abhinav

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by abhinav 14y ago
A cursory look at Faraday's wikipedia page suggests that he started off as an assistant to Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution and succeeded him as the Director of the Royal Institution and became the first Fullerian Professor of Chemist
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by abhinav 15y ago
So, its a form of Ycombinator for academia.
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Stephen Fry: America’s Place In The World (2009)(stephenfry.com)
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The Secret Sharer(newyorker.com)
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How Do You Cure Injelitance?(vdare.com)
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Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (econ.yale.edu)
2 points by abhinav 16y ago|1 comments
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by abhinav 16y ago
One could make HN less of a time sink my making HN 'slower'. If only 5 articles appeared in a day, it would hopefully consume far less time and one way of reducing the number of articles would be to impose a 'karma' cost on each submission
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Breaking the cycle: A Conversation With Emanuel Derman(edge.org)
2 points by abhinav 16y ago|0 comments
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Maxims for Revolutionists. Shaw, Bernard. (bartleby.com)
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The Weaver, the Princess and Goldman Sachs (in.news.yahoo.com)
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Extreme Thinking(michaelnielsen.org)
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The Inner Ring, by C.S. Lewis(lewissociety.org)
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On Robustness & Fragility [pdf](fooledbyrandomness.com)
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Enhancing our Grasp of Complex Arguments [pdf](austhinkconsulting.files.wordpress.com)
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Will the Manhattan Project Always Exist?(3quarksdaily.com)
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by abhinav 17y ago
I intuitively like the idea of the "supposed" but atleast in the west there seems to be a way of counteracting these pressures. It seems to me that "white" children can choose from a variety of roles: nerdy, athletic, artistic etc and altho
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Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose(classicprose.com)
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Management and mathematics(cs.utexas.edu)
38 points by abhinav 17y ago|9 comments
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by abhinav 17y ago
I wonder if a smaller local revolution has happened before: formation and spread of great research universities. Govts have tried to set up great research universities by will, China is trying hard, India is making small steps, so are place