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octatoanon With No Inkling of the Contents: Viewing Narnia Through a Hindu Lens

> math books and physics books are works describing the world as it is, and in that case, are the closest glimpse of the divine that you're likely to get in this life

That's where I've settled. If you want a religious experience, learn math. The feeling when you get something that was previously incomprehensible is probably as good as, if not better than, religious ecstasy.

octatoanon A visual explanation of the Fourier transform with audio and JS

Isn't mine :)

octatoanon Show HN: Kikked – check if any of your NPM repos is trademarked

Kik was the name of the npm package that is the source of all the recent hullabaloo.

"Kiked" is an instance of unfortunately misinterpretable verbing. I parsed it that way too at first.

octatoanon Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet

There's a massive project going on in math using GitHub to write an open-source algebraic geometry textbook.

http://stacks.math.columbia.edu

octatoanon How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University

I wrote this answer to a similar question in /r/math last year. You might enjoy it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/3ixyw3/how_can_i_begi...

octatoanon AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5

Indeed, I wish someone could talk about how the value/policy thing works.

octatoanon A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)

I needed this :)

octatoanon Consider support for French sovereign operating system

> --cherchez-stackoverflow

octatoanon Nigerian Solves 156-year Knotty Maths Hypothesis, Wins $1m – DailyPost Nigeria

http://aperiodical.com/2015/11/riemann-hypothesis-not-proved...

octatoanon On Being Smart (2009) [pdf]

I posted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539083

It seems timezones matter a lot. :)

octatoanon Ask HN: My project idea is built by someone else – what should I do now?

See if you can bring a new approach to the problem. You could solve it in a completely different way by focusing on some other part of the process.

octatoanon The Little Printf

This is beautiful.

octatoanon Microsoft’s Very Good Day

GP probably meant Nadella, if someone's wondering.

octatoanon Autocomplete as an interface

Re the point made at the end: there's a ton of fuzzy completion engines.

octatoanon Humans with Amplified Intelligence Could Be More Powerful Than AI

The author is a neoreactionary. Just thought you might want to know.

octatoanon What we break when we fix ad blocking

AFAIK someone did make adblocking glasses with image recognition software. :)

octatoanon The Art of PNG Glitch

How was the header image made?

octatoanon Our First Certificate Is Now Live

Does anyone familiar with the "paid-for certificate industry" know if anything major is going to happen? I'd guess they're going to be inundated with lawsuits or something.

Great work, by the way.

octatoanon We don’t need a remote-controlled iKettle

See "much needed gap". Also, RFC 2324, "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)". [1].

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

octatoanon Biggest image in the smallest space

DHS = Department of Homeland Security?

octatoanon The xkcd survey

I don't know why, but I was able to recognize the non-words instantly (with one exception) even though I didn't know the meaning of every single "real" one. (Peristeronic, etc.)

Perhaps a remnant of my spelling-bee days.

octatoanon Linear Algebra: What matrices are

Everyone in this thread mourning how nobody really learns that symbol-pushing isn't math (it isn't!) needs to look at Lockhart's Lament.

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....

octatoanon Thinking too much: self-generated thought as the engine of neuroticism

I was referring to "experimentally induced worry".

octatoanon Hurrian songs

> The tablet is in the collection of the National Museum of Damascus.

Shit, I hope IS doesn't blow the museum up or something . . .

octatoanon Well vs. Equal Temperament (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsSjh5TTqI

octatoanon Oliver Sacks has died