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Consider the sound and analysis of a 33.6kbit/s dial-up modem over traditional telephone lines.

Thinking about what makes me a good fit as an investor or advisor to companies and it boils down to being weird

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We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. —David Clark, 1992

As a Harvard graduate student, Maryam Mirzakhani transformed the field of hyperbolic geometry. She died before she could answer many of the questions that interested her. Two other female mathematicians are now picking up her work where she left off. quantamagazine.org/years-after-th…

Computer pioneer Grace Hopper running programs on a Univac I computer in 1952. Hopper wrote the Univac A-0 compiler that allowed more abstract instructions to be converted into machine-runnable code, widely accepted to be the first computer language compiler ever created.

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Been using Landau and Lifshitz series quite a bit these past few months, and I got to say that volume 3, which is on non relativistic quantum mechanics, is becoming one of my favorite book on quantum mechanics. This one is not an introduction, and is not aimed at beginners,

''Handbook of Logic in Computer Science'' edited by Gabbay and Abramsky (Oxford University Press) might be my favorite series of texts in theoretical computer science. In volume 5 for example, you will find a very well written primer on Per Martin Lof's type theory (by

if you know calculus, linear algebra, fluid mechanics, and want to move from equations to actual computational simulations of airflow around wings, jets, or drones, this book is for you!

A rare gem, reading it in original language but there is also one translated into English #math #physics #informationtheory

.benahorowitz.eth at SXSW (2014): "If you’re going to be an entrepreneur, get in your mind there’s no quitting." Expertise isn’t inherited. It’s earned by iteratively compounding knowledge until you see what nobody else can. That’s why you don't quit.

R. Oppenheimer lecturing at Kyoto University, Japan, 1960.

if you run an AI lab, pls make sure your evals team has read this

The moon represents significant capex for the purpose of climate stabilization, and it is reasonable the venue would be re-used for launching new spacefaring civilizations

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