haider_a

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   by haider_a 4y ago

   As someone who was born and grew up in a so-called 3rd world country, I was used to hearing this narrative from official media that the west is poisoning our children with their movies, fast food and so on. Interesting that now the west is
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   by haider_a 4y ago

   James Dyson's autobiography "Against the Odds". It is an excellent book about original thinking and it is hugly underrated.
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   by haider_a 6y ago

   I personally think that the trend against desktop was partly driven by big-tech's ambitious plans to lay their hands on our data in a central way.
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   by haider_a 6y ago

   For anyone interested in the history of calculus, there is an excellent paper: Grabiner, J. (1983). Who Gave You the Epsilon? Cauchy and the Origins of Rigorous Calculus. The American Mathematical Monthly, 90(3), 185-194. doi:10.2307/2