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Came here to say something similar. Humans are much closer to “other” animals than what they think, and social instituions like marriage were created to prevent social mayhem.

For most of my life, I have been one of those guys who were like your friends. The point about intimacy hit hard - I have never seen such a simple point expressed so beautifully.

No, just via books. I have a degree in mathematics which I completed 20 years ago so part of it is just recalling what I had learned. But otherwise I just bought books covering the…

Yes I watch all his videos. My favourite is “Some very needed comparisons”. I started doing.(just for fun) a complete under-graduate and graduate course in Mathematics in my spare …

Glad to see a book by Andrei Martyanov being recommended here. I have read all three of his books. There is no reason to trust or agree with everything he writes, but unfortunately…

On the topic of recommendations, linking to one of my favourite short story of all time. I always get a slight shiver whenever I read it. https://www.k-state.edu/english/baker/engl…

We often hear that choosing the right algorithm will get rid of all performance problems. There is no "need" to understand what is happening under the hood and all programmers shou…

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Agree, people probably underestimate the value of documentation. For example, Michael Kerrisk the well-known author of the book The Linux Programming Interface is the maintainer of…

Putting on my philosophical hat for a minute, I would say that while humans have put in lot of social structures to counter evolutionary tendencies, they still slip through in all …

Agree, I have been in the industry for long enough to see that they are discriminated against. One thing which can counter the effect of height is humour - people who are funny and…

One of his best recent work was his post on Audible. https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/07/audible-exclusive/#audibl...

I am personally still doubtful of Rust's adoption. I consider the 2008-2014 period the peak hype cycle for Haskell and don't see that it changed professional programming much. I pr…

> free=response questions that are automatically evaluated and can handle fairly complex mathematical expressions - man, was that a lot of work! Wow, that's excellent. I can imagin…

My biggest worry with these kind of programs is that the questions are invariably multiple choice ones. How would we practice proofs or questions where the answers are not "seen"?

Ok. I am based out of India though, so not yet sure if we can make the time zone work. You can reach me in Whatsapp or Signal - my 10 digit mobile number is 10^10 - 119214203 (excl…

Came here to recommend this. I completed my bachelors in mathematics back in 2003. However, recently I am thinking of going back to school to study graduate level mathematics or hi…

You should look at Susan Rigetti's post - https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics