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by topologie 4y ago
This is really awesome. It's literally a real-life version of what happens in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. :) From the wiki page: `Harry finds an old potions textbook, once belonging to "The Half-Blood Prince", an
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by topologie 5y ago
- Herodotus: The Histories (Landmark Series version highly recommended). - Any book by Nassim Taleb (I'd recommend starting with Antifragile). - The Count of Monte Cristo (Most fun novel I have ever read). - Moby Dick or The Whale (One
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by topologie 5y ago
So, what about Dwarf Fortress? (Would anyone recommend Factorio over Dwarf Fortress?)
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by topologie 5y ago
Some of my favorite fiction books: - Seiobo There Below, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai - The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas - Moby Dick, by Herman Melville - Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy - Cuentos Completos, by Jorge Luis Borges
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by topologie 5y ago
I remember watching the following video on Kintsugi a while ago and liking it quite a bit: "Kintsugi: The Art of Embracing Damage" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT55_u8URU0
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by topologie 5y ago
“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.” ― John Cage
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by topologie 5y ago
Good. Too much Productivity causes cancer. :)
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by topologie 5y ago
Love that expression. I recently read this about it: https://essenceofbuddhism.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/what-the-...
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by topologie 5y ago
Maybe not, Chesterton's Fence applies: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
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by topologie 5y ago
Pirates! !
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by topologie 5y ago
I came here to mention Pirates! too. Pirates! !!!
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by topologie 6y ago
I disagree. If the Russian School of Probability taught is anything is that we should always think in inequalities, as such it should read: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is AT LEAST an order of magnitude larger than t
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by topologie 7y ago
“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level,
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by topologie 8y ago
Stanislaw Lem provided some good foundations for this. It suffices to read, say, Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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by topologie 8y ago
I'm not 100% sure why f(1)=0... I ran it in Mathematica and it checks, but I just can't see why at first glance... Any help here?
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by topologie 9y ago
It looks even better than the MIT course itself. I hadn't heard of Wigderson before, but now I'm definitely going to keep an eye on his work. Thank you for sharing this.
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by topologie 9y ago
All you need is here: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html
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by topologie 9y ago
Random Matrix Theory.
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by topologie 9y ago
I had to recommend to most people I shared this with to check out the previous video first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlI1KOo1gp4 "Your brain can be modeled as a simplicial complex, and Algebraic Topology can tel
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by topologie 9y ago
Yeah, but, like 3-D spaces are like so last year. ;) Also, paywall free version of paper: http://brainmaps.org/pdf/graph.pdf
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by topologie 9y ago
One should never make another person feel bad for any self-admitted lack of mathematical knowledge, ever. I know a bit of math myself, and sometimes I do ask such questions as "have you heard of 'math concept X' or ' phy
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by topologie 9y ago
Do you think it's connected in any way to https://www.wired.com/2013/02/big-data-means-big-errors-peop... ??? If not, what is your interpretation of the XKCD cartoon?