One of the top comments on the Youtube version:

> This video was surprisingly interesting.

People say "Practice makes perfect" ... they're wrong.

Practice make permanent.

You need to practise the right thing, and that's where you will benefit from good quality feedback.

Learning on your own is hard.

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Alternate source for the comic:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/102075221/The-Last-Question

This is not an alternative source for the comic, it's a whole different comic. Cool!

Thank you ...

I remember reading this in the late-60s, and it's very much an old friend. It does, however, annoy me when the section breaks are lost.

Here's a PDF:

https://dn710709.ca.archive.org/0/items/TheFeelingOfPower/Th...

Also, it's no surprise that it's been submitted many times before. Here's one of the earlier discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=931273

Even so, perhaps there are new things to say in this time of emerging "AI-assisted programming".

I was split between a formatted PDF and this version. Decided I didn't want to scare anyone off by linking directly to a file download.

Glad you enjoyed seeing it again.

I don't know why the HTML versions all seem to lose the section breaks ... they're easy enough to render.

Never mind.

Up for me ... now.

I'm in the UK, and it's four hours since you asked. I suspect it's suffering the occasional HN "Hug of Death".

Absolutely ... https://issinfo.net/artemis is the one I use.

Great sense of scale, lovely to see the Moon apparently a long way from the "intercept" point, and it seems "accurate enough".

Here's the one I use: https://issinfo.net/artemis

The actual Earth and Moon are still not nearly to scale though!

I've found half a dozen sites to track the progress of Artemis II ... this is among the best.

Quote:

> "The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, ..."

Three minutes, one pixel of progress bar, 2 CPUs at 100%, load average 4.3 ...

The site is not protected by Anubis, it's blocked by it.

Closed.

I find Stillwell's writings to be exceptionally clear and accessible, and I recommend them.

It will be interesting to see if Tao's writings are as clear, though possibly he is targetting a different audience.

From Book Details;

a brief tour of six core ideas—numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics—that capture the beauty and power of mathematical thinking for everyone.

In Six Math Essentials, the renowned mathematician and Fields Medalist Terence Tao introduces readers to six central concepts that have guided mathematicians from antiquity to the frontiers of what we know today and now help us make sense of our complex world. This slim, elegant volume explores

numbers as the gateway to quantitative thinking;

algebra as the gateway to abstraction;

geometry as a way to calculate beyond what we can see;

probability as a tool to navigate uncertainty with rigorous thinking;

analysis as a means to tame the very large or the very small; and

dynamics as the mathematics of change.

Six Math Essentials—Tao’s first popular math book

Terence Tao's comment :- This book is for a general audience, without necessarily having a college-level math education. It is aimed more at adults than at children, but some children with an interest in mathematics may be able to get something out of it.

It is just 160 pages so must be information dense with no fluff. I am sold !

PS: Another book in the same (but easier) vein would be Ian Stewart's classic Concepts of Modern Mathematics - https://store.doverpublications.com/products/9780486284248