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harrelchris··on Relearning math as an adult
Here is a non-ref link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521017076

Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students 2nd Edition by Jenny Olive

ISBN-10: 0521017076 ISBN-13: 978-0521017077

harrelchris··on Show HN: Pare – Research and Evaluate Products 20x Faster with ChatGPT
Does this insert form inputs into a template and feed that to ChatGPT? Why do I need to request access?
harrelchris··on Generative A.I. Can Add $4.4T in Value to Global Economy, Study Says
At what cost? Decreased velocity of money? Loss of how many jobs? If Sam Altman and a few others are allowed to establish a moat around AI as he is trying to do, what will happen?
harrelchris··on Ask HN: Reddit API vs. Browser Requests
Scraping will only enable reading from Reddit. To write to Reddit or to read/write private user data, you would need to automate a browser and handle user credentials in plaintext.
harrelchris··on Our Plan for Python 3.13
Either keep looking for explanations until it clicks, or try to break it down into more fundamental elements.

Classes and blueprints have a simple analogy that I'm sure you are familiar with.

Blueprints are instructions for how to build something, like a house. Once built, the house is a physical thing you can interact with. It has attributes, such as a height or color. It has things it can do or that can be done to it, like open a door or turn on some lights.

Classes are blueprints - they tell a computer how to build something. An object is what is built by the class - it has attributes and methods.

harrelchris··on Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted
It's either meant to kill 3rd party apps, or it's an impressive failure by Steve Huffman to create another revenue stream for Reddit.
harrelchris··on Ask HN: Anyone at Reddit can confirm a traffic dip?
Unfortunately for Reddit, that handful includes many moderators.
harrelchris··on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
Twitter defines state-affiliated media as:

> outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. [1]

This isn't an accurate description of NPR. The government has no control over the content.

> NPR receives less than 1% of its direct funding from the federal government [2]

Even Twitter recognized this and walked back the labeling. [3]

[1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affilia... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR [3]: https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/twitter-rebrands-nprs-account-...

harrelchris··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022)
Awesome website!