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Anything that can teach a 3 years old kid math, assuming he knows how to count to 10. But also interested in resources that that would take him beyond that and get him to fall in love with math as he grows up.

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What books would you recommend on the Scientific Method, Epistemology and scientific thinking in general?

Books like this that I liked:

- The Selfish Gene

- Rationality: From AI to Zombies

- The Scout Mindset

- Asking the Right Questions (Critical Thinking)

I've read "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman" already and could barely finish it. I respect that Feynman is a great scientist but he came across too full of himself in the book.

I'm planning on reading "The Beginning of Infinity" sometime this year and I am collecting more recommendations.

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A friend of mine shared the following code snippet with me and asked me to guess how many times the loop will run on average:

  for(int i = 0; i < Random(1, 100); i++);

I tried to guess the answer analytically and gussed ~50 but the empirical test was surprising to me. Can someone explain why the average is around 12?

Runnable code: https://replit.com/@aalhour/RandomLoop#main.py

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Where can I begin learning how to write Linux filesystems?

Hey HN,

I was wondering if there is a book on building databases that's written in a similar fashion to "Crafting Interpreters". A book that would teach you about databases while having you build one yourself.

Hey folks, I am interested in learning more about Ruby's internals and it's runtime, topics such as: garbage collection, concurrency, memory management ... etc. What would be a good place to read on these before jumping right into the C code? Thanks.

What are your favorite parenting podcasts and why? I am looking for recommendations but also looking to explore things I may not come across.

I am interested to see what are all the interesting or hard computational challenges people are working on out there. Hardware, software, data-related or algorithmic.

Could someone explain the COVID-19 vaccine in layman terms? I don't quite understand how mRNA/RNA vaccines work and what their side effects are.

Is there a book that introduces probability and/or stats through means of story telling and puzzles? I love math books such as "To Mock A Mocking Bird" and "Calculus Made Easy" and even though they're very different in nature I still didn't find anything like them for probability theory, but would love to read one if it exists

Hello HN,

What would be a good alternative text to the "Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes" book? I couldn't find it for a cheap price in Europe (~90 eur).

Link: https://www.amazon.de/dp/0071226613/

What technologies, and patterns, does your system use in order to process, store, enrich, analyze and serve data and insights? How do you manage your infrastructure?

Hello Googlers (former and current ones),

What have you learned at Google, as a Software Engineer, that you think was interesting and helped you up your game as an engineer? Anything you can share with people outside of Google that can help them improve as engineers?