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I really enjoyed this conversation with Tivadar. He's one of my favorite technical writers, and an incredibly humble and kind person, not to mention an insanely good educator. If you haven't checked The Palindrome, please do, you're missing one the best places to learn math online while having fun at it. -
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The Palindrome is back in business! I’ve spent the last (almost) two months developing a small little application called Lilla, whose primary purpose was to cure my imminent burnout. 

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(And also to learn web development from scratch. I picked up JavaScript for the first time around October 1st, and I’ve built and deployed a full product. This was quite a ride.)

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, one of my favorite technical writers online. Many of you know him; if you don’t, he’s the mind behind Mostly Harmless Ideas and the The Tech Writers Stack. (Both of which I recommend.)

Before our idea-focused introductory series on graph theory, Alejandro and I had a lengthy conversation about the stat…


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