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This certainly won't solve the problem, but I would at least like to banish the term "side load", which is a kind of Orwellian word that takes something everyone used to do all the…

I’ve thought quite a bit about getting a teacher, but have hesitated for a few [somewhat legitimate] reasons. Among them, I’m partially disabled and can’t practice consistently. Ho…

I recently started learning the piano as an adult, and from what i've gathered from reading and watching videos, the 'folk wisdom' about how to avoid rsi-type injuries is to minimi…

Describing it as "Octopus DJ with no fingers" got rid of the hands for me, but interestingly, also removed every anthropomorphized element of the octopus, so that it was literally …

I don't think that characterization is fair at all. It's certainly true that you, me, and most humans can't solve these problems with any amount of time or energy. But the problems…

I looked at the Typst documentation and from what I could tell, it has 3 hard-coded "Modes" for 3 hard-coded kinds of syntax (normal, math, code). I couldn't find any way to add an…

"The researchers analyzed bilingual dictionaries between English and more than 600 languages, looking for what they call “lexical elaboration,” in which a language has many words r…

The researchers discussed the study here (also linked towards the end of the article): https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_...

I think the issue was that they are representing a real as a product of a rational and that more complicated type, so without a symbolic representation for 1, when representing and…

It was discovered that the procedure mechanism of Algol 60 was effectively equivalent to the lambda calulus. This insight was written out in a famous paper by Peter Landin, "Corres…

Frank Wilczek has argued for something similar to this point of view. Here's a non-technical 'op-ed' where he discusses it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7pl5V0YU9taaXE0ZWJNRzl…

A mathematics degree will have some kind of 'transition to higher mathematics' course that you take your freshman or sophomore year. You meticulously work with sets, definitions/th…

It's amazing how far we've come in a few centuries. From sketching a few visible features with the help of a telescope, to mapping out the microscopic variations in the moons gravi…

I agree with you that academic summary works are probably the best way for a non-researcher to learn what exists, what's known (and what isn't). Since i've never seen them discusse…

"Python's predecessor, ABC, was inspired by SETL -- Lambert Meertens spent a year with the SETL group at NYU before coming up with the final ABC design!" --Guido van Rossum https:/…

Here [1] is a great (short, readable) paper from 2015 that explains Timsort and similar stack-merge sorting algorithms. It also gives a runtime analysis, and a simplified version o…

My vulnerability is that I take immunosuppresants, which makes the vaccines significantly less effective (last I heard a few months ago, fully half of the breakthrough infections o…

Here's a nice 20min presentation by Nima Arkani-Hamed in favor of a new collider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4zv80qs3Q

The American Mathematical Society has a long catalog of reviews of mathematics books, although they are often very short and not enlightening by themselves: https://www.ams.org/pub…

There were quite a few utopian socialist (not necessarily anarchist) projects started in the United States in the 19th century, especially following the proto-socialist Charles Fou…

>spread in places like the Bay Area may have started as early as January This is known for certain in Seattle. The first case was in mid-January[1], then six weeks passed before th…