Speaking of which, this is my favorites skits from Matt's Youtube channel https://youtu.be/Bcr9-93wXng (Stand-up comedy about Equations That Correspond to Vortex Motions (aka "smoke rings”).).
I do enjoy his geeky humour, and the rest of the Festival of Spoken nerd's (@fotsn), and actually went to see him and others just a couple of weeks ago at @AEOUD.
It was also the day before he posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSSsZLTMDq0 which explains how I was the 'Thirty-seventh' commentator - though you'll have to sort by newest comments and go down to at least the first couple of hundred comments to get that joke :)
it uses a strategy which is mainly utilized by phishing websites to mask the legitimacy of a fqdn. Its also http, so easily modified by hostile parties.
imo a very poor idea considering how you ultimately end up on a shop. i know its just a 301 redirect vhost, but nonetheless...
You're probably thinking it's a bit suspicious seeing that the account was made 62 minutes after the post was submitted. It could be that the user just browses HN regularly, saw this post about him, and wanted to separate his comment histories from his main account.
Yes: I normally lurk on HN. But people started messaging me when this reached the top, of course. I can confirm I don’t know or have any connection with the OP.
I can share how it happened. I logged into HN today to read more about the Apple/Amazon/China news, then almost spat out my coffee when I saw Matt was #1 on Hacker News. I went to high school & university with Matt, so it felt really surreal, and I immediately tweeted Matt to tell him:
I can confirm all of this is true. I mean, I don’t know how close SyneRyder was to spitting out coffee (or even if they were drinking coffee? how deep does this go?) but everything else is a fact.
For a modern popular math book I would recommend The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (by Paul Hoffman) about the life Paul Erdős. Is a great intro to the life of a working mathematician and a bit about proof.
The classic text is How To Solve It (by Georg Pólya). A bit antiquated but still good.
Beyond that: find an introductory text book to a subject and start trying the worked examples!
Isn't that a bit misleading because Erdos was a famously unusual mathematician personality/lifestyle? I think focusing on Erdos as an intro fetishizes mathematicians/mathematics.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 75.3 ms ] threadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I
It was also the day before he posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSSsZLTMDq0 which explains how I was the 'Thirty-seventh' commentator - though you'll have to sort by newest comments and go down to at least the first couple of hundred comments to get that joke :)
Ah… you’ll probably enjoy my new book about maths mistakes. Check if your favourite programming error is in there!
http://wwwh.umble-pi.com
it uses a strategy which is mainly utilized by phishing websites to mask the legitimacy of a fqdn. Its also http, so easily modified by hostile parties.
imo a very poor idea considering how you ultimately end up on a shop. i know its just a 301 redirect vhost, but nonetheless...
"Hello everyone. Didn’t expect to see myself here."
followed by you can get my product here.
https://twitter.com/syneryder/status/1048507531352571904
http://festivalofthespokennerd.com/dvd
I couldn't agree more.
> It reminds me of when I was recording my latest DVD special, also available on download and floppy disk. http://festivalofthespokennerd.com/dvd
Looks like I'm going to finish my christmas shopping early boys. Are the floppy disks 3 1/2 or 5 1/4?
(Fellow UWA alum and Slime Volleyball ex-World-Champion here. :D )
The classic text is How To Solve It (by Georg Pólya). A bit antiquated but still good.
Beyond that: find an introductory text book to a subject and start trying the worked examples!