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This argument can't persuade those who never have any views of their own and always adopt the currently acceptable ones.

A wonderful video that references several children animes of that time, including the Moomins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJSk3sh3zlo

Benoit Mandelbrot often complained about this style of mathematics, and how its dominance in France forced him to go to the US. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNy…

Most command-line interfaces use the readline library. To switch them to vi bindings put the following in ~/.inputrc: set editing-mode vi

The course seems to be still mirrored in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/academictorrents_54cd86f3038dfd4...

This is just the intro. The full document is available at https://archive.org/details/a_research_unix_reader/ .

The text editor Vis ( https://github.com/martanne/vis , previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15710533 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11445389 ) is expl…

Peter Woit's critique of this article: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8068 .

The best introduction to spaced repetition, Michael Nielsen's Augmenting Long-term Memory ( http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html ), includes a detailed explanation of how to use…

"...study actively. Don't just read it: fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? W…

mruby ( http://mruby.org/ , https://github.com/mruby/mruby ) is the official attempt to do just that. Depending on what you count it's around 30-60kLOC. It has a standalone bytecod…

The best and most practical introduction to spaced repetition is Michael Nielsen's Augmenting Long-term Memory ( http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html ), already discussed in htt…

Another option is Void Linux, which is explicitly inspired by NetBSD.

Maybe Leo Maslíah.

The thing is that Licklider's vision of computers as "interactive intellectual amplifiers for all humans, pervasively networked world-wide" has already come to pass, and created hu…

Except for Bolyai, all mentioned above are indeed Jewish. Also all mentioned in your other comment (Fejér etc.) except Bollobás. Also Wigner, mentioned in another comment.

Let me recommend Void Linux. Its init system is runit, which is djb daemontools based and super simple. I switched a couple of months ago from Arch, and was surprised at how easy i…

Most of these classics, especially the Greek ones, were forgotten in Western Europe of the middle ages. They were preserved in the Byzantine and Muslim cultures and were reintroduc…