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January
Even a mind as great as Huygens did not understand second derivatives. He asked Leibniz why they were worth learning
Christiaan Huygens was a giant indeed. Amongst many other things, he was the first (we know of) who used an algebraic equation to describe physical phenomena. markvdloo
Funny how you sometimes see the same ideas in different ways over a few days. This wonderful lecture on Nash’s work by Cédric Villani talks about the difficulty understanding higher order derivatives in the ~4 min section starting around 22:00 — Mike Lawler.
“I still do not understand anything about ddx, and I would like to know if you have encountered any important problems where they should be used, so that this gives me desire to study them.” — Huygens.
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CloudKit: Structured Storage for Mobile Applications Apple’s paper.
June
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The Artist’s Way: 25th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron: 9780143129257: AmazonSmile: Books; The Artist’s Way — 10 Key Themes. – Georgie Nightingall – Medium
August
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How ergodicity reimagines economics for the benefit of us all | Aeon Ideas
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Boundaries and Computational Irreducibility | Joseph W Norman
An organism’s irreducible behavior should match the irreducible problems it faces.Irreducibility of behavior is another way to capture the “scale” of a system without recourse to low-dimensional coherent behavior.
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Mathematical Notation: Past and Future on Stephen Wolfram.
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The value of science by Richard Feynman, Dec 1955.