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It's here! docs.google.com/document/d/1PO…

@RatOrthodox Did you receive my application 2 days ago

@RatOrthodox Poke again

Hello! I believe i have fixed the damn confirmation emails finally. We very likely did receive your application, but you can still ask.

@RatOrthodox The website having not changed makes me feel better about like the explicit deadline vs this check (I normally would be cool and chill about this, but the vibe at-event of being kicked on a hard deadline is pushing part of my brain into Actually Try mode).

@NoahTopper @Aella_Girl I submitted yesterday and am sending a paranoid confirmation tweet of my own

@Aella_Girl I’m probably being paranoid but I didn’t get a confirmation email when I applied and it would be good to know if my application was definitely received

First round of applications for PDKU close in two days! We'll send out acceptance letters by June 1st. You should apply now! It's gonna be fun and you'll make friends and do weird shit (U can still apply after that, but there will be fewer slots and your chances will be lower)

@robbensinger I recently 'got' a lot of college students with (burning a bunch of paper exams, they burned bright blue, the most confident hypothesis was the ink in the paper, no one predicted I had secretly added metal powder to do explicitly this even after suggesting I had done so before)

(Dominiq also solved lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn79… on the first try, so there's also maybe an element here of 'some puzzles are easier when you don't trust people'.)

I showed the original tweet to my partner, Dominiq. In under five seconds, they said: "This is a clip from a real Monet painting, I'm pretty sure." And: "I'm pretty sure I know which painting that is." They said: "Impressionism was partially fueled by paint becoming available in tubes that you could carry out with you into the field. The idea of capturing the light as it stood, in that moment. "Please think of Degas and his ballerina dancers. People at luncheons in the sunshine. People dancing. A lot of my favorite impressionist pictures are people dancing. Trying to capture the light on their clothes, as they moved. "The special thing about Monet, which makes him stand out to me, is that he was losing his eyesight. And was deeply in love with his garden. And so a lot of the style that people associate with Monet was what he actually saw as his eyesight reduced down -- to light, color, and shadow. When you look at Monet, you are seeing through Monet's failing eyes. And as you look at his later work, you can see as his eyesight grew worse and worse. Which, I suppose, looks more and more 'impressionist.' "I've spent a long time staring at Monet's pictures. Trying to decide what was an artistic choice, to represent something, and what was him trying to express what he actually saw. "I think part of the reason why I've stared at so much Monet is because my grandmother was also a gardener, who loved her garden. Who lost her eyesight to diabetes, and who I knew only ever in my life as blind, and obsessing about her garden out the window which she could barely see, asking me to describe it to her. "She also only had light, shadow, and a little bit of color. "So, yeah. Monet feels like looking through my grandmother's eyes."

@gptbrooke One of the first games I ever played lasted a week, and by the end of the week players wouldn't pass the salt at dinner without re-opening discussions of Silesia

@hamiltonianurst yessss hahahh my home rules when i ran diplomacy games earlier in my life were two ppl per team, and unlimited diplomacy time instead of fifteen minutes the games were wild, lasted for months, and i think often just never finished lolol

@hamiltonianurst has a whole list in the vibecamp discord of things he would like to run if we weren't making him work so much i'd play diplomacy if i could be on a team/leave if i needed to

do any vibecamp attendees on the east coast have sound systems they can bring for us to use? the group who lent us their gear the past couple of years isn't coming this year

The HIDDEN TRUTH about running events that NO ONE TELLS YOU is that it’s a lot of conversations like this, just kind of forever

Vibecamp discord voice channel hang tonight at 6pst/9est! in this one we'll discuss what kinds of things we can do together in the discord (games? discussion groups?) but also just hang out and maybe meet some new people. Come join, even if you're only vibe-curious!

Register here, or email hello@trading.camp with any questions trading.camp/register/fir

Next Arbor Trading Bootcamp, Fir Cohort, is happening in ONE WEEK, April 24-26 at Mox in San Francisco! Celebrate this Arbor Day the traditional way by playing simulated trading games with former quants. Our Fir Cohort is sponsored by Strasmore, an AI driven terminal and execution environment (built by an Arbor bootcamp alum, no less!) Early Bird ticket deadline is extended through today!

@gptbrooke @pettylark

@pettylark there was a guy i dated in no small part bc he didn't ask if i wanted to drink some water once when running an event, he just handed me a bottle and said "drink this" sometimes we need a little water domming

hmmm accidentally discovered that if i leave a full glass of water on a counter along a hallway i walk frequently, i drink more water

@Katiebrrrrr @AriZerner @drethelin I also made youtu.be/fvCfHGtby0U which is probably *my* answer to the question

@AriZerner @drethelin oh my god

What would your most obscure karaoke song be? The opposite of a crowd pleaser that you know every line to?

It's The Momir Vig Printer! I play Momir Basic In Paper w/ @RhysticStudies and Jesse Robkin: youtu.be/XqztA2-gGdM #magicthegathering

@TolarianCollege @RhysticStudies

@TolarianCollege @RhysticStudies I love seeing this in the same month I built my own (this is a game I won). @RhysticStudies inspiring many folks