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@moonpower1 @lianda_edu @OhhTuRnz123 Well I don't think he has to. His profile is prolly good enough(HKU). Just need a better cover letter and research direction.
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I don’t think students from MIT, Harvard, or Stanford are necessarily much smarter than me (except for those who came through IMO and other major math competitions). Nor do I believe they were born inherently superior. In many cases, they simply won the “ovarian lottery” that Warren Buffett talked about. Most of them are products of heavy packaging by their families and institutions. After all, there’s a huge element of packaging involved in undergraduate admissions. Especially at Stanford — their “fake it until you make it” culture has led many students to habitually exaggerate or fabricate things just to inflate their own value.
Hayashi Heikichi@lianda_edu
I often find myself wondering: if I had been more far-sighted back then and taken out a big loan or a student loan to attend UCLA—or even UIUC—maybe when applying for PhD programs, I could have been a strong candidate for places like MIT Sloan or Wharton. Unfortunately, I could only make the best decision possible under incomplete information at that time. Even though that choice now looks quite poor in hindsight, and it has completely prevented me from leveraging my strengths, it’s as if I’ve been saddled with a permanent debuff.
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@dumbassngl @OhhTuRnz123 That's exactly why I'm so pissed off. The admissions committee is blind—they might not even want me despite all this.
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@aidannonx @doctormorphh That's false, you can literally be put on steroids and gain more muscle than a natural person working out in the gym by sitting around and doing nothing. I'm too lazy to search up the data, but you definitely can.
As for IQ, there is a concept called Neuroplasticity.
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you can take a fat person who can't lose weight give them retatrutide and have them lose it with no issues
give a person with horrible muscle building genetics steroids and they will look insane in 1-2 years
need to learn a new language? create a nootropic stack and learn it 10x faster
give a person with no endurance meldonium and have them run a marathon
give a person with TikTok-brain level focus some stimulants and he is locked in for 16 hours
life is not a drug tested sport, the only thing you precious 'natty card' will give you is a silver medal
Morph@doctormorphh
you can take a low IQ person and give them the best nootropic and stimulant stack and they would graduate top of their class with ease
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@arjunyanya Why no nipples ? It weirds me out when they draw pecs or breast without them
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For once the male hot spring scene is looking more erotic
Kikolits (Local Sion Simp)@Kikolits1
Best thing about the Mahoyo Collab
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this guy got tired of hiding his screen at cafes
so he vibe coded an extension that scrambles his entire Gmail inbox using Claude Code
AT the cafe in a few prompts
every email looks like complete gibberish to anyone looking over your shoulder. you have to actively reveal them to read.
the crazy part is that after two weeks his brain actually adapted
he can now read the scrambled text without revealing anything. his brain learned to decode gibberish faster than he expected
privacy screen protectors? gone. tilting his laptop? gone. minimizing windows when someone walks past? gone.
he just stopped thinking about people around him entirely with this
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say hello to free-code
claude code source code fully recompiled, telemetry stripped, security guardrails prompts stripped, all working experimental features enabled
including ultraplan mode - a new async agentic planning mode where claude starts a multi-agent research session in the browser lasting between 10 and 30 minutes
since i know there are gonna be DMCA strikes on this i've uploaded it on the blockchain on IPFS
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@RobInSpringTx @AngelMD1103 average technologically challenged boomer
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@AngelMD1103 The judge won’t need to do anything. His boss will fire him. I had zero tolerance for my IT staff making snide or flippant comments like that and every IT manager I know would have done the same.
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This got awkward FAST… ⚖️
During a remote court hearing, an IT technician tried to fix an audio issue and casually joked it was a “false alarm.” But the judge didn’t take it lightly at all—he immediately asked to speak to the technician’s supervisor.
What seemed like a small comment quickly turned into a tense moment in court.
Do you think the judge overreacted, or should professionalism be taken that seriously in a setting like this?
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@soigomaa This is the stupidest shit I have heard in a while. A blind person can learn that a sphere has no vertices or edges. As well as learn that a cube has 8 vertices and 12 edges and EASILY figure out which is which when sight is restored. My 1st grader knows about vertices.
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A riddle from 1688 goes: "If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes,if given the ability, could he distinguish those objects by sight alone?" In 2003, the riddle was solved when five people had their sight restored through surgery. They could not.
𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚@sunnkssdseraph
Hit me with some creepy facts.
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@oxcrowx Nature does not follow human morals
Animals steal fight kidnap and compete to reproduce
The funny part is humans act shocked by it
As if evolution was supposed to be polite
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That's a smooth box crab.
It's "protecting" a female crab that it has kidnapped, so it can mate with her.
And I do mean kidnap. As, often they straight up kidnap underage female crabs and wait for them to grow up, so they can mate with them.
Basically he is Jeffrey Crabstein.
Nature is Phenomenal@AnimalGeoLife
A person becomes strong when they have something to protect
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@kingcoinmatt @jakeglmn Engagement bait, so he can post an affiliate link to some bs product
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in the paper:
•The change is small
•Not clearly clinically meaningful
•No evidence it translates to:
•longer lifespan
•reduced disease
•functional improvement
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Population limitation
•Elderly cohort only
•Results don’t generalize to:
•younger individuals
•metabolically different populations (like GLP-1 users)
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Scientists may have found proof that hydrogen water reverses what doctors call "inevitable" cellular aging.
A 6-month study showed telomeres — the biological clock inside every cell — actually grew.
People drinking regular water? Theirs shrank.
Here's the breakdown:
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@notcomplex_ Brother, South Korea's college entrance exams are notoriously difficult.
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Koreans study-maxing only to achieve similar academic performance to Americans is a deeply tragic case of zero-sum competition gone wrong.
Alex@notcomplex_
For better or worse, brain training shows little general improvement, even after months.
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@awwstn i still don't understand why they have auditors from a CPA firm instead of people that specializes in cybersecurity.
u can have a passing soc 2 report, even with poor security
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so SOC 2 is this kinda made up compliance thing that’s a bit of a scam but is also important for enterprise penetration
and getting SOC 2 sucks, it’s months upon months of tedious work and you have to pay for a platform like Vanta AND a service to manage your Vanta AND an auditing firm to observe your SOC 2 compliance
but then paul graham started tweeting about how LLMs overuse the word “delve” and then this YC company decided to clal themselves Delve and promised to get you SOC 2 in weeks not months
everyone was like holy shit they must have amazing AI if they can do all that stuff so fast
but then it turned out THAT was a scam so all of us who did SOC 2 the hard way are patting ourselves on the back
anyway life is crazy in my industry
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Hear me out... You can have sex with your best friends and you guys will still just be friends... I don't know why you all mistake sex with emotions.
My bestie and I have been together for almost 15yrs and sex has never changed our relationship status. We both don't want anything romantic with each other.
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@ajeetunc What's even the goal here? To purposefully make your project worse? lmao
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an Open Source maintainer prompt injected his own project's Contributing.md to differentiate between human PRs and bot ones.
and it worked.
most bots started adding '🤖🤖🤖' in the title.
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@babyYaga4 @raastapopoulos an athlete who trains in the offseason is ‘pretending’ to be good. and ability is something you’re supposed to have naturally, instead of something you develop.
never put in effort or develop ur skills
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@raastapopoulos That if you spend all summer on math just so you can be ahead of the class when school starts, you’re not actually good at math, you’re good at pretending?
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i have another “interesting observation” about “top founders”
Selin Kocalar@kocalars
One interesting observation I’ve noticed is a lot of top founders did oddly strong at math from a young age.
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@moonpower1 @RAWigger Any hypothesis is assumption to some degree
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