Rerarom

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by Rerarom 7y ago
That's the one I enjoyed, too.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
Better read math, much more interesting than CS.
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Coronavirus and Credibility(paulgraham.com)
724 points by Rerarom 7y ago|917 comments
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by Rerarom 7y ago
I suppose you didn't enjoy 2002-2004 when almost all phones were like that
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by Rerarom 7y ago
Second this.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
The pdfs can be timestamped.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
I only read the first one (I knew about the existence of the second). It's very funny how he waxes poetic in several chapters about the future "Information Highway" (not superhighway as some have said) and takes a lot of care
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by Rerarom 7y ago
Curious that "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond hasn't been mentioned yet. Also: Logicomix, about the development of modern logic up to Gödel.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
Also read the counterpart to friendly orange glow, "A People’s History of Computing in the United States"
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by Rerarom 7y ago
Also read its counterpart "The Friendly Orange Glow"
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by Rerarom 7y ago
I meant the non-obvious stuff.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
I'd like to read a breakdown on this - what is actually impossible, what is infeasible but will be in the future, and what is something we don't aim towards anymore.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
This feels like a first-world problem
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by Rerarom 7y ago
This is basically a simple theorem about graphs.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
In foundations of math that mathemati ians actually use (such as ZF), you don't need 300 pages to show 1+1=2.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13144133-where-does-mone... Where does Money come From
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by Rerarom 7y ago
Saw it on netflix last year. Good that it's public now
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Sigmoidify the Exponential(twitter.com)
1 points by Rerarom 7y ago|0 comments
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by Rerarom 7y ago
I got my first computer in 2000 and used floppies all the time in 2000-2002 to share files with my best friend. My next PC in 2004 also had a floppy drive, though I used them less and less often (I used CD-Rs in 2005, and then USB sticks st
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by Rerarom 7y ago
Non-trivial here means something specific (see the other reply), people say "non-trivial" in this context as an abbreviation of what it means, it's not a vague term that readers are asked to give an interpretation to.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
> Was this written by _the_ Matt Stone? Yes.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
This is very weird (the seminar thing). In my university the professors would be extremely happy to see a talk where undergraduates could and do attend.
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by Rerarom 7y ago
So basically you do something like Windows 3.x?
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His other non-GEB books are cool. I especially enjoyed Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies .
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by Rerarom 7y ago
Fiction: Mordecai Roshwald, Level 7 Alexander Dewdney, The Planiverse Joseph Heller, God Knows Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams Non-fiction: Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts C. S. Lewi
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I wonder why is there is so much fear of math on HN, which is essentially a STEM community. I would expect it among literary types, but not here.
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You keep mistyping Clojure as Closure
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by Rerarom 7y ago
Note that I was thinking of problems in terms of scientific research rather than business stuff but it was intentionally vague so that people can apply it to their own domain.
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Terry Pratchett's Going Postal has a bit of that.
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The thing is sometimes hard things are actually easy because there is a simple solution that hasn't been tried because people haven't worked on the problem because it seems hard and they don't feel smart enough. The trick is

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