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When I studied C in college everyone recommended the K&R C book. I found it the be of no value to me for learning the language. Instead I found King's C Programming: A Modern Approach much more enlightening. I know K&R is widely well-regarded, so I found it interesting how difficult it was for me to learn from it.
I know this is a little out of left field but I couldn't understand why anyone was Atheist until I read The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan... quickly followed by The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Those two books together crystallized in me what it could mean to have a world view absent of supernatural forces.
Being somewhat skeptic myself in my younger years and coming closer to God through my relationship with my girlfriend (who isn't even a believer herself)... I just recently came up with a hypothesis why so many Math and CS people were famously Atheist. I grew closer to God through just observing the natural world, and my natural relationship (affection, friendship, etc.). My hypothesis is that so many of these (incre…
That is quite the statement on the nature of reality, yet it’s entirely based on personal opinion. You don’t know from observation if the “beauty and goodness” of the world is impossible without a divine power, you choose to believe so.
I also pay close attention to the natural world and my relationships, yet don’t feel the slightest inclination to believe in a higher power. If anything, I share Richard Feynman’s view that being analytical about the world makes its beauty shine more, not less: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbFM3rn4ldo
I know this is a little out of left field but I couldn't understand why anyone was Atheist until I read The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan... quickly followed by The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Those two books together crystallized in me what it could mean to have a world view absent of supernatural forces.
Being somewhat skeptic myself in my younger years and coming closer to God through my relationship with my girlfriend (who isn't even a believer herself)... I just recently came up with a hypothesis why so many Math and CS people were famously Atheist. I grew closer to God through just observing the natural world, and my natural relationship (affection, friendship, etc.). My hypothesis is that so many of these (incre…
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While I enjoy 3blue1brown's videos they definitely fall under the umbrella of current gen "edutainment" where the goal is to make you feel like you've learned something without have anything really click. Pretty much everyone I know who claims that 3blue1brown's video helped them understand a topic... doesn't really understand that topic at all. 3blue1brown's video can be fun for topics you already know, providing a…
I can't speak generally about all of 3blue1brown's content, but the essence of linear algebra made concepts like eigenvectors and values and what they are click for me, there is no question.
"Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell. Helped me gain a more intuitive understanding of economics. On a side note, the man is a machine. He's been writing close to a book a year since the age of 80 (he's 92 now).
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/framework-design-guidel...
It lifts a veil from your eyes. Concepts like “multiculturalism”, that before reading this book seemed benevolent, reveal their malignancy.
If you are from the West, the US or Europe, you will see your political culture in a new light, as a web of lies and hypocrisy on all sides.
If you are aligned with the Left, it forces you to confront the reality that, sometimes, the Right takes a stand against oppression while your side refuses even to acknowledge that it exists.
I've been struggling with wrapping my head around asynchronous programming with callbacks, promises and async/await in JS, however I think it's finally clicking after watching these YouTube videos and creating a document where I explain these concepts as if I'm teaching them to someone else: * Philip Roberts's What the heck is the event loop anyway? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ * The Story of Asynchr…
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