octatoan

Joined 11 years ago

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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>.

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Comment · 10 years ago
> 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.

Comment · 10 years ago
Isn't mine :)
Comment · 10 years ago
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.

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Indeed, I wish someone could talk about how the value/policy thing works.
Comment · 10 years ago
I needed this :)
Comment · 10 years ago
> --cherchez-stackoverflow
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