Link. Since Musk banned it I went looking for what it was. I think popular with Only Fan market.
Daily Archives: December 18, 2022
Tiling Conjecture proved false: “[Tao] and Greenfeld didn’t compute the dimension of the space it lives in; they just know it’s massive … “
Link. “higher-dimensional geometry is just nasty” by which he means 10^100^100 dimensions and how does anyone writer about this?!
“We are destroying the multilateral trade system that we took leadership in creating. But we also don’t have the guts to openly repudiate past policies or to actually withdraw from agreements we signed.”
Link. China is justly upset. But they are likewise hypocrites.
“Back in 2016, Musk used a sham product launch to convince Tesla shareholders to acquire SolarCity — a solar-energy company that at the time was helmed by Musk’s cousin.”
Link. This piece has the goods.
Memory and perception use the same neural networks. So how do we know which is which?
Link. We don’t know yet.
Elder warns the young: It’s hell to get old.
Link. I sincerely don’t think they need to know. There’s nothing to be done except to die. Enjoy it while you got it.
“the reason we have so many diaries from Confederates in the early 1860s is that they imagined they were the Founders of their own new nation.”
Link. They though they were the heroes. The reason why Trump’s people implicated themselves. (He’s not that dumb.)
Mastodon query tool gives information rich overview (dev).
Link. Some instances have API disabled due to abuse potential. The chattiness is a design challenge.