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A Half-Year with Decker (HyperCard-Inspired Playground)(beyondloom.com)
3 points by roi 3y ago|0 comments
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by roi 4y ago
This argument can't persuade those who never have any views of their own and always adopt the currently acceptable ones.
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by roi 6y ago
A wonderful video that references several children animes of that time, including the Moomins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJSk3sh3zlo
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by roi 6y ago
Benoit Mandelbrot often complained about this style of mathematics, and how its dominance in France forced him to go to the US. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyuXKOMU5k https://www.youtube.com
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by roi 6y ago
Most command-line interfaces use the readline library. To switch them to vi bindings put the following in ~/.inputrc: set editing-mode vi
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Masks4All: Wear a mask to stop the spread of Coronavirus (Jeremy Howard)(masks4all.co)
118 points by roi 6y ago|150 comments
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by roi 7y ago
The course seems to be still mirrored in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/academictorrents_54cd86f3038dfd4...
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by roi 7y ago
This is just the intro. The full document is available at https://archive.org/details/a_research_unix_reader/ .
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Reading List: Sunburst and Luminary (The Apollo Guidance Software)(fourmilab.ch)
1 points by roi 7y ago|0 comments
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by roi 7y ago
The text editor Vis ( https://github.com/martanne/vis , previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15710533 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11445389 ) is explicitly i
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Quantum Computing for the Curious(quantum.country)
154 points by roi 8y ago|24 comments
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by roi 8y ago
Peter Woit's critique of this article: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8068 .
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by roi 8y ago
The best introduction to spaced repetition, Michael Nielsen's Augmenting Long-term Memory ( http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html ), includes a detailed explanation of how to use Anki for studying books.
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by roi 8y ago
"...study actively. Don't just read it: fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What ab
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by roi 8y ago
mruby ( http://mruby.org/ , https://github.com/mruby/mruby ) is the official attempt to do just that. Depending on what you count it's around 30-60kLOC. It has a standalone bytecode compiler, so the
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by roi 8y ago
The best and most practical introduction to spaced repetition is Michael Nielsen's Augmenting Long-term Memory ( http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html ), already discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by roi 8y ago
Another option is Void Linux, which is explicitly inspired by NetBSD.
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by roi 8y ago
Maybe Leo Maslíah.
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by roi 9y ago
The thing is that Licklider's vision of computers as "interactive intellectual amplifiers for all humans, pervasively networked world-wide" has already come to pass, and created huge economies of scale and exponential pressur
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by roi 9y ago
Except for Bolyai, all mentioned above are indeed Jewish. Also all mentioned in your other comment (Fejér etc.) except Bollobás. Also Wigner, mentioned in another comment.
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by roi 10y ago
Let me recommend Void Linux. Its init system is runit, which is djb daemontools based and super simple. I switched a couple of months ago from Arch, and was surprised at how easy it was, and how completely useless (at least for my use case)
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by roi 11y ago
Most of these classics, especially the Greek ones, were forgotten in Western Europe of the middle ages. They were preserved in the Byzantine and Muslim cultures and were reintroduced to the West starting from the 12th Century, a process whi