Tom Sawyer by Rush (I think @NAZALKARADAN will like this one)
It's all over now baby blue by Dylan
Black or White by MJ
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Naman Agrawal
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Naman Agrawal
@namanink
Words, sometimes. I contain multitudes, but mostly nonsense and half-thoughts. This is a diary that I became way too addicted to..
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Save this thread if you want to be recommended music every day for the next couple o' weeks.
Highly opinionated, as all decent tastes ought to be.
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@pavan_rikkula Pretty good, but don't think of it as an interpretation of the Odyssey, think of it as an entirely new story and don't compare to the poem.
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Even people who disagree with or dislike NNT would not want to be in a room with people who hate NNT.
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Dunno about toxic fanbase...
But Nassim Taleb is the philosopher with the most toxic hater-base. Zionists, bullshitters, fraudsters, evil corporations, etc all hate him.
Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook@QuoteNietzsche
Who is it? 😂
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"It is probably viewers who haven’t read Homer who are likeliest to enjoy [Nolan's] ‘The Odyssey’"
No, but it is viewers who can forget Homer for a moment and see the movie without comparing every scene with the book who are most likely to enjoy
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No, no, no. It does not "omit" the Gods. You see the gods if you want to see them. As the Greeks did.
The New Yorker@NewYorker
“It is probably viewers who haven’t read Homer who are likeliest to enjoy ‘The Odyssey’ ”—Christopher Nolan’s version—Richard Brody writes. This is not, he argues, because much of the poem is necessarily left out of the film adaptation but because of one pervasive absence: the gods. Aside from Athena (Zendaya), the classical Greek pantheon is largely absent from Nolan’s movie, even though it controls each moment of the epic poem. “Instead, Nolan unfolds a purely human drama,” Brody continues, a slimmed-down, naturalistic version of the story that tempers the ancient sensibilities of its source text. Matt Damon’s Odysseus is “impassive and burdened,” not powerful and mercurial. What are the costs of rendering The Odyssey for modern times? Brody considers the strengths—and the limitations—of an epic adaptation constrained by contemporary morality: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Naman Agrawal retweetledi
Many times in life, people can't get past who you were versus who you want to be.
Don't let that be a roadblock.
Their expectations, wants and desires for who you are, may not be your expectation wants and desires for who you want to be.
Do you.
Let them have them.
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@DouadyPrimers The quote seems to be real, but said in jest to annoy his mathematician friends (a noble and honorable goal, of course)
projecteuclid.org/journals/annal… p.1147
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Pre- or post-Bourbaki, this quote of Feynman is obviously apocryphal. He never said that, and said the exact opposite about math and physics.
All the comments on this quote are made by ignorants who know neither Feynman, nor the topic.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb@nntaleb
If pre-Boutbaki mathematics disappeared probability would be set back 14 centuries.
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Spotting a bullshitter is an easier skill to acquire than spotting bullshit.
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Start the day with revolution
Go on home British soldiers
Come out ye Black and Tans
Foggy Dew
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@GoujianofYue Moderns still don't get optionality.
Stoics understood optionality, higher order effects, etc very very early.
Daoists too, actually almost all surviving cultures, but academics still don't interpret their teachings in that way.
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@namanink People are wasting too much time worrying if they're "doing the wrong thing"
Stoics know to flip anything to their advantage
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I'll take this one.
Answer: No.
Saved you from a study. You're welcome.
CLaE@leafs_s
Trends in Cognitive Sciences Is AI making us stupid? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Last for today -- Let me Die in my Footsteps by Dylan (almost stoic, context- its abt the cold war and not wanting to live in bunkers)
"I want to die with my shoes on" -- Taleb
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Today
Drifter's Escape - Dylan
I'll be your baby tonight - Dylan
Days - The Kinks
Patience - Guns N' Roses
Redondo Beach - Patti Smith
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@pavan_rikkula I think the population will adapt (after decades) and a lot more people will start reading better books. Classics and stuff.
Many ppl are tryna read but got captured by Self-help, pseudo-business, etc kind of books.
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Not only will fewer ppl read, but those who read well will become inc. rare. (Look at bestsellers these days)
Paul Graham@paulg
Something I told 14 yo: People are going to stop reading books. I wish this wasn't so, but I fear it is. The silver lining in this cloud is that if you're one of the few people who still read, you'll have a huge advantage over everyone else.
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In the next few decades a lot of Palestinians will get Nobels. It'll be a mystery.
The Nobel Prize@NobelPrize
“I was born and raised in Amman, Jordan to a refugee family. We were ten kids plus our parents. We lived in a humble home. We didn’t have the usual conveniences of running water or electricity. In addition to that, we shared the space with our livestock that we lived off. So, I would say it was not an easy childhood. And my parents worked very hard to send us to these nice, strong schools.” In our official interview, Omar Yaghi – chemistry laureate and son of Palestinian refugees – described his childhood. He was a quiet yet diligent student who became captivated by chemistry at an early age. Recognising his son's potential, his father gave him the entirety of their savings at 15 and pushed him to continue his studies in the United States. Yaghi told us, "I’m sure this is a story that repeats itself in many families where the parents are absolutely dedicated to their children’s education, because education is the gateway to better life and potentially happiness." It's safe to say that his parent's dedication and Yaghi's personal work ethic paid off. He was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson "for the development of metal-organic frameworks." Learn more about Yaghi's journey to the Nobel Prize by watching our interview: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…
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