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countersixte··on Ask HN: Best board games of 2022?
Also be sure to consider its bigger brother, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea (2021).
countersixte··on Ask HN: Good Book on Stochastic Differential Equations?
Glad it helped. :)
countersixte··on Ask HN: Good Book on Stochastic Differential Equations?
I am not an expert in SDEs (my background is machine learning) but if I wanted to dig more into the subject, this is where I personally would start. Code [1] and pdf [2] for the book are available.

Simo Särkkä and Arno Solin (2019). Applied Stochastic Differential Equations. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK.

[1] https://github.com/AaltoML/SDE

[2] https://users.aalto.fi/~asolin/sde-book/sde-book.pdf

countersixte··on Introduction to Julia – Part 1
Direct YouTube links (pyvideo.org loading is slow at the moment)

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkgEddb4-A

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3JH5Bg46yU

countersixte··on A Guide to the Good Life
I recently read the Gregory Hays translation [1] and thought it was great. Meditations was Marcus Aurelius's "notes to self" and the Hays edition captures this informal nature. It makes for an easy and delightful read.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Marcus-Aur...

countersixte··on Godot Engine open sourced
Github repo: https://github.com/okamstudio/godot
countersixte··on Atomgrads
Most of these cities (e.g. Zheleznogorsk [1]) seem to have a stylized atom as part of their coat of arms. I wonder if it was common practice in the USSR to incorporate similar symbols into the coat of arms of other newly founded industrial cities?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheleznogorsk,_Krasnoyarsk_Krai

countersixte··on Resurgence of Neural Networks
For a (slightly technical) in-depth guide to training RBM's: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/guideTR.pdf

It discusses how to choose a learning algorithm, selecting hyperparameters, number of hidden units, etc.

countersixte··on Ask HN: Which developer laptop should I buy?
I got my x220 refurb last spring for under $700. I love it -- very portable and the battery life is ~6-7 hours. I run Arch Linux [1] and haven't had any issues, so you should be good to go with Ubuntu.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/

countersixte··on Ask HN: Which linux distribution are you using?
Arch with xmonad as my window manager (http://xmonad.org/)
countersixte··on The Power of Concentration
I've found "Mindfulness in Plain English" to be quite helpful. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
countersixte··on I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How
http://www.memrise.com is another spaced repetition alternative to Anki. You'd need another tool to practice your grammar, but for vocab alone it works great.
countersixte··on Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi?
For #1, the yy command will yank the entire line (including the newline). Try using y$, which will yank from the cursor to the end of the line (not including the newline).
countersixte··on Things Highly Productive People Do
This is why I'm such a big fan of the pomodoro technique: the majority of these 7 things are taken care of automatically.

1. Tasks are already broken down into manageable chunks

2. There is no multi-tasking during your pomodoro

3. No distractions either

4. Ok, so I actually check email at the end of every pomodoro and not 2-3 times a day, but close enough

5. This is the one that is not really handled by the pomodoro technique

6. I plan out all my pomodoros at the start of each day

7. I get up and walk around for a few minutes at the end of every pomodoro

countersixte··on How to work from home without going insane (purple monkey dishwasher)
http://tomatoes.heroku.com/ is my preferred tool
countersixte··on Why I take sketch breaks instead of surfing the Internet
Agreed. The pomodoro technique is great for keeping your breaks time-bound. I often just walk around the office for a few minutes and refill my water bottle, etc. Gives me a chance to stare at something else than a screen.