pedrodelfino

Pure gold. Content like this reminds me of the "favorite" feature available on HN. I will try to read this article a few times during the year. I should have used this "favorite feature" more often. Btw, I love HN. Thanks for sharing!

This one is good for the legaltech market: https://www.artificiallawyer.com

My suggestion: read Jordan Peterson, "12 rules for life". The book will not answer your question exactly, but it will provide rules that might help you handle things.

There is a whole article comparing Nyxt to plug-ins (such as tridactyl): https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/nyxt-versus-plugins.org

It was down for me too (in Brazil). But it is back now! :)

According to the book "Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less", the best way to rest is to do (i) physical activities, (ii) which are cognitively demanding, and (iii) in touch with nature. When these three factors happen, you cannot think in anything else. Your body, your head, and your soul will all forget about work.

For instance, try picking up an outdoor sport which is new to you, e.g. kite-surfing, snowboarding or climbing. It will fulfill the three requirements.

HN is great. Some IRC channels feel like a nano (pretty small) HN with selected users. There are smart dudes in there talking about tech in general. Since IRC is harder to use/access than a normal website/forum like reddit or HN, it tends to filter in some way. IRC by definition is an open network protocol. Hence there is not a single company or institution behind it. Thus, there are no adds or marketing around it. It is purely word of mouth. Finally, it feels more private because you need to login. Sometimes, people feel more comfortable to write speculations about future in a more private and perishable digital space than a public and persistent one like HN.

Org Mode clocking commands (Emacs), Rescuetime, Wakatime, and ActivityWatch. There is an intentional overlap between them.

If you like Funk, and Soul music you should check out Tim Maia. He did a creative job mixing up Brazilian music (samba and bossa nova) with American black music. He is one of my favorites Brazilian musicians. His voice is also outstanding. Check it out [1] "Sossego": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St7ID7vHHs4 . [2] "Azul da cor do mar": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9kTV-wpiWk

"E boa sorte nessa aventura, meu amigo!"

6 weeks ago I have started using the Nyxt Browser and I am really loving it! I even did a video about why Nyxt is so cool last week. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yBjfjFE0fk

I guess this would be good for you considering your objectives:"An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp". It is available for free here [1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/eintr.pdf

I really liked "Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation", from David S. Touretzky. I think it could have been mentioned. Unlike Practical Common Lisp, it has exercises and extensive sections in each chapter just on tools (such as dribble, trace, describe, step, et cetera).

Moreover, I was expecting to see "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming", from Peter Norvig. I have not fully read it, but it seems to be an awesome book. Not just to learn Lisp but a good book in general, since the code is beautifully designed. Despite the title, AI (GOFAI, actually) is just the domain, the lisp techniques and code approach can be applied to other areas.

This Reddit's post presents another list that might be an interesting complement to the one we are discussing here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp/comments/ddcoar/selecti...

Rainer Joswig also has great answers on Stack Overflow.

Best part:

"Take these two examples of desired universal laws of software engineering:

FU: every system, big and small, should have provisions that allow it to be FIXED and UPDATED either from within or outside the system proper;

CK: every system, big and small, should have provisions that allow it to acquire and make use of CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGEto decide whether it is functioning properly or not.

The combination of the two laws gives us the FUCK property: A system that obeys both the FU and CK laws can verify the conditions of its operating environment and decide whether its actions are coherent or not with the current context of that environment.

Furthermore, if it decides they are not, the system can fix itself, ask for an external fix or be fixed, forcibly, by some sort of external agent.Think cells and cellular systems. They are obviously a FUCK system"

I recommend "Introduction to Probability" by Joseph K Blitzstein and Jessica Hwang.

This book is tough. Really tough. However, you are really going to do "deliberate practice" while having a go on the assignments.

It bothers me that the author does not provide the answer to most of the questions. This is specially bad in this field of Mathematics (Probability). As an example, in calculus you can always plot the curve, the derivative and see if the result makes sense, in probability theory it is hard to have a simple and safe sanity check.

You can watch all classes from Harvard here for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbB0FjPg0mw&list=PL2SOU6wwxB...

If you want, there is also a MOOC in EdX with the same material: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-probability-0

Sheldon Ross' book is also a good one. It was mentioned here. I specially like the section on theoritical problems, only with exercises on proofs. Every chapter has one. However, Joe Blitzstein problems are more challenging and will train you more on intuition.

Interesting. My courses on differential equations (PDE and ODE) were basically tricks. Very frustrating.

Thanks, fofoni! I am actually doing a double degree in Law and Applied Mathematics at FGV, Rio de Janeiro. (I know, Law & Applied Math is weird rsrs). Maybe we should hang out someday. My email is p.delfino01 at gmail dot com, drop me an email!

I have seen "How to Prove It" on Hacker News multiple times! I did a similar question about Discrete Math a month ago [1]. Someone also suggested this book. It is on the top of my "to read list". One of my friends says this book is his favorite one. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16355825

Grit

Mindset

Peak

Telegram. In Brazil, most people use WhatsApp. I don’t like WhatsApp. I use telegram to talk my family, close friends and girlfriend. I also use iMessage but some people do not have Apple devices.

It is funny to see this post. I started to use this product three days ago. A friend told me about it (word of mouth). It is great. I use RescueTime since 2013, but the WakaTime product has complementary features.

I am also a beginner. I don’t have much experience with web development (I am an undergraduate Applied Math student with a deep interest on computer science). If you don’t mind, I would you suggest you to change your approach to learning Lisp. Get the classic freely available SICP book (from MIT professors) and do some exercises. The classes are also available at MIT OCW. Another good book is “How to Design Computer Programs”, from the guys who created Racket, a Lisp dialect. Maybe, these books will give you a purer sense of the language. Web frameworks are a different thing. In conclusion, if you are trying to understand Lisp, have a go on pure Lisp. Btw, Racket is great, I prefer Racket an Dr. Racket than Common Lisp.

Rick seems to have a typical behavior reflecting a “fixed mindset”. This concept is described on the famous book from the psychologist Carol Dweck. He seemed to search for validation all that time. Since the failure would be an atemporal sign that he was not good, he denied the errors. Thankfully, according to the research, eveybody can change from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. We all have some quantum of Rick inside us. I am reading this on a Monday. This is a good text to start the week and reflect about my behavior at my workplace.

Interesting, usually, I learned numerical methods after learning the theory, like in linear algebra. Many books follow this order. Inverting the process sounds like a good idea. Specially for people who love programming, like me. Thanks.

Great article. I remember seeing these ideas on Cal Newport's book, "Deep Work". I need more discipline to execute my "downtime plan".

The greatest audiovisual content on the topic I have ever seen:

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T647CGsuOVU

Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HrSG0fdxLY

Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9QOLrfcKNc

Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DThAoT3q2V4

Part 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65wYmy8Pf-Y

Part 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5IG_6_zPDo

Part 7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHvR8siIiD0

Part 8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iecUL8_OxrU

Part 9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLn5H69lS0w

Part 10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNp8Qf20-sA

Part 11 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hiWbdc8QEk

Part 12 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpUmrKOQhAM

Part 13 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MmSZrAlqKc

Paul Graham - www.paulgraham.com

Eli Bendersky http://eli.thegreenplace.net/

FreeCodeCamp/Quincy Larson on Medium

This video answers to your question and it is pretty cool:

https://youtu.be/7vsCAM17O-M

FreeCodeCamp

PG wrote this 2 years ago. I think you should read it:

http://paulgraham.com/name.html