kkylin

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1. 601.▲
   by kkylin 11y ago

   I don't know if I would say it's "most prescient today", but Gattaca was always one of my favorite SF films, and some of what it portrayed may well be coming our way in the not-so-distant future.
2. 602.▲
   by kkylin 11y ago

   Lebesgue's theory of integration is built on measure theory, which was developed by Lebesgue and others. Measure theory has turned out to be a very natural framework for probability, stochastic processes, ergodic theory, etc. (See e.
3. 603.▲
   by kkylin 11y ago

   The whole worm is not that many more cells (a big fraction are neurons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans
4. 604.▲
   by kkylin 11y ago

   I love using Julia, but for me writing Julia macros came with a steeper learning curve than in Lisp / Scheme, due in part to the syntax. I kept wishing Julia was a layer on top of a Lisp, and that I can just write Lisp macros. (I know
5. 605.▲
   by kkylin 11y ago

   I came across this the other day; it may be relevant to this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg#The_Deutsche_Physik_movement
6. 606.▲
   by kkylin 12y ago

   I'm a math prof, my research is in applied & computational math, mainly dynamical systems and numerical methods. I do a fair bit of coding in my work (and studied CS/AI as an undergrad before getting PhD in math), and am inte
7. 607.▲
   by kkylin 15y ago

   Yup! Went through 2-3 iterations of SICM.
8. 608.▲
   by kkylin 15y ago

   I read all of it, and also took 6.001 from Hal & Gerry. (Looking at the comments, I must be an exception.)