Füzér Castle in the Zemplén Mountains, Hungary (© ZGPhotography/Alamy)
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.
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
Corn maze in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania (© Alex Potemkin/Getty Images)
A collection of what once were called quotations.
Astoria-Megler Bridge on the Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon (© Dan Mihai/Getty Images)
Reliefs in the ancient Persian city of Persepolis, Iran (© Ozbalci/Getty Images)
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.
Pygmy three-toed sloth baby, Isla Escudo de Veraguas, Panama (© Suzi Eszterhas/Minden Pictures)
nikitonsky: Applications should match OS look and feel, unless there’s a good reason not to.