It’s also surprisingly approachable, unlike most serious mathematical-logic(-adjacent) books. The three-page elementary treatment of the Knaster–Tarski fixed point theorem is worth reading even if you’re interested in cases for which it’s not sufficient (seriously infinite or order-theoretic things). Neuromancer Snow … Read more
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STOCKS ARE sinking, a cost-of-living crisis is in full swing and the spectre of global recession looms. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the rich world’s housing markets, many of which continue to break records. Homes in America … Read more
“Seeing Like a State” by James C. Scott I started my career in international development, and the book above provides a dozen case studies on states using scientific management, stats, etc. to try and control their growth/populations/economies and failing miserably. … Read more
Current benchmark data was generated on Sat Dec 18 2021, full log can be found HERE CONTRIBUTIONS are WELCOME! CPU INFO:[x86_64][2 cores] Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8272CL CPU @ 2.60GHz Input: 8000 lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(kernel) compiler … Read more
I learn a non-trivial number of things, because there’s Debian drama about them. The fact that the which command is not part of any standard just joined the flock. I’ve been using which since my earliest Amiga 500 days to … Read more
ABSTRACT Transit observations have found the majority of exoplanets to date. Also spectroscopic observations of transits and eclipses are the most commonly used tool to characterize exoplanet atmospheres and will be used in the search for life. However, an exoplanet’s … Read more
When it comes to marriage, the jobs that each person in a couple has can play a role in whether or not it works out. Maybe it’s similar schedules. Maybe it’s common ground and understanding between two people. Maybe jobs … Read more
To build and run Java applications, a Java Compiler, Java Runtime Libraries, and a Virtual Machine are required that implement the Java Platform, Standard Edition (“Java SE”) specification. The OpenJDK is the open source reference implementation of the Java SE … Read more
* Fooled By Randomness (NN Taleb): Taleb is a complicated personality, but this book gave me a heuristic for thinking about long-tails and uncertain events that I could never have derived myself from a probability textbook. * Designing Data Intensive … Read more