profosaur

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by profosaur 8y ago
The fundamental strategy of calculus is to replace a nonlinear function with a tangent line approximation to that function. This greatly simplifies calculations, and the approximation is often accurate enough to be useful.
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by profosaur 8y ago
Great comment, this big picture strategy of calculus is not emphasized enough.
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by profosaur 8y ago
Calculus by Spivak is good. Abbot's real analysis textbook is also quite popular.
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by profosaur 8y ago
Do you think Tesla could have made it through production hell without Musk? Nobody knows the technical details of Tesla the way Musk does. Nobody would sleep in the factory like Musk does. Who else would have shipped a production line from
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by profosaur 8y ago
Stay strong, the Tech Lead, if you are out there.
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by profosaur 8y ago
I literally thought it was a sperm bank.
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by profosaur 8y ago
I love that OP was at least willing to provide an example of a planar map that he believed could not be 4-colored. Credit for sticking his neck out.
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by profosaur 8y ago
Anti-aging research is stronger than ever, with some very impressive results recently coming out of David Sinclair's lab at Harvard for example.
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by profosaur 9y ago
The NAND to Tetris textbook is a masterpiece. (The book is called The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles. The authors are Nisan and Schocken). I worked through the entire textbook by myself, doin
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by profosaur 9y ago
I think Hinton himself was there in the 80s pioneering neural networks, and he stuck with it this whole time. He was one of the first researchers to demonstrate the use of backpropagation to train neural networks.