“... es ist wahr, ein Mathematiker, der nicht etwas Poet ist, wird nimmer ein vollkommener Mathematiker sein.”

Translation from German
“... it is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.”
— Karl Weierstrass, 1883

“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.”
— Eugene Wigner

“Profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries.”
— Joseph Fourier

“There are now in the world machines that think, that learn and that create. Moreover, their ability to do these things is going to increase rapidly until – in a visible future – the range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied.”
— Herbert A. Simon, 1958

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Piaget's theory of cognitive development is a fantastic theory on which to base the model of an intelligent machine.

“I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.”
— Ward Cunningham

8 steps to set-up a Java project in VS Code using Git, GitHub, and Gradle

This will help you set-up a Java project in VS Code that:
• Has source control using Git
• Has build automation with Gradle
• Benefits from a flexible development environment that is VS Code
• Is cross-platform and high-level yet, statically-typed and robust per Java
• Has collaborative possibilities through GitHub

But first, make sure you:
• Have Git, Gradle, Java, and VS Code installed, and in PATH
• Have the Git, Gradle and Java VS Code extensions installed and enabled
• Have a GitHub account

If you do, follow these steps:
1. Open the command prompt and use cd to navigate to anywhere you want
2. Use mkdir <project-name> to create a new directory, and cd <project-name> to navigate into it
3. Once inside, do gradle init and interact with it to initialize Gradle there
4. Do code . to open that directory in VS Code
5. Press Ctrl+Shift+G ⌨️, stage all changes, and commit your first commit
6. Create a new repo on GitHub, and copy the URL it gives you
7. Do git init to initialize the directory as a Git repo, git remote add origin <github-url> to set, and git remote -v to verify its remote origin [Source]
8. From within VS Code, click on sync on the bottom left corner

You are done!

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“[It] is like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.”
— Claude Lévi-Strauss

“What I know wreaks havoc upon what I want.”
— Emil Cioran

“One should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds.”
— Maimonides

“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”
— Thomas Aquinas

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“The whole threefold analytic art, claiming for itself this office, may be defined as the science of right finding in mathematics.”
— François Viète, in artem analyticem isagoge (1591)

“But much oftener, the questions proposed by the physicist have transcended the utmost powers of the mathematics of the time, and a fresh mathematical creation has been needed to supply the logical instrument requisite to interpret the new enigma.”
— Henry John Stephen Smith

“There are no answers, only cross-references.”
— Norbert Wiener

A plethora of conversions from analog to digital and back makes the internet possible.

“Do not destroy what you cannot create.”
— Leó Szilárd

“Let us imitate him as he imitated others.”
— Erasmus

“Make men work together; show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.”
— Jean Monnet