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Ha ha! I worked in one of these matchbox factories as a kid. My dad had dropped me off at my grandpa's for summer vacation in the village. I was not a particularly good kid. So my …

usaco explicitly nudges you towards C++ on the first page itself. problems are graded on running time, even with moderately large datasets, Python simply doesn’t make the cut. So m…

its been a long time, but when i was taught this material, i was told there are only 3 cases - x+y=1, x+y=2 clearly has no solution since two numbers can’t simultaneously add to bo…

just to clarify - I have nothing to do with this book. I was just forwarded a copy and I thought its relevant to the topic at hand. from the wild swings in karma, looks like people…

> best LLMs are able to accelerate you https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/LAEF.pdf - this math textbook was written in just 55 days! Paraphrasing the acknowledgements - …

aside: As the Professor points out, the ratio of pi to its evil twin is ~1.198, the arithmetic-geometric mean of sqrt(2) and 1. The geometric part involves a square root, and squar…

Author has computed BBMI (baby baby money index) but mistakenly calls it BMI. If he divides the BBMI by the TFR, one B goes away and you get the true BMI which is a different ranki…

what an amazing turn of phrase - “reset and synchronization once the talking points get assembled” Literally describes 99 of the 100 post-jira action items coming out of the cluele…

Amazing story. I enjoyed reading this so much. The sad fact that this was written in 1966 - like the gentleman advocated for gutting the public school system 6 decades ago, and onl…

You are deliberately missing the point and confusing X with ‘something that looks like X’. For eg., using QBasic, you can pick some random spot on the monitor and have a white dot …

> Most of the experts from that report have a direct financial benefit from claiming that this will happen Rigetti $RGTI is up 400% this month. 135% this week alone. He’s right.

From 2022 stats: Roughly 4 million students in each grade in the US. 8th,9th,10th,11th & 12th graders = 20 million. So 20 million students are eligible for AMC10/AMC12 Of them, onl…

Aside - a long time ago, I worked on a high school math problem which involved summing the thousand fractions 0/1, 1/2, 2/3,...upto 999/1000, so I did the obvious iteration. (displ…

> how pelicans will raise two chicks and then kick the weakest there is a youtube video ( pls don’t watch ) that gave me nightmares for days on end. i had completely forgotten abou…

> it continually increases variance in the system as warming increases This is strictly false. A consistent warming trend reduces the occurrence of extreme cold events. This will n…

96! Lived a full life. RIP. I wrote a lot of QBASIC. 1986-90ish, old Bangalore. I was 12. There was no Mac or Unix or Windows in India those days. Only MSDOS. I had a 386 box. I wo…

> "let's use our very scarce resources helping the bottom kids" So why does the richest country on the planet have "very scarce resources" only when it comes to educating its kids …

The blame for why nobody says Donald goes to Walt Disney.

The hashtag is #NYTReadalong. https://x.com/hashtag/NYTReadalong?src=hashtag_click

> So you can read the movie like a comic book? people also enjoy the opposite experience. when my kid was 4-5, we watched these youtube videos which were just books. the camera hov…