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thanatropism
·há 6 anos·discuss
An alternative is the voice recording app. It doesn't have search but you can use the recording titles for tags.
thanatropism
·há 7 anos·discuss
The Princeton Companions to Mathematics and Applied Mathematics are beautiful to leaf through at the library. They're also hardcore heavy-weight (physically) and unlikely to be read twice, so don't buy them.

My personal take is that good linear algebra books at any level are great "tours of mathematics". Start with Strang and never stop. In a few years you'll be balled up with Kreyszig scribbling proof attempts in receipts, flaming unkempt hair and everyone around you will think you're weird but you'll be so, so happy.
thanatropism
·há 7 anos·discuss
Not "z raku"?
thanatropism
·há 8 anos·discuss
That's invite-only. Got any?
thanatropism
·há 8 anos·discuss
About two years ago I tried membership in The WELL, the semi-mythical web community that used to be featured in the printed booklets that came with 28.8kbps dial-up modems.

The retro interface was nice but the populace was incredibly homogeneous and everything was saturated with San Francisco liberal politics. I concluded that the insurmountable joining fees led the website to be frozen with a small self-referential community.
thanatropism
·há 8 anos·discuss
Yeah.

Reddit Gold used to go into funding infrastructure. Gold buyers used to be able to name servers and all.
thanatropism
·há 8 anos·discuss
Two words: Terry Tao.

I amateurishly evaluate Terry Tao on an order of a Poincaré. He's the actual "genius" thing concept person.
thanatropism
·há 8 anos·discuss
If you had said "climate science" I would agree.

I mean, I'm a lukewarmist, not a denier, but since the 90s people have been saying "science advocacy" when they mean "advocacy for my politics". Everyone's (correctly) for Darwinism and contra modern creationism but no one seems to be in favor of IQ advocacy.

And I mean advocacy for the low IQ cohorts that are being technologied out of a social role. But hey, you would have to admit IQ exists.
thanatropism
·há 8 anos·discuss
Tyson is intellectually underwhelming and doesn't seem to understand the limitations of his own knowledge. He's made his fame for speaking with the mannerisms of a preacher; and for remaking (in science a necessity) the Carl Sagan classic. He's already being forgotten by mainstream culture, which is not worse for it.
thanatropism
·há 8 anos·discuss
Lee Smolin's "The trouble with physics" is pretty good.