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The app has created custom keyboards for typing mathematical formulas. Makes for a much better experience.

I just posted an essay where Freeman Dyson explains his own views about the topic ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532426 or, more directly, http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dy…

The best first book on R I've read is Gelman and Hill's "Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models" ( http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/arm/ ). It's more…

A few years ago I stumbled on a wonderful art project where people used a similar technique to record world class poets as they wrote for 15 minutes. The site is still live at http…

Although the article claims that delaying employment with grad school doesn't make you money, there's some good empirical evidence that a delay can create beneficial cohort effects…

There's a negative stigma about "managers" in the startup world because the word manager is associated with pointy-haired bosses and TPS reports. A manager can, however, be a very …

I don't think we'd ever get to see the data, but this outage created a beautifully structured natural experiment. It's almost impossible for companies to learn how well they would …

Many top business schools today have grade non-disclosure policies that stop employers from asking about grades and stop students from sharing their transcripts. The students love …