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> math books and physics books are works describing the world as it is, and in that case, are the closest glimpse of the divine that you're likely to get in this life That's where …

Isn't mine :)

Kik was the name of the npm package that is the source of all the recent hullabaloo. "Kiked" is an instance of unfortunately misinterpretable verbing. I parsed it that way too at f…

There's a massive project going on in math using GitHub to write an open-source algebraic geometry textbook. http://stacks.math.columbia.edu

I wrote this answer to a similar question in /r/math last year. You might enjoy it: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/3ixyw3/how_can_i_begi...

Indeed, I wish someone could talk about how the value/policy thing works.

I needed this :)

> --cherchez-stackoverflow

http://aperiodical.com/2015/11/riemann-hypothesis-not-proved...

I have a feeling a lot of people think the second is quantum-crankish in places (I'd agree).

I posted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539083 It seems timezones matter a lot. :)

See if you can bring a new approach to the problem. You could solve it in a completely different way by focusing on some other part of the process.

This is beautiful.

GP probably meant Nadella, if someone's wondering.

Re the point made at the end: there's a ton of fuzzy completion engines.