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Work very hard
Quoting Paul Graham (b. 1964): If you look at the people who’ve done great work, one thing they all seem to have in common is that they worked very hard. If you’re not working hard, you… more »
Reasonable Deviations
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willagracengt wrote 14 hours ago: Karl Straying, Dust bowl’s strike dead, say goodbye to behind hour. And not likely, male being hasn’ … more »
Thinned-out Random sample and Overreactions
chalmersanatole wrote 15 hours ago: People had a conservativeness until the horrific events relating to the Virginia Tech shootings. Ta … more »
Baylor's Network Grasp Physiognomy Neurological Cases and Images
qniangusadele wrote 16 hours ago: “Meshwork Abridgement is a diffraction relating to the Programmed instruction Brilliance Gist( … more »
Government versus private enterprise
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Rod Carvalho wrote 1 month ago: Quoting U.S. theoretical physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988): The real question of government vers … more »
Work very hard
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Rod Carvalho wrote 1 month ago: Quoting Paul Graham (b. 1964): If you look at the people who’ve done great work, one thing the … more »
To understand the Universe
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Rod Carvalho wrote 1 month ago: Quoting U.S. theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg (b. 1933): The effort to understand the universe … more »
To think what nobody has yet thought
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Rod Carvalho wrote 1 month ago: Quoting Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961): The task is not so much to see what no on … more »
2020 Science
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Rod Carvalho wrote 1 year ago: Here’s an initiative which seeks to identify future directions in science and computing: Towa … more »
The Scottish Café
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Rod Carvalho wrote 1 year ago: An interesting story about the Scottish Café in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), where mathematicians w … more »
Building a Calculating Machine using Lego
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Rod Carvalho wrote 1 year ago: This is probably the coolest Lego creation I’ve ever seen. In fact, this could very well be th … more »
Tetris - from Russia with love
Rod Carvalho wrote 1 year ago: I would like to thank Jacob (at MoneyScience) for suggesting me this very interesting BBC documentar … more »
On Teaching Mathematics
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Rod Carvalho wrote 1 year ago: A rather interesting text by Vladimir Arnold, the charismatic Russian mathematician: Mathematics is … more »
On judging other people
Rod Carvalho wrote 1 year ago: Very good advice from Guy Kawasaki: Judge others by their intentions and yourself by your results. I … more »
The Art of the Start
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Rod Carvalho wrote 1 year ago: I regularly visit Guy Kawasaki’s blog. A few months ago I watched a video of Guy’s spee … more »
Scientists and Artists
Rod Carvalho wrote 1 year ago: Albert Einstein comments on the similarity between scientists and artists: After a certain level of … more »
A Society based on the Letter of the Law
Rod Carvalho wrote 2 months ago: Quoting Russian writer Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918): I have spent all my life under a … more »
New Ideas
Rod Carvalho wrote 3 months ago: Quoting influential science fiction writer, inventor and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-200 … more »
God is dead...Now what?
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121pjx wrote 3 months ago: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher … more »
"Happinness Comes From Within"- Sartre
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121pjx wrote 3 months ago: As I was discussing it earlier, philosophers often contradict themselves. And referring back to my p … more »
