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Street Fighting Mathematics! Loved taking this Sanjoy Mahajan's course on OCW in high school

Some zig zag motions are required to maintain velocity and the combat is fun. I like it!

Learning how to implement Prolog in pg's On Lisp was a fun way to spend multiple weeks programming. Doing this again this year should be a lot of fun.

Lambda, The Ultimate Container

This essay nerd sniped me hard into information theory. Absolutely love it.

Thank you for the links - I can't stop replaying Love

Reading textbooks. Using a REPL-based language like Lisp (which I learned from reading advanced Lisp textbooks) for several years before I worked professionally as a programmer ena…

Hello HN, co-founder (Brian Muhia), here to answer any questions!

1. You get a state-of-the art training loop that includes the latest research findings such as 1-cycle. 2. Yes. You can make everything project-specific if you want to. e.g. Image …

Try a schedule that keeps you on ~ two hours a day, focusing on at least one of the videos in the 14-video series. So: 14 weeks, paying attention to one video a week and whatever p…

Wow, when I hear about perverse incentives, I don't usually think about people spending their lives showing their clients a taste of a possible future until a high enough reward ge…

Maybe if they randomized to n<=20 n-gons. I'd love to see Dactyl tackle a dodecahedron.

The conclusion of this paper is, paraphrasing, "We should stop using point estimates for what should be distributions. When we do that, we get much lower bounds and have a better c…

https://github.com/fastai/fastai/tree/master/courses/

One year of Python, with high school and introductory college courses. Some basic linear algebra, familiarity with logarithms etc.

Givewell's founders know this, which is why they spun off the Open Philanthropy Project: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-r...