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goodmath.scientopia.org is a personal blog at goodmath.scientopia.org about math and programming. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The Glorious Horror of TECO (2010)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog to rebut popular math claims and cranks, such as the 1+2+3+...=-1/12 video and Norman Wildberger. Commenters cite it as a counter-source rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Glorious Horror of TECO (2010)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-08-18
- Everyone stop implementing programming languages, right now It's been solved2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-23
What Hacker News says?
Nope! http://goodmath.scientopia.org/2014/01/17/bad-math-from-the-...
Comment linking /2014/01/17/bad-math-from-the-bad-astronomer/
on “Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets”Submitted The Glorious Horror of TECO (2010) as a story · 52 points
HN discussionGlad SciAm is helping to spread correct info. I think that basically, the problem with many math videos in this style is that they tend to make uncommon, if interesting, assumptions without explaining what they are or why they make the assumption in order to get clicks. This is my comment from the last time this video was mentioned: > "The sum of the series 1+2+3+4+5+6... = -1/12" is patently false, without a previo…
Comment linking /2014/01/17/bad-math-from-the-bad-astronomer/
on “Does 1+2+3+... Really Equal -1/12?”Submitted The Glorious Horror of TECO as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMaybe, but in this case at least GP is not wrong to do so, merely lacking a little in nuance, in that on the "measurement" side, not everybody is looking for the flattest possible response. On the whole, though, there absolutely is a sort of "audiophile" who spends thousands and thousands of perfectly good dollars on completely ridiculous paraphernalia, because a combination of placebo effect and escalating commitme…
Comment linking /2011/12/30/audiophiles-and-the-need-to-be-special/
on “The rise and rise of headphones”Submitted The Basics of Software Transactional Memory as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Norman Wildberger This throws up warning flags to me. He's a somewhat notorious crank. http://goodmath.scientopia.org/2007/10/15/dirty-rotten-infin...
Comment linking /2007/10/15/dirty-rotten-infinite-sets-and-the-foundations-of-math/
on “Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study”Submitted The Glorious Horror of TECO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe human brain, like everything else, ultimately runs on the laws of physics. If the laws of physics can be simulated on a computer, then the brain is theoretically simulatable on a computer. So any argument that a computer cannot even in theory do some thing that a human mind can do must be flawed, unless the assumption that of the simulatability of physics is wrong. (This particular instance is thinly veiled ques…
Comment linking /2013/01/17/sloppy-dualism-denies-free-will/
on “Artificial intelligence is impossible”Submitted Everyone stop implementing programming languages, right now It's been solved as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyone stop implementing programming languages, right now It's been solved as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The glorious horror of TECO as a story · 1 points
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