Hacker News: octatoan

“I don't own a car”

octatoan — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 08:13:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4bqwfb/serious_religious_people_of_reddit_what_are_your/d1bluvl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11369308

Points: 1

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New comment by octatoan in "With No Inkling of the Contents: Viewing Narnia Through a Hindu Lens"

octatoan — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 08:12:32 +0000

> math books and physics books are works describing the world as it is, and in that case, are the closest glimpse of the divine that you're likely to get in this life

That's where I've settled. If you want a religious experience, learn math. The feeling when you get something that was previously incomprehensible is probably as good as, if not better than, religious ecstasy.

New comment by octatoan in "A visual explanation of the Fourier transform with audio and JS"

octatoan — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 15:02:07 +0000

Isn't mine :)

New comment by octatoan in "Show HN: Kikked – check if any of your NPM repos is trademarked"

octatoan — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:52:54 +0000

Kik was the name of the npm package that is the source of all the recent hullabaloo.

"Kiked" is an instance of unfortunately misinterpretable verbing. I parsed it that way too at first.

Things I Won't Work With

octatoan — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 11:52:38 +0000

Article URL: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-with

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11365321

Points: 1

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A visual explanation of the Fourier transform with audio and JS

octatoan — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 09:35:19 +0000

Article URL: https://acko.net/files/gltalks/toolsforthought/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11365032

Points: 29

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New comment by octatoan in "Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet"

octatoan — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 07:20:50 +0000

There's a massive project going on in math using GitHub to write an open-source algebraic geometry textbook.

http://stacks.math.columbia.edu

New comment by octatoan in "How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University"

octatoan — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:09:27 +0000

I wrote this answer to a similar question in /r/math last year. You might enjoy it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/3ixyw3/how_can_i_begi...

New comment by octatoan in "AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5"

octatoan — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:27:41 +0000

Indeed, I wish someone could talk about how the value/policy thing works.

New comment by octatoan in "A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)"

octatoan — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:56:16 +0000

I needed this :)

New comment by octatoan in "Consider support for French sovereign operating system"

octatoan — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:51:34 +0000

> --cherchez-stackoverflow

Airblade/acts_as_enterprisey

octatoan — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:19:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787636

Points: 1

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Determinants of Meme Popularity [pdf]

octatoan — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 03:39:06 +0000

Article URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05956

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10721699

Points: 5

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New comment by octatoan in "Nigerian Solves 156-year Knotty Maths Hypothesis, Wins $1m – DailyPost Nigeria"

octatoan — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:40:31 +0000

http://aperiodical.com/2015/11/riemann-hypothesis-not-proved...

Ask HN: What Do You Think of GEB and the Emperor's New Mind?

octatoan — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 02:32:07 +0000

I have a feeling a lot of people think the second is quantum-crankish in places (I'd agree).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550924

Points: 2

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New comment by octatoan in "On Being Smart (2009) [pdf]"

octatoan — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:49:48 +0000

I posted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539083

It seems timezones matter a lot. :)

New comment by octatoan in "Ask HN: My project idea is built by someone else – what should I do now?"

octatoan — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:23:37 +0000

See if you can bring a new approach to the problem. You could solve it in a completely different way by focusing on some other part of the process.

On Being Smart [pdf]

octatoan — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:22:25 +0000

Article URL: http://sma.epfl.ch/~moustafa/General/onbeingsmart.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539083

Points: 5

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“Somebody with great power who wants ProtonMail dead jumped in after our attack”

octatoan — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 17:38:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blockchain.info/address/1FxHcZzW3z9NRSUnQ9Pcp58ddYaSuN1T2y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529125

Points: 3

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Mathematical Linguistics [pdf]

octatoan — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 12:37:15 +0000

Article URL: http://people.mokk.bme.hu/~kornai/termeszetes/ml.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486237

Points: 18

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