15:[[29134609,{"by":"nikivi","descendants":56,"id":29134609,"kids":[29136793,29135110,29134703,29134768,29134765],"score":154,"time":1636239236,"title":"Racket v8.3","type":"story","url":"https://blog.racket-lang.org/2021/11/racket-v8-3.html"}],[28239410,{"by":"podiki","descendants":12,"id":28239410,"kids":[28240062,28245113,28240445,28240974,28277865],"score":43,"time":1629407366,"title":"Guix: A most advanced operating system","type":"story","url":"https://ambrevar.xyz/guix-advance/"}],[28190699,{"by":"beefman","dead":true,"id":28190699,"kids":[28191096,28191151],"score":25,"time":1629049644,"type":"story"}],[28162087,{"by":"benbreen","descendants":105,"id":28162087,"kids":[28176425,28176346,28176726,28176870,28176285,28184088,28181850,28175937,28176053,28175889,28176512],"score":85,"time":1628805493,"title":"Buddha and Mind","type":"story","url":"https://www.neh.gov/article/buddha-and-mind"}],[28113166,{"by":"matnar","descendants":66,"id":28113166,"kids":[28113618,28113604,28113708,28113595,28113305,28114199,28114029,28113597,28113653,28114095,28114579,28113715,28123024,28113578,28113586,28114276,28113430,28122471,28114313,28113967,28113910,28113776,28113693,28135002,28114111,28113652,28113605,28135938,28113939],"score":47,"text":"A few days ago, I read that math is not that much important of you want to be a computer scientist.

I read this sentence as a provocation and caught me so much that I'm still thinking about it.

I studied math and computer science and I strongly believe that having a math background helps you a lot to reason about a problem and formalize the solution. I do believe math can help you to implement some clean code, e.g., that solves a problem without a bunch of if else statements (or to identify state machines where they are not so easily spotted).

In my experience, math helped me a lot, even though so far I never implemented compilers, interpreters or defined new languages (tasks where most of scientists agree that having a math background helps).

What do you think: is learning math useful to be a good computer scientist?","time":1628488950,"title":"Ask HN: Is learning math useful to be a good computer scientist?","type":"story"}],[28085342,{"by":"Kaibeezy","descendants":248,"id":28085342,"kids":[28085553,28086099,28086167,28088392,28086833,28088341,28086904,28087215,28086315,28085727,28087070,28086413],"score":269,"time":1628246074,"title":"Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation","type":"story","url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01097-4.epdf"}],[26596378,{"by":"tasubotadas","descendants":104,"id":26596378,"kids":[26596782,26596941,26597044,26596747,26596822,26596870,26596621,26596804,26596450,26596852,26596786,26596825,26597118,26601812,26596616,26597433,26596638,26597307,26597069,26600646,26596791,26596898,26596939,26597400,26596958],"score":72,"time":1616789575,"title":"Red Hat Pulls Free Software Foundation Funding over Richard Stallman's 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lot of what hackers do takes years of building knowledge upon knowledge. That's also true for physicists, marketers, salespeople, managers, etc.

Are there any quick wins that 30 ~ 60 minutes of intense concentration can generate?

For example an average person, if focused, can learn to read (but not understand) Korean decently in under an hour.

A person can also learn a few guitar chords and possibly play a carefully-chosen song in that time.

But those aren't valuable skills in themselves.

Do you know of any simple + valuable wins in your area of interest?

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