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I think the biggest mistake people make when thinking about mathematics is that it is fundamentally about numbers. It’s not. Mathematics is fundamentally about relations. Even numb…

This is one of the areas where memorization/deep familiarity with material is important. Sometimes, when I have a difficult problem, I will spend time reading up as much on the pri…

Actually we have the descendants of both with us now and they are roughly the same size in terms of spectatorship Circus Maximus - Nascar - 250,000 spectators Coliseum - Football -…

Brings back memories. But with a focus more on C++ features. I started with Visual C++ 1.0. There were no templates. Visual C++ 2.0 had templates. There was by Visual C++ 3.0. They…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4 Is a fun presentation by Matthew Kulukundis (designer of Google's Hash Table) with Hyrum Wright offering objections from the crowd (Hyru…

I think that is what this article is addressing. You can never have a thorough protocol that always works. Doctors need to be trained in the limits of protocol. This is why the hum…

> Several years ago, I was involved in a case that illuminates the difficult position many doctors today find themselves in. The patient was pregnant, close to delivery, and experi…

Apart from networking, the hourglass design is common throughout Electricity is an hourglass. Coal plants, solar panels, gas turbines, wind turbines, nuclear power plants all produ…

I personally find software development to be enchanting and am often thankful to have a job like this. I get to make in the comfort of my home creations where I am only limited by …

What is really interesting is looking at the meta analysis cited in the Vox article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3932762/ This reaches the conclusion that beta blo…

The code presented has problems, but they are not the problems the author thinks it is. The code is listed as c++. However, it is using a style that will result in problems. First …

> Except they don’t. American Airlines, Delta, and United are running out of flight numbers, and nobody knows what to do about it. All of the above mentioned airlines are the size …

Especially when teaching children, limiting abstractions is helpful. A 5 year old can tell you what: 10 PRINT “HELLO” 20 GOTO 10 Does. You can basically look at each line In isolat…

> “By pinpointing AP-1 as a master controller linked to aging across cell types, we can now study the effects of drugs that reduce its activity to extend quality of life,” he said …

Reposting my previous comment: What technology has brought is choice and options: A woman can choose to decouple having sex with getting pregnant. A person can choose to live hundr…

Apparently, instead of batteries the original idea was to have them be part of a brain based neural net which makes a lot more sense than batteries. But this was felt to be too com…

Most of the reasons for doing and the advice also applies to personal programming projects: * Don’t begin with a ship in a bottle. * Have a ‘learner’s mind.’ * Aim for meaningful r…

One issue is that this is mixing civilizations where we have a written historical record with civilizations where we don't have that and rely on archeology alone. The problem with …

I think part of the reason is that people understand that while in games such as chess, etc the entire state of the “universe” of the problem is provided to the algorithm, in the r…

> 3. And then write programs with vectors and maps. But the maps this time are absl::flat_hash_map (or another C++ alternative hash map such as Folly F14, etc) instead of std::map …

> One can roughly divide mathematical education into three stages: Similarly with programming. 1. Write programs that you think are cool 2. Learn about data structures and algorith…

This actually makes me a bit concerned about long term, general Ozempic use. This to me at least makes one suspicious that this pathway is very deep in the reward subsystems of the…

1453: Printing press will erode human creativity one pressed page at a time. Every copy of every page in a book was unique reflecting the humanity of the scribe copying the work. N…

That is true that it was originally for cardiovascular issues. However, it seems that there was at least theoretical consideration that it could be used to treat ED A nice overview…

> The distinction between history and prehistory has been dissolving for some time The difference between history and prehistory is like having the source code with comments (histo…