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I celebrated when I made my first rendezvous in Kerbal Space Program. It's not easy to do and knowing that it was done in real life with tougher constraints was awe-inspiring.

I was being interviewed by an engineer at Palantir about 3 years ago, and they asked me if I browsed HN. I don't remember exactly how it came up, but it was a rhetorical question a…

You say that, but go back a few hundred years and you can make an analogous statement about worldwide trade. Yet, our consumption of resources have increased to meet the level of p…

You should realize that the post was written in 1999.

Why not overload the already-defined * * ? Matrix multiplication is used much more than matrix exponentation (which can be delegated to methods), and * * is already right associati…

I found this difficult to pinpoint, too, until I read about common knowledge. The example here is very relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic) At first, the…

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