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Friends!
If you have time, please, please, please check these people out!
Quotes I like
“The enjoyment of one’s tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.”
- Donald Knuth
“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
- Richard Feynman
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
‘“human imagination has no limits” mfs when i tell them to imagine a set with cardinality greater than the naturals but less than the reals’
- u/UndisclosedChaos
“What happens in the left subtree, stays in the left subtree.”
- Andrew Tolmach
“First, there was Pope John. Then, there was Pope Paul. Then, John Paul. Naturally, the next guy should have been Paul John Paul; unfortunately he called himself John Paul II instead and broke the Fibonacci sequence.”
- Gary Peterson
“The question of whether computers can think is like the question whether submarines can swim.”
- Edsger Dijkstra
“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”
- Jeremy S. Anderson
“There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.”
- Bjarne Stroustrup
Books I’m currently reading!
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Magic Tree House
- Introduction to Algorithms (CRYING)
- One flew over the cuckoo’s nest (for the sixth time)
Favorite links
- https://stopa.io/post/269
- https://www.reddit.com/gallery/tfdd4t
- https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf
- https://home.sandiego.edu/~baber/analytic/Lem1979.html
- https://www.cse.unr.edu/~sushil/class/ai/notes/papers/coffeehouse.html
- https://prog21.dadgum.com/154.html
- http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
- https://shorterlife.github.io/challenge/
- https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name
- https://github.com/corollari/linusrants
- https://booksdrive.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-Pragmatic-Programmer-by-Andrew-Hunt-David-Hurst-Thomas.pdf
- https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
Many more links can be found here SeniorMars/links-i-find-interesting