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“If people think you amount to something, distrust yourself.”

From Chapter Eight of William B. Irvine’s A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (footnotes omitted) SOMETHING ELSE we can do during our Stoic meditations is judge our progress as Stoics. There are several indicators by which we can measure this progress. For one

The Most Important Thing In Life

Dialogue about what the most important thing in life is

The Truth Hurts

A philosophical dialogue on psychological pain and engaging with philosophy.

Ayn Rand "Catchphrase" Analysis

Some analysis of "catchphrases" criticized by Ayn Rand

AOPS Pre-Algebra Selections - Chapter 10.3

Selected exercises from Art of Problem Solving Pre-Algebra Chapter 10.3

AOPS Pre-Algebra Exercise 11.50 Deep Dive

Going into detail on a tricky math problem from Art of Problem Solving's Pre-Algebra book

AOPS Pre-Algebra Chapter 10.2 Selections - Parallel Lines

Concept - Transversals Transversals - line that cuts across parallel lines and creates angles with the same measure. One way to see why is to imagine sliding line $\overleftrightarrow{D F}$ on top of $\overleftrightarrow{C G}$ so that point $B$ is on top of point $A$. Then, $\angle ABF$

AOPS Pre-Algebra Chapter 10.1 - Measuring Angles

Concepts Points, Segments, Lines, Rays, Angles Depiction of a point. Normally labeled with capital letters: Line segment or segment: straight path from one point to another. Line: a segment that continues forever in both directions. Ray: Segment that continues forever past only one endpoint: Angles: made by two intersecting lines

AOPS Pre-Algebra Chapter 1.3 Notes & Problems - Multiplication

Key points Commutative property of multiplication Let a and b be numbers. Then $$ab = ba $$ Associative property of multiplication Let a, b, and c be numbers. Then $$(ab)c = a(bc)$$ Multiplication by 1 Multiplication by 1 Let a be a number. Then $$1a = a$$ Order of operations What'

AOPS Pre-Algebra Chapter 1.1 & 1.2 Notes & Exercises

I'm going through this book and taking notes/doing the problems. Chapter 1.1 - Why Start With Arithmetic? Goal of chapter is to help you understand why arithmetic calculations work instead of just following calculations. With that understanding, you'll be better able to do algebra.

Math Problem

In this post, I'll be trying to understand the solution given to a math problem in Prealgebra from the Art of Problem Solving series by Richard Rusczyk. Here is the problem: What is the greatest number of acute interior angles that a decagon can have? (Note: the decagon

Algebra Word Problem #1

Solving a word algebra problem using three different approaches

Checking Thomas Szasz' Use of Quotations

UPDATED TO FIX FORMATTING ISSUES Overview/Methodology In this post, I'm going to look at the accuracy of quotation in Thomas Szasz's The Myth of Mental Illness ("MoMI"). I'm using a revised edition published by Harper & Row in 1974. Szasz uses

Checking Some Citations in the Ayn Rand Lexicon

Scholarly accuracy is important. We need to be able to know what other people said in order to understand it and build upon it (by making further advances on it or by criticizing it). Conceptually understanding what another person said can be difficult. By contrast, accurately copying the literal text

SICP 1.2.3 - Orders of Growth

Covering SICP section 1.2.3 and exercises 1.14 and 1.15.

SICP 1.2 - Procedures and the Processes They Generate, Part 2

Covering SICP Exercises 1.11 through 1.13

SICP - Tangent on Mathematical Induction

A tangent on mathematical induction which is related to my efforts at solving SICP Exercise 1.13

SICP 1.2 - Procedures and the Processes They Generate, Part 1

Covering the SICP material from sections 1.2.1 through 1.2.2 and Exercises 1.9 and 1.10

SICP 1.1 - The Elements of Programming - Part 2

Covering the SICP material from sections 1.1.7 through 1.1.8 and Exercises 1.4 through 1.8

SICP 1.1 - The Elements of Programming - Part 1

Covering the SICP material from sections 1.1.1 through 1.1.6 and Exercises 1.1 through 1.3