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Stanley Kubrick gave an interview to Playboy Magazine after the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. They asked him about chess, knowing that as a young man he spent countless hours in Washington Square Park playing compulsively - from noon to midnight. Here is what Kubrick said:

Meet Grigori Perelman (He solved the hardest problem in mathematics. Then walked away from everything) > A Russian mathematician born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1966 > Son of an electrical engineer father and a mathematics teacher mother > Won the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1982 with a perfect score > In 1994 solved the Soul Conjecture, a problem that had defeated mathematicians for years > Princeton, Stanford and every top university in America immediately offered him a job > He said NO to all of them > Went back to a small research position in Saint Petersburg > For the next several years he disappeared from the mathematical world entirely > In November 2002 he quietly uploaded three papers to the internet > No press release. No announcement. Just three papers on a public website > Those three papers solved the Poincare Conjecture > A problem proposed in 1904 that had defeated every mathematician for 100 years > One of only seven Millennium Prize Problems in existence > The only one ever solved > Science magazine declared it the Breakthrough of the Year 2006 > The first time in history they gave that title to a mathematics result > In 2006 the Fields Medal committee awarded him the prize > The Nobel Prize of mathematics > He did not attend the ceremony > He declined the medal > The only person in history to ever refuse a Fields Medal > In 2010 the Clay Mathematics Institute offered him 1 million dollars > He refused that too > Said "I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo" > Said he refused because Richard Hamilton deserved equal credit and did not get it > Has not been seen publicly in years > Lives quietly in a small apartment in Saint Petersburg with his mother He had solved the problem. That was enough. The proof was correct. What else could any prize possibly add to that "If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed." In a world that chases followers, likes and fame, one man solved a 100 year old problem, refused a million dollars, and went home That is the most radical thing anyone has ever done in science.


CredibleCrypto shares that market's maturing won't stop it from going parabolic. "We can take a look at the SPX. If these asset classes that are in the tens of trillions -we’re talking about hundreds of trillions — can have parabolic advances like the ones we are seeing now" '"I think crypto will have parabolic advances in the future. I do not think that ended in 2017. It makes no sense to me to think that an asset as young and as volatile as crypto won’t have a blow-off top when we’re seeing assets that are 10, 20, 30, 40 times the size -and far more mature-having blow-off tops today."



Top mathematician Don Knuth is losing his mind because Claude solved an open problem he'd been working on for weeks




Why is gen Z not drinking?


"If someone tells you retail traders can't make it, ask them why Takashi exists." - obviously bullshit take - finding a few lucky gamblers making fortune - doesn't imply anything about gambling being good idea There may be some good points in the article. But this isn't it.










