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JFC - the self-proclaimed antichrist is unleashing the demon seed onto the world.

@conorsen You uploaded PDFs raw. One page = 3,000 tokens. Fix: Paste the text into a Google doc. Download as .md format. Under 200 tokens. I can not take credit for this, but I forgot who wrote it.

I burned through all my tokens in a session on Claude Pro this morning in maybe 10 minutes trying to pull data out of one PDF — there’s just no way there’s enough compute to disrupt a meaningful number of jobs this year.

Firing at the Palantir Tsunami We filed the provisional patent titled— System and Method for Quantum-Weighted Fusion of Heterogeneous Biometric, Transactional, and Reputational Data Streams via CAIR-Optimized Scoring for Generation of a Dynamic Fair Social Score—as a "prior art bomb" using the USA governmental structure, its comparatively benign USPTO, to discuss the dystopian implications of Palantir-like ghouls encroaching on our freedoms, from an angle not used thus far. professorsigmund.com/praxis/palanti…

Palantir, a CIA front company, now has its tentacles in the food supply, our healthcare data, our growing autonomous weapons industry, the military, the entire US intelligence community, border patrol, Space Force and so on. Seemingly, Palantir is soon to become the testrun for Yarvins "sov-corp", a privatized version of govt that replaces the existing govt and is ruled by a CEO dictator. That is, unless we do something about it. cnbc.com/2026/04/22/pal…

@MbarkCherguia Older. And with the worlds first webcam.

@MbarkCherguia My friends have a "permanent display of vintage computing technology in Europe." peekpoke.hr

You might be old, but are you this old?

If so, how would “birthing persons” and “parent #2” know when to cut off their children’s genitals, destroying them for life to comply with the DEI- and Hollywood-induced madness? On a private note, such an atrocity would also destroy my own work, namely Mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement (a.k.a. “The Hollywood Rule”) and the recommendation by the Plenipotentiary Secretary of the Council of People’s Commissars at the Harvard Advocate magazine regarding Petra Maria Devereaux (concentrated in Theater, Dance & Media at the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies) and the short story titled Doors That Drove Blanche Snörr Insane. And how will these “triumphant beta males” thrive if they have killed DEI’s most important tool—Harvard’s supposed superiority? I suppose I should apply for USAID help?

Harvard’s Gender Studies program hits 15-year enrollment low 22 students are enrolled this year, a 60% drop from the 2022-2023 peak of 55

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@mbeckett @dieworkwear I do not have docs anymore but I think it's one of 4062s.

@blockchainghost @dieworkwear Oh wow what model is that?

rolex makes objectively good watches, but the brand is so closely associated with a kind of status-obsessed braggart who's constantly assessing other people's social positions that it's hard to get into their watches. spiritually painful.

@stephenRB4 Gulag Archipelago, all three, 2505 pages per Amazon listing.

What’s the longest book you’ve ever read from start to finish? 📚

@ggreenwald Show some respect for tender feelings of the "First Partner of California," Mr. Greenwald, please.

That politicians should speak one way to male reporters, but a different, softer, more gentle way with lady reporters -- because only men can handle it -- is sexism masquerading as feminism. I'm sure some female journalists applaud this special protection but many do not.

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@CuriosityonX "Shit you know" bit is wildly optimistic.

The ultimate ego check.

There was a time when we wrestled with difficult problems through long periods of sustained attention. You had to sit with a problem, sleep on it, and let it turn in your mind until you found an answer. Most people have lost that ability with the internet and AI. We've lost the art of contemplation.

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@AvonandsomerRob youtu.be/lV0WCLvbxh8?si…

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An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture. I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back. His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra. Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach. Here's the story almost nobody tells you. Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds. The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away. The decision quietly changed how the world learns math. For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb. Strang inverted the entire curriculum. He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood. His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct. The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room. For 62 years. The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet. Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos. His final lecture was in May 2023. The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out. His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right. That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management. The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home. 20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge. The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free. The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

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@blockchainghost @mistressdivy @default_friend What is this? 🤣

What’s a "lost" website from the early 2000s that you still think about today?

@CuriosityonX It all depends on what the purpose of the word "purpose" is. We already know it has the meaning: 42.

Be honest. Do you think the universe has a purpose?