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One of the most fascinating characters out there for sure, without fail his posts make me consider a new perspective. He left HN unfortunately, he might be too brash for this site …

I read The Steadfast Tin Soldier for the first time when I was a kid but it didn't have a special meaning for me until my late teens, when I first fell in love.

It's easier to walk up to the woman that's been eyeing you at the party, speaking from experience.

There is a comment on the r/slatestarcodex subreddit with supposedly true information about him (which I found googling 'who is gwern'), but it left me with even more questions. ED…

For anyone interested who could not follow the reasoning in the paper, it is explained extensively in this video [0] by Michael Penn. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFKbVTHK4t…

Symbolic mathematics is severely underexplored in undergraduate studies, and the little exposure I had was generally tied to proprietary software such as Mathematica and MATLAB. I …

The moments captured in my images are fresh, but my perspective on them changes. I am doing an experiment in memory and trying to memorize the name of every U.S. county, with the a…

In order to have a mature discussion about this topic, it's necessary for people to know about the economic and political history of Argentina. It's impossible to understand their …

He is known by all members of the Chilean Navy [1], he is not obscure in this part of the world. By the way, I am chilean and lived most of my childhood just a block away from Lord…

As an occasional general aviation pilot (I found this HOWTO after trying to find tools to aid in flight plan calculations), I think it would be great if we took it a step further a…

I read the two first or so papers of the book and understood them, but I coulnd't get past because I lack the sufficient probability theory (I'm a functional analyst). Now it's bee…