cion

4 ms·

1.
by cion 3y ago
It might be Paul Halmos. In his "automathobiography", titled I Want to Be a Mathematician (Springer 1985), page 156: "In the late 1940's I began to act on one of my beliefs: to stay young, you have to change fields ev
2.
by cion 3y ago
I wasn't familiar with this painting, for the very good reason that it doesn't exist Are you sure? The wikipedia page on Flaubert's novel says: "In 1845, at age 24, Flaubert visited the Balbi Palace in Genoa, and was
3.
by cion 3y ago
This is the second volume in a three-volume series. The first one, on linear algebra, was mentioned here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37935616 ). There is a repository with code and exercises on GitHub ( https:&#x
4.
Before Machine Learning Vol 2 – Calculus(mldepot.co.uk)
2 points by cion 3y ago|1 comments
5.
Justin Roiland dropped from Rick and Morty after domestic abuse charges(theguardian.com)
30 points by cion 4y ago|80 comments
6.
by cion 5y ago
But somebody has to write those Stackoverflow answers. Perhaps for those who do the distinction between man pages and info is important. Or do you think that the source of Stackoverflow answers is just more Stackoverflow answers? Now th
7.
Vintage Byte Magazine Library(vintageapple.org)
265 points by cion 5y ago|94 comments
8.
After a Panic Attack at Work I Found Meditation(rd.com)
11 points by cion 5y ago|0 comments
9.
Functional programming courses by Graham Hutton(youtube.com)
3 points by cion 5y ago|0 comments
10.
A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
133 points by cion 5y ago|25 comments
11.
by cion 6y ago
It's not pointless, but the outline only shows up if the generated tex file is compiled twice. The default org to latex export will only compile it once. Alternatively, it is easy to suppress the outline slide altogether (add "to
12.
by cion 7y ago
I don't understand the reference to Gödel. Do you mean the theorem that in every formal system capable of representing arithmetic there exist sentences "P" such that neither "P" nor "not P" are derivable
13.
by cion 7y ago
Oh, sorry, didn't realize that. It still doesn't work, though, as the example of 2 * 3 * 5 * 7 * 11 * 13 + 1 = 59 * 509 shows.
14.
by cion 7y ago
You don't always get a prime. For example, 4! = 2 * 3 * 4 = 24, 24 + 1 = 25, 25 is not prime. The point is that N! + 1 is not divisible by any number from 2 to N (always leaves a remainder of 1), so either it is prime, or it is divis