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Here's a link you can use to explain the topic to people who make this mistake: https://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Languages/persian_not_farsi.h...

I believe that the 'official answer' is that SageMath is the best of the free software CASs. I personally use Maxima, because it's good enough for my use cases (which involve a lot…

I might be interested. How many people are you? What is your background (professionals/students/etc)? Are you planning to work in Java, C, or C++?

One of the few surviving industries we've got.

Yes and no. Maybe I should have quoted the following part of the parent's comment: > whenever civil protection and economic freedom gives them any semblance of a choice, the number…

> Having children is a horrible deal for women though Women in every rich country have fewer children than they desire: https://medium.com/migration-issues/how-big-is-the-fertility…

I've personally read An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions Paperback by Peter Eccles and Chapter Zero by Carol Schumacher and would recommend them …

I'm not quite in the situation you're looking for, because I have got an undergraduate maths degree, but due to my personal situation at the time, I wasn't a good student and I hav…

I've actually recently read "FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING: Application and Implementation", by Peter Henderson from 1980, which contains a description of the SECD machine and a compiler …

I agree with you, but this is how bullies get their way.

William Shawcross's Independent Review of Prevent [0] has on page 24 > 3.46 While the products related to Islamist terrorism focus on the most serious material relating to violent …

SML is probably my favourite programming language, and ML for the Working Programmer is probably my favourite programming book. It is indeed sad to think that I'll probably never u…

Your own link says: > However, a large number of epidemiologic studies (both case-control and cohort studies) in humans have found no consistent evidence that dietary acrylamide ex…

Apparently, this is a myth: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc...

I did that a bit more than a decade ago and everything worked except for the "picture language" section from chapter 2, but that's a very minor part of the course. There may have b…

I feel like I live in a society without a culture, let alone a counterculture.

> That can also happen in two-year long programs as well, especially in those that allow you for less than a semester from proposal to defense. I can imagine that. My own programme…

Yes, my own MSc dissertation was very rushed and of low quality, unfortunately...

The problem is that universities, at least in my experience here in the UK, are just getting more bureaucratised and less committed to pure (non-corporate/"enterprise") research. I…

Since I haven't seen many discrete maths books, he's my list: Beginner: NL Biggs, Discrete Mathematics, Oxford University Press Intermediate: PJ Cameron, Combinatorics: Topics, Tec…

I discovered Autocode from the following passage of [0]: > Alick Glennie (UK) > In their contribution "Programming for high-speed digital calculating machines" (1953), the British …

I've already started improving my C++ knowledge with www.learncpp.com and Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition)" because my PhD supervisor is into C++ and I've g…

Depending on your definition of `Computer Science', [2] is already the link you're looking for. Church, Turing, von Neumann, McCarthy, Shannon and many other founding fathers of Co…

Sadly, that's not something easy to find if you're not born into one...