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by susanrigetti 5y ago
For me, it’s all about consistency. It’s spending a few minutes to a few hours every day, forever, til the day I die. I usually can squeeze in 30 minutes to an hour every day to study something (whether it’s math or something else — right n
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
I will tell you the secret: just jump in. Grab a pen and paper, open up the first book in any of the guides, and start reading. Read for 15 minutes, or 20 minutes, or whatever time you have on your lunch break or before you go to bed or whi
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
That’s what the real analysis course is usually for, and why it comes after linear algebra and algebra.
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
I want this too. Let me know if you find anything!!
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
I suspect that people forget that undergraduate programs don’t really cover very much. This true not just for math, but for pretty much every other major. I mean, think about how little of physics you learn if you only take undergraduate co
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
I suggest taking another look at the list and comparing it to the required courses of the undergraduate math majors at the top 20 universities in the USA. Real analysis, complex analysis, topology, and number theory are there (topology and
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
Yeah, iirc the ebook formatting made the book difficult to read.
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
For what it’s worth, the curriculum in this guide is modeled after the math major maps of many universities, including the one I attended (Penn). I would be curious to know what part of an undergraduate math curriculum will lead people very
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
In that case, I recommend starting out with Zill's Precalculus with Calculus Previews and then working through Stewart's Calculus: Early Transcendentals!
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
If you have a solid background in calculus, I'd recommend Zill's Advanced Engineering Mathematics, which is pretty much basic math for physicists and engineers (aka for people who need to "use it").
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
You cut out the middle of that paragraph, which says: "Sadly, there is all sorts of baggage around learning it (at least in the US educational system) that is completely unnecessary and awful and prevents many people from experiencing
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
guilty as charged! :)
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
Check out my physics guide: https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics . It has both the physics core curriculum AND the math essentials you need to know in order to understand the physics essentials. (And thank you!)
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
Gross's review of linear algebra from his MIT algebra course bridges the gap: http://wayback.archive-it.org/3671/20150528171650/https://ww... . A combination of that and then chapter 11 in D&F sh
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
Agree that Baby Rudin is VERY difficult to study on its own. I recommend only studying it alongside the other two books I listed: Abbott's Understanding Analysis and Spivak's Calculus (which has a solutions manual). Abbott in part
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So You Want to Study Philosophy(susanrigetti.com)
2 points by susanrigetti 5y ago|0 comments
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by susanrigetti 5y ago
Awesome!! I have it all outlined, just need to skim through the textbooks again and then type everything up. I’m putting up the philosophy list next week and then all my spare time will go into finishing the math one!
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So You Want to Learn Physics, Second Edition(susanrigetti.com)
6 points by susanrigetti 5y ago|3 comments
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A Smarter Way to Think About Intelligent Machines(nytimes.com)
2 points by susanrigetti 8y ago|0 comments
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How Do You Get Cybersecurity Students to Think Like Criminals?(nytimes.com)
11 points by susanrigetti 8y ago|3 comments
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by susanrigetti 9y ago
Yeahhhh, so refusing to interview or consider women for positions is very much against the law in the United States. Might not want to do that.
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by susanrigetti 9y ago
I never once in my life imagined that one of the first comments on a front-page HN post would be one that claimed that refusing service to Nazis was "spurious" and "bigoted" and that said comment was not flagged-to-obliv
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by susanrigetti 9y ago
Hey there! I don't make very much on affiliate links but I've kind of done what you want to do on my personal website. I'm a big reader so I post links to what I read and have made a specialized reading list for physics. The
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by susanrigetti 9y ago
The parent comment is not correct. No, you will not be "legally complained against" (I think you mean "am I breaking the law") if you compliment your coworker's hairstyle. See this: https://www.eeoc.gov&#
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by susanrigetti 9y ago
Yes. We do. Sexual assault: From the DoJ: "Sexual assault is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forc
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by susanrigetti 9y ago
They're both interesting but they're not "canons" in the traditional sense. The first is a short resource of the bare-bones subjects in CS with the handful of most popular books, and the second is an intro book about bas
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by susanrigetti 9y ago
I was a little surprised by the list of works included in the canon until I realized after a more careful reading that it's more of a reading list for a particular class the author appears to teach. I'd love to see an actual CS ca
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by susanrigetti 9y ago
ouch!