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Hi, I'm Slava Akhmechet. I currently work at Azure on distributed services. Before that I worked at Stripe, and before that I cofounded RethinkDB. You can reach me at coffeemug [at] gmail [dot] com.

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• A Mathematica interpreter in Typescript
• A parser combinator library in Typescript
• Visualizing Mean Value Theorem in Mathematica
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Spivak Calculus notes

I started taking these notes to understand Spivak's epsilon-delta limits chapter, but then kept going. The notes follow the book, but the chapters don't match.

PDF chapters: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, WIP Oct 18, 2024…
Full document: pdf.