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octatoan

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Amateur Haskeller and guitarist. Trying to learn enough to comprehend a proof of Abel-Ruffini!

I'm octatoan at gmail if you'd like to talk. I have a little blog at <http://ham.so>.

  1. “I don't own a car” (reddit.com)
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  2. Things I Won't Work With (blogs.sciencemag.org)
    1 points 0
  3. A visual explanation of the Fourier transform with audio and JS (acko.net)
    29 points 2
  4. Determinants of Meme Popularity [pdf] (arxiv.org)
    5 points 0
  5. Ask HN: What Do You Think of GEB and the Emperor's New Mind?

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

    2 points 1
  6. “Somebody with great power who wants ProtonMail dead jumped in after our attack” (blockchain.info)
    3 points 0
  7. Mathematical Linguistics [pdf] (people.mokk.bme.hu)
    18 points 1
  8. “This review (of the iPhone 6s) will provide you with new information” (alexcornell.com)
    1 points 0
  9. The meaning of Noether’s Theorem (2011) (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
    2 points 0
  10. Linux, stop holding our kids back (2008) (linuxlock.blogspot.com)
    1 points 0
  11. JsOrrery – a JavaScript simulation of the solar system (mgvez.github.io)
    3 points 0
  12. RFC 4041 – Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts (tools.ietf.org)
    1 points 0
  13. RFC 2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (tools.ietf.org)
    1 points 0
  14. The mathematical art of Anatolii Fomenko (imgur.com)
    2 points 0
  15. In FRACTRAN, every program is a list of functions (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points 1
  16. Thee Coddling of the American Mind (theatlantic.com)
    1 points 0
  17. What does it feel like to invent math? (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  18. I wrote up the little I learned about p-adic integers (ham.so)
    2 points 0
  19. How Tesla Will Change the World (waitbutwhy.com)
    1 points 0
  20. A Culture of Dumb (2014) (theironsamurai.com)

    Slightly editorialized.

    2 points 1
  21. Jacob Lurie – Abstraction and Analogy in Mathematics (youtube.com)
    2 points 0
  22. The Five Longest Proust Sentences (nathanbrixius.wordpress.com)
    1 points 0
  23. Peter Singer's Drowning Child Argument (philosophybro.com)
    2 points 0
  24. Timeline of the far future (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  25. Ask HN: How can I find funding for a summer math program I've been invited to?

    Previous post: [0] I've been invited to HCSSiM, a math summer program at Hampshire College. When I made my previous post, my parents were worrying about me travelling alone and staying in the US for such a long time. It…

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