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by sn9 4y ago
It's still great. I think Stephenson's one of those authors where it's worth going through his work in order of publication starting with Snow Crash .
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by sn9 4y ago
More is more and less is less. If this wasn't the case, you'd have discovered a solution to famine. And gastric bypasses are one of the most effective interventions available for people with such disorderd eating that lifestyle ch
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by sn9 4y ago
It just has to average out in the long term. No one eats the exact same thing everyday. And you can eat less or more throughout the year. You've never had a holiday feast?
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by sn9 4y ago
You have several misunderstandings of basic science. "Calories" are simply a unit of energy. The energy released by the utilization of ATP can be measured in any unit of measure you like for energy. It won't change the fact t
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by sn9 4y ago
Tracking actually makes this super simple to account for. Apps like Macrofactor do it for you. You just track what you eat and your weight.
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by sn9 4y ago
The question isn't if people have time for elite levels of training. The real question is if you can get more done in the time available to you with HIIT or LISS cardio. If you're sufficiently time constrained, HIIT will win. But
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by sn9 4y ago
Is it being good at marketing or just having the obvious URL? Or is that the same thing here?
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by sn9 4y ago
Holy shit. Link for the lazy: https://www.ncrunch.net/
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by sn9 4y ago
Check out the Learning How to Learn course on Coursera.
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by sn9 4y ago
If you have an interest or experience in web development, there's a book on TDD for web development with Python you can read for free online: https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html
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by sn9 4y ago
I mean it's underwhelming if you've done it before, but for people who are unsure about how to succeed in a proof-heavy course, seeing it laid out like this in concrete steps is helpful. You've outgrown being in the target au
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by sn9 4y ago
AOPS: https://artofproblemsolving.com/store
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by sn9 4y ago
For a case study in how specifically to do this, see this post about how Cal Newport studied discrete mathematics in college: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2008/11/25/case-study-how-i-...
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by sn9 4y ago
The Art of Problem Solving series of books cover all of pre-college math and have complete solutions manuals available.
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by sn9 4y ago
One of the canonical computer networking texts, Kurose and Ross's Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach , is chock-full of these sorts of analogies and metaphors. It's very readable.
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by sn9 4y ago
It's one of the best examples of technical writing in the field. A good introduction to the basics of the language. Read it for culture. Read something else for safe C writing in a modern environment. Books like Modern C and Effecti
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by sn9 4y ago
Is that profit or revenue? I could see how webcomics could outperform manga on lower revenues due to the cheaper distribution costs.
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by sn9 4y ago
Or you could stick a fan next to the window to increase air flow.
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by sn9 4y ago
Fair, but lots of people without anything close to a SE's salary have those problems, too. Software engineers still have a much harder time justifying having a low savings rate when you compare them to the rest of the population. Gener
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by sn9 4y ago
This seems contradictory given many of the "top" students who fill up the top universities frequently have both really good scores as well as incredible amounts of extracurriculars. You'd expect there to be a tension if ACT&#
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by sn9 4y ago
http://kevinmahoney.co.uk/articles/tests-vs-types/
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by sn9 4y ago
There are medications you can take before drinking that inhibit the reward circuitry of the brain so you learn to stop the habits that make you drink when you'd rather not in hindsight. This article from The Atlantic from a few years
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by sn9 4y ago
And honestly the idea that a PhD in Mathematics from one of the top universities in the world could easily transition into CS or software engineering is one of the least controversial ideas out there.
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by sn9 4y ago
I haven't heard of grade inflation being a thing in the sciences where you are objectively right or wrong. Or if it is a thing, it's not nearly as big a problem in other more subjective fields.
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by sn9 4y ago
That's quite the journey! Thank you for sharing it. It was actually probably more insightful and useful than I think you may have realized.
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by sn9 4y ago
Depending on your mathematical background, you might find working through the Art of Problem Solving books [0] good preparation as they would build an incredible mathematical foundation for you. Honestly after working through those books,
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by sn9 4y ago
How on earth do you even find work like this? I would love to have a career working on problems like this but can't imagine how I'd get a job doing anything but commonplace back-end work.
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by sn9 4y ago
Just to throw in some praise for Sedgewick's books: the diagrams are so gorgeous that even Edward Tufte cites them for their beauty and utility. https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=... Ctrl
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by sn9 4y ago
I'd even say it sounds sacred.
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by sn9 4y ago
Deeply envious of everyone who gets to work on this. What a dream project.

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