Chris Carson cdcarson

Mathematics: What do grad students in math do all day?

A lot of math grad school is reading books and papers and trying to understand what's going on. The difficulty is that reading math is not like reading a mystery thriller, and it's not even like reading a history book or a New York Times article.

The main issue is that, by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

What can you say?

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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	Ctrl + A Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on
	Ctrl + E Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on
	Ctrl + L Clears the Screen, similar to the clear command
	Ctrl + U Clears the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the line, clears the entire line.
	Ctrl + H Same as backspace
	Ctrl + R Let’s you search through previously used commands
	Ctrl + C Kill whatever you are running
	Ctrl + D Exit the current shell
	Ctrl + Z Puts whatever you are running into a suspended background process. fg restores it.
	Ctrl + W Delete the word before the cursor

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