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Article authors don't typically write the headlines that appear above their pieces.

This site is not as ground-up or comprehensive as Susan Rigetti's page, but I have found it useful: https://statisticsbyjim.com/

Got it. Now, where is the car?

Its reputation is eternal: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12012003

When I first went back to school for tech stuff (ultimately a master's in EE), my instructor for the entire calculus sequence -- and later on for linear algebra -- struck what I fo…

I think these things are changing, though I hope the changes come sooner than I suspect they actually will. I know there is ongoing discussion about how to bring rules more in line…

It's unfortunate that that was your experience. The VE experience does vary a lot from one region or group to another. I know there are VE groups that absolutely do better than thi…

I agree, but would add the importance of #3. You can't transform/manufacture things without some process for doing so (or doing so more efficiently or effectively than was previous…

A couple years ago I threw together some MATLAB functions to take a wolfram number and a seed row, along with some cosmetic parameters, to generate elementary cellular automata. No…

The survival and progressive sophistication of human society and culture has always depended on the effective function of community-level values -- whether understood in terms of d…

'indexes' has been a just-fine variant of the plural for a very long time -- actually it's the first one listed in Merriam-Webster, so probably the more common variant, though I ha…

He typed (edit: and handwrote) hundreds of these open letters, technical notes, reports, etc. Here's the archive at UT: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

On this topic, Douglas Hofstadter's book Le ton beau de Marot is organized around this and related topics: poertry, translation, language and literary play, and the challenges and …

The "don't roll your own" argument isn't against having lots of encryption algorithms, though. It's because it's nearly impossible for a nonspecialist to implement tools that other…

I don't entirely disagree, but I feel like quotations are so often used in discourse without any context, and with a problematic sort of "pure" attribution to the genius of the per…

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/26/two-reasons/

Right? At 300 baud you could almost read the text as it appeared. Buying a 9600 baud modem after a year or two at 2400 felt amazing, like, "wow, whole lines of text appear before I…

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> Or would she have received a slap on the wrist for that. Or would she have received a pat on the back, given that she went through the Standard Procedure for adding a feature to …

And the popup message is one Google is required by law to make available to its employees.

Certainly bold and perhaps ill-advised, but I would hardly characterize this as "injection" > Spiers told NBC News that she was inspired to create a digital notification because “a…

Even if the Boring Company is hip, I guess no one can get away with saying they're not boring.

The Control Lectures series by Brian Douglas on YouTube is a fantastic resource ( https://www.youtube.com/user/ControlLectures ). Also U. Mich. has a great set of control tutorials…

I lived in a Polish neighborhood in Brooklyn for a few years, and absorbed as much orthography and pronunciation as I could during that time. I ate a few pączki, too. While I learn…

Haven't read the other one, but the Yates is great. Another indispensable book for historical context about the Classical transition from oral to literate culture (and its implicat…