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Wang's Carpets by Greg Egan(akkartik.name)
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
Some things that have helped me: - grammarly (mostly excellent, I ignore some suggestions) - reading books more with stylistic elements that push the boundaries of what you're used to. I write technical blogs, but I've found some
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
At the moment I'm really passionate about 2 things: Quantitative Finance. I have a math background and relish the chance to explore some applications of probability theory. Most of my readings have been about options pricing since ther
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
Very cool. It's amazing how cutting edge rackets plotting facilities are The rest of the blog has a bunch of inspiring content for the aspiring Racketeer that isn't catering to students or programming language theory researchers
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
One way could be to time cap something and put it out there. Many may fail, but perhaps one will take off. Here is a blog where a dev makes many small startups and sees how they do: https://tinyprojects.dev/
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
Another useful idea in this same quest is to keep an ideas file that is easy to update. Then hold yourself accountable to add at least 1 idea a day, no matter how silly. Over time you will find yourself dredging up all kinds of ideas withou
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Kaprekar's Routine with Python(arkestra.dev)
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
Fire can basically do the first step (object -> CLI): https://github.com/google/python-fire Gooey can do (CLI -> GUI): https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
A book I always recommend to folks looking to learn mathematics with lots of beauty and from first principles is Serge Lang's Basic Mathematics. The book starts from axiomatic arithmetic and works all the way up to what you would need
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
Not sure what the parent uses, but emacs has calc, which is a RPN calculator with lots of features (including history and intermediate results) and can be used in the terminal
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
Is it because you are used to vim bindings? Emacs offers an "evil mode" that implements modal bindings
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
> By getting into machine or deep learning I mean building upto a stage to do ML/DL research. > The target ability: > 1. To understand the theory behind the algorithms > 2. To implement an algorithm on a dataset of choice.
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The Muffin Man: A GPT-3, DALL-E 2, & Frank Zappa Collaborative Storybook(arkestra.dev)
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
duckduckgo also has "bang operators" that allow you to specify site. An example is !r for reddit or !w for wikipedia It's even nicer for some sites like Wikipedia because it goes directly to the page if theres an exact match
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Stewart Brand; a Keystone Individual(chenla.org)
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Scheme on the Erlang VM(the-concurrent-schemer.github.io)
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Cyborg Lisps(arkestra.dev)
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
> They determined peak creativity by the point at which the subjects’ scientific papers had the most citations and were thus most influential Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that they are actually measuring popularity rather tha
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Color Difference(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
Pretty excellent considering how many plots there are!
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
These days I hear a lot of "AIML" It doesn't make much sense to me as I've never seen anyone use anything you'd find in an AI book that you wouldn't also find in a Machine learning book For big data, I think th
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Templatel: Jinja inspired templating for Emacs Lisp(github.com)
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Searching for Chaos(arkestra.dev)
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Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos(sprott.physics.wisc.edu)
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
In the book Hamming tasks the reader with creating in some detail a vision of your future. I did do this, but lacked the foresight to effectively find a way that I could shape my work time to be "Hamming" meaningful. As an example
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
I second this -- fantastic book, and cheap too I received it as a gift from a coworker and it was a delightful read. It was so inspiring that it made me consider seeking more meaningful work though
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
> Otherwise, the differences between the OS you'll find will be minor I think this is by design. If things are too different from one os to another, it raises the barrier to entry and hampers adoption. Furthermore, Linux distributio
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
Wishful thinking is mentioned several times in SICP, both in terms of to be implemented functions and in separation of concerns. Oftentimes in the book, they will write out a function with reliance on a variety of other functions that haven
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
This is a great suggestion I've been reading the textbook for the intro macro class here and supplementing the reading with blogs and it seems to be working quite well. At the very least, I have a decent conceptual understanding and kn
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by dr-neptune 4y ago
Rob Hyndmans book is a great quick intro: https://otexts.com/fpp3/ If you want to jump in the deep end (aka you know good chunk of mathematics), you could skim Hamilton's Time Series Analysis A good way to learn i

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