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I went to their Twitter and looked for the picture. I assume this is it. I don't see anything else: https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/983333636975054848/siPS_w5d?f...

No.

The thing that bothers you the most about this is people not wanting cookies?

Well, what did he do?

Preceded.

Wow, what a totally original and fresh perspective.

Also, I don't like watching the author's face pop up every thirty seconds while I'm reading the article, telling me he's the next Benjamin Graham.

I didn't think I would see another fan on Hacker News! Woo woo woo woo!

Maybe the more fundamental question is “how do I make one million friends,” in which case the answer is “you can’t.”

No you don’t!

Discrete.

Please tell me how many on the Forbes list are starving. Hell, give me an example of any billionaire ever that ended up starving. The point you’re trying to make has no basis in reality.

I honestly cannot understand the point you're trying to make.

Also,

> It's possible to be a billionaire on paper and starve to death.

Can you provide an example?

It's vacuum tubes, right?

Yeah, I'd say it goes something like this:

1. Rape and pillage of settlements.

2. Using child soldiers.

3. Stealing books from libraries.

4. Deploying poisonous weapons on civilians.

WOOSH

It's IBM, isn't it?

KaTeX is still being developed (https://github.com/Khan/KaTeX). They support the "align" environment now, which is all I really needed.

The initial release of tmux was in 2007. The initial release of screen was in 1987. I assume they don't update as frequently because it's relatively stable.

You really can't think of any situation where it'd be beneficial to have a non-human do a task?

If we all mash F5, maybe it will start up faster!

Trying to start the first level:

"Couldn't resume the level because Couldn't connect to the GM server to resume the level."

It's easier and more precise to say something like "run the quantum Monte Carlo code" than "run the quantum Monte Carlo model" or "run the quantum Monte Carlo software."

A quantum Monte Carlo code will of course include a model, but I think people don't want to call it "software" because it's so research-grade and janky. "Program" seems better, but I think that implies that it's a static thing (not in a constant state of development).

The plural "codes" is used because usually a research team has historically implemented a bunch of models into disparate codebases.

Why are there so many bold terms and phrases throughout the text? It's extremely distracting.

You're right. But in that case, what's the point in naming it anything at all?

I don't think "laws" can just be arbitrarily inverted to fit an argument.

Through the magical power of lying!

What does "the future hopefully is much bigger" mean for a calculator application? Competition with Wolfram Alpha? Unless you're doing something on that scale, I can't imagine what you mean.

Stop caring so much.

Alternatively, you could just note that your example reduces to 100*(100+1)/2. This simplification decreases cognitive load even more substantially! Taking a strictly programmatic view of a problem allows you to be lazy, and I believe that you lose a lot in the process. There is importance (numerically, even!) in thinking about things in a more formalized, mathematical way.

My understanding was that some theories of inflation require multiverses to exist. I have never heard that the Schrodinger equation nor inflationary cosmology themselves predict alternate worlds. Some theories require them (to get the math to fit), but there are definitely alternatives.