First explainer I've ever seen of Taylor series that really clicked for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6DsjIBzJ4
In general, I wish more of calculus had been taught to me not as a fundmental math that is abstractly internally-consistent, but from its historical origins: "Physics and engineering are hard, here's some brilliant hacks people came up with to make the estimates and calculations tractable." Then you can go from those to why they work to get to the theoretical context-free calculus.
@freemo @niconiconi I don't know if the Emacs for Game Boy to the right is real, but there is at least a Game Boy emulator for Emacs: https://github.com/vreeze/eboy
@niconiconi Please tell me this is real!
I haven't found #fountainpen Mastodon yet. Who else is into #fountainpens here?
@vwbusguy @freemo Also into fountain pens: @librarianguish .
Just follow it and tag the group when you post. All top level posts that tag the group will get re-boosted and seen by all followers (assuming group admin doesnt block you)
@peterdrake @vwbusguy I very much am, mostly flex fountain pens. There is also a calligraphy group on mastodon: @calligraphy
@rallias its now back up and might be slow for a minute.
@rallias Im most of the way through fixing it btw.
Haskell Libraries I Love
https://evanrelf.com/haskell-libraries-i-love
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://evanrelf.com/haskell-libraries-i-love
@rallias ill fix inn a few hours
#preservation
I'm downloading a dead wiki from the wayback machine using a script I found on GitHub.
I then plan to restore it using the tool html2mediawiki to then host it on my server.
Did anyone already do something like this and has any advice?
@stux For a second here I thought this was going to be that video of that dismembered dog's head.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
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UBI: No, use welfare
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