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throway88989898on Python Data Science Handbook: Full Text in Jupyter Notebooks

"These notebooks are just Python code. They even have #-comments instead of markdown. For awesome Python notebooks, see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12470109

throway88989898on Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository

You can already reopen PDFs where you left them in Adobe Reader :

Edit > Accessibility > Setup Assistant > Set all accessibility options > Next > Next > Next > Next > Reopen documents to the last viewed page

or

Edit > Preferences > Documents > Restore last view settings when reopening documents

throway88989898on Pathfinding.js – Visualizations and Playground

Indicators that indicate are of the best kind.

Joke aside: kudos on turning a perceived frustration into a feature fix. I wouldn't have thought about that.

throway88989898on Ask HN: How can HN be more addictive than Reddit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huBskeb-syk

throway88989898on Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks

"Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19251755

throway88989898on Pathfinding.js – Visualizations and Playground

For me it hangs on IDA*

otherwise mighty well done!

Ideas to add:

- a short description of the algorithm

- zoom out

+ knight tour

throway88989898on Getting started with Git and GitHub: the complete beginner's guide

That one isn't filled with unfiltered optimism :P

But yes

throway88989898on Simpson’s Paradox (2016)

Not slicing is nevertheless slicing. The trivial selection. Rush's song "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice"

throway88989898on Simpson’s Paradox (2016)

Neatly phrased:

Trends which appear in slices of data may disappear or reverse when the groups are combined.

throway88989898on Understanding Convolutions (2014)

Convoluted explanation only to cite the epic wikipedia gif

Fouri-ous there's no mention of Fourier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem

throway88989898on The periodic table is 150 years old this week

Money https://xkcd.com/980/

throway88989898on All of Mathematics is inconsistent. Turing machines are consistent

It's outside my knowledge space. What are the implications to computability or mathematics?

throway88989898on All of Mathematics is inconsistent. Turing machines are consistent

I think they meant it's inconsistent with the 'memory value recorded vs memory address value' distinction in a Turing machine (as in, it's not consistent with its physical instantiation: "the real world"), not inconsistent with axioms of formal logic. I'm getting confused because I think these are two or more different research camps (computability, philosophy, logic, etc) and I don't know how much jargon is shared.

OP's other post's comment is related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19265632

throway88989898on All of Mathematics is inconsistent. Turing machines are consistent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_impossibility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory#Objections_to_set_t...

throway88989898on Ask HN: What habits distinguish effective execution from “spinning your wheels”?

Accountability

throway88989898on The periodic table is 150 years old this week

> reminder

Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkV6IpV2Y0

Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

It's like asking a 2 year old to count way... way past 10

throway88989898on When Does Intelligence Peak?

> performance in educational setting != ability or intelligence

especially when the educational setting has an incentive to increase their performance metrics (not the same as standards)

throway88989898on Ask HN: Business Is Making $400k / Year– Now I Don't Know What to Do with Myself

That sounds amazing. Congratulations.

Can you share what you think made your business idea succeed?

I'd suggest not increasing your spending like I've read humans do in such cases and instead planning your personal finances to get the most out of your success. After that, disconnecting for a while would be good to get rid of any burnout. It doesn't have to be that long, but disconnected enough to give perspective. Then figure out what you'd like to do with your freedom and resources you have left.

throway88989898on Ask HN: What is your burnout story?

1) Realizing the hard content from graduate school was not making myself more employable. Trying to become more employable on the side. Eventually dreading a subject I was passionate for. Lack of guidance or direction, covering more than necessary for my own understanding rather than studying to the test... Withdrawing myself 'for focus'. Refusing to give up and move on, wasting a lot of effort and mental health.

2) I left. Not entirely empty-handed.

throway88989898on Boss asks if I think this is the right job for me?

reminder to put "Ask HN:" in title https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

throway88989898on The hard part in becoming a command line wizard

wondering if there's a utility for finding shorter strings with the same output

throway88989898on Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base

... singular?

throway88989898on Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)

No offense to 3b1b, the production quality is impressive and the content is effectively insightful.

However, it is ultimately a very limited linear format covering the topic only lightly.

throway88989898on Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)

Khan Academy is great, the only issue I have with it is it's too long-winded sometimes. Taking much longer than necessary at the cost of maintaining that comfort level of a beginner student. There is something to be said about struggling just enough according to your proficiency level (the idea of Flow in psychology).

throway88989898on Ask HN: What is your favorite Linux distro?

(2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7230840

throway88989898on How to visit foreign website? like stackOverflow.com/fackbook.com/twitter.com

Here's what I understood:

"I'm a web developer using 'Lantern' (a global satellite data radio) for internet access, but it is too slow. I would like to constantly look up things, such as in websites listed in the title, but these speeds are unbearable. Since I'm new to this, could you give me any useful suggestions that could help my ultra-slow speeds problem?"

lofayo, this list was posted recently here. Maybe it helps. Maybe it does not help. https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites/blob/maste...

Here is a previous discussion about Lantern https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10126667

throway88989898on Huawei Trolls U.S. on Spy Claims with a Jab at Snowden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQKUe96TAh4

throway88989898on What can a technologist do about climate change? (2015)

TIL this exists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_ball#Seed_bombing and that China has reportedly sent troops to reforest by land in the past.

throway88989898on Ask HN: I'm poor at explaining things, how can I fix that?

Write.

Listen.

throway88989898on Portmanteau Generator

Anyway... here is a 100,000+word portmanteau for your entertainment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVn2PZGZxaI (no phonemes)

Againyway... that's odd https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/%21+%21