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by szany 14y ago
Semantics.
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by szany 15y ago
Conal Elliott did something like this with Tangible Functional Programming.
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by szany 15y ago
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. - Kurt Vonnegut
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by szany 15y ago
You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the onl
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by szany 15y ago
I think the right attitude is to have enough humility to ask questions, not to assume enough expertise to give answers.
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by szany 15y ago
My immediate reaction: - There are circumstances where talking as if you know what you're talking about when you really don't can do more harm than good, both to you and to your audience. - The idea that we should stop learning before we ge
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by szany 15y ago
I used it to help my mom convert her American recipes to metric units, including trickier queries like "how much is 1/2 cup of butter in grams?" for which you need to know the density of butter. And problem sets of course, because typing in
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by szany 15y ago
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3458611
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by szany 15y ago
Linux From Scratch (probably the hardest reasonable way) http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
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by szany 15y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=orbital+velocity+of+ISS...
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by szany 15y ago
If anyone still needs convincing that these are superior to, say, Word: http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex
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by szany 15y ago
Imagine if physics was done this way. But it is... 1) We test theories with experiments to see whether they fail for that particular "input", we don't prove them correct. 2) One of our two best theories (QFT, the other being GR) doesn't
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Ask HN: Other Stratfor-like news organizations?
1 points by szany 15y ago|1 comments
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by szany 15y ago
Name conflict: http://mizage.com/#divvy
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2012 Thiel Fellowship application is out(thielfellowship.org)
2 points by szany 15y ago|1 comments
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by szany 15y ago
Do you know anything about mathematics?
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by szany 15y ago
Are the research and data publicly available?
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by szany 15y ago
Programming languages: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
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by szany 15y ago
"The long s survives in elongated form, and with an italic-style curled descender, as the integral symbol ∫ used in calculus." Did not know that.
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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: How to Live Before You Die(youtube.com)
2 points by szany 15y ago|0 comments
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Aesthetics for the Working Mathematician(docserver.carma.newcastle.edu.au)
4 points by szany 15y ago|0 comments
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by szany 15y ago
There's an in-class presentation and a final paper, according to the syllabus: http://floatinguniversity.com/files/Great%20Big%20Ideas%20-%...
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by szany 15y ago
You're right, it's "through" not "from". I can't edit it now.
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by szany 15y ago
per ampliora ad altiora = from breadth to depth
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by szany 15y ago
"Generating money is intimately opposed to doing altruistic good." This might be the stupidest sentence I've ever read on HN. "They ALL appear to be utterly lazy ways of supposedly helping people whilst top slicing cash and creating tech jo
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by szany 15y ago
Has anyone read his book Tempo who can comment on it?
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by szany 15y ago
"When, in the late sixties, it became abundantly clear that we did not know how to program well enough, people concerned with Programming Methodology tried to figure out what a competent programmer's education should encompass. As a result
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Haskell For Kids: A Web-Based Environment(cdsmith.wordpress.com)
2 points by szany 15y ago|0 comments
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Astro Teller (Director of New Projects at Google) on Innovation(youtube.com)
1 points by szany 15y ago|0 comments
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Singularity University Lectures: Astro Teller on Innovation(singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com)
11 points by szany 15y ago|0 comments

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