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I recently subscribed to the The Great Courses Plus, so that I could bring myself up to speed on the Math needed to do my 12th standard exams. All these years, whenever I’ve tried to teach myself trigonometry (or other people have tried to explain it to me) it has always been an exercise in frustration, followed by the general exhortation to just mug it up. My brain sadly is not wired that way. I can and I will mug it up. But I do want to know what the first principles are, so that I have the ability to derive what I need. I need to understand. ...

Listening to Marcus du Sautoy’s A Brief History of Mathematics this weekend. In two hours, and ten episodes, du Sautoy spans the gamut of mathematicians from Leibniz & Newton the 1690s to the ensemble Bourbaki the 1930s Brief, rampaging and hugely entertaining, this is well worth a listen!

Started: 2018-03-11 Finished: 2018-03-13 Imagine the school bum, mending his ways, becoming a success and then sharing his stories and experience. Well, that’s what this book is. A pithy summary for a pithy book. Punchy, wise and brief. Mark Manson is the Dale Carnegie for millenials. There are f*cks strewn galore, so if you’re not comfortable with such language, stay away.1 Here’s a few things, I took away from the book ...

TL;DR? It’s awesome. Buy it right now. I was looking to dip my toes into some sort of structured help with the summer training and open source in general, because while I knew what I wanted, I just didn’t know how to go about it. And then I realised that one of our mentors had actually gone and written a whole book on the how to. So, I bought the paperback. The binding is really good, the paper really nice (unlike other tech books I’ve read) and the words large enough to read. I expect to get a lot of use, out of the book. ...

Updates: Much better at gtypist lesson Q1 Also automated resizing and compressing my gtypist screenshots via an Automator folder action Done with Chapter 9 of the Lutz Book. I now know of tuples and strings   ---

I’m a big fan of Shane Parrish’s, The Knowledge Project. Last night, I finished Episode 35, with Robert Green. If you have trouble figuring out how to read, or take notes, and synthesize what you learn, go listen to how a master does it. (Spoiler, it’s pretty low tech) Take what he teaches and adapt it digitally if you want. Robert taught it to my favorite Stoic author, Ryan Holiday who’s given a good description of it, here in his Medium post. And if you really want to get into the weeds, Ryan breaks it all down here, in along post replete with photos ...