The world’s fastest human calculator Alexis Lemaire, 27: Alexis Lemaire, a 27-year-old Frenchman, correctly calculated the 13th root of a random 200-digit number from a possible 393 trillion answers.The so-called ‘mathlete’ produced the answer of 2,407,899,893,032,210 in 70.2 seconds, beating his previous record of 72.4 seconds, at London’s Science Museum. Like an athlete, he trains his brain daily for the far harder task of finding the 13th root of 200-digit numbers.

The link provided below is a great example of a mathematical technique being introduced in a very simple and effective manner Link :An Introduction to Lagrange Multipliers The point of the article is to make ANY person curious on some of the aspects of the Lagrangian Multipliers How many times have we come across teachers/instructors just dumping a set of formulae/definitions with out taking the time to explain the CONTEXT…Most of the times you read stuff with out a proper context and sadly when the context appears, you are clueless because you don’t even know that you have a specific math tool to solve the problem.

Via Bridging the gap between Interface and Implementation : A nice article explaining the importance of Bridge Pattern

The Timeless Way of Building The Timeless Way of Building is a 1979 book that ties life and architecture together, written by Christopher Alexander. It is considered by many to be one of the major, seminal texts of the twentieth century.[citation needed] It has had a huge influence on creative thinking, especially in the areas of architecture and software design. It could be classified as one of what the Estonian researcher of the Orient Linnart Mäll calls the humanistic base texts.

Thanks TP Via TP: What do I mean by good people? One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? It might be hard to translate that into another language, but I think everyone in the US knows what it means. It means someone who takes their work a little too seriously; someone who does what they do so well that they pass right through professional and cross over into obsessive.