bc they forgot to read chinchilla and are starved of tokens. fast takeoff is just a sperm whale with an audible subscription

found the perfect field of mathematics for me

nominative determinism runs everything around me apparently the heaviside step function is named after some dude named oliver heaviside, and not just because it has ... a heavy side ...?

the math suggests that hippogriffs are possible

help she's too good at abstract algebra does there even exist meaningful consent across a mathematical maturity gap

when making ice cream goes horribly wrong

modern homeopathy is discovering that refilling a hint water bottle with tap water creates more hint water

sleep evolutionarily predates brains sleep might be more fundamental than brains

fated to utter true prophecies, never to be believed

one week ago: idk fp8 quantization seems pretty straightforward 7 days later: do you know what continuity is? it's the thousand blades of dedekind cuts, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.

my friends don't want fuck you money per se. bc they don't want to say fuck you to people what they really want is plot armor money

first chess tournament in 17 years i was so scared of getting demolished by a 2nd grader but joke's on me my elo was literally not high enough to get paired with any children

> i love math so much, i hope my new job involves a lot of it monkey's paw curls

i'm at a ~serious~ lab people explain things to me in chinese, and i have to tell them in english that i'm a banana

optimization theorem: "assume a lipschitz constant L..." the lipschitz constant:

i love how jianlin su blogs really convey the feeling of working in optimization theory