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Oh yeah.. absolutely! :D

When a test is contrapositive, it's actually testing for composites. So technically, it should output True for composite but then, the name isPrime doesn't do justice. So I changed the outputs to strings 'Prime' and 'Composite'.

Wow. didn't know that! Will add it to the section on Rabin-Miller. Thanks :)

I wish i could type out that number without losing my sanity.

You're absolutely right. I just made that change in the article. Thanks for pointing it out!

Okay.. so 1 should neither be prime nor composite. Because - a) 1 cannot be written as a product of two different factors : ruling out 1 to be composite b) 1 has only 1 positive divisor : ruling it out to be prime

That's indeed a special case which can be mentioned in the article.

Same here.. My fascination began when I learned about Glitch Primes, Cyclops numbers and the bloody Riemann Hypothesis!

I'm trying to look for the inequivalence you pointed at. The two definitions written are-

1.A prime number is a natural number that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself.

2. A prime number is a number that has exactly two factors - 1 and itself.

Both statements clearly seem to be accounting for 1. Am I missing something here?

They send both. Seems like the invites for interview are sent first.

yeah, makes sense. We're indeed trying to find ways so authors could keep the contents of a single slide contained within the users view. Hope we get to a design sweet spot soon.

Thanks so much!

I'm one of the founders of the site. We're testing a different format which helps people learn easily about a new topic. The idea is to break down information around a topic into bite-sized, slide-like chapters making it less overwhelming and more effective compared to a lot of information dumped in a single page. We're working to make this more interactive in future, from a learner's point of view.

Enabling JS makes sure the slides work.

If you have any ideas related to navigation, i'd be happy to learn more.

I'm one of the founders of the site. Thanks for explicitly mentioning this.

We're testing a new format which helps people learn easily about a new topic. The idea is to break down information around a topic into bite-sized, slide-like chapters making it less overwhelming and more effective compared to a lot of information dumped in a single page. We're working to make this more interactive in future, from a learner's point of view.

Albeit we're still getting more feedback on it - yours being one of them. If you have any ideas related to improving navigation, i'd be happy to learn more.

Also, it'n not intended to get more clicks nor it generates anymore page views than 1 per user visit (no matter how much you go back and fourth within a single guide).

Totally! Ryan is very aggressive at doing this. But the way he came up with a way to build an MVP (via his email list) in 20 minutes before spending weeks to build something is really clever.

That's the most scary thing.. A fair amount of hope could come from scientists running for the office rather than hoping for someone sane to take power..

Interesting. I don't know what's with Prof. Lindzen, but I remember reading the letter he sent to the President regarding withdrawal from UN climate convention, which was opposed by 22 Professors and assistant professors via another letter.

http://climate-science.mit.edu/news/featured-stories/mit-fac...

If we are just talking about numbers, there are far more scientists backing the claim with valid research data than those who don't.

Lobbyists like Shell even pay many researchers to come out and talk crap.

Also, there no harm in taking the direction for clean energy alternatives and making policies that support such initiatives. In spite of the data, high carbon emission will certainly not help the future generations.

Hey folks. SearchTrack is a community of learners to find best links to understand any topic - vetted, collected and annotated by others. I would love to get feedback on this. Thanks!

Thanks :D My team and I would love to have you on board if you haven't joined already :D

http://www.searchtrack.co/

It's indeed very interesting to imagine how a mechanical lifeform, that would have replaced DNA based life, be like..

I personally believe that as nanotechnology will advance in the later part of the century, biotechnology will be revolutionized and we, as humans, will eventually head towards becoming an immortal society. I'm not sure how long it will take but the developments in nanotech could also lead to teleportation (signs of which are theoretically quite evident among Higgs Bosons).. I wonder if Stephen considers that those phenomena could ever scale up.

The great filter is my favorite hypothesis for the Fermi Paradox too. But as much as I would like to think we might be the first civilization ever to cross the higher levels, I also hope that we don't destroy ourselves with our fast evolving technology.

That's a hack to do it. The end result is achieved. That's why suggested it besides the second reason that's got something to do with me being an over-excited startup founder who's obsessed with imagining how their product could help people in the minutest of the ways possible.

That's an interesting take. It's also interesting to imagine what the higher abstraction layers would be like, say a hundred years from now..

I think the more we deploy AI to tackle trivial jobs, the more creative we will get. Because we would have more free time to think about bigger ideas. True, it'll be a slow transition, but I think our transition from manual programming to a world with only AI programming will also be slow. We, as programmers are creative people and wouldn't want to feel like victims of our own invention. In fact the whole human civilization will benefit by having powerful tools at their disposal to build great things.

That is, if there will be very few or no programmers in the future.

My team and I have built SearchTrack, which lets you create a project around any topic and then save useful, relevant links, so you can access them from anywhere.

You can even build a context around each link that you save by adding a note and have your peers collaborate with you while doing so.

Basically, SearchTrack is a knowledge sharing platform which helps you save best resources around any topic and share your research with others looking for it.

But in this case, you can use the standalone value of the product to just access all your saved links just by visiting your SearchTrack Project.

You can give it a try here - http://www.searchtrack.co/

Hope that helps.

Haha.. Totally.. I've been working on my startup's pitch ever since we started working on it with my team.. This post by Marc took it to another level in an instant..

My team and I have built SearchTrack. It's the easiest way to save and organize the best links around any topic, collaborate with peers while doing so and make this research available to others looking for it.

This way, we're building a knowledge-sharing community where people compile their research around any topic and share it with the world.

Would appreciate feedback and suggestions. Thanks.

SearchTrack lets you collaborate with peers to save useful resources around any topic that you're learning about. Once you have compiled a useful research, you can easily make it available to others trying to learn about the same topic - so they could save time by not having to reinvent the wheel.

We're a team of three guys, working from a small studio apartment in Bangalore, india.

Looking for feedback and suggestions.

Thanks folks.

We certainly won't be teleporting people by then (or even things), but hopefully there will be more exciting news to hear from the particle physics community.. Those developments, in turn, might make the idea less absurd among common people.

SearchTrack lets you collaborate with peers, to collect useful links to content, contacts, products and services around any topic. From vocation to vacation!

You can then choose to make this research public so that others looking for useful resources around that topic could save time.

Launched about 17 days ago, we are a fast growing community of over 300 users.

My team and I could really use your feedback. Thanks!

SearchTrack lets teams and individuals collaborate to collect useful content, contacts, products and services around any topic. They can then choose to make this research public so that others looking for helpful resources around that topic could save time.

Launched about 17 days ago. My team and I could really use your feedback. Thanks!

Kilimchoi's link is a great repository! If you want some more good blogs and you tube channels to follow, take a look at my collection here..

http://searchtrack.co/viewproject/203/good-tech-blogs-to-fol...

My team and I launched our product about 17 days ago. It's might look better than an MVP, but it's literally just that. We're trying to identify the users who would love using even the crappiest version of our product.

With over 300 users now, it turns out they do want browser extensions and mobile app. So our product is far from perfect. You can have a look at it -

http://www.searchtrack.co.

SearchTrack helps teams and individuals collaborate to save content, contacts, products and services around any topic. Best of all, you can share your research with the community so others in need can spend more time learning and implementing from your collection of rich resources (than they would, in finding and organizing those).