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A parallel processor is you!

There'a a story that when someone wrote up a famous mathematician's work (Euler?), he found many errors, some quite serious. But all the theorems were true anyway. Sounds like Tao'…

Consider whaling, by killer apes.

This beats TFA. Interesting relation between cumulativeness and distribution ("Yule process"). But how does this explain variation is how quickly children pick up maths - would you…

Being more precise: I like Spivak not defining addition, multiplication or number. I just want the other steps explicit, like equality transitivity, enough to implement it (for a c…

Thanks, I'll take a look at those late chapters. The algebra is my main interest, that happens to be in a calculus text. 0a = 0 is proven later in ch 1, it's just the ordering. By …

TBF Binet's formula is astonishing

If mathematics comprises algebra and analysis, it's curious that Spivak's Calculus begins with an axiomatization of algebra. It's not complete - addition and multiplication are not…

Knuthing it.

This is like when Joel said git stores diffs.

Read of a study years ago that had postmenopausal wpmen do weight training - giving a dramatic 40% increase in bone density in 6 weeks IIRC the details. It's not that frail people …

Can't read without an account. Also "working memory" is short-term storage, like registers, the details of what you're thinking about right now. Not memory of past events, like you…

"Giving the world a solution" vs. "showing the world how flawlessly smart they are" reminds me of being "visited" by a genius (muse, inspiration). You now have the gift to share, b…

The climate change created land bridges. https://xkcd.com/552

Though famous as the first lunar lander game, the impressive part was the specific numerical techniques used.

Also the high-quality amateur scientist webpages. e.g. measurements on radiation heat loss to the sky when camping. OTOH... we now have sci-hub.se with high-quality professional sc…

Don't they (traditionally) also have a much higher meat intake than average, which supplies vitamin D?

I was curious: they all have two-syllable names except for Doc (leader).

Engineering often precedes Science. It's just more data.

Complexity signals innovation: an invention that is merely a "workshop improvement" won't get patented. Complexity signals non-obviousness. Too easy -> easily copied -> and no long…

"There's no bragging rights to your software, because it's too simple to use", a developer criticized my product. This reduced its viral spread, though managers liked it.