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Vision: A mathematical wiki which tracks a dependency graph for each theorem. You can click on the theorem and it builds a path from foundations to that theorem for you as a big long page you can scroll through to learn it, and it automatically inserts little suggestions of examples to look at along the way.

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Shoutout to that one time Wonder Woman accidentally did 9/11

Also shoutout to the writers for predicting 9/11???

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ruse-based international order

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I've said this before, but "the US is diverse while China is homogenous" is a mainstream-ish talking point that you see sometimes, and if you have an academic background anywhere adjacent to mine (linguistics) it will probably strike you as pretty ridiculous. The US has a lot of largely-culturally-assimilated recent immigrant diversity, while China has dozens of centuries-old minority communities of various sizes which often retain not just their own language and culture, but indeed in some cases traditional subsistence methods, kinship systems, and so on, not commensurate with mainstream Chinese society. The diversity in China is considerably deeper. Whereas in the US you have white, black, asian people etc. all speaking the same language and practicing essentially the same culture (with local variations), subsisting in the same ways, practicing the same marriage norms, etc. etc. It's objectively much more homogenous. The outliers here are indigenous communities, which have a real and significant cultural diversity, but make up a very small proportion of the US population.

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"Would you rather get what you want, or be happy?"

Unironically I would rather get what I want. If I end up happy that's great, but what I want is to get what I want.

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Faced with criticism after posting the suggestive cover of her forthcoming album Man’s Best Friend, pop star Sabrina Carpenter released a statement Monday assuring her fans that Daddy will punish her over it. “To any of my fans who were offended by the provocative album artwork, please know that I will be appropriately disciplined by Daddy for being a bad, bad girl,” said the 26-year-old “Espresso” singer, sharing that Daddy had already threatened to lock her in the naughty cage and throw away the key. 

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People say shit like "when I took acid, I could see the atoms making up everything" and they feel like they've pulled away some illusion and are seeing reality as it really is. But, of course, atoms are too small to see for unavoidable physical reasons. If you take acid and feel like you're seeing atoms, that's the illusion. The "atoms" are something produced by your mind, (maybe some kind of visual processing artifact, similar to visual snow), not an actual feature of external reality.

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Sorry to say this but I think heterosexuality is significantly more conceptually interesting than homosexuality. From like, a worldbuidling perspective, there's just more there.

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Of the five vows of Jainism, most LLMs have been explicitly trained to adhere to three (non-harm, speaking the truth, and chastity), and appear to have independently arrived at a fourth (non-possessiveness). However unfortunately AIs are plagiarism machines designed to get revenge on innocent artists for landing more babes than the techbros in college so non-stealing is out. But we were pretty close.

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There's much more jizz in a sperm bank than in a regular set of balls. So if you see some jizz you might think "that came from a sperm bank, surely". But in fact balls are far more common than sperm banks. So in the end it's more likely it came directly from some balls. Bayes theorem.

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napoleon bonaparte was like a french, early modern muhammad (pbuh). a great conqueror, reformer, reshaping the world in his wake, leading decades when centuries happened. and the religion he spread? liberalism, of course -- or, as we know it today, wokeness

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i know an engineer-type dude who said fiction bored him, because fiction is mostly-formulaic and tropey, and you can generally guess what’s gonna happen next, and yada yada

so his solution for this problem was… to solely read serial web novels in languages that (1) he did not speak, and (2) for which there was no actual translation, fan or otherwise

apparently, the combined forces of “trying to figure out WTF is going on via the power of Google Translate" + “cultural differences in storytelling conventions” + “the inherent randomness of where the hell amateur authors are gonna take their plots”—those all mashed up to make stories that were unpredictable enough to keep him guessing all the time

then he described to me this totally batshit-sounding Hungarian story he’d been obsessively reading once a week for years

and god i think about him all the time.  like.  that is the most wild way to process fiction that i have ever heard of, but also, i’ve gotta admire the sheer chaos energy of it

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I don't know why GMs take so long to make moves, here at home I can figure out the best move in seconds simply by opening stockfish

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because you play minecraft, you are a baby man, such as many youtubers who have come and gone. the passing of days has been hard on these things. I remember older days, much that was then is now lost. well you know. but some things remain, in faded memories and old archives. remember fucking, diggy diggy hole? god I watched so much yogscast when I was 12.

on the other hand you play chess, which is a game for grown up boys and girls. real men and women play chess. adult men and women with great wisdom. do you know the story of krishna and the king of kerala? well see here's how it goes, one day krishna disguised himself as an old man, and went to the king of kerala who was a great fan of chess. the king believed that no one could beat him. the old man challenged the king to a game, and gave the following condition: if I win, you must give me one grain of rice for the first square of the chess board, two grains for the second square, four grains for the third square, and so on. the king, not believing he could be beaten, agree to the deal. well kṛṣṇa, being a god and all, wiped the floor with his ass I mean really whooped him. spanked that kingus like it was no thing. really fuckin, smacked his ass and shit. well anyway.

so the king has to pay up. but that's like zillions of grains of rice because of 2^x. but lord kṛṣṇa was gracious and said that the king could pay his debt off in increments. and that's why, to this day, they still make daily offerings of rice at some temple I forgot in kerala.

you are wise enough not to fall for this I think. wise because of your old mannish tendency to play chess. I know that the kids love chess these days but like culturally the image of it is stuffy, you know. well anyway.

so this is the paradox of trivlay true, that he is two things at once. he is both young and old, both a minecraft whipper snapper and an agèd chess man. how can we square this?

I propose a simple solution. recent studies like Zigman (2016) and Berkhoff et al. (2018) have suggested that, although most minecraft players are mere whipper snappers, it is also possible for older and wiser people to play this game. they survey data from YouTube, Twitter, and other internet sources to back up this conclusion. similarly, Schmildt & Zhao (2014) argue that young men and women "play chess sometimes" according to observational studies. I propose a new model called the Middle Age Model of Trivial True, which suggests that he is in between a whipper snapper and a old ass man, with grey ass hair and so on, and is in the middle therefore it is possible for him to play both chess and minecraft. but further research will be needed to confirm if this is true.

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“People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I’ll never see it again.”

— Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No 1 (via elesheva)

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Did you ever thought that "computers can only understand information encoded with two symbols - zeroes (low voltage) and ones (high voltage)" is actually obscenely wrong statement which is almost exactly the same as some alien saying that "humans can only read texts encoded with two symbols - zeroes (blank paper) and ones (presence of the ink on paper)"?

neurons be firing or not firing