lioeters

6 ms·

61.
by lioeters 1mo ago
One might argue that mathematics is more fundamental to reality than space and time, which emerge from it.
62.
by lioeters 1mo ago
Every single aspect of that cover is manipulative marketing.
63.
by lioeters 1mo ago
True, this book is a classic and worth mentioning. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold Some reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44882.Code
64.
by lioeters 1mo ago
This post is by the same author as the Lost Art of Logarithms. https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/ Discussed about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356314 (196 comments)
65.
by lioeters 1mo ago
The similarity goes deeper since they're funded by the very thing they claim to oppose.
66.
by lioeters 1mo ago
And the marketing to make people believe it!
67.
SQLite as a Document Database (2020)(dgl.cx)
256 points by lioeters 1mo ago|60 comments
68.
by lioeters 1mo ago
It was a Show HN, with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137841
69.
Equations explained colorfully with KaTeX and Markdown(github.com)
2 points by lioeters 1mo ago|1 comments
70.
by lioeters 1mo ago
As another comment mentioned, Raph Levien has a few words to say on the topic of improving Bezier curves. Simplifying Bézier paths (2023) https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2023/04/18/bezpath-simpli... P
71.
by lioeters 1mo ago
A faster horse.
72.
by lioeters 2mo ago
That's arguable.
73.
by lioeters 2mo ago
Entertaining and educational historical narrative, much of it was new to me. The main idea is that kings of Siam willingly and actively embraced European culture and modernization efforts, unlike other countries in Asia which resisted and i
74.
by lioeters 2mo ago
Or the more all-in-one distro, BurritOS.
75.
Nat: The Natural Unit of Information(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by lioeters 2mo ago|0 comments
76.
Arthur Eddington's Theory of Everything (2015)(arxiv.org)
7 points by lioeters 2mo ago|0 comments
77.
by lioeters 2mo ago
I see, maybe it's common sense but I do like "rediscovering" basic facts for myself. (:
78.
by lioeters 2mo ago
In another comment I made in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373317 I think it came to the understanding that a "turn" is similar to a dimensionless quantity, as it takes the full circle/cy
79.
by lioeters 2mo ago
Funny how the so-called eldritch terror is another face of what is widely considered one of the most beautiful equations in mathematics, Euler's identity that unites five fundamental constants. e^(i*pi)+1 = 0 ..which is a result
80.
How Many Fundamental Constants Are There? (2011) John Baez(math.ucr.edu)
6 points by lioeters 2mo ago|1 comments
81.
by lioeters 2mo ago
That's my rabbit hole of the week. > The current state of affairs leads inevitably to ghostly appearances and disappearances of the radian in the dimensional analysis of physical equations. In "A spectral unit", Nature Phy
82.
by lioeters 2mo ago
I try not to use parentheses, favoring other ways of interleaving thoughts - like this - unless I feel a stray idea deserves mentioning (like so). What's disgraceful that I'd never do myself, but certainly sympathetic to the moti
83.
Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs (1979)(dl.acm.org)
5 points by lioeters 2mo ago|0 comments
84.
Everything You Need to Know About 2-5 Horn Voicings(toshiclinchproductions.com)
2 points by lioeters 2mo ago|0 comments
85.
by lioeters 2mo ago
Some of the juiciest discussions on this forum recently are the perma-flagged posts with active comments and high upvotes. The moderation bias (by supposed "crowd" or not) is obvious, there are clear tendencies of suppressed topi
86.
by lioeters 2mo ago
> Goedel’s extended book review wherein he proves that Principia cannot do what it sets out to do Perhaps it's this one: On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems https://en.wikip
87.
by lioeters 2mo ago
Foreword to Nagel & Newman's _Gödel’s Proof_ - Douglas R. Hofstadter https://archive.org/download/douglas-r.-hofstadter-collected... (PDF)
88.
by lioeters 2mo ago
"..simpler and smaller.."
89.
by lioeters 2mo ago
> Is C even worth saving C doesn't need saving, it will continue to survive on its own and even flourish in niches for decades to come. So will "Java"Script. Worse is Better, respectfully, or at least Old and Simple is Tou
90.
Log-Aesthetic Curves(yoshida-lab.net)
2 points by lioeters 2mo ago|0 comments

More ›