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Wildberger has videos about this on his YouTube channels. He came up with 'universal geometry' to get around the parallel assumption in Euclidean geometry if foundations interest you. He at least will enumerate all the cases needed for foundations to work if you're screwing around with your own for fun. Here's one example https://youtu.be/EvP8VtyhzXs


There's a guy in his 50s doing ultra marathons named Kerry Ward who films some of his runs, he came in 11th during the Moab 240 miler which is 2-3 days of running https://youtube.com/@fulltiltward


There's some good lectures from CMU if you search for 15-213 on YouTube. The lectures explain how x86-64 works and enough about operating systems you know how virtual memory and signals work. Then any OS resource listed here or try MITs it has YouTube lectures https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2021/schedule.html


It was a big con https://davegebler.com/post/musings/web-3-0-the-great-con

I liked the idea of bounties being paid in crypto but now bounties have problems too, someone needs to figure out a decent bounty site/scheme to avoid hundreds of people trying to claim then then wasting time producing nothing


We all know why the Lovelace myth still persists http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/babbage/ada.html "It is often suggested that Ada was the world's first programmer. This is nonsense: Babbage was, if programmer is the right term. After Babbage came a mathematical assistant of his, Babbage's eldest son, Herschel, and possibly Babbage's two younger sons. Ada was probably the fourth, fifth or six person to write the programmes. Moreover all she did was rework some calculations Babbage had carried out years earlier. Ada's calculations were student exercises. Ada Lovelace figures in the history of the Calculating Engines as Babbage's interpretress"


Can't we let women have this one thing? Like... just this one thing? It's fine. Who knows, a lot of time has passed and I'm sure there's many people who "programmed" and never told anyone.

It's fine, let Ada have this. It's dead anyway and we clearly don't have nearly enough women in Computer Science so we can let this one go. We already have 99% of all stuff, we shouldn't get greedy.


Instead of patronizingly giving women a false hero, instead introduce them to a real one: Klara Von Neumann (yes, that Von Neumann) who was the first coder for what we might recognize as a digital computer in the modern sense. She had to pioneer a lot of stuff!


that's extremely patronizing to women


Says who? You, all women?

Ada Lovelace is a real person. What's patronizing about it? We didn't make her up out of pity for women.


Erik Demaine's DS class has a bunch of range trees and cascading method to speed up queries https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring21/lectures/


His explanations are great and just wanted to +1 on the idea of range trees. Adding a reference here to a very lightweight read on range trees:

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring10/scribe/lec03.pd...


Thanks, I came across some of Erik's videos in my research but I didn't realize they were part of a bigger series focused on ranges. Cascading methods are exactly the kind of ideas I'm thinking about.


Yep Knuth learned by reading an IBM manual with source code while sitting on a beach during summer vacation. Decades later systems hackers learned by reading illicit copies of Lions' Commentary on Unix w/Source


There is many other ways to get written up and lose time credits like sharing commissary, having too many books, and sometimes fighting is not optional if your cellmates are into stupid things and drag you with them.

It depends if he is sent to a USP like regular federal convicts or club fed minimum because of his connections. Typically club fed you can only get through a plea bargain like Madoff or through years of good time credits.


Flipped classroom style maybe. Lectures are prerecorded then you as a group struggle with the problem sets in class. A few schools have entire courses for learning the struggle like MITs freshman problem solving course for figuring out Puerto Rico's power grid problems you are given some small area to research yourself and bring that to your student meetings and struggle to a solution.

https://terrascope.mit.edu/nextyear/


Thanks, that looks like a good approach. :)


Agree, seems like a good example. I also understand what you meant by an example :) Sorry for the misunderstanding...


No worries at all. :)


Daniel Jackson's book https://subconscious.substack.com/p/concept-design-in-three-...

I use it all the time after reading it for example they redesigned git into gitless using these methods to audit and find redundant or confusing features.


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