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we should all strive to be abstract systems that exist in all possible worlds
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the coolest psychoanalytic discovery is that people unwittingly communicate things about themselves by accidentally inducing feelings in each other. and that this goes both ways between all people in all relationships. and most people are not aware of either direction.
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serious question: would Jane Street really, truly hire Terrence Tao today if he asked for a job? What job exactly?
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I feel like half my TL is like "you must build god in your computer. you must sleep 4 hours a day and code for 26. you must eat cod oil." and half of it is like "my toothbrush is too sharp it gave me trauma :("
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all relationships contain a doubly-confused conversation where no one knows what they or the other person is saying. like a convo between two people with tape on their mouths and earplugs in.
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I'm still digesting this realization but it kind of rocks. It makes my social anxiety make so much more sense, and not just this defect. it clarifies so much about my new and old relationships, and encounters with strangers.
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it's fun to think about the possible woo-analogies for this: you could say our demons or our angels are always communicating with each other and that we humans just hear the echos of those conversations in our minds. or that our vibes always create patterns of interference.
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Can Terry Tao actually get private funding if he wanted to? How would that work? I know more about math than the average person and I only understand a fraction of his *contributions,* let alone his approaches, etc.
what exactly is the pitch for a non-specialist?
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"The yield curve has been spiking exactly when... the date sums to a prime number????? Somebody go get Terrence!!!"
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in contrast to the image of psychoanalytic theory as covered in dust and doomed to abstraction, this is an extremely vivid thing to tap into
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The keyword for googling is “projective identification.” Melanie Klein coined the term but a lot of people have written about it since then. 1/n
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please allow me to extract more from the bubble before you start posting stuff like this, thanks
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sorry if im repeating something you already know but you can find the higher dimensional analog of a knot by looking at embeddings of S^n in R^{n+2}
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no, I am gay which means I foreclosed on the oedipus complex a long time ago. I yeeted that shit
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I started to push back on this guy before I realized he is a former quant so... maybe there is hope for Tao's jane street application after all
Obviously he could. He could be like von Neumann during the Manhattan Project, roaming around between different research groups and listening to them explain their problems and giving them ideas and things to try.
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god gives you a crush on an autistic man as punishment for the worst sins imaginable in a past life
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both are possible. your insecurity might induce a feeling of insecurity in another person, or it might induce a feeling of criticism, judgement of YOU in response to your insecurity, even if the other person wouldn't have otherwise felt that way about you.
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is this really obvious? most of QR work is doing linear regressions from what ive heard. Is terrence tao a generational genius at debugging sql queries or something?
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whenever I meet a weird pensive man with .1% gay energy I know I am about to embark on yet another beautiful friendship
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but to answer ur question yea I can just not reply. that is actually a good point I didn't consider
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im getting more and more curious about Toronto. A space where "ketchup on fries" is subversive. I must go
Prob one of the most fucked up things I do is I put ketchup on my poutine. My homie from Ghana in high school told me to just try it one time while we were sitting across from each other at a table in this Brampton joint called Mimi’s fish and chips, and I never stopped.
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i’m telling you, it’s all about walks. you need to be going on walks. you need to be contemplationmaxxing. so much alpha in turning your problems over in your head on a little walk.
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having sex with a woman as a man sounds so geeky like “ohhhh. I am fulfilling my marital duties” like. ok. 👀 having sex with another man entails the brutal, unfiltered competition every man is craving
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im glad you shared this because i fully admit I don't know how much we can actually attribute to tao in terms of applications. this seems to be a big, hard question at the heart of this discourse
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the recommended 0.8g of protein per pound seems like it does not work for tall people. I'm 6"7' and 200lbs is the low end of ideal. does that mean i should be eating 0.8 * 200 = 160g of protein a day???? seems like an incredible number that i have never hit consistently
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what i mean is, from a mathematical perspective, knots are interesting because of the ways you can “untie” them. you formalize knots as “ways of putting a circle (S^1) into 3d space (R^3)” which is really the same as a continuous, injective function f:S^1 -> R^3. this also sets you up to define “untying” as an “ambient isotopy” between such functions. Once you pin all these things down, you can notice that the notion of ambient isotopy of such functions is nontrivial for all f:S^n -> R^n+2, ie when you are looking at the sphere (meaning the surface of a sphere) in 4 dimensions, or the higher dimensional analogs of the sphere in the space 2 dimensions up (using the topological notion of dimensions where the so called 3d sphere is 2d, because it locally looks like R^2). the slogan i was taught in my topology class was “knots are a co-dimension 2 phenomenon “
this is the extent of what i know about knots, and i dont know any physics. So there may be something special about 3d that has to do with knots (or their role in physics), but the existence of knots does not distinguish R^3 from the other R^n on its own!
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can i just slap my actual name and face on this account and route 1300 followers to my public persona for free? or is that not quote-unquote “based”?
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the ideal humanities syllabus is:
- getting the gist of Hegel
- reading Allen Ginsberg in a park on shrooms
- Salt Fat Acid Heat
- Fong and Spivak's Applied Category Theory
- Godel Escher Bach
honors students read Nick Land
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I have decided to become a parent to my inner child and, as a parent, I would just like to say that I never gave my child permission to create an account on this website
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they started doing it on the 7 recently too. I got caught and happily paid. as long as they're gonna actually run it now
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recently learned through trial and error that 600mg of caffeine a day is actually emotionally load bearing for me. so that's awesome
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wait is this a good thing or a bad thing
Embryo gene editing can prevent cancer. By increasing the DNA repairing capacity by 100 fold, our children will no longer have any gene mutation, therefore permanently eradicate cancer. However, I have deep concern that human will no longer be controlled by Darwin's evolution.
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I think I will homeschool my kids. The one homeschooled person I know well is a cracked 17 y/o software engineer working full time and living in his own apartment.
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To be completely honest, I am totally shocked that my post about the feelings we induce in each other blew up as much as it did.
This is one of the most important I've learned about anything ever!
I had no other idea people cared about this idea as much as I do.
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there is this insane genre of GPT-slop math textbooks with cartoon/anime/sexy lady covers on every single topic you could imagine. amazon is now even less useful for discovering math textbooks. it's so so weird
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i'm a little TPOT, short and stout
here is my programmingtake, here is my clout
when I gender discourse, hear me shout
tip, me over and log me out
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so what sequence of actions results in me living in one of those apartments for really cheap
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so much dating discourse on this website is just like 4d chess on how to avoid intimacy and the associated frustration... which like, relatable. but I think a lot of people are causing unnecessary harm by following discursive logic from the internet vs like, looking within...
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have you not heard egg fried rice
app.suno.ai/song/29154be0-a0…
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almost every doctors appt I've had in my adult life went like:
- I have a problem
- I go on ZocDoc, OneMedical, or a hospital's website
- I schedule an appointment with a rando
- I describe my problems to said rando and get pills.
is this how it is for everyone? feels weird
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I kind of forgot that poetry readings are a thing in NYC. I'd say we need to bring that energy here but the poems would probably be like "I love/my computer./we need/to accelerate./I love/going to therapy."
tonight i'm mixing it up and attending an instagram poetry reading instead of a twitter poetry reading. the people are prettier but poetry is more self-conscious and anxious, which makes sense
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spent most of this week hardblocking twitter on my laptop. i hate the addictive internet so much. there is no point to being on here as a consumer, you need to be a producer and value extractor to make it worthwhile. but it doesn't work at all without at least a few addicts
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"kids trading all day" you're saying 8th graders are day trading via Robinhood and similar ??
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abso-lutely. You know those people who you wouldn't have swiped right on on tinder but just make you feel so turned on and special when you talk to them? A reasonable explanation is that they are inducing their own desire in you. different for every human of course.
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see my LL wouldn't even be thinking about electricity bills if she had the pain of getting ghosted on Grindr to deal with
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could not think of a birthday wish so i wished for “energy,” but that is all I really want, more energy to be brave and to physically move and do things without pain. energy energy give me that energy
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FUCK I just came back from the forest and realized I hate living in society. I can't believe that the world is like this
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i deleted a tweet cuz i disagreed with what i wrote. guess what? no consequences!!! heres a pic from my morning walk yesterday:
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Can i say something else while im making confessions on the pseudonymous account… my grandfather died and i dont feel that sad about it, and i feel guilty for feeling that way. He loved all his grandchildren but because im the youngest we were the least close. I honestly have been feeling more light and clarity in the wake of his death since its a reminder that life is short and many stupid frustrations and score settling, ego bullshit etc doesnt actually matter. so i feel ashamed that i actually feel better after he died. and i feel afraid for my parents decline, because our relationship has so many unspoken grievances both ways, and this has been a reminder that their health is on a downward trajectory from here on out. it feels like not how youre supposed to feel when someone dies but there it is
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To be honest, I learned more about this idea by talking to psychoanalysts in and out of therapy, and by rediscovering it in my own relationships, than I did from reading. 2/n
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the professor who "taught" me basic ring theory and galois theory had a teaching style that was so formal I might as well have just gotten a Dummit and Foote audiobook and listened 3x a week. She would also get confused when I would ask for follow up, which is understandable, but she had some kind of chip on her shoulder that made her get really offended and flustered. She also strongly discouraged me from studying foundations or category theory in grad school, at one point with a scary story of a logician whose "marriage was ruined" by a series of postdoctoral positions that took her across the function. the memory is really sad and frustrating. This is barely an answer to your question but i'll take any opportunity to rant about it
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tbf, your wording is ambiguous. Maybe both can travel at 20mph, but in particular you never specify that that's the car's max speed
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I think math is for everyone but it seems unlikely that math would look like it does today without grothendieck, for example.
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forever thinking about the time in group therapy when someone was trying to cheer me up and the therapist said "No, no. Max is the star of his own tragedy."
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If you’re curious about Klein, the book I found that included essays from different points in her career was this: amazon.com/Selected-Melanie-…
I also learned a lot by reading essays from the school of Modern / Spotnizian Psychoanalysis. 4/n
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I am smart, interested in adjacent topics, and have followed you for a while. I don't think what you're doing is bs but I also don't understand what this is 100%
I believe that it is possible for you to create even cleaner explanations of what you were doing such that the average STEM college student could understand it, which would go a long way.
I selfishly want you to look for these explanations because I already know this is AI paradigm is closer to my aesthetic tastes than deep learning (based on researching what it's related to)
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