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domnomnom··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Whoops, that was the Klein book that reduced orgo to electron pushing. But same idea.
domnomnom··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Well that makes a lot of sense. It’s confusing at first because of how similar the languages are.
domnomnom··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
I find this ironic, because I found ocaml extremely confusing.
domnomnom··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Organic chemistry as a second language and the analogous text by Klein. Nothing in particular clicked for me, but I took orgo 1 and orgo 2 at two different schools, and I remember his book being extremely readable for ochem 2.
domnomnom··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Calculus - an intuitive and physical approach. I did some of these exercises and they were easy. They helped me in calculus. I liked the explanation of secant lines.

How to prove it - I like the reduction of proofs to mechanical symbol pushing. Good exercise difficulty for self study, good notation.

I also liked some parts of the traditional calculus book. I read a lot of it. It’s pretty good considering literally everyone takes the class with the book. I would never use this for self study, but I enjoyed it during class.

Mathematics for physicists books provide a good overview of math topics. Haven’t really done any exercises though.

domnomnom··on Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development
Based on this description, I should vary my playing of games.

Anyway, I find the usage of the term "game" to be quite odd. Why not "strategy?" I'm not sure I agree with the overall point, but enjoy how you've operationalized/categorized behavior in this way. There is value in that.

domnomnom··on Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)
Start crying every time you get interrupted
domnomnom··on The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (2017)
You can’t be intuitive/perceptive and think logically in parallel - that’s the main thing that’s hard. The former is feeling an emotion. The latter will inhibit the emotion. This is actually sort of a technique in cognitive behavioral therapy for dealing with anxiety.
domnomnom··on The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (2017)
I logged to tell you. Yes! That doesn’t mean getting there will be easy, but you can get to a point where you go after those interactions to seek out other introverts that want to stay away kinda. That’s the hard part if there’s two extroverts someone’s gotta take initiative. I believe in you!
domnomnom··on An Introduction to Type Level Programming in Haskell
Lazyness is actually a great feature of Haskell.
domnomnom··on The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just make more?
What's the quote about selling someone a product whose faults will occur when you're years gone and half way around the planet? I wonder how this mentality is avoided/regarded in Japan.
domnomnom··on Kubescape – tool for testing if Kubernetes is deployed securely
Is security a zero sum game?
domnomnom··on Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans
Hmm I wonder if this is a good idea. Or a hypothetical setup with a Chinese and American hardware network setup.
domnomnom··on Show HN: Hypergraph, a data structure library to generate directed hypergraphs
Coordinate free
domnomnom··on Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does
Maybe you're right. I could feel the parent comment's pain from that implication that he was underdeveloped, largely because I agree. I have also noticed in myself that I'm often not aware of my underlying emotions, but very often a victim of them. To everyone around me I seem like an unemotional male, but I think in reality I'm low in emotional expressiveness, reactivity, and neuroticism.
domnomnom··on Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does
I feel like your comment was expressed in sort of a dick way, but I also think it strikes at a truth that’s so deep and needed in our society. So thanks for the comment.
domnomnom··on A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate
Spot on.

I think you can’t argue with it because it’s like an unexpected emotional vacuum. You can’t really convince someone who doesn’t like food that the carnival is an enjoyable place. They’re operating on a fundamentally separate plane.

domnomnom··on A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate
Can you at least tell us why you like Mars so much?
domnomnom··on A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate
Then he would have to do another PhD!
domnomnom··on A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate
He is a Mars researcher, as in he finds it very appreciable it’s current state. Basically a Martian, you are suggesting we develop and add malls to his beloved nature homeland.
domnomnom··on Afraid to Google a thing because I don't want the algorithm to think I like it
It’s going to kill us
domnomnom··on Crazy New Ideas
Probably terrified of outrage mobs.
domnomnom··on Computer Calculus Reading Group
This looks really cool.
domnomnom··on 99 bits of unsolicited advice
Sounds a lot more like high/low dopamine to me. Idk how you're getting test levels though.
domnomnom··on Google promised its contact tracing app was completely private, but it wasn’t
As someone in a similar boat without an android, I think it adds to the discussion. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside to see such rants.
domnomnom··on 99 bits of unsolicited advice
This is so bizarre. What is the relation of daily exercise to personality traits?

I get the mentally healthy part, but exercising is like brushing your teeth imo.

domnomnom··on 99 bits of unsolicited advice
Do people respond to insults? Why not just walk away or engage in what is banter?
domnomnom··on 99 bits of unsolicited advice
This is sort of just a proof by contradiction.
domnomnom··on Alien Artifacts on Earth and in Our Solar System Is Possible, NASA Reports
Who wants to start a conspiracy theory that the real reason that aliens suddenly exist is the govt is trying to distract from x.

Let's discuss x.

domnomnom··on Why the United States has the best research universities
Exception:INRIA.
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