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by gorilla0 4y ago
Came here to say something similar. Humans are much closer to “other” animals than what they think, and social instituions like marriage were created to prevent social mayhem.
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by gorilla0 4y ago
For most of my life, I have been one of those guys who were like your friends. The point about intimacy hit hard - I have never seen such a simple point expressed so beautifully.
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by gorilla0 4y ago
No, just via books. I have a degree in mathematics which I completed 20 years ago so part of it is just recalling what I had learned. But otherwise I just bought books covering the entire curriculum - some based on Susan Rigetti’s blog post
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by gorilla0 4y ago
Yes I watch all his videos. My favourite is “Some very needed comparisons”. I started doing.(just for fun) a complete under-graduate and graduate course in Mathematics in my spare time after watching this video.
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by gorilla0 4y ago
Glad to see a book by Andrei Martyanov being recommended here. I have read all three of his books. There is no reason to trust or agree with everything he writes, but unfortunately the current trend is to try and suppress any kind of discus
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by gorilla0 4y ago
On the topic of recommendations, linking to one of my favourite short story of all time. I always get a slight shiver whenever I read it. https://www.k-state.edu/english/baker/english320/Maugham-AS....
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How Capitalism Kills Good Software(profstevekeen.substack.com)
3 points by gorilla0 4y ago|2 comments
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Simultaneously True(aydnina.com)
1 points by gorilla0 4y ago|1 comments
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by gorilla0 4y ago
We often hear that choosing the right algorithm will get rid of all performance problems. There is no "need" to understand what is happening under the hood and all programmers should only work at higher levels of abstraction. My t
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Quality(aydnina.com)
1 points by gorilla0 4y ago|0 comments
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by gorilla0 4y ago
Agree, people probably underestimate the value of documentation. For example, Michael Kerrisk the well-known author of the book The Linux Programming Interface is the maintainer of the man-pages project and has probably has more contributio
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by gorilla0 4y ago
Putting on my philosophical hat for a minute, I would say that while humans have put in lot of social structures to counter evolutionary tendencies, they still slip through in all our interactions with other humans.
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by gorilla0 4y ago
Agree, I have been in the industry for long enough to see that they are discriminated against. One thing which can counter the effect of height is humour - people who are funny and extrovert can get over this to a large extent (I guess this
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by gorilla0 4y ago
One of his best recent work was his post on Audible. https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/07/audible-exclusive/#audibl...
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Free as in Freedom 2.0 (2011)(fsf.org)
2 points by gorilla0 4y ago|0 comments
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by gorilla0 4y ago
I am personally still doubtful of Rust's adoption. I consider the 2008-2014 period the peak hype cycle for Haskell and don't see that it changed professional programming much. I predict it will be similar for Rust.
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by gorilla0 4y ago
> free=response questions that are automatically evaluated and can handle fairly complex mathematical expressions - man, was that a lot of work! Wow, that's excellent. I can imagine that would have been a lot of work. > People li
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by gorilla0 4y ago
My biggest worry with these kind of programs is that the questions are invariably multiple choice ones. How would we practice proofs or questions where the answers are not "seen"?
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by gorilla0 4y ago
Ok. I am based out of India though, so not yet sure if we can make the time zone work. You can reach me in Whatsapp or Signal - my 10 digit mobile number is 10^10 - 119214203 (excluding country code).
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by gorilla0 4y ago
Came here to recommend this. I completed my bachelors in mathematics back in 2003. However, recently I am thinking of going back to school to study graduate level mathematics or higher, and possibly do a PhD in a related field. My tentative
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by gorilla0 4y ago
You should look at Susan Rigetti's post - https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics