A side question: How many days of vacation do you take in summer? For parents and non-parents.
Ask HN: Technical Summer Reading List
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My friend read that two years ago and now works for a small F# consultancy that sounds like a great place to work. He really recommends the book.
Thanks for sharing. Just curious what do people do with F# in real work nowadays? Always found it a bit peripheral comparing to Lisp, Clojure and other "main stream" functional languages.
From what I've heard it's mostly fintech, at least in places nearish where I live (Italy)
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#53Brain Computations, What and How, by Edmund T. Rolls https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Computations-Edmund-T-Rolls/dp/...
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for sharing. Just curious what do people do with F# in real work nowadays? Always found it a bit peripheral comparing to Lisp, Clojure and other "main stream" functional languages.
From what I've heard it's mostly fintech, at least in places nearish where I live (Italy)
Interesting. Thank you, I thought they all use C++.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
From what I've heard it's mostly fintech, at least in places nearish where I live (Italy)
Interesting. Thank you, I thought they all use C++.
Yeah GP is right it's mostly fintech (I think G-Research is one of the larger users?) but Matt is working in domain-heavy apps like real estate where it works nicely
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#56I don’t often read technical books in the summer, but when I do, I read Knuth.
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#57A side question: How many days of vacation do you take in summer? For parents and non-parents.
In Sweden is not unusual for parents of small children to take 6 weeks of summer vacation.
I'm having 6 weeks this summer but I'm in-between jobs.
Other either ask for unpaid days or they use some of their saved parental leave. Your employer can't deny you parental leave.
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#58Does math count as "technical?" I was originally a Physics major and lately I've been on a kick of filling in the mathematics that was used in my Physics classes but that I feel like was never really gone into in much depth. My current reading list is: - "Analysis I" (and II) by Terence Tao (I finished the first volume and am now on the second, but I consider them really one book) - "Understanding Analysis" by Stephe…
What would you say are the prerequisites to the Analysis books? I did single-variable calculus and linear algebra in university a few years ago, but I have to admit that I'm a bit rusty.
You can check the analysis courses offered where you took calc and linear algebra to see if you have sufficient prereqs.
Depending on the level of comfort or exposure you've previously had to proofs, it could be good to have a book covering introduction to proof handy. A book on counterexamples in analysis is also something I've seen recommended.
For proofs, something that covers direct proof, proof by contrapositive, proof by contradiction, and mathematical induction are good to be familiar with.
Delta-epsilon proofs are also good to have alternative or more accessible explanations to draw on.
If you're covering topics in multivariable calculus, then it might also be handy to cover some of the calculations from a calc 3/4 book to see implementations of it.
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#59some "out there" suggestions: - "Extremal Combinatorics" by Staysys Jukna - "Convex Optimization" by Boyd and Vandenberghe - "Delay Insensitive Circuits" [1] - "An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography" by Hoffstein, Pipher, and Silverman - "Quantum Computing since Democritus" by Scott AAronson [1] https://www.delayinsensitive.com disclosure: I'm the author.
I'm not sure "Convex Optimization" by B&V is a good self-study book. I really struggled with it as student, and I struggled to teach with it as a TA. It's one of those "Step 2. Draw the Rest of the Owl!" books. Great as a reference manual, but not great pedagogically. It's very complete and I would struggle to name anything better, though. Mostly, I learned convex analysis by scouring Google for lecture notes written…
How is the notation and standards in convex optimization?
I took a course linear programming out of Vanderbei's book and it seemed any time I used google to find notes that everyone used slightly different notation or methods. For example, Vanderbei used the dictionaries and others used the tableau.
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#60A side question: How many days of vacation do you take in summer? For parents and non-parents.
In Sweden is not unusual for parents of small children to take 6 weeks of summer vacation. I'm having 6 weeks this summer but I'm in-between jobs. Other either ask for unpaid days or they use some of their saved parental leave. Your employer can't deny you parental leave.
Wow this makes me want to find a job in Sweden :)
I'm in Canada and looks like most of my colleauges don't take 6 weeks away. They try to send their children to summer camps for the summer break.
But it would really be nice if you can have 6 weeks off in summer and maybe 3 weeks off during winter. A lot of things can happen and you can learn new things.