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I understand they don't want to issue certificates without verifying the identity of the person taking the course, but what's with the sudden jump from "requiring identity verifica…

It's not at all like SICP (I've never met a math book that was similar), but it's a wonderful introduction and I don't see it mentioned in this thread yet: Needham's "Visual Comple…

Heh. I bought SICM expecting it would be "SICP for physics". I started reading and felt out of my depth after just a few pages. But it seemed interesting, so I got a Lagrangian and…

This. Exactly this, and I think it's not a coincidence that learning Scheme was also like this, but for programming.

Today I learned that Americans still swipe their credit and debit cards in a magnetic strip reader.

The original was copy-protected, I believe, which means it cannot be archived in the standard .dsk format (there are some more complicated formats that represent a disk at a lower …

If you make one with two extra keys under the space bar, for use as thumb-activated modifiers, and Cherry blue switches as an option, I will buy one. For now, it's not really bring…

Titrate is invisible.

Well, it might be the case that you were lacking some assumed prerequisites (don't forget that the book is aimed at MIT undergraduates, who will have some background in math and ph…

It's this generation's notion of a personal computer. I like it.

If this had [micro]SD card support, I would be pre-ordering one right now.

"One space" has no meaning in the finished TeX document. Space is a variable quantity. When using English typographical rules, the amount of space between sentences is larger than …

Yes. I will be very happy to carry not only my data (as I do now) but my whole computer in my pocket, plug it into a keyboard and monitor at home and at work, and use the built-in …