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by antiform 18y ago
A couple of excerpts to get an idea of what is inside: 'During the mid-morning break (with cookies), Richard Thaler shows videos from a 40-year-old study (Walter Mischel, 1973) of children offered one cookie now or two if they wait. The obs
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A Short Course in Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler and Daniel Kahneman(edge.org)
4 points by antiform 18y ago|2 comments
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Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research(blog.wired.com)
6 points by antiform 18y ago|1 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
There is also a link to an audio version available near the bottom of Jonathan Blow's website [ http://number-none.com/blow/ ].
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The Secret of Psalm 46 by Brian Moriarty(ludix.com)
15 points by antiform 18y ago|5 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
Most mathematicians are "lopsidedly talented" in one area, typically that of their Ph.D. You rarely see modern mathematicians who are able to understand--much less make significant contributions to--current research in many different fields
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by antiform 18y ago
I've noticed this too and tend to agree with your observation, but I don't think this is necessarily because certain people don't get or are not naturally talented in a specific subarea of mathematics. My math professors told me that math m
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Unstructured Thoughts on Making Websites(emiller.info)
50 points by antiform 18y ago|6 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
Not when it comes to rather obscure or out-of-print math books. Abebooks is definitely a goldmine when it comes to those.
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by antiform 18y ago
"[H]e said he has switched his primary focus to business software and services." As would I, if I spent 23 years at IBM and a dozen or so years as a VP at Microsoft. You have nearly four decades of experience in the field, why give that up?
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by antiform 18y ago
Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks teaches great lessons about managing programmers and programming as a team. On a less technical note, Growing a Business by Paul Hawken is great book about letting a company grow naturally.
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by antiform 18y ago
Having done what you're thinking about doing, I could probably write pages on the pros and cons, but I'll boil it down to probably the most important reason: It's hard to go at it alone. I say that if you don't have a solid cofounder who ha
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by antiform 18y ago
I'm subscribed to only about 15 feeds through Google Reader, which I refine every season according to signal/noise ratio. I'm also a big fan of Google Alerts, which I've found is a good way to find great articles that you wouldn't find in t
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A Paean to Scheme(sarg.ryerson.ca)
2 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
Also, I think the Get Well, Seymour! page [ http://papert.media.mit.edu/ ] is a pretty awesome gesture from his Media Lab friends.
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CERN, Prologue: The Road to CERN.(gravitywave.blogspot.com)
1 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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In Search of a Beautiful Mind: MIT Mathematician and Logo inventor Seymour Papert (boston.com)
14 points by antiform 18y ago|3 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
The one thing that I failed to find in the article was a clear and concrete reason that he wanted to get a Ph.D. I don't think anybody should get a Ph.D. to "get some ideas off [their] chest." You don't need a degree to give you permission
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by antiform 18y ago
Actually, even the definition of this form requires i, because it's e^(i)(pi/2) = i. The simple assumption that sqrt(-1) = i is problematic because you can get something like i^2 = (sqrt(-1))^2 = sqrt((-1)^2) = 1. The wonder and surprise of
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Great Hacker != Great Hire(ericsink.com)
24 points by antiform 18y ago|45 comments
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Don't ask employees to be passionate about the company(headrush.typepad.com)
27 points by antiform 18y ago|5 comments
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When I Thought I Was Smart(toyblog.typepad.com)
15 points by antiform 18y ago|5 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
Computer Graphics for Java Programmers by Leen Ammeraal is a damn good book and the most complete introduction to computer graphics that I've seen. A professor of mine once called it "the SICP of computer graphics." In that respect, it has
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by antiform 18y ago
So I log into my Debian box, and there are some updates pending with the following description: SECURITY UPDATE: Randomize UDP query source ports to improve forgery resilience. References: [ http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=200
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Patch Your (non-DJBDNS) Server Now. Dan Was Right. I Was Wrong.(matasano.com)
5 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
You know you're good when somebody who actually uses what you wrote tells you that they love what you've done. It could be somebody in your target audience, the person who takes over your project, or even yourself for a personal project, bu
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by antiform 18y ago
This actually relatively simple on a Mac. All you have to do is go to International settings in Preferences and select check Japanese as an input language. Then you can select between the character sets and languages from the menu bar (or y
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by antiform 18y ago
This is actually a browser issue, and was anticipated long before. A valid workaround would be to allow for input in Unicode, but display the url output in Punycode. I'm pretty sure most popular browsers already account for this vulnerabili
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by antiform 18y ago
I know that Georgia and Verdana are both Microsoft-made fonts designed for screen reading, that is, around pixel boundaries. However, if most the studies cited in this article are to be believed, then there's no conclusive evidence pointing
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by antiform 18y ago
I had the exact same question when I went to Japan. Apparently, the way the Japanese government works, the rural districts are overly represented in the Diet, with each rural district having the same clout as an urban district, like the U.S

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