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Comment · 2 years ago
If you also gave all that text, with its audio, to the putative AI, it might have enough training material to learn to read your handwriting.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's a good reply, although I can't conceive of "negative frequencies".
Comment · 2 years ago
Well, if Horowitz and Hill aren't doing it for you I'm not sure what can help, short of trade or professional training. What kinds of things do you want to be able to fix?
Comment · 3 years ago
It's time for me to prepare for internet outages with hard copies, not only of maps but all important reference material.
Comment · 3 years ago
I must admit, that is indeed succinct.

Now, all you need is to define your point of focus, and you're set!

Comment · 3 years ago
Read heavy fiction. Try Jorge Luis Borges, or the Nobel winning J M Coetzee.

Krishnamurti is worth a read.

Comment · 3 years ago
Probably a good game for those who like numbers (me!). Can you realise the puzzle as a physical model?
Comment · 3 years ago
:)
Comment · 3 years ago
I got "allergic" to computers but I still like algorithms and playing with mathematical/logical structures. I spent some time in the Australian outback with nothing but a pencil and a block of paper. I had heard of topology in science fiction books so I decided to study that from scratch. Soon I had discovered a family of hyperdimensional geometries that led me to an efficient algorithm for the complete resolution of a traveling salesman problem and a non-Boolean logic. Therefore I think that creativity (work!) in preparation for coding doesn't need anything but a curious mind.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think it's a matter of convention, and that all the maths I can think of survives the following definitions:

If infinity were to be defined as immeasurably large, and zero as immeasurably small, we would be saying infinity=(some finite number)/0 and 0=(some finite number/infinity

This still leaves us unable to find an definite answer to the multiplication of 0 and infinity, because we might have chosen any 2 finite numbers for the definitions above.

Comment · 3 years ago
There's also a lot of waste aluminium, which might be usable in furnaces.
Comment · 3 years ago
I really like the last one - " 22 The fastest way to get into a productive mindset is to feel a responsibility for living a life of service."

I just think service is really cool.

Comment · 3 years ago
My progress bar froze?

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