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KhalilKon Material Design Icons

.sketch file doesn't include bitmaps.

KhalilKon Material Design Icons

They've also released Sketch resources for Material Design.[0]

0.http://www.google.com/design/spec/resources/sticker-sheets.h...

KhalilKon The History of the Handshake

I thought this was going to be about a different kind of handshaking[0], still interesting nonetheless.

0.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshaking

KhalilKon Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details

From the article ?

KhalilKon Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details

Meanwhile, work on an actual fusion reactor continues; http://www.iter.org/newsline/-/2020

KhalilKon How English beat German as the language of science

German and French are both easier then English.

I don't know about German but French? easier than English? Come on!

KhalilKon American Nobel Prize winner stopped and questioned by the TSA over prize

I have always found it hard to believe anything published by the Daily Mail, being the pseudo-scientific site they are. Besides, I think even The Onion seems to be doing better journalism than they even bother to do.

KhalilKon How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)

Indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEe3xfWfkG8

I am curious to know how such footage is shot.

KhalilKon How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)

That's odd. On the page with the signup box look for the id "__w2_LG4FatW_modal_signup_wrapper" and delete the whole div, that'll get rid of the box allowing to you to continue reading the top answer but not the others.

KhalilKon Behind League of Legends, E-Sports’s Main Attraction

is LoL moddable vi Lua?

Oh yeah! I don't know about now though, it sure used to be. I didn't do anything fancy, just some basic bot automation and a couple miscellaneous chatbox-based addons (mostly for spamming) but it got me learning Lua.

Edit: Looks like LoL is still moddable via Lua[0]

0.http://leaguebot.net/

KhalilKon Behind League of Legends, E-Sports’s Main Attraction

Funny how LoL is what got me into programming (Lua).

KhalilKon How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)

OP here. I've added it manually, been using that 'trick' for quite some time to get around their "social" integration.

KhalilKon Ask HN: What are your sources of inspiration and motivation?

Sure, maybe learning to ride a bike is really no big deal

Being the 21-year-old guy who didn't learn how to ride a bike when growing up I am, this has actually motivated me to do exactly that, as a start.

KhalilKon How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math

As a CPGE student I must say that memorization IS key to solving problems (the essence of learning maths); it's not a traditional "dumb" memorization of proofs however.

The whole assertion of "understanding how a proof is done rather than memorizing it is how maths should be done" holds true, BUT only when you are not bound by time or a deadline, which is not the case most of time, whether you are working through a test, an exam or even on a PhD, you cannot afford losing time "reinventing the wheel"; working on proving theorems that have already been proven rather than using them directly.

The factor of time forces you to "memorize" certain concepts/theorems/facts so that you can use them directly as tools.

Personally, my approach consists in working on proving these "tools" at a first stage; understanding why they are true, then, I simply go past that and simply "memorize" them in order to boost my workflow.

In a nutshell, in order to be productive (doing maths or even physics), you must memorize shit, just don't do it blindly.

KhalilKon Ask HN: What is HN reading?

Godel, Escher, Bach;

This book is dense. But takes three times as long to read as any fiction that length. Most paragraphs require stopping and pondering.

It is my second time attempting to read this book. The first time, was about 6 months ago. Now, being on my second year in CPGE and having been through quite some math, it was more approachable.

Hofstadter invents his own system of formal mathematical logic and his own procedural programming language to explain concepts, without going into what would be considered a more "standard" formal logic system or even the Turing machine itself. He does a good job piecing them together but at certain times I feel like it'd be more meaningful to read the original works on several of the subjects he touches on.

While formal logic certainly predates this book, a lot of the AI and neuroscience research that he describes were (and are) very much active. The book was published in 1979, and its references to AI reflect the time period.

The book is hard to read, especially for prolonged periods of time. It's dense and the concepts are not the easiest to begin with.

Worth reading? Maybe.

Will it expand your thinking? Probably, though maybe not as much as you might expect; due to the broad spectrum of topics covered, it's not as deep as I would like in some areas and spends too much time smoothing over difficult topics in certain fields in order to make "clever" maps between concepts in the fields (though in this aspect he's just being a computer scientist---simple representations that map cleanly across everything! Sadly, the world is not that way).

Very good? Absolutely.

KhalilKon Using Robotics to Teach Computer Programming

Minecraft's ComputerCraft turtles anyone?

KhalilKon Write every day

J'aime bien!

What technologies did you use?

KhalilKon Write every day

I have been using http://750words.com/ for quite some time now. Writing first thing in the morning is easier to get accustomed to.

KhalilKon Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft

First thing to do: ditch Java; port the game to C#.

KhalilKon Dutch Girl Fakes a Trip to South East Asia

noprocrast would help ;)

KhalilKon Dutch Girl Fakes a Trip to South East Asia

In the spirit of the increasing Facebook dependency, http://99daysoffreedom.com/

KhalilKon Al-Jazari

Interesting that his only other comment on that profile was also a reply to a comment of mine.

KhalilKon Al-Jazari

It is odd, given that other scientists did use Arabic characters to notate their diagrams (notably, Al-khwarizmi and Ibn Al-Haytham). Perhaps it's because of his roots.

KhalilKon Al-Jazari

aha, well it does look like Old Turkic Alphabet[0], I am not sure.

0.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet#Table_of_ch...

Edit: Some characters don't seem to render properly, an Image seems more practical. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet#mediaviewer...

KhalilKon Al-Jazari

It is Arabic, Islamic calligraphy[0] can be confusing, I'll reckon that.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calligraphy

KhalilKon Al-Jazari

I remember learning all about Al Jazari (and all of the other Muslim scientists, philosophers and doctors at that time) back in primary school. As an Arab I can't help but feel both proud, of such achievements, and yet so sad, because of the state of decline the Islamic contribution to the scientific advancement has known.

KhalilKon Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App

I suggest you do.

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

KhalilKon Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App

the area is finding out that Google Fiber is so fast, it’s hard to know what to do with it.

First world problem.

KhalilKon Could You See the Curvature of the Earth in This Airport?

a couple of broken reference links in the article; never forget "https://" when adding a link.

KhalilKon The Evolution of the Headphone

Ad Blocker is going nuts 300+ blocked 'ads' and still going.