poppingtonic

Street Fighting Mathematics! Loved taking this Sanjoy Mahajan's course on OCW in high school

Some zig zag motions are required to maintain velocity and the combat is fun. I like it!

Learning how to implement Prolog in pg's On Lisp was a fun way to spend multiple weeks programming. Doing this again this year should be a lot of fun.

Lambda, The Ultimate Container

This essay nerd sniped me hard into information theory. Absolutely love it.

Thank you for the links - I can't stop replaying Love

Reading textbooks.

Using a REPL-based language like Lisp (which I learned from reading advanced Lisp textbooks) for several years before I worked professionally as a programmer enabled me to dive into complex, underexplored parts of the (Python, C) projects at my first job, which meant I basically owned some very important parts of the stack.

Reading and applying ideas from Unix sysadmin books enabled me to be comfortable jumping around the OS very quickly, giving me a speed advantage even when the computer I used was pretty underpowered, relative to my colleagues, early in my first job.

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