Shel Kaphan Updated +Created
First Amazon hire, wrote and led the team that wrote v1.
He looks like an older and more experienced dude compared to Bezos at the time.
Bibliography:
. www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1/2/ also mentions that unlike California, there's no sales tax in the state of Washington, which is important for selling books.
Video 1.
Shel Kaphan interview by Internet History Podcast (2015)
Source.
Video 2.
Amazon.com Continues to Grow by NBC 15 (2014)
Source. Features short excerpt of filmed interview with Shel.
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Shel Kaphan
. Source. TODO year. Presumably more or less close to publishing date of source at 2020.
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Analytic continuation Updated +Created
visualizing the Riemann hypothesis and analytic continuation by 3Blue1Brown (2016) is a good quick visual non-mathematical introduction is to it.
The key question is: how can this continuation be unique since we are defining the function outside of its original domain?
The answer is: due to the identity theorem.
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Ways in which it can happen:
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Graph of life
. Source. horizontal gene transfer transforms the tree of life into the graph of life! Fuck my life.
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There is a Turing machine that halts for every member of the language with the answer yes, but does not necessarily halt for non-members.
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