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@MattDaWhite The world definitely needs more of those even still. Matt, you have my new follow.

I did eventually pass that statistics course, and as soon as I did I turned off my brain for the rest of the year basically. This led to a funny true story... Before the graduation ceremony for the people in one of my majors (Political Science), a sheet of paper was handed out with a list of questions on it. I assumed it was just kind of a survey for their own record keeping or something like that so I answered all the questions really fast without much thought put into them. The final questions was, "What are your plans once you graduate?" I just quickly jotted down as a joke, "International World Hero" Then I handed in the sheet and headed over to the auditorium for the graduation ceremony. Everyone in the department, all the teachers, students, and parents were there. The head of the department started giving this speech, but then he pulled out a bunch of sheets of paper, the same sized papers as the one I had just written on handed in without much thought. "I am now going to read off all the graduates and their self written plans for their future!" "Congratulations, Laura Rivington! Laura plans on joining Teach For America." "Congratulations Scott Farris. Scott is going to Washington D.C. to work as a Congressional intern." After he read each name and answer there was a large applause and some cheering. I was now dreading what was coming. "Matt Da White. Matt Da White plans on becoming an...(he paused for a second and double took at the paper)...an International World Hero." Whole place burst out laughing and like 10 students and teachers who knew me looked over at me. And then the head of the department added, "Well, the world definitely needs more of those right now. Matt, you have my full support".

I had this math tutor in college who was helping me pass this really really hard statistics course that I sucked at. One day I asked him what he was studying, since if he was so good at math THIS hard, surely he was studying some way more advanced shit. Sure enough, he drew a Mobius strip, and for the rest of the session he taught me everything he knew about them. It was one of the most interesting things I've ever listened to in my life.

Impressive and inspiring!

@___taniguchi @solo_levelingx Your experience is unique to you. You, for instance, don’t take into account how different the body reacts when you are in the prime of youth. You also don’t take into account how you can sound discouraging. Finally, you don’t consider how ego lifting can lead to greater setbacks

@solo_levelingx Thank you so much. You're amazing! Do you like NARUTO？🔥

筋トレ6年目でベンチプレス72.5kg自体重をようやく挙げられました🙁 皆大丈夫だよ☺️ 挙げる前の雰囲気だけは150kg。

This is raylan givens “next one is coming a lot faster” bullet threat energy

There is a huge middle ground between "no attention at all" and "all the attention of all mathematicians for decades". In this case, probably between 3-10 mathematicians had, at some point in the last 20 years, sat down and seriously thought about this for at least several days.

Я родился и вырос в СССР, и так вышло, что за все это время Госплан СССР не запланировал ничего из того что было нужно мне и моей семье. Поэтому мой дед, фронтовик прошедший всю войну военным инженером, создавал своими руками все то, что Госплан СССР нам не запланировал. Шкафы, кровати, полки, и более мелкие, но не менее важные предметы обихода. Причем из материалов которые можно было найти на улице или на помойке. Мама штопала всем носки, трусы, брюки, майки, кофты и рубашки, - тоже не запланированные Госпланом, а отец специализировался на починке ботинок, при помощи эпоксидки, резинового клея и суровых ниток.

@michaelmorley11 I find the Huron doctrine to be Superior. But, don’t let’s discuss the Ontario or Michigan doctrines

One of the most surprising things to me in legal academia is how many seemingly well adjusted law professors completely hate the Erie Doctrine. Ely’s article on Erie is one of my favorite law review articles ever. It made total sense and helped me understand how the doctrine works.

We have techne but no episteme. “The math works” “look at this wave function” “here are some matrices” are not accounts. They are shrugging shoulders. Again, we can do a lot with this, so it’s not that it’s orthogonal to truth. It’s just not a comprehensible account. 3/3

"GPT-5.5 has been finding solutions quicker than I, the human, can process them" This is actually my experience so far too. This also points towards a more important problem: in a world of infinite research that we're approaching, the real issue is where to direct our attention and how to consume all that research.

@MercuriusFilius 1/2?

How would you answer this common J.P. Morgan interview question?

@JohnGoldman @markchristy I think it’s a big deal too!!! It puts you in an incredible league. I’ve only done one marathon— 5:45.

@markchristy What is

One cool thing about the marathon is that you get to face the same 99 mph fastball as the top elites. On the same courses. On the same day. They take their shot. You take yours. Same game.

There's a new buzzword floating around leadership: "self-serve legal." This is their vision where everyone drafts their own contracts and only pings me for "tiny questions." Yesterday, Finance proudly unveiled the first self-serve NDA they wrote using an online template. It graciously grants the other party perpetual, worldwide rights to "all confidential information disclosed by either party for any purpose whatsoever." In other words, we invented the Anti-NDA. They asked if I could just tweak a few words so it "passes muster." No, I can't tweak it. I have to drive a legal flamethrower through it and start again. Self-serve legal's like self-serve dentistry. Technically possible. Catastrophically stupid.

@DrivebyDogboy @a_fellow_of And from this rule came Not such a small conundrum Upon prosecution to the Abbott, Their wisest replied, “You bet. But the place and time are All quite very large.” And so In the end, he defeated the charge

@a_fellow_of That reads like it could be a limerick: There once was a great order of monks, Who taught all places were one. All times were the same....

there once was a great order of monks who taught all places were one place, and that all times were one time. this caused quite a bit of confusion, because of the obvious questions about signposts and clocks. So their abbot, the wisest of their order, was asked to clarify.

New Robinhood phishing chain that's kinda beautiful: 1. Attacker creates an RH account using the Gmail dot trick of your email (same inbox, different address) 2. Sets device name to HTML 3. RH's "unrecognized activity" email renders the device name unsanitized (html injection) The result is a real email from noreply@robinhood.com, DKIM pass, SPF pass, DMARC pass, with a phishing CTA Just because it's real, doesn't mean it's safe... $HOOD

Teams call be like: Němec: "Tak další hovor bych udělal v pátek 8. května." Čech: "To nemůžu, máme u nás státní svátek." Brit: "My taky." Francouz: "My taky." Němec: "Fakt? A co slavíte?" Čech: "No. Jak jen bych to ..."

Has this happened to any of you? A PhD applicant emailed asking for a job, wrote a nice letter, and praised my work about how protein X regulates process Y. Then I realized … we have not published that. I have not presented those data. From grants? AI is getting CREEPY 🤯

Singapore's Foreign Minister published the architecture for his "second brain for a diplomat" yesterday. Architecture diagrams, design rationale, the works. A developer-style writeup of his own system. It runs on a Raspberry Pi. It connects to his WhatsApp and Gmail, transcribes voice notes locally, ingests speeches and articles, and builds up a knowledge graph over time. It answers questions, drafts speeches, condenses information. He says he doesn't dare switch it off. What @VivianBala built is one-of-one. There's no other setup like it. But what he built it from isn't. He composed four open-source pieces: - @NanoClaw_AI , the agent framework: github.com/qwibitai/nanoc… - Mnemon, the persistent memory layer: github.com/mnemon-dev/mne… - OneCLI, the credential proxy that keeps API keys out of the containers: github.com/onecli/onecli - The LLM Wiki pattern by Andrej Karpathy, the synthesis approach: x.com/karpathy/statu… None of them are his. The composition is his. And then he published the composition: gist.github.com/VivianBalakris… He didn't keep it internal as Singapore's edge. He didn't spin it into a product. He didn't gatekeep. He wrote it up and put it on GitHub. There are tens of thousands of doctors, lawyers, researchers, investors, and operators building one-of-one setups for themselves right now. Some simpler than Vivian's, some more elaborate. The impulse will be to sit on it. Treat it as your edge. Think about what product or company you could spin out of it. Resist that impulse. Vivian put it directly: "The diplomat who learns to work with AI will have a meaningful edge. I think that edge is now." The specific thing Vivian composed will be obsolete in months. His real edge isn't the system. It's his ability to build it. Being plugged in, up to speed, able to cut through the noise and connect the right pieces into something that brings real value. Sharing the blueprint doesn't give that away. It amplifies it. You become a beacon. Other people working on the same things find you. They share what they're building, suggest improvements, point at things you didn't know existed. You learn faster. You stay in the center of where things are happening. Publishing isn't giving away your edge. It's doubling down on it.

@pjaicomo @IJ Pronounced with a hard “c”

It’s true that most law review articles provide little utility to practitioners. But good ones can be foundational. Take for instance Laurent Sacharoff’s The Broken Fourth Amendment Oath. It inspired @IJ to litigate Mendenhall v. Denver, which is pending on certiorari.

@JDHamkins A well founded relation sounds drinkable.

Mathematical examples abound: A relation is well founded. A well-founded relation. A formula of first-order logic. A dense linear order. The largest-number contest A large-cardinal property The set-theoretic universe

My periodic reminder of the adjectival hyphenation rule. 1. A red bike factory is a bike factory that is red. 2. A red-bike factory is a factory that makes red bikes. Iterated adjectives are hyphenated to delimit the scope of applicability, like parentheses.

Is this the British version of a sovereign citizen? I would expect theirs to be the dollar serf.