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by joaorico 11y ago
His old blog is no longer online, but someone collected it here. Very much worth reading: http://pmarchive.com/ edit: Ah, it was published as an ebook as well this January: http://a16z.com/2015/01/
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by joaorico 12y ago
This guy rocks. Sean Le Van: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vyACnFsNm4 Bio "Sean Le Van is 13. He has given many professional concerts since the age of five years old, along with members of his family, The Le Van Fam
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by joaorico 12y ago
If you know french this whole part of the Récoltes et Semailles is worth reading: "2.2. L’importance d’être seul Quand j’ai finalement pris contact avec le monde mathématique à Paris, un ou deux ans plus tard, j’ai fini par y appren
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by joaorico 12y ago
Here's one of his staggering quotes [1], worth reading through: "In those critical years I learned how to be alone. [But even] this formulation doesn't really capture my meaning. I didn't, in any literal sense learn to b
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by joaorico 12y ago
Nature and evolution provided us with a whole hierarchy of needs, and some people are no longer surrounded by predators and do have a reasonable social security net. A life under warm blankets? The last paragraph addresses the comfort need.
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by joaorico 12y ago
I recommend Gregory Hays' new translation, without the 'thou's and 'dost's. http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Modern-Lib... "At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, t
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by joaorico 12y ago
Freeman Dyson, another important physicist, wrote this a few years ago: "I changed my mind about an important historical question: did the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bring World War Two to an end? Until this year I used
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by joaorico 12y ago
From the same book, there's also his comment on Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from which he refused an invitation: "When I was at Princeton in the 1940s I could see what happened to those great minds at the Institu
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by joaorico 12y ago
In conversation with several Scotts, I've been told what they want most is autonomy from London, more than from the UK. That London is autistic for a long while, too much disconnected from the rest of the UK, including the rest of Engl
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by joaorico 12y ago
"Next, you take the square of this mismatch and call it U_1" Each U_i is a square, so it's a sum on non-negative quantities that equals zero so that each U_i = 0 must hold separately. That's the cool trick :)
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by joaorico 12y ago
Feynman [1]: "Let us show you something interesting that we have recently discovered: All of the laws of physics can be contained in one equation. That equation is U = 0. What a simple equation! Of course, it is necessary to know what
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by joaorico 12y ago
>>"I also recall somebody (pg?) saying something to the effect of "the most important thing in founding a startup is managing your own emotional state". " Horowitz in "the hard thing about hard things" ha
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by joaorico 13y ago
Freeman Dyson: "I changed my mind about an important historical question: did the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bring World War Two to an end? Until this year I used to say, perhaps. Now, because of new facts, I say no. Th
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by joaorico 13y ago
Strange, I can say most engineers never heard of this by the time they leave college.
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Scientists create new, better flame from pure water(euronews.com)
6 points by joaorico 13y ago|2 comments