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My usual answer is that math isn't too concerned with what things are , but with how they work with each other. So the answer would be: anything that works like the Peano axioms sa…

I was a very fearful flyer, couldn't stop visualizing possible accident scenarios while on an airplane, sweaty hands, grabbing the arm rest, all that. Today I rejoice the experienc…

Thanks for bringing this back to the surface. I see that SEPs design has greatly improved since I last visited it. The new looks make for a much more pleasant reading experience, r…

I think the best way to make people subservient to their government is to keep their subsistence dependent on it. There has to be a better solution for this. Automation might make …

My favourite touch screen UI on current cars is the one on the VW Golf 7. It has this proximity sensor that highlights and increases the size of buttons when your hand approaches t…

Very touching. I took some similar pictures of my mom as she fought pancreactic cancer, and of the emptiness she left on rooms and objects. I find that contemplating the pain in th…

I've recently watched this documentary called 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi'. It is about this legendary 85-year-old sushi master in Japan and his two sons who will succeed him in the busi…

What amazes me is that I read the whole article and only noticed this after reading your comment. Now I'm disturbed too.

Hi, It's great to hear that you are back on it! I stumbled on this page a couple of years ago and was saddened to see it wasn't getting updated. Thank you for this great piece of w…

Something that has been working very well for us is asking for payment before the work starts on a set of deliverables. Charging gets very simple, if he pays, you start working, if…

I don't know, I can find plenty of iPhone quality photography on the Web already. I expect professional quality content from dedicated news outlets.

Maybe he can try starting a charter city.

Interesting that he uses the term "objects in space" on this text. I wonder if it was inspired by the Firefly episode with the same name, which itself reflects the directors readin…

A little example I've come up with is writing a bunch of tests for a function you are implementing and seeing them automatically executed. Try to fix fib by changing a, b and i val…

Good point, my statement was poorly formulated. While I agree that analytic geometry and other developments in the field could be more fundamental, Hilbert's formalization can stil…

I'd also refer to Hilbert's Axioms[1], which are the basis for the modern treatment of Euclidean Geometry. [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17384/17384-pdf.pdf

I like the high resolution background image, maybe you could find a more graceful way of introducing it. Try fading it in after it has finished loading, like bing.com, instead of m…

During college, in order to plan my time, I used to measure my studying time on more mathematically intense texts. I took 30-60mins per page on average. It is a hard read, at least…