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by rramadass 2mo ago
Countable and Uncountable Infinities - https://philosophicaltreasures.com/countable-and-uncountable...
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by rramadass 2mo ago
See the original paper linked to here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478566
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Russell's Paradox -> Hilbert's Program -> Godel's Theorems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287595 Bhartrhari's Paradox can be said to be analogous to Russell's Paradox (though of cour
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Nice. I have the A.N.D.Haksar, Purohit Gopinath translations of all the Satakas and Swami Madhavananda's translation of the "Vairagya Shatakam". Need to get the others ;-) Also see https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Thank You. Bhartrhari ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhart%E1%B9%9Bhari ) is a pretty difficult philosopher who seems to be enjoying a revival now due to the ascendancy of AI LLMs and the question of whether they can be
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Thank You.
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by rramadass 2mo ago
While technology can and should be used to develop intuition, it does not help much when trying to map intuition to formalism. And that is where the epsilon-delta definition is hard to grasp; continuous is always more subtle/difficult
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Hah! Nothing new; "All Art is Propaganda" is a well known quote by various authors - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/04/08/art-propaganda/ Also George Orwell wrote a set of essays under that
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by rramadass 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381231
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by rramadass 2mo ago
The article is conflating between two fundamental but different concepts; 1) Semantics of Language Constructs (part of Solution Domain) - These are just tools used to express any intention. You can make this as simple or powerful as you wan
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by rramadass 2mo ago
You are reading things which were not said nor implied in my comment. I merely echoed the phrase used by the OP article (should have used quotes to make it clearer). When you have had great Greek (Classical and Hellenistic) schools of philo
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by rramadass 2mo ago
I am still not clear on how exactly it works :-( Need to read some more and maybe sit with pen/paper to see how it can calculate and/or evaluate some logic conditionals. Computers are mainstream but the concepts behind computing
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by rramadass 2mo ago
For more details see; Ian Lance Taylor's 20-part essay on linkers - https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/
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The most thoroughly commented linker script (probably)(blog.thea.codes)
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by rramadass 2mo ago
You can probably do this by maintaining two parallel stacks, changes to prologue/epilogue code and runtime startup files.
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by rramadass 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343032
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Preventing stack guard-page hopping - https://lwn.net/Articles/725832/ According to this article, allocation in page sizes with implicit probing is used; Stack clash mitigation in GCC, Part 3 (-fstack-clash-pr
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Key Points: The government has yet to decide the rate or exactly where it will apply, but proposals under discussion include a merchant discount rate (MDR) of 0.3-0.5% - a small fee paid by a business to the banks and payment companies tha
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Related to the above, two important concepts to know w.r.t a stack are "Red Zone" and "Guard Pages". Raymond Chen again; Why do we even need to define a red zone? Can’t I just use my stack for anything? - https:/
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Details on how it works and similarity to FPGA at "Retrocmp" site; DIGI-COMP I - https://retrocmp.com/articles/digi-comp-1
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Don't give up so easily :-) You can buy it from the publisher directly since they do international shipping. Contact them for the shipping charges. You might also want to check Amazon India and see how much it costs to order from them.
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Try a google image search for something like "India Calculus book blue cover" (and similar phrases) and you might most probably find what you have been looking for. When it comes to Calculus most people get traumatized due to the
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Thanks for the pointer; will definitely take a look at it. Btw - Your name seemed familiar and then i remembered, you are also the author of "Programming from the Ground Up".
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by rramadass 2mo ago
My point is that the ideas of Sequences/Convergence/Infinity (Heine's definition) provides a better intuition than the epsilon/delta limits of function definition. The former is discrete so you could literally take any i
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by rramadass 2mo ago
For folks who might be interested to know more; ARINC defines a series of standards for Avionics Systems and Communications - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC ARINC 429 is the most widely used data bus standard for
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by rramadass 2mo ago
> The Bible (New International Version, large print) > This of course is the cornerstone of Western culture and no well-educated person can be without a knowledge of what is in it. This is just dogma and factually wrong. The cornersto
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by rramadass 2mo ago
> the removal of sequences and all the associated theorems from the introductory calculus. Instead, start with limits of functions and the notion of continuity. Strongly disagree. Sequences(discrete) and Convergence are vital to understa
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by rramadass 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308281
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by rramadass 2mo ago
Some good books for introductory Calculus; 1) Calculus: Basic Concepts for High Schools by Lev Tarasov. Soviet-era book written as a dialogue between the author and reader. Absolutely fantastic (also see his other books on Probability etc
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by rramadass 2mo ago
I am now beginning to suspect that you are validating the skepticism that i expressed in my original comment. You have been pretty cavalier about your claims (a high school student, really?) which cannot be accepted at face value. As alread

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