for students to report suspected / borderline plagiarism?
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37
Is it good to leave hyperref activated on a conference paper?
academia.stackexchange.com

35
Missed April 15th deadline to accept grad school offer. What can I do?
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34
Finding out the area of a triangle if the coordinates of the three vertices are given
math.stackexchange.com

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Why is $2\pi i \neq 0?$
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29
Area of a part of a square
math.stackexchange.com

28
Can you give me some concrete examples of magmas?
math.stackexchange.com

26
How do I use lemmas that are probably already proven, but including the proof myself is quicker than looking up a source?
academia.stackexchange.com

25
Turing award papers
cstheory.stackexchange.com

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Is there a "Standard Algorithm" language, as used in academic papers?
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24
Ackermann Function without Recursion or Stack
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24
Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics
mathoverflow.net

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