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by sn9 11y ago
Follow that up with his slightly more advanced The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering [0]. I feel like these two books plus Art Benjamin's Secrets of Mental Math [1] would put your Fermi calculation abilities on another leve
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If you can program in C at the level of K&R, your first step is to work through Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective [0]. Coursera has a course called the Hardware Software Interface [1] which covers the same material if
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> First, I normally take pen and paper notes and then scan them in for posterity. Second, I normally don’t post my notes online, but I’ve been inspired to try this by Jamie Brandon’s notes on books he’s read. My handwritten notes are a s
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I actually first read this through a link on one of Scott's articles a few months ago.
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Bingo.
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How do you think the first computer scientists and programmers learned it? Or, for that matter, anyone who picks up programming? (My own mother started in her late 20s or early 30s on punch cards, having never even touched a computer.) Ever
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If you'd prefer a secular angle with some scientific background, Sam Harris's Waking Up is excellent. Reading about Greek Stoicism (Seneca's Letters are a great starting point) and Buddhism and comparing their similaritie
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It can also be used to schedule review of problems. You can enter homework problems (like page number and problem number) into Anki and use that to schedule review. You can use it to review proofs, too.
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Udacity has a course on [Software Debugging]( https://www.udacity.com/course/software-debugging--cs259 ) taught by Andreas Zeller, the original author of DDD. Anyone who'd like to learn a more systematic debugging p
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I'm not sure whether or not it would have been a good movie, and its deviations from the source material would surely have driven me up a wall, but there we parts of that documentary that gave me goosebumps. Absolutely recommended to w
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+1. This was my introduction to CS/programming and is the counterexample to any claim that C makes for a terrible first language. It just needs a phenomenal lecturer. The computing environment gets you going with Linux which avoids IDE
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That's why reading the manga is almost always the superior experience compared to watching the anime adaptation. The adaptations usually insert so much unnecessary filler because they'd otherwise catch up to the latest manga chapt