Month: April 2019
The ultimate guide to process scanned books
It’s more than just splitting pages
How to translate math equations back to emotions?
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things Henri Poincaré, in The future of Mathematics, 1908 Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing Unknown poet, in response to Poincaré This post is basically the article Making concrete analogies and big pictures, with just different title. For […]
How I use Google Keep
My speculation on why Google Keep doesn’t support text formatting and folder structure First, let’s not forget that there are a lot of note-taking apps that support formattings and folder structure. You name it: OneNote, Evernote, Zoho Note, etc. If GK also support formatting, then it will compete with other well-established competitors. Now, let me […]
Corner Timer: gently make you feel guilty on time-wasting apps
Make you feel guilty for your unproductive curiosity
Bộ sưu tập từ điển chuyên ngành
Bộ sưu tập này có khoảng 100 file từ điển. Mình để chế độ tự do chỉnh sửa để ai có cuốn nào mới thì có thể đóng góp. Mình ưu tiên từ điển hoặc giáo trình nhập môn đại học để các bạn dịch nếu phải dịch một thuật ngữ ngoài chuyên ngành có […]
Kinh nghiệm dịch
The linguistic and cognitive aspects of red herring names and formal definitions
Red herring names are names not either red or a herring. That is, it is a misleading name in math. Take the red herring name noncommutative geometry as an example. Its correct form should be not necessarily commutative geometry (or possibly non-commutative geometry), but the adverbs are trimmed in a rush to explain an idea […]