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Derek Yen

@stericderek

cryptography PhD at NYU Courant | MIT MEng '24, ug cs + ling '22 | academic account @djwyen

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roon You joke, but none of this makes sense except in light of the kabbalah. Consider: part of the ritual for creating artificial life involves putting אֱמֶת at the head.

<a href="/tszzl/">roon</a> You joke, but none of this makes sense except in light of the kabbalah. Consider: part of the ritual for creating artificial life involves putting אֱמֶת at the head.
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I realized the NYE ball drop resembles a ball drop for syncing naval clocks and I suddenly feel the event is so much more poetic this way. "At this instant, all clocks strike together; and we each of us, aboard our separate ships, turn our eyes to the same point on the horizon."

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Thinking about the time I took singing lessons and my vocal teacher was growing frustrated that I wasnt opening my throat enough on certain words but I literally could not hear the difference due to cot-caught merger