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vole··on The relationship between age and wisdom-related performance (1999)
it's available to scihub
vole··on Dry Water
A similar thing occured with LSD. It was only manufactured by Sandoz until the patents expired and the quantities manufactured exploded.
vole··on What does genius look like in math? Where does it come? Dandelin spheres [video]
vorite quote "You can often view glimpses of ingeniousness... not as inexplicable miracles, but as the residue of experience." Did he pen that one or borrow it from someone else?

Although I can't say it hasn't been said before, that's a common theme in his videos.

vole··on Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
The same thing is a huge problem in OpenStreetMaps for me .
vole··on Mathematician-M.D. claims to have solved the 110-year-old Lindelöf hypothesis
I disagree with this. Often what is gained from a proof is not the fact that a proof is known, but more insights about the original problem. So, a small technical error may "invalidate" a proof but it does not make it meaningless. Just like a bug in software does not make it worthless.
vole··on I realized that derivatives are linear
>Most of the other non-polynomial functions have an equivalent Taylor polynomial

_analytic_ functions have a Taylor _series_, but it would be incorrect to say that "most" functions have a taylor series, and a taylor series is not a polynomial.

vole··on IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
Matrix attempts to be a solution to this
vole··on Composing with Tape Recorders: Musique Concrète for Beginners [pdf]
would recommend William Basinski - The Distintegration loops in this regard
vole··on Composing with Tape Recorders: Musique Concrète for Beginners [pdf]
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vole··on Psychedelics could heal brain cells in people suffering from depression: study
For further reading, LSD: My problem child by Albert Hofmann is also interesting
vole··on The Dozenal Society of America
Isn't that their entire argument?
vole··on How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments
>Yet there's still one small simplification that can be made: the condition in the inner loop doesn't need "!= '\0'".

I believe this would cause the newline not to be printed in the unknown command error, so it is necessary.