Cottonwood trees in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah (© Jeff Foott/Minden Pictures)
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nikitonsky: Well of course Date is under Number, where else should it go?
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Füzér Castle in the Zemplén Mountains, Hungary (© ZGPhotography/Alamy)
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Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.
On math, magic, and mathematical grimoires.. As I was “speedrun reading” about MathML days ago, I discovered an amazing digital library of mathematical functions. Boring, but why amazing? Take a look at this function and hover click on any of the variables to view the definition, and keep clicking on more variables for even more… definitions. That’s a legit library.
See, now all of us can roleplay as mages and mathematicians on the Internet.
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nikitonsky: I wish programs could check for common causes like “You are offline” or “No internet” instead of “Error 11556”. Seems like a common case
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Corn maze in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania (© Alex Potemkin/Getty Images)
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A site for people who think. Intellectual resources, programming, astronomy, science, mathematics, Java/JavaScript applets, programming instruction, home of Arachnophilia.
A collection of what once were called quotations.
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Astoria-Megler Bridge on the Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon (© Dan Mihai/Getty Images)
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Reliefs in the ancient Persian city of Persepolis, Iran (© Ozbalci/Getty Images)
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Articles (occasional rants) and tutorials about open source, BSD and GNU/Linux system administration, and programming - the pragmatic way.
A big percentage of so-called experts today only know how to configure tools, but they understand nothing about how things work at the deeper level. This is a real challenge and a big problem for the future.