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Thank you for answering that person’s question so clearly. I was also in the dark and this really helped.

If I had to suggest where the “combination of four languages” idea came from, it would be from Homeric Greek (the language the Iliad and Odyssey were written down in). This was gen…

Richard Hamming’s “Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics” is a wonderful introduction to calculus from one of those rare individuals who mastered …

I feel like I may have misunderstood the point of the article because this seems like an obvious explanation to me. A pair of parentheses in Scheme tells the interpreter that it ne…

That second sentence is very insightful.

This was my immediate question. If the "faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all for free", and then are force…

That reminds me of 'Truman Sleeps' from the Truman Show played, again, very slowly. It's a bit creepy... but I like to listen to it when I'm studying. https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Sounds like they need to develop a news feed news feed to keep them fed with all the latest news about their news feed development. Plus side: if it works well, they can just repla…