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The fundamental strategy of calculus is to replace a nonlinear function with a tangent line approximation to that function. This greatly simplifies calculations, and the approximat…

Great comment, this big picture strategy of calculus is not emphasized enough.

Calculus by Spivak is good. Abbot's real analysis textbook is also quite popular.

Do you think Tesla could have made it through production hell without Musk? Nobody knows the technical details of Tesla the way Musk does. Nobody would sleep in the factory like Mu…

Stay strong, the Tech Lead, if you are out there.

I literally thought it was a sperm bank.

I love that OP was at least willing to provide an example of a planar map that he believed could not be 4-colored. Credit for sticking his neck out.

Anti-aging research is stronger than ever, with some very impressive results recently coming out of David Sinclair's lab at Harvard for example.

The NAND to Tetris textbook is a masterpiece. (The book is called The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles. The authors are Nisan and Sch…

I think Hinton himself was there in the 80s pioneering neural networks, and he stuck with it this whole time. He was one of the first researchers to demonstrate the use of backprop…