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Ask HN: What math to study for a high schooler with 1 month and calculus base?

b_b — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:04:58 +0000

We will finish the Anton Calculus 'Brief Edition' textbook with 1 month left in the year. So after integrals we'll have covered Infinite series as well, to give you a sense of what math knowledge we'll be at.

I was wondering if any HNers have advice for what math topics I could independently study with my teacher in the remaining time, that also won't be repeated knowledge for college. e.g. I do not want to study vectors since I will be taking linear algebra later anyhow.

Thank you for your time and kind help!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22046765

Points: 1

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New comment by b_b in "Nbdev: Use Notebooks for Everything"

b_b — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 15:17:56 +0000

Literate programming making a comeback! (If it was ever in vogue anyway?)

New comment by b_b in "Arcs of Seniority"

b_b — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 23:41:09 +0000

It's not really time. Seniority here is more of a quality than it is just something determined purely by time. So "Senior Software Developers" are those with some of the correlated skills in the article.

Chicago Style Citation and Bibliography in LaTeX

b_b — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 23:28:48 +0000

Article URL: https://abidsikder.com/blog/2019/07/07/2019-07-07-chicago-latex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20378708

Points: 1

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The China Challenge:How their military build-up is ending U.S. supremacy in Asia

b_b — Mon, 06 May 2019 13:15:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/china-army/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19839095

Points: 4

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Ask HN: What is an algorithm for making the an efficient network between points?

b_b — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 01:43:09 +0000

I was looking at slime mold recently [0][1] and thought that it'd be cool to try and test its network mapping capabilities against that of a human designed algorithm, and see how they differ. Problem is, I don't know much about algorithms, and whether one for creating networks with loops even exist. I know HN has some amazing programmers here so I was wondering if someone here knew.

[0] = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx3Uu1hfl6Q [1] = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxGrde1NDA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19670453

Points: 2

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New comment by b_b in "Freedom to Compete Act [pdf]"

b_b — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:30:21 +0000

Bit off-topic, but love that the URL is just the straight up path to the file on the Windows machine.

New comment by b_b in "Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)"

b_b — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:22:48 +0000

This seems like one of the best uses of computers for educational media, one of the ways digital instruction can really shine through compared to physical text which can often require supplemental videos or help from a teacher to elucidate a concept.

Feels very reminiscent to me of 3B1B videos [1] on topics that use visuals to elucidate math topics more clearly as well.

[1] = https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

New comment by b_b in "Apple fails to block porn and gambling “enterprise” apps"

b_b — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:03:39 +0000

It seems ironic to me that the HN crowd seems to support these circumvention of Apple's insular app distribution strategy, but on the other hand also supports Apple's clamp down on efforts to stop privacy violating apps.

For my part, I guess I would prefer that Apple at least open up iOS devices to both the app store and allowing users to install non-App Store apps, the Android model. This would probably satisfy both casual and more tech-savvy users. Unfortunately, I don't see Apple doing this any time as they are all about profits, and this strategy has been working very well so far.

New comment by b_b in "Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library"

b_b — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:55:16 +0000

Nice little Daft Punk easter egg in the panel with the "Nothing Found" example page (https://genius.com/Daft-punk-digital-love-lyrics), and the ending statement "We are humaaan after all." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_After_All)

New comment by b_b in "Ask HN: How to deal with internet addiction?"

b_b — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 17:05:26 +0000

For people who use YouTube and would like to remove distractions, I use the simple CSS script below along with the CSS styler extension Stylus to remove distractions and stop me from jumping mindlessly from video to video.

  /* Hide the Distracting Comments */
  #comments {
    display: none;
  }

  /* Hide Livestream Comments */
  #chat {
    display: none;
  }

  /* Hide Related Videos */
  #related {
    display: none;
  }

New comment by b_b in "Startup Playbook (2015)"

b_b — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 02:05:30 +0000

It seems so incredibly generous of this that I caught myself being so cynical as to doubt any ulterior motives at attracting just more companies to YC overall. But it seems to me that these resources and advice are made in earnest, thank you Sam Altman (and Gregory Koberger!) for the contribution of these materials.

New comment by b_b in "China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked to Huawei row"

b_b — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:48:09 +0000

This man Winston Sterzel [0] has been predicting something like this will happen in China, as they have no tolerance for drugs due to the horrors of the opium crisis.

[0] = https://www.youtube.com/user/serpentza

New comment by b_b in "Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?"

b_b — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 14:33:20 +0000

I would recommend for you to read and implement the organization/productivity system from Getting Things Done by David Allen [0]. It discusses essentially your main problems of dividing up your life into projects and timing yourself. The system also includes sections for putting some of your ideas in an 'Incubate', basically putting it off for another day once you get through what you have. Having a running list of all your commitments and projects like the system does I think will help you to analyze your time usage and realistic expectations for your productivity and stuff you want to engage in.

[0] = https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produ...

New comment by b_b in "Firefox shows ads for Booking.com in New Tab page"

b_b — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 16:08:54 +0000

It's not the fact that Mozilla sanitizes or does not sanitize the ads to prevent user tracking. It's the fact that there was never any explicit knowledge that ads like this would even show up on the browser homepage, which violates further trust in Firefox and Mozilla.

New comment by b_b in "They paid $100k to ride on Xcor's space plane. Now they want their money back"

b_b — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:55:29 +0000

To clarify any misunderstandings from the title, the people paid but never actually got to fly, so they (fairly) want their money back.

New comment by b_b in "Google Has a Plan to Eliminate Mosquitoes"

b_b — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:43:53 +0000

Instead of the sarcasm, please elaborate on the harmful effects of complete mosquito removal (those that carry diseases) from the ecosystem. These bugs cause an immense number of death and suffering every year, and eliminating them seems a good solution in that it removes the carrier of the diseases, eliminating the disease without having to worry about finding cures and expanding health care access in a lot of the impoverished places where these diseases strike the hardest.

New comment by b_b in "North, Thalmic's Secret Smart Glasses Play"

b_b — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 01:19:20 +0000

The facebook/linkedin AR, personally, does not sound so exciting... feels far too dystopian to me.

New comment by b_b in "Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents"

b_b — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:29:39 +0000

While these web-app things may be nice for quickly trying out these programs, for actual long-term use on my machine and workflow besides all of the other programs, they don't stand up to the test unless they are truly revolutionary and needed.

New comment by b_b in "John McCain has died"

b_b — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:43:59 +0000

Here goes sadly one of the last remaining examples of a respectful and dignified politician, no matter the political party of the other.