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The survey app takes an interesting approach to raising people's awareness of slave-labor conditions, but it doesn't make sense (or only makes sense for a particular demographic) t…

Excerpt from Paul Lockart's _Lament_: "At no time are students let in on the secret that mathematics, like any literature, is created by human beings for their own amusement; that …

The color classification scheme used in the visuals (e.g., foundations, combinatorics, number theory, and abstract algebra grouped together in the purple-red range; differential eq…

Interesting quote from this re intermittently visible bugs: "Computers simulate determinism."

Actually, when a magazine interviewer asked Jessica about the percent of women among ycombinator-funded founders, I was very interested in her answer. Not because I suspected YC of…