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    Jan 27

    Fun fact: some people have an internal narrative and some don't As in, some people's thoughts are like sentences they "hear", and some people just have abstract non-verbal thoughts, and have to consciously verbalize them And most people aren't aware of the other type of person

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  2. Jan 17

    To live in the moment is to experience tap–tap–tap–, in which each tap is the carrying out of a mental motion that could be verbalized as "It is no longer thus. How is it now?" Continue until, –taptaptaptap..., there is nothing but a ceaseless casting aside of the past.

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    Jan 12

    You arrive at a gate with two guards. Guard 1: Halt, traveler. You must solve our riddle to continue. Guard 2: ʰᵉʳᵉ ʷᵉ ᵍᵒ G1: ONE of us only tells the truth. The other only tells LIES. G2: jesus christ, Daniel, I said I was sorry.

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    Jan 12

    This simulation makes you wonder: could the Solar System be unstable? Will a planet eventually be thrown out of the Solar System? People have done a lot of work on this problem. It's hard. The Solar System is chaotic in a number of ways.... (1/n)

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    Jan 11

    A beautiful solution of the gravitational 4-body problem. But keep watching, because it's not stable!

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    Heartbreaking: This Guy Has No Idea That He’s So Strange And Memorable-Looking That Everyone From His Flight Is Using Him As A Landmark To Figure Out Which Baggage Claim Area Is Theirs

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    Jan 9

    I’ve been mentoring my 10-year-old nephew in programming. Some impressions (thread):

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    Jan 8

    Jordan curve theorem art:

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    Jan 9

    . is an extraordinary, massive, persistent force of nature, like Jupiter’s Great Red Spot or something. Read his decade in review and be gobsmacked:

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    Jan 7

    John Von Neumann once claimed that "with 4 parameters I can fit an elephant, and with 5 I can make him wiggle his trunk" This paper proves that John's claim is true!

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  11. Jan 1

    Guernica: Robert Bringhurst: Myth Is a Theorem About the Nature of Reality via

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    31 Dec 2019

    A group is a set with a distinguished element e and a binary operation [ , ] satisfying: ‣ [a,b] = [[a,c],[b,c]] ‣ [a,e] = a ‣ [a,a] = e for all a,b,c.

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    26 Dec 2019

    Canning of food began as early as 1812 The can opener was not invented until 1855 In between, cans were opened with hammer & chisel (!)

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    Historians Reveal Aqueducts Were Only Small Portion Of Ancient Rome’s Intricate Water Park System

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    Good Call: Dr. Seuss’ Estate Just Discovered—And Promptly Destroyed—A Letter Where The Author Reveals Which Race The Grinch Was Meant To Be

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    You can learn a lot about a culture by reading their fiction and noticing what they take for granted. In honor of the season, let’s look at A Christmas Carol. 1/

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    you: learned helplessness me, an intellectual: learnèd helplessness

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    8 Dec 2019

    This is cool and all, but someone needs to find this guy and make him an event announcer.

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    I don’t know who needs to hear this right now but multiple contacts starboard bow at 1NM CBDR at 40 kts. BM2 sound GQ and turn out boarding teams. All hands guns up, I say again all hands guns up. Helm lookout report and I want updates every 30 seconds

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  20. Retweeted
    24 Nov 2019

    Retweeted nearly 2K times, here's a perfect example of the kind of slovenly, ideologically driven thinking that passes for "history" on Twitter.

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