LimpWristed

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by LimpWristed 11y ago
You're over-exaggerating :) From the wiki link, the very first definition works just fine. In fact, I don't see anything about unions, disjointedness in there. Certainly, no group theory. You don't need to know how to constru
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by LimpWristed 11y ago
> more conservative and trusting of the government Don't American conservatives tend to distrust gov in general? Or is it more like nonprofessional + conservative = distrusting of gov?
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by LimpWristed 11y ago
I think that's partially because people generally tend to become more conservative as they age. Older generations, then, act as if sex, rebellion, and curiosity never existed.
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by LimpWristed 11y ago
> If you are a "skilled" person of foreign nationality would you rather go to the US or China if you would have an option ? Do you know if China is evolving culturally? The reason I wouldn't want to live in a place like Ch
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by LimpWristed 11y ago
Wikipedia has the same definitions that are in your textbook, but often provides much more readable proofs as compared to the very short and "elegant" ones or unwieldy monstrosities in your usual textbooks. At least that's tr
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by LimpWristed 11y ago
> Most of the Wikipedia articles on technical subjects, and especially on mathematical topics, are terrible as introductory exposition. Yet they are trivial(and often more helpful) as compared to the arcane material in a math text.
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by LimpWristed 11y ago
Are you comfortable with proving math statements? If not, How to Think About Analysis by Lara Alcock is an amazing intro to Analysis. http://www.amazon.com/Think-About-Analysis-Lara-Alcock/dp/01...
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by LimpWristed 11y ago
I am a cashier. Never use math. I doubt anyone outside academia and parts of industry ever uses math in its proper sense.
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by LimpWristed 11y ago
> Everyone concedes that these are fundamental, but they have been scandalously neglected, perhaps in the naive belief that anyone learning calculus has outgrown them. In fact, arithmetic, algebra, and geometry can never be outgrown, and
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by LimpWristed 11y ago
I am new to all this. I was thinking to get started with The Elements of Computing Systems by Nisan/Schocken. Is Project Oberon something entirely different? If not, how do they compare?