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I still have a copy of this(in telugu) in pristine condition :) - https://mirtitles.org/2011/12/08/science-for-everyone-this-f... Yes Visalandhra publishes some of the classics even now but the quality is de
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The smell yes! This may sound weird and is completely unrelated but I felt the smell of new Apple products comes very close to that of Misha magazines. Noticed it with every Apple hardware I bought so far starting from the 1st generation Ma
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I used up all my Mishas for covering books unfortunately :/ Have just a couple of them. It's not that difficult to find the Science/Math books - Yakov Perelman, Little Mathematics Library etc in old book stalls in Andhra but
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This should keep you busy :) http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/
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I was raised on these Soviet books in India and remember feeling sad and angry when Soviet Union broke up because all these amazing magazines (Misha anyone ?) stopped coming from Russia all of a sudden. PS: I uploaded about 50 of these book
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Yesterday I came across this interesting result dealing with shortest number with the digits 1 through 7 arranged in all possible orders, thanks to John Baez on twitter [1]. Great to discover this here. De Brujin sequences as mentioned in o
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Nokia N9 / Meego yet. Slickest mobile UX ever!
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> 2007 MacBook had the best laptop keyboard I'd ever used. You mean 2007 Macbook Pro right ? One of the best tactile responses I'd ever experienced on a keyboard. Thinkpad T520 was another I really enjoyed typing on.
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I find the end bit even more amusing :) https://youtu.be/hoh4TmPzu1w?t=558
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Discovered him on Twitter last year and was immediately blown away to see how his compositions resembled futurist and constructivist works to an uncanny extant. (Malevich, Kandinsky et al.) There is something about his choice of color palet
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This reminded me of the technique of combating a forest fire with another from the opposite direction. Read about it as a kid in Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perlelman.
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I'd recommend Feller for Probability seeing how you are interested in rigor and completeness. For Bayesian approach, I'd suggest Probability Theory - The Logic of Science by E.T.Jaynes.
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Listed the solutions for n = 3 and 4 here. Could help you with debugging- https://imgur.com/a/fHS4tNd
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Nope :( The sequence starts with 1 because there is just one triangle with an area of 2 that satisfies the conditions. I ended up with a sequence similar to your previous one when I forgot to take the absolute value of area -- x1 (y2-y3) +
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Just a hunch but I think you might be skipping isosceles triangles. And possibly adding right angled triangles because of floating-point arithmetic.
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Close enough but wrong :) I went the same route as you did and realized my mistake after a while. Base and altitude values can be fractional/irrational too. PS : I bruteforced my way to the answer.
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Will explore them. Thank you for the suggestions. I was heavily into Futurism and Dadaism during one of those phases back in college and devoured the works of Tzara, Schwitters, Russolo, Ball, Duchamp, Ernst etc. Those manifestoes still giv
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I was gonna comment on how some of the works appear to have been inspired by those of Max Ernst but seeing how they are contemporaries, it could've been the other way for all we know. Thanks for the share.
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MDN, Scikit-learn, Requests, RethinkDB, Django are a few that come to my mind.
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Wonderful write up. Thanks for the share.
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Wow. Thanks for sharing that piece of trivia! Now I get what this song from 1981 - The fish needs a bike by Blurt - was referring to. I always thought it was a reference to some surrealist work or something :) https://www.discogs
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This works well for me too :) Specifically when I am going to sleep. Recently, I spent a couple of days working on "tight paving/tiles" problem from Knuth's Christmas Lecture ( https://www.youtube.com/wat
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Taking a break from sitting at the desk and going for a walk and thinking about the problem has worked surprisingly well for me many times. It was something I first read about in a Poincare's article on how Mathematical ideas are gener
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Really glad to have stumbled upon this. Brilliant collection. Also, I'm happy to see that the Last.fm scrobbler I use works seemlessly with this. https://github.com/web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler
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I am a huge fan of KEXP channel on Youtube. Discovered many wonderful postpunk/experimental/alternative bands thanks to them. Glad to see someone share the sentiment.
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This got me thinking about what an appropriate word for hovercraft in Sanskrit could be. Sarva-Madhyama-Plavaka maybe? Translates to something that jumps/glides over all media. Edits: Grammar
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60 year old Combinatorics Problem partly solved by an Amateur Mathematician(theguardian.com)
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Just signed up. The community looks wonderful and I'm really looking forward to participate and learn. Thanks again for the share. Cheers
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Thanks for the share. I've been meaning to study category theory for a while now. This course and the suggested literature looks really helpful.
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Really glad to have stumbled upon this. The author's homepage at http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ appears to be a treasure trove of interesting mathematical tidbits.

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