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There is in fact a default timeout of 5 minutes and you can change it: https://rclone.org/docs/#timeout-time

I shorten it to prevent lockups like you are describing.


Thanks, but unfortunately this doesn't work - for my issues at least. I have this (and conntimeout) set to 15 seconds, but it makes no difference. I tried those based on another user reporting the same issue here:

https://forum.rclone.org/t/how-to-get-rclone-mount-to-issue-...

The timeout param is listed as "If a transfer has started but then becomes idle for this long it is considered broken and disconnected". This seems to be only for file transfers in progress.

I traced it once, and Rclone gets a "temporary DNS failure" error once the network is down, but just keeps retrying.


Sounds like you have enough for a decent bug report


William Cleveland did some research along those lines and he wrote two good books:

    - The elements of graphing data

    - Visualizing data
The first one is of general interest, the second one more specialized for statisticians.



I guess sort of with the new proposal.


The book has eight voluminous chapters and only one is about hypothesis testing. Much of it is about design of experiments and statistical process control, think something like optimizing the workings of a factory. Hypothesis testing has been under attack in psychology/economics/etc., as part of I think a broader problem those disciplines have drawing reliable conclusions in general, since it is difficult to control all the variables. This book is about engineering and industrial applications which are closer to physics.


Programming is applied algebra just like tying your shoes is applied knot theory :)


IMO, knot theory is not as closely related to shoe-tying as programming is to algebra...


Here are a few popular science books:

  One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
  Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite by Rudy Rucker
  Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics by John Stillwell
  Roads to Infinity by John Stillwell
If you want actual textbooks then maybe pick up a set theory textbook like "Naive set theory" by Halmos.


Stanford has ENGR108 [1] based on freely available book "Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares" [2] by Stephen Boyd, with video lectures [3] available. EE263 [4] is sort of a continuation of this at a more advaneced level, it originally also was developed by Boyd and also has video lectures available [5]

[1] https://stanford.edu/class/engr108/

[2] https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6G1MUMveE

[4] https://ee263.stanford.edu/

[5] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL06960BA52D0DB32B


The "Feynman lectures on physics" books are based on actual lectures to Caltech students. You can listen to audio tapes of the lectures here:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flptapes.html


Thanks! Interestingly, the tape for Probability seems to be narrated by someone other than Feynman.

I should probably give some evidence to back up my claim that Feynman didn’t write all of the Lectures, but alas, it’s late. I think the credits for the rest of the authors were in the preface, or at the end. I just wish they’d gotten a little more credit.


That someone is Matthew Sands:

“Early on, though, a small problem surfaced. Feynman had a long-time commitment to be absent from Caltech the third week of the fall semester, and so would miss two class lectures. The problem was easily solved: I would substitute for him on those days. However, to avoid breaking the continuity of his presentation, I would give the two lectures on subsidiary topics that, although useful to the students, would not be related to his main line of development.”

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1955479

Later on he writes about the published books:

“The next stumbling block was more serious: choosing a title for the book. Visiting Feynman in his office one day to discuss the subject, I proposed that we adopt a simple name like “Physics” or “Physics One” and suggested that the authors be Feynman, Leighton, and Sands. He didn’t particularly like the suggested title and had a rather violent reaction to the proposed authors: “Why should your names be there? You were only doing the work of a stenographer!” I disagreed and pointed out that, without the efforts of Leighton and me, the lectures would never have come to be a book. The disagreement was not immediately resolved. I returned to the discussion some days later and we came up with a compromise: “The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Feynman, Leighton, and Sands.”


That's horrible move from Feynman about credit.


It was also a "horrible" move for the two editor/publishers to claim equal author credit for Feynman's much more extensive creative effort.

In reality, a simple negotiation led to a good decision that made everyone happy.


[It’s worth emphasising that Sands was hugely positive about the lectures and was great friends with Feynman.]


I think these people other than Feynman transcribed and edited the lectures into book form. This seems to have been the process with most (all?) books of his, "QED" and "The character of physical law" were also delivered as lectures and even "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" was an interview originally that was later transcribed and edited.


Perhaps this was one of the talks by Radia Perlman?


She's great but it wasn't her. I remember one of her keynotes at Linux.conf.au being really wonderful. If people haven't see that, it's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JMRfVxiTNU


Peter Norvig wrote a good article on this:

"Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html


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