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Crãciun fericit!

That's quite unexpected. Thanks.

But... you have to know what a derivative is for in order to be motivated to learn how to do it. If it's all just mindless manipulation, how will one know whether to apply this or …

Thanks, that page is nice, but it too emphasizes that you also need a clock. That's essential and it was the point I was trying to make. For example, a thing that is usually glosse…

The title of the course is misleading, as it suggests that NAND gates are the only required primitive, whereas the course later introduces DFF gates, without which you cannot escap…

Don't forget Google X (the original one)!

For a long time, I thought he and Joseph Campbell were the same person (as in "the mentor of Asimov, the one with the hero's journey").

Yes, if you want to depict the relationships between four sets.

"an embedded Forth with a Lisp in C" :) Sounds like the opposite of what the post is advocating.

I also interpreted it the 'wrong' way.

The "men's" championship is actually open to everyone.

I hoped some source code would surface.

By "first inaccessible ordinal" you mean epsilon_0? (Probably you mean it in the sense of the first one inaccessible by addition, multiplication and exponentiation.) Because there …

If K-A-T doesn't spell 'cat', what does it spell?

This is old news. Also, slightly misleading, since it suggests to those that know the old news that MS has released later DOS source code, i.e. 6.22.

This reminds me of how disappointed I was in my adolescence by how all airports look the same. Only much later I realized that almost any kind of building has a common design and r…

I would like to see a mature language using fexprs. They are what I first thought about when I heard the word homoiconicity. Macros seem inelegant in comparison (since there is a s…

First read this as "the race to explain that time was personal".

The double negation translation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-negation_translation

Also, Scott Alexander on Red Plenty: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty/

I didn't know she was a woman the first time I read the first three books. Granted, this changed quickly.

My thoughts exactly.

I first thought of the Japanese custom of naming time periods after Emperors.