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   How to learn mathematics: The asterisk method(topology.org)

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   > I mean sure, physics advancements are good and important, but I would say what's holding us back as a species is climate change and human suffering and inequality. It's unfortunate that most of the general public does not und
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   Migration for the benefit of all (2002) [pdf](eric-weinstein.net)

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   Everything You Need to Know About NASA's New Mars Rover(popularmechanics.com)

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   From "How & Why Government, Universities, & Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists & High-Tech Workers" by Eric Weinstein (2017) https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog&#x2F
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   David Goodstein – The End of the Age of Oil(youtube.com)

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   The Launch Is Approaching for NASA's Next Mars Rover, Perseverance(nasa.gov)

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   > That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup ca
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   How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist(staff.science.uu.nl)

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    > Which problems should we be solving? You cannot use the scientific method to answer that question. The best you can try and do is use empirical evidence and science to strengthen your position, in an attempt to convince others and&#x2F
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    > The way to see this most clearly is to ask 1000 educated, not random people, what critical theory [0] is. Maybe one will be familiar with it? We've had people thinking about the problem you're describing for nearly 100 years
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    How Government Create Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers (2017)(ineteconomics.org)

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    Why isn't every physicist a Bayesian? [pdf](astro.princeton.edu)

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    Econometrics Should Always and Everywhere Be Bayesian [pdf](sims.princeton.edu)

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    Probabilistic Thinking(princeton.edu)

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    > I don't like how the common advice for writing resume, which I can only presume reflects what hiring managers want to see in someone's resume, says you must quantify your achievements. It's not about résumés but about ho
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    > Still doesn't matter. Folks like the OP won't support writers. For what it's worth, Tim O'Reilly notes, in "Piracy is progressive taxation"[0], that: >> Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors
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    From Robin Hanson's "The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth"(2016): > Today, people who are seen as “workaholics” tend to make more money, to be male, and to focus their socializing on scheduled tim
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    > Another good book is Advanced Calculus: A Geometric View by James Callahan. Thank you for this! For those of us who had real difficulty with Advanced Calculus, Callahan's methodical, visual, generous approach is deeply felt and ap
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    > [...] but the idea is that geometry shouldn't depend on a choice of coordinates Indeed, in "Tensor Geometry" (Dodson & Poston), they note: > Most modern "differential geometry" texts use a coordinate-fre
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    Why NetNewsWire Is Fast(inessential.com)

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    What Is Complexity Science?(complexityexplained.github.io)

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    > [...] military supremacy and having the best weapons in the world is a huge part of why the dollar is THE global currency. However, in "How the United States Could Lose a Great-Power War" (RAND, 2019)[0], we read: > [...]
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    What Will the Next Semiconductor Node Offer Us? (TSMC, 2019)(youtu.be)

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    Covid-Modeling Learning Guide(sites.math.washington.edu)

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    Covid-19: Unprecedented Challenges and Chances(hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu)

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    What is the Random Oracle Model and why should you care?(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

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    Smartphones vs. Covid-19(youtu.be)

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    When talking about the size of an economy, it's more useful to give actual statistical calculations indicating hypothesised/alluded size than to offer anecdotes. Has anyone actually studied this and mathematised their thinking? On
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    > Because often, code compiled with -O3 is slower than code compiled with -O2. Because "more optimizations" do not necessarily mean "faster code" like you seem tobe suggesting. Indeed, due to patterns of resource use