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I second that. Crpgaddict's work ethic is beyond legendary, at times bordering on insanity. Honestly, I find Chet's blog to be one of the best and most valuable places on the inter…

Just for the record, "horses against tanks" is well known to be propaganda bullshit.

There is a fundraising effort to fund the translation of Grothendieck's biography, written by Winfried Scharlau: http://www.gofundme.com/7ldiwo I've read the 1st volume of the biog…

> Further, it shocks me at how bad the graphics are at some of these games after looking at them again after decades. I played MI 1 and 2 in the early 1990s and after revisiting th…

Just a side note - you're probably conflating Perimeter Institute (www.perimeterinstitute.ca) and Institute for Quantum Computing ( http://iqc.uwaterloo.ca/ ). Both are in Waterloo…

Maybe the article itself is a honeypot.

"The Wire" is not "some TV cops and robbers show", but a complex narrative that depicts exactly the kind of situtations we're talking about (yes, it's styled as police drama, but i…

>I would refuse to work anywhere that I was expected to stand aside and ignore fraud, or where I was punished for doing what everyone would agree is the right thing (...) You don't…

The thing that has always puzzled me is if one's opinion on "talent vs hard work" is actually correlated to one's amount of talent. You can often hear very gifted people say things…

I absolutely love the ending: "After this, they decided to pass me, though they said that my harmonic analysis was far from satisfactory. :(" especially when compared to the Fields…

There is an important factor discouraging publishing source code - fear that there indeed are bugs and they will be exposed. This is blatantly "security through obscurity", but I f…