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I'm not anymore, but I used to be a research mathematician. I absolutely cannot remember how to do long division, though I was certainly competent at it at one point. I'm also terr…

> Why are no of the other people in the meeting using a Vision? Check out Marques Brownlee's video on this - they probably _were_, it renders your face using the internal cameras i…

Devs ruining your fun I'm afraid https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/s7i4xu/1151_added...

The creators talk about this in the companion podcast - the idea was that literature/media from these games still exists (which we can see as Ellie has the poster), and the only wa…

I had the pleasure of being taught mathematics by the creator of Inform, Graham Nelson, at Oxford (and Oxford class sizes are _small_, 2-5 students). He’s a super interesting guy -…

If you go looking for elixir stuff it’s there, and it seems like its usage in industry is expanding at a steady pace. IMO this is because it’s a reasonably approachable language de…

I agree with this. It irritates me hugely when we estimate tasks by complexity and then use our estimations to determine which tasks we can accomplish in a sprint.

There are a few ways. Maybe a research group wants to investigate a connection to another discipline. Maybe the research group comes across a talented student and sees the potentia…

> he never mentioned Principia Mathematica again. ??? This paper contains a nice summary of Gödel's interactions with Russell. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge…