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by generationP 7y ago
It's not a philosophic pamphlet; Chapters 18 and 19 have some amount of philosophizing, but the rest of the book is heavily "show, don't tell". Which is the logical way to write a book on applied(!) maths.
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The beginning ?
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Tom Körner's "The Pleasures of Counting" ( https://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Counting-T-W-K%C3%B6rner/dp... ) is an amusingly written yet intellectually challenging introduction to applied maths for the g
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Hah, as 5GB large XML files... still, glad that it's there!
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Archive Encyclopedia Dramatica and then you can brag about weird history.
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> duck tape That's a fascinatingly apt mixed metaphor: duct taping meets duck typing.
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by generationP 7y ago
> Building 2 actually has a name but who really knows it? It helps that rooms are numbered with the building number up front (e.g., 2-351 is building 2 floor 3 room 51), so the number is much more informative than the name. Also, it&#x27
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> Aside: this is why I don't like to accept pull requests that move code around. Even if the new code organization is better, it's usually not worth the time it takes to ensure the pull request isn't doing anything extra.
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> That is wrong. For one thing it allows someone to take up a project if the original author dies. I've also heard that it also makes it easier to get it professionally printed and bound if one so desires, as printing services are o
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by generationP 7y ago
It's fast-going. You may want to start with something more introductory, like: Levin http://discrete.openmathbooks.org/dmoi3.html Hammack https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/ the
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I'm curious, what's been going on with Parcoursup? (I don't read enough French to understand the discussions.) Also, I'm not surprised that tuition for foreigners is a lever they are pulling. A government is responsible,
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Unless, of course, you're looking for Sci-hub or Library Genesis, in which case Google will suggest you every thinkable misspelling of the domain but the right one :)
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Yes, that's what I'm suggesting. I know a big python2 codebase (SageMath) that has been "close" to python3 adaption for several times within the last 5 years but had to call it off every time because something came in th
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What surprises me most is his insistence on a non-incremental update. To this day, I have no idea what the logic behind "no intermediate steps" is. Codebases are written in Python that would dwarf Margaret Hamilton's famous s
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Well, 15 years ago, the technically non-inclined didn't own many files either... they just didn't use computers much.
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This is surprisingly out of touch with reality -- at least with my reality and that around me. Then again I'm 30 and in academia, so it might not be the latest update. Do people access their music through their apps instead of a file
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Nope, that's an older version than http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/CT4S.pdf . The date you see under the title is the date when the file was last compiled (which is done automatically by arXiv every once in a while),