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by antiform 18y ago
Proofs are almost never "irreducibly ugly." What has generally happened in the past is that mathematicians have abstracted the "ugly" parts of a proof, so that one only has to refer to a mathematical object (object in the OO sense). Ugly pr
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by antiform 18y ago
What are you basing this on? Mathematics may lead to highly surprising and nonintuitive answers, but that doesn't mean that mathematical ideas drive people crazy. While Cantor did take his work seriously and was said to have believed that h
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by antiform 18y ago
I believe you're talking about Persi Diaconis, who's now a Stats professor at Stanford. He's not that old (born in 1945), and while he didn't complete high school, he did have an undergraduate education, but it was taking evening classes at
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by antiform 18y ago
Unless Tom Murray has significantly changed his opinion in the last few months, I think this is a major oversimplification, if not obfuscation, of his argument. I mean, half the article is devoted to a "Mr. Fish," who as far as I can tell,
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by antiform 18y ago
To play Devil's advocate here, isn't your personal thesis that "long term goal focus" is important for success also based on anecdotal evidence? Or do you have a study that you would like to reference? I don't know too much about education
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by antiform 18y ago
Nathan Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures? Not sure if that's quite what you're looking for, but it's the first thing that came to mind. It's not exactly "good" in a "for mankind" kind of sense, but apparently it makes boatloads of money.
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by antiform 18y ago
It's articles like this that make me fall in love with the tech industry all over again.
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When Multimedia was Black and White(smackerel.net)
1 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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List of Web Applications from 2005 (How many are still around today?)(kuro5hin.org)
6 points by antiform 18y ago|1 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
What I find scarier (or more interesting) is that if all I read were Hacker News, I would have a list that would be exactly the same as the author's. Perhaps a better question would be what do all these people have in common, other than bei
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by antiform 18y ago
I would choose whichever one you are most comfortable with, or the one that you want to learn. If you don't know any, just choose one that sounds the most interesting. This is one of those "religious" choices between computer geeks and is o
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Who says Czech scientists have a drinking problem?(praguepost.com)
10 points by antiform 18y ago|7 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
Right here. [ http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2008/03/19/who-says-czech... ]
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On Physicists and Mathematicians and Mountain-Climbing(nytimes.com)
12 points by antiform 18y ago|4 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
Maybe Knuth was more of a rebel back in the day, but somehow I can't imagine him having that sort of response. In Randall Munroe's Authors@Google talk [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24 ], Don Knuth asks him a question at ~21:30 a
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by antiform 18y ago
This is GOLD. "First Fundamental Theorem of Interstellar Trade: When trade takes place between two planets in a common inertial frame, the interest costs on goods in transit should be calculated using time measured by clocks in the common f
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Hands-free Coding with Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition(youtube.com)
2 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
In Disciplined Minds (a book certainly worth reading, but take with a heavy grain of salt), Jeff Schmidt made an observation about highly educated people and their political tendencies that made me stop and rethink my own personal views. He
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by antiform 18y ago
Hear, hear. Memcached is damn useful, and Perlbal saved me from server meltdown and banning many a time when it was still my favorite language to write the hackish, duct-taped monstrosities I called "web applications." LiveJournal hasn't be
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by antiform 18y ago
That was a remarkably well-reasoned and plainspoken summary of some cool facts and trends in "sociobiology." I remember seeing a talk about evolutionary psychology early in my college career and dismissing it as imprecise, speculatory nonse
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by antiform 18y ago
I believe this has been linked before: [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=167335 ]
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by antiform 18y ago
I'd be interested to see the analysis or references to this analysis, if anybody has any links. I'd be even more interested to see how GPA correlates with people actually getting an interview and getting a position there. It wasn't too long
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"Making things in the physical world is where it's at..." - Neal Stephenson(blog.makezine.com)
3 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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How To Become An Open-Source Contractor(emiller.info)
103 points by antiform 18y ago|15 comments
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How to get into the Hottest Restaurants in Town(gourmet.com)
117 points by antiform 18y ago|41 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
"Mostly" true, but if you accept this statement as-is, it's a little misleading. The integers (with standard addition/multiplication operators) are indeed a ring, but a ring is a very loose definition that does not reveal say too much about
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Everybody's Free (To Learn a Powerful Editor)(groups.google.com)
19 points by antiform 18y ago|4 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
Fantastic. An excellent of example of "doing with a dime what any fool can do with a dollar."
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by antiform 18y ago
The textual definition of everything is correct. There's just an error in the formatting of 2^p - 1. A Mersenne prime is a prime of the form 2^n - 1 for some n. The new biggest Mersenne prime is 2^(43,112,609) - 1. An interesting coincidenc
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by antiform 18y ago
Actually, a few years ago, after I started implementing a couple of tips I found on Lifehacker and 43 Folders, like Merlin's great "Inbox Zero" talk, I did become a lot more productive. I no longer spent several hours a day on email. I neve

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