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The act of replacing reality with fiction and positioning it as the foundation of the entire universe’s existence is called religion. Whether one follows version 1.0 or version 2.4 makes no difference except in the fictional narrative. The fiction is different, not the truth.

anywhere you look in the universe, at any resolution, there is a fundamental geometry which leads you to calculate vectors’ magnitude and azimuth.

We've signed an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity, coming online starting in 2027, to train and serve frontier Claude models.

@eternaltxts Immerse yourself in mathematics.

I’m 21. Give me oddly specific life tips. No general ”surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible.

The amount of joy, admiration and inspiration I am getting from this 3/4 of a page in chapter 6 of “Linear Algebra Done Right” by Sheldon Axler is huge.

Excited to launch Gemma 4: the best open models in the world for their respective sizes. Available in 4 sizes that can be fine-tuned for your specific task: 31B dense for great raw performance, 26B MoE for low latency, and effective 2B & 4B for edge device use - happy building!

@skglearning Linear Algebra Done Right. Clarity, in-depth and the beauty of math.

Confused by relationship between derivatives and transpose? So I’m just starting to learn linear algebra and I’m reading introduction to linear algebra by Gilbert Strang. I was reading through and encountered this mess and I’m super confused.

@paulg Some would avoid interfering with 17yo haircut in the first place.

I agreed to get a Phil Foden haircut if 17 yo gets 1550 on the SAT. For people outside the UK, this is the risk I'm taking here:

For whatever reason, I enjoy saying out loud “Bolzano Weierstrass”. Same with “Cauchy Swartz inequality” by the way.

In 2003, a German film crew followed a nomadic family in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The film, The Story of the Weeping Camel, was nominated for an Oscar. A mother camel had rejected her newborn after a brutal two-day labour. Without her milk, the calf would die. The family knew one option. They sent their two young sons on a journey across the desert to find a musician who could perform a ritual called Hoos, a chanting ceremony passed down for centuries specifically for this moment. The musician came. The ritual was performed. The mother camel wept real tears and turned to her calf for the first time. The film crew had gone to document a way of life. They had no idea they would capture that. UNESCO added the Hoos ritual to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2015, alongside flamenco, the Mediterranean diet, and the art of Neapolitan pizza making.

@stevenstrogatz Both of them are there! I’d add: - The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class by J. Michael Steele - What Is Mathematics? by Herbert Robbins and Richard Courant - I Want to be a Mathematician by Paul Halmos

How to be good in math -- 10 book recommendations newtraderu.com/2026/03/29/how…

@patrickc Food ≠ restaurant. In the caucus mountains vegetables and grains are still organic, thus their basic food’s flavorful. For the most parts of civilization, mass agriculture (a necessity), ruined the taste. a restaurant can use Italian imported tomatoes, but it’s not scaleable.

There’s a lot of discussion in these parts about all the things that are degrading (public safety, disorder, architecture, institutions, …), but it is remarkable how much better food has gotten over the course of my lifetime. I was recently traveling in the UK, and even in small towns, the restaurants were consistently great. (I particularly recommend Isla in Durham.) Ireland has similarly improved by leaps and bounds. The US is very good these days. Has there ever been a better time to eat?

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@bcherny Dearest Boris, How can one thank you for this? (& please don’t ask me to switch to dark mode)

Today was a good day

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@fermatslibrary Not sure they're equal.

A fun way of writing 2746

@abakcus 1+4-(2*2)=1 Both, 4 and 2*2 are even, thus 1 is even. This is basically what this “proof” is telling. nonsense disguised as math.

Contrapositives are for cowards.

In Defense of Algebra | The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2026/…

@jack You’re yet to come clean.

five words. 20 years. unfinished.

@paulg America voted for him twice. Israel voted for Netanyahu countless times. They are not the problem, they’re just the symptom. “Public opinion” and the way it is getting shaped nowadays, are the problems.

Whether the next president is a Republican or a Democrat, can we have someone with at least a little class next time? Because this is embarrassing.