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Columbia is also in New York, so for Feynman it was one of the major universities closest to him.
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Pick something that's harder to learn outside of college than inside. Pick something you're actually interested in. Pick something you where you can articulate a path to financial security. Remember that double majoring, minoring,
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https://examine.com/supplements/creatine/faq/ZJ73RJV-does-cr...
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I kinda undersold it, too. They go much deeper than what you learn in high school. You'll build a foundation strong enough to flourish in any undergraduate math program in the country, including those in the Ivies. More than enough for
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by sn9 3y ago
Book of Proof: https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/ Art of Problem Solving for if you need/want to rebuild your pre-college foundations: https://artofproblemsolving.com/store Cal
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by sn9 3y ago
A lot of the daily fluctuations in weight, even in just everyday life for people not in hospitals, involves changes in water weight rather than actual changes in the tissue mass. For example, I regularly fluctuate +/- 3lbs or so around
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by sn9 4y ago
I've used python for graphviz just because I wanted some looping for many-to-one or one-to-many relationships and the auto-complete that comes from anything with an LSP or Python mode. Honestly I'd use it just for the auto-complet
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by sn9 4y ago
Part of it is just trying to solve problems that are at your level and slightly beyond your level. Part of it can be from learning more systematic approaches like the Design Recipe you learn from working through How to Design Programs and
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by sn9 4y ago
That's for out-of-print copies. I snagged a used copy for $70 because I wanted to compare it to the newer 2nd edition which is way more affordable [0]. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Read-Linguistic-Clarence-Barnhar...
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by sn9 4y ago
Because the land still has value so it's cheaper to just build a new house on the land.
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You just have to look at the university curricula for a few universities' math programs. Then find the syllabus for each course and look at the recommended textbooks. You should be able to find the best ones that way.
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by sn9 4y ago
Fans of "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" might wish to check out "Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach" [0]. It uses a similar phonics approach but uses basic pattern matching to teach kids in a much simp
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Hubbard and Hubbard's Vector Calculus is a great introduction to multivariable calculus and linear algebra that ends with an introduction to differential forms. And it has a complete solutions manual you can purchase as well. https:
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I have arbitrarily terrible episodic memory, especially so for professional stuff. If I don't have the commit history to check, I have trouble describing what I did in the last month in anything like a lucid level of detail. I've
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Thirding Widom's course! It's my go-to recommendation for anyone wanting a strong foundation in SQL.
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I'd check out Cal Newport's work on efficient study habits and apply Anki where it makes sense. For example, read this and follow the links: https://calnewport.com/case-study-how-i-plan-to-study-for-my... Obviousl
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You can use SRS to schedule the review of problems you've understood how to solve. Front of card: where to find the problem (e.g., book, page number, problem number). Back of card: where to find a solution (e.g., solution manual, page
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Michael Nielsen has also written some influential stuff on SRS [0][1]. [0] http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html [1] https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics
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Instead of setting a goal of getting through some number of cards, have you considered spending a maximum amount of time per day? Like say you block of 30 minutes per day for Anki. Most days you'll probably have time left over, but som
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The UI/UX of executeprogram is genuinely amazing and the way lessons are broken down is extremely well-thought out! Definitely recommended for anyone wanting to learn JS/TS, regex, and SQL (especially in conjunction with Jennifer
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The problem/solution is that you use ChatGPT to help you write a script/program that can do the transformation for you. You can test and audit and understand such an artifact and trust that it works. So the problem for the people
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Pretty sure Netflix uses a ton of Spring. It's one of the most common frameworks in the industry across languages.
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Part of the reason the Irish Potato famine was so devastating is that you can get all of your nutrition from just potatoes and buttermilk. Like plug it into a nutrition calculator and see for yourself.
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Urban sprawl is hardly the only solution to increasing density. You could easily massively increase density by simply building more 4-8 story apartment complexes in the style of several cities around the world like Paris. SF isn't an i
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The comparison shouldn't be to individual humans, but to societies of all scales. AIs can scale horizontally as well as vertically.
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Rust just exposes the complexity an equivalent program in C leaves you to find at runtime. It doesn't have to prevent every bug, just substantially more than the languages it might replace. You can write simple or complex code in any l
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I saw a video of an interview earlier today on Youtube with someone on the GPT$ Red Team who tried to see what they could get the early versions of GPT4 to do or say. It was shockingly easy to get GPT4 to explain how to kill the most amount
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by sn9 4y ago
Sometime in the last decade, I installed Mathematica which involved downloading and running a 1GB shell script! Naturally I was curious what such a shell script consisted of, but most tools choked on it. IIRC, even vim and less couldn'
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The progress in AI isn't fast enough for you?
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by sn9 4y ago
https://www.arewewebyet.org/

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