As an undergraduate, I wasn't super excited about mathematics until I learned about Cauchy's Residue theorem and how to evaluate real and complex integrals using them. Was there any special topic in math that really got you excited about mathematics?
Citicorp Center was built in 1977.
Located in NY, it was the world's 7th tallest building but had a big structural flaw: a very strong storm wind could knock it over.
The expert architects had no idea, until an anonymous Princeton undergrad cold called them.
Here’s the story🧵
As the monkeypox virus (MPX) outbreak continues, a lot of data emerging in real-time & being rapidly disseminated (as well as misinformation). I complied the unfolding scientific data (with direct links to papers and threads) on what we (don’t) know so far. #IDTwitter 🧵(1/n)
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Good article by @PearlLiu. She points out the private developers that were once bailing out their more troubled competitors are now themselves in trouble. Ultimately I expect more of the sector to be taken over by state-owned developers.
https://t.co/p53jKzWGf6 via @scmpnews
People often think that distributed systems is about knowing things like PAXOS, fancy commutative operations, clock synchronization and the like but in reality what in your opinion is building and running distributed systems successfully actually about?
Been writing threads on how the world's largest companies (eg. Apple, Ikea, Starbucks) use psychological hacks to get people to spend money.
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Sometimes people ask me which computer science papers they should read and I can't really answer that question, but I can list the papers I've enjoyed reading over the past years.