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by zapw 10mo ago
For many students, it is not so simple to grasp the concept of an abstract vector space. They could be taking linear algebra as college freshmen, without having seen any formal algebraic structures before. Many are unfamiliar with the forma
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by zapw 1y ago
Listening to audiobooks is included in the survey (but they also mention that most people who listen to audiobooks also read print books; you are likely an outlier in that regard).
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by zapw 1y ago
Yes, agreed completely. You can get a lot (but not everything) from context. The text will be clearer if you look up unfamiliar terms (which they were allowed to do). But if you gloss over Lincoln's Inn Hall as "obviously some kin
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by zapw 1y ago
Since other commenters seem to think that the passage is just the first paragraph of chapter 1 (the fact of which suggests its own meta-commentary on the content of the article), it's worth mentioning that the passage is the first seve
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by zapw 1y ago
To understand the passage and what follows, it is actually important to know what "Lincoln's Inn Hall" is. And to be clear, it's not an "inn" in the standard modern usage of the term, but rather a rather a prof
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by zapw 3y ago
This was strange and disappointing thing to read. Why such a conspiratorial tone ("we are being lied to", "we have enemies", etc.)? Since this is written by Marc Andreessen, I did a search for "crypto" and &quo
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by zapw 3y ago
> What information does Applite track? > None. Absolutely love this part of the page---we need more software with this philosophy. Kudos.
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by zapw 3y ago
For git config, the --show-origin flag is really useful for this, e.g. git config --show-origin --list