Erstwhile mathematician. Fast Learner. @recursecenter batch[3]. He/him.

Joined November 2008
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15 Feb 2014
You can’t make bad people good, but you can condition them to fear your attention.
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Replying to @willmenaker
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FROM NOW ON ADDRESS ME AS CHAMP! 🧡💙
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De'Aaron Fox next season 😭
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New Yorkers, Avoid the bookings beloved
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NEW YORK CITY YOU LISTEN TO ME! IF YOU’RE NEAR SOME TRASH RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR TRASH, GO DISPOSE OF THE TRASH RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND INSIDE THE OFFICIAL NYC BIN! YOUR TRASH IS OUR TRASH AS OF RIGHT NOW. CONGRATS KNICKS 💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡
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May 18
Ended up in this exact situation with one of my nephews (4yo). He did figure out a solution though; He made me call my mom on the phone so he could tell her that we were hiding.
playing hide-and-seek with 3yo son. just the two of us. he wants to hide together. we are hiding together. we are in the closet. it’s perfectly dark. we’re very cramped. there is no one looking for us. i am trying to explain this. he is laughing uncontrollably
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To settle a troublesome discourse, I have provided here the most faithful and poetic possible translation of the beginning of the Odyssey. We male sex. We complex. We fake horse. We off course. We sail long. We hear song. We pig crew. We home soon.
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May 17
RT @gingerboipali: New York is so crazy I just met an Italian-Puerto Rican Shia whose dating a Vietnamese Sunni revert
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Tennessee’s governor signs into law a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis. apnews.com/article/redistric…
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Apr 28
Far and away the most annoying part of the culture of Haskell. Makes it soo hard to get beginners into the language because you really have to handhold them a lot more and it slows the "reading code on your own" speed to a crawl
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In turn the only way to read someone else's Haskell program is to spend an hour desugaring their code so that you can see what it is actually computing
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what's fun about this is that it's like a sneak preview of what the AI-in-music discourse is going to sound like in about a year. "yeah, artists are using the latest technology to make music. you're just figuring this out now? haven't you ever heard of sampling?"
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Apr 15
We're literally like a week from sedevacantism 2.0 at this point
Pope Leo needs to brush up his Bible — and its lessons on war and peace trib.al/JgrjW8z
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"One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it. And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday." hatchmag.com/articles/trump-…
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Make no mistake: destroying world-class universities, like the US just did with Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, isn't just an attack on Iran but it's literally an attack on all of us, on all of humanity. It's not Iran that "won" when Maryam Mirzakhani made her discoveries that won her a Fields Medal: it's all of mathematics, and everything mathematics is used for. Human progress won, technology won, we all won. It's the same type of stuff the Mongols did during the sack of Baghdad and their destruction of the House of Wisdom: we ALL lost something irreplaceable back then, entire fields of human knowledge set back. That's what bombing a university does. It doesn't just destroy buildings. It destroys us, all of us.
Alma mater of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the mathematics Fields Medal.
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Neither of these statements are remotely true even under the stretchiest definition of “defeat” and “interests”. Administration may well end this phase by claiming “defeat Iran” happened but that would only cap short-term damage to those real, huge interests. Not the long-term.
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📸 The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran. He is waving goodbye to his mother.
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Mar 4
Reminds me of a conversation I had a few years ago with a friend who is a college professor. He was teaching freshman anthro and one of his students referred to the 90s as "the late 20th century" in an assigned paper. *Those* kids didn't remember 9/11, and this was pre-covid
Older faculty member made a joke to me about how college students probably don’t even remember 9/11 any more and I was just like Right so my college freshmen were born in 2008, actually.
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PSA to all cinephiles: if you really love cinema, you should donate to this organization linktr.ee/thegazasunbirds
Do you remember the first time YOU watched Ratatouille? 🎬 Our mobile cinema is moving between camps to spread moments of joy. After crafting their popcorn cups, the kids enjoyed some salty popcorn and a childhood classic 🍿
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