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by tildedave 3y ago
This book is the reason I was able to pass my computer architecture exams in grad school. Just lugged the 800 page monstrosity around an entire semester and read it every chance I could. A really wonderful book ... I should get a recent c
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by tildedave 6y ago
Kevin Conrad has a more in-depth paper on this at roughly the same maturity level, also motivated by Feynman's story: https://kconrad.math.uconn.edu/blurbs/analysis/diffunderint....
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by tildedave 6y ago
The continuum hypothesis is more like Euclid's parallel postulate than a Gödel sentence - assuming ZFC consistent there are models with CH true and CH false (the cardinality of the continuum doesn't have to be the first uncountab
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by tildedave 6y ago
As someone who took a number of mathetical logic classes between undergrad/graduate I always found this Gödel-sentence argument on the face-laughable, since the logical inconsistency was so easy to repair. My favorite critique of this
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by tildedave 6y ago
Not a historian, but _Why the West Rules - For Now_ by Ian Morris was a good read. Covers the sweep of world history with the audacious goal of quantifying human development at all moments in history. It mainly focuses on the west (starti
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by tildedave 6y ago
Sorry to point you to more references, but the AskHistorians subreddit has a pretty good survey of views on the issue. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/search?q=zinn&restric...
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by tildedave 6y ago
I'm really excited for the movie and the casting looks incredible so far. I wonder how the 2 movie split is going to work narratively. The book itself has kind of a perfect 3 act setup but I'm not sure breaking the story at the
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by tildedave 6y ago
I'd guess comments like this come from people thinking the primary complexity of Redux is the data store, rather than the "all changes to your state are represented as plain objects". The Redux FAQ goes into this: https:&#x
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by tildedave 7y ago
I've been pursuing mathematics as a hobby for the last 2 years or so. I got a mathematics major in undergrad so my motivating factor was mainly to explore some areas that I hadn't done coursework on, primarily algebra and number
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by tildedave 7y ago
Appreciate what you're saying, but the linked paper is talking about results in F_p[T], the polynomial ring.
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by tildedave 7y ago
Even if the number field is finite, there are an infinite number of polynomials for it. For example the finite field F2 has two elements {0, 1} but an infinite number of polynomials 0, 1, x, x + 1, x^2, x^2 + x + 1, x^2 + 1, «x^2 + x, and
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by tildedave 7y ago
Ah, just making the point that the questions don't occur in a vacuum. By the time something's bad enough to consult random strangers on Reddit the problem has sometimes escalated beyond the point. Often the "dump him"
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by tildedave 7y ago
A more charitable interpretation is that people have gotten into situations bad enough where they've ended up seeking advice from strangers on the internet. (Not every relationship squabble ends up in a reddit post.)
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by tildedave 7y ago
I listened to _Right Ho, Jeeves!_ this year from Librivox ( https://librivox.org/right-ho-jeeves-by-p-g-wodehouse/ ) and I'd second his recommendation for it. Sort of a perfect novel.
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by tildedave 7y ago
I've been attending a local UU Church for the last few months (raised no religion, this is my first spiritual community). While there's mention of the spiritual life I think about half the congregation would identify as atheists.
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by tildedave 7y ago
Was able to log in (finally)
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by tildedave 7y ago
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-iam/19001 says they'll give an update by 4pm pacific
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by tildedave 7y ago
We're seeing our OAuth login attempts be redirected to a "Clear Your Cookies" page help. Clearing cookies does not resolve the issue.
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by tildedave 8y ago
Agree. The assumption underlying this is that you should use a bulk of your outside-of-work time to advance your career and grow your technical skills. True for some, not true for others.
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by tildedave 8y ago
My personal favorite is _The Tombs of Atuan_ - it introduces a new character, creates an entire world around her, then pulls all the assumptions beneath the world apart.
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by tildedave 8y ago
This is one of my go-to sites for optimizing Postgres queries. While all the information is available in the text output there's something nice about the site highlighting the rows scanned for the bad parts of the queries in a dark re
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by tildedave 8y ago
Great eassy. I read a few of her novels last year (Left Hand of Darkness, the Dispossessed, and some of her Earthsea novels). What struck me is even with the amount of effort that goes into building her worlds, she turns her lens back on
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by tildedave 8y ago
If you turn off the "show the best tweets first" option in your content preferences you get a chronological timeline back. (They made this change a month or two ago)
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by tildedave 8y ago
One of my favorite video series on YouTube is Francis Su's _Real Analysis_. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqEyWLGvvdw He walks through the basics of constructing the real numbers, defines metric spaces and proves
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by tildedave 8y ago
I thought this was very well and succinctly put, thank you. Having made many similar mistake to those in the original article, it's obvious to me when looking back at those situations that the real issue was team fit. Individual acts
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by tildedave 9y ago
http://askakorean.blogspot.hk/2013/07/culturalism-gladwell-a... has a little bit of a different take on this - mainly aimed at Malcom Gladwell's _Outliers_ discussion of these incidents. The article goes a bi
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by tildedave 9y ago
I took Jeff's senior level Algorithms class at UIUC back in 2002. His lecture notes are really high quality and presented in a very engaging style. Definitely worth checking out! He also gave some very difficult homework problems. U
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by tildedave 12y ago
I think there's a lot true in what you've written. However the root cause fix applied in a development environment is not always the fastest way to stop a user facing problem. Things get weird on live servers. I'm not suggest
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by tildedave 12y ago
This will be a huge help for teams of larger developers who use Github. It's really easy for a branch to "look okay" at the unit level (generally covered by the commit status API) and then completely fail at the integration l
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Application Failure Scenarios with Cassandra(tildedave.com)
2 points by tildedave 13y ago|0 comments

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