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by zbinga 12y ago
I understand they don't want to issue certificates without verifying the identity of the person taking the course, but what's with the sudden jump from "requiring identity verification" to "requiring payment"?
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by zbinga 12y ago
It's not at all like SICP (I've never met a math book that was similar), but it's a wonderful introduction and I don't see it mentioned in this thread yet: Needham's "Visual Complex Analysis".
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by zbinga 12y ago
Heh. I bought SICM expecting it would be "SICP for physics". I started reading and felt out of my depth after just a few pages. But it seemed interesting, so I got a Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics book and started reading th
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by zbinga 13y ago
This. Exactly this, and I think it's not a coincidence that learning Scheme was also like this, but for programming.
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by zbinga 13y ago
Today I learned that Americans still swipe their credit and debit cards in a magnetic strip reader.
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by zbinga 13y ago
The original was copy-protected, I believe, which means it cannot be archived in the standard .dsk format (there are some more complicated formats that represent a disk at a lower level, but they are not very well supported by emulators). I
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by zbinga 13y ago
If you make one with two extra keys under the space bar, for use as thumb-activated modifiers, and Cherry blue switches as an option, I will buy one. For now, it's not really bringing anything new to the table, except for those Cherry
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by zbinga 13y ago
Titrate is invisible.
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by zbinga 13y ago
Well, it might be the case that you were lacking some assumed prerequisites (don't forget that the book is aimed at MIT undergraduates, who will have some background in math and physics). But if you cannot relate an exercise to the sub
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by zbinga 13y ago
It's this generation's notion of a personal computer. I like it.
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by zbinga 13y ago
If this had [micro]SD card support, I would be pre-ordering one right now.
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by zbinga 13y ago
"One space" has no meaning in the finished TeX document. Space is a variable quantity. When using English typographical rules, the amount of space between sentences is larger than the amount of space between words, but both are va
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by zbinga 13y ago
Yes. I will be very happy to carry not only my data (as I do now) but my whole computer in my pocket, plug it into a keyboard and monitor at home and at work, and use the built-in screen (and perhaps a foldable bluetooth keyboard) elsewhere