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This has helped many people I know get some "clicks" on a variety of topics: https://betterexplained.com/
>We can prove this theorem with advanced calculus, that uses theorems I don't quite understand, but let's think through the meaning.
For me, even though I had a superficial understanding of git, it was finally after going through the first few chapters of the Pro Git book that things finally clicked, and I literally sat there wondering how I managed to code anything at all without using git for years. > For programming it was How to Design Programs at www.htdp.org I already have over 4 years of professional software engineering experience (mostly…
Going back to the 90s, it wasn’t until I read Mark Nelson’s book on STL that object-oriented programming made sense to me. Part of it also was that the people writing books on C++ back then probably didn’t understand OOP either, so most of the books were essentially talking about C, but with different syntax for comments and I/O. With STL, suddenly the whole concept of OO made sense to me. When I started picking up f…
If null was 1 billion dollars mistake, to paraphrase Tony Hoare, OOP was at least 2 billion dollars mistake.
"Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould. It might have only been a few paragraphs, but he explained that "Survival of the fittest" is not really quite how evolution works. "Survival of the fittest" implies that species that are stronger or "better" in some way are the ones to survive and reproduce and thus "succeed" in evolutionary terms. Stephen Jay Gould suggested that a better way of thinking about it is "Survival o…
For me, even though I had a superficial understanding of git, it was finally after going through the first few chapters of the Pro Git book that things finally clicked, and I literally sat there wondering how I managed to code anything at all without using git for years. > For programming it was How to Design Programs at www.htdp.org I already have over 4 years of professional software engineering experience (mostly…
If you have extensive experience in programming you may try out SICP if you find HtDP too slow.
Anyway, I think I'll purchase the book and see how it goes.
This video from Casey Muratori helped me point to some reasons:
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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Most of the great mathematicians were religious. As to why is that, we can only speculate. I personally think that while exploring the beautiful worlds of numbers they discovered order and perfection and that got them thinking about Divinity.
I think it's because they hadn't heard of evolution or big bang theory yet. There are probably way less religious scientist today than there were in the previous centuries.
"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).