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FWIW, Jonathan Shay's /Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character/ [1] touches on this. It's a good book. IDK if Shay's book qualifies as "professional literat…

I found https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/no5jDTut5Byjqb4j5/six-and-a-... very helpful for getting intuition for what the K-L divergence is and why it's useful. The six intuitions: 1…

> Maintenance is absolutely a possible issue, and due to their restrictions the engines are generally MORE needy than normal GA aircraft. Interesting! How so? > Part 103 compliant …

Setting the legalities aside, flying any of these without the training behind a pilot's license sounds like a great way to have some fun, right up until you have a really bad day. …

Real analysis takes balls.

Not quite. Metonymy is calling something by the name of a related object. The most common use of metonymy is probably "the White House" for President Obama's (Bush's, Clinton's, et…

Original paper (linked in article): http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v105/i16/e161301

It looks like the author is attacking statement C from the official problem description ( http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Navier-Stokes_Equations/n... ). That statement asks for…

I've found Terry Tao's blog (in particular the stuff linked at http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/ ) fascinating and helpful.

(Single) integrals are freshman calculus, which is nominally taught in the first year of university. In reality, my experience is that many students (and, I would guess most scienc…

Baroque vs. classical music: That is at best a very simplistic view of the situation: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music#Transition_to_the... . Also, note that counterp…

re: Bach: agreed. I've found that really listening to Bach -- even starting to understand his use of counterpoint -- requires enormous concentration, but is totally worthwhile; for…