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Why not The Princeton Companion to Mathematics?

Probability theory application at first glance seems to happen solely in data science projects. Are there avenues wherein one could apply probability theory for more interesting go…

Not really sure what the author thinks he got right about Zuckerberg

> “traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful. This really sounds like an attack on masculinity. One must n…

I think there hardly is any field out there where once the roadmap is mapped, the roadmap doesn't look long and convoluted. Overcoming being overwhelmed is something your relative …

"the theory that would not die" I didn't expect much, and don't think I was a fan of the first chapter because the story is pretty well known atleast in my circles. But it grows ex…

Is it bad to have expected to the article to be all about how his alleged virtue help become the famed figure he is today? This was just another portrait of his work.

so in summary: 1. get something started 2. surround yourself with a good community 3. pace yourself 4. be realistic

The things I have learnt from Haskell 1. Functors, Monads, Applicative Functors, Monoids are extremely good design patterns, and to me seems like at some point you invent approxima…

> Recursion is a bad idea Raw recursion or recursion using recursive schemes?

Those massive gains have yet to considered reliable enough to be considered trusthworthy. Would you consider them trusthworthy in court, where lives are at stake? Gains are nice bu…

So this is the part I don't get, re: "What's pushing us to go to Mars?", some time ago someone said the same of going to the Moon. There was no good main reason for going to the mo…

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11494645_21 seemingly states ODEs can simulate turing machines. Is the simulation enough proof ofit's turing completeness, and in what s…

Sometimes I feel, when papers that have grand speculations contained in them, should be made available to the public without the author(s) name tacked on it, and only be released a…

Doesn't Simon Marlow explain the difference very well? Concurrency is implementation detail and parallelism is an execution detail?

Pretty cool. Out of curiosity, who stashes these books (the hardcopy version) on their bookshelves and why? Am very interested to know

Bayesian updates to beliefs