catherinej

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   by catherinej 15y ago

   The survey app takes an interesting approach to raising people's awareness of slave-labor conditions, but it doesn't make sense (or only makes sense for a particular demographic) to base calculations on how many items of a particular kind t
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   by catherinej 17y ago

   Excerpt from Paul Lockart's _Lament_: "At no time are students let in on the secret that mathematics, like any literature, is created by human beings for their own amusement; that works of mathematics are subject to critical appraisal; that
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   by catherinej 17y ago

   The color classification scheme used in the visuals (e.g., foundations, combinatorics, number theory, and abstract algebra grouped together in the purple-red range; differential equations and mathematical physics grouped together as blues;
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   by catherinej 17y ago

   Interesting quote from this re intermittently visible bugs: "Computers simulate determinism."
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   by catherinej 17y ago

   Actually, when a magazine interviewer asked Jessica about the percent of women among ycombinator-funded founders, I was very interested in her answer. Not because I suspected YC of bias - I didn't - but rather because I thought this percent