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I would hazard to guess its due to two things: 1) a lack of understanding about how the machine works, and in particular the way the memory is organized; and 2) lack of explanation…

Google has a history of doing things like this. In their IPO filing, they intended to raise $2,718,281,828 [see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/E_-_base_of_n... ].

As a math major, my view is probably biased, but I feel like one of the reasons mathematics is so widely used and applied in other fields such as physics, CS, and even biology thes…

The great G.H. Hardy felt similar: A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made wi…

This is a pretty interesting topic. I'm reminded of the famous trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel after WW2 and Hannah Arendt's book about the trial, "The Banality of Evil". Eichman…

Knuth's observation on money appears to be explained by the economic 'law' of diminishing marginal utility.

I recommend The Apology of Socrates and The Republic, both written by Plato. The former because it's an excellent introduction to one of the west's most influential figures (Socrat…

Something slightly interesting might be the Rubik's cube group. By considering the Rubik's cube a group under the rotation operation, then we can essentially completely solve the R…

I think integrating would be better, because it seems wrong to judge a products "success" only at some specific instant of time, rather than judging it over a full period of time. …