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Thiel Fellows announced(20under20.org)
2 points by szany 15y ago|0 comments
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How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance(nytimes.com)
6 points by szany 15y ago|4 comments
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by szany 15y ago
Math is like a mental martial art. It doesn't need a concrete application to be useful to everyone because it shapes the way you think about everything! Besides, applications are generally not why people do math. It's really about the doing
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by szany 15y ago
Sugared LaTeX would be great. Has anyone done this?
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by szany 15y ago
I would be on my feet agreeing with him if I didn't have teachers in middle/high school who absolutely butchered math and science. It almost seems more dangerous than not teaching the subjects at all until college to make kids hate what the
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by szany 15y ago
I visualize it as projecting the function (as a vector) onto spirals of different twisting rates. Only 3 dimensions required, which is nice.
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by szany 15y ago
Nicomachean Ethics
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by szany 15y ago
Everyone needs to see this. I have at least a dozen times already and it's always as inspiring as the last.
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by szany 15y ago
Initial idea: search engine Eventually: Google -- Initial idea: computer Eventually: Apple
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by szany 15y ago
"We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years." He didn't say it's necessarily m
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A radical experiment in empathy(ted.com)
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by szany 16y ago
Required? http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_w...
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by szany 16y ago
Thoughts on SML vs. Haskell?
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by szany 16y ago
I've always wondered why Haskell doesn't support named instances: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.87....
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Web application programming with dependent types(impredicative.com)
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by szany 16y ago
Looking forward to China's inevitable Sputnik moment.
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by szany 16y ago
I would try taking as much time as necessary to explain the idea to a smart friend without an industry background and seeing how they explain it to someone else.
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by szany 16y ago
Haskell feels closer to college math than does high school math, actually. Maybe it would help in both math and programming.
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by szany 16y ago
No you're right. I missed the "preferring those choices that cause the program to converge meaningfully" part. Sorry. Disregard.
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by szany 16y ago
Obligatory: http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
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by szany 16y ago
Navia Systems is designing nondeterministic hardware. http://www.naviasystems.com/
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by szany 16y ago
Corrected in a followup comment: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=451236
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by szany 16y ago
The video demos on Palantir's analysis blogs are pretty mind blowing. http://www.palantir.com/government/analysis-blog
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by szany 16y ago
What if GPS was a commercial project?
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by szany 16y ago
If you had to pick a single company to succeed in social, would you not pick Google?
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by szany 16y ago
Note this is actually from 1993. I wonder how things have changed since then.
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by szany 16y ago
I'm guessing the experience is similar to hacking graphing calculators, if you've ever played around with those in school. That's where I got started, on a TI-84+ :) And no, it hasn't damaged my brain, I think.
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The NASA Effect(bigthink.com)
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by szany 16y ago
Has the Prelude been rewritten since? If not, are there plans to do this soon?
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by szany 16y ago
The quote is out of context and doesn't really support the point. Kay wasn't talking about soft problem solving strategies so much as concrete representation systems. Here's the full quote: "At PARC we had a slogan: 'Point of view is worth

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