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The idea that Tao has accomplished more than, say, Serre because the latter, who won the Fields medal at 27, only received his PhD at 25 and his bachelor's at 22 while the former r…

More like Indy avoided drowning in the boat race scene (which I recall happening very early in the movie)

This is clever application of existing ideas, not the sort of new idea which is needed. No one can really imagine what sort of machinery will need to be built to prove the RH. A pr…

What evidence are you referring to? Look at https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/map/map.withimage.php... and see if you can the smoking gun, please

See my sibling comment - where does the insistence that octopus is third declension come from? The reality is that while most Greek loanwords are third declension, many are not, an…

No. You seem very confident, but octopi is (grammatically) perfectly acceptable. The English word octopus is taken from the Latin (coined by Linnaeus) word octopus, which is of Gre…

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml is another good collection

On the prospect of working on a "Uranium-Engine" > Every layman can see that these ideas are exceedingly important. Hence there won't be any money in it. You only make money on ide…

> The main contribution by the US was support vehicles like jeeps and trucks and fuel Obviously, these are all absolutely critical. As is the aluminum, high-octane avgas, etc that …

Here is Eugene Wigner on Einstein and von Neumann > I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Planck, von Laue and Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother in la…

Anyone knows if this dump contains drug insurance coverage?

Any advice on up-leveling here? I'm a generalist backend dev that's bounced around startups for a while and am now pushing 40 and have been thinking about how to specialize before …

> In Neon, incoming WAL is processed as it arrives, and indexed and buffered in memory. When the buffer fills up, it is written to a new file This sounds cool, but what happens if …

From the lower Volga to Karakorum is actually about 5600 km, not 5600 miles. (edit) Still pretty impressive, though, especially in winter

Misleading article. The defining feature of a mortgage loan is, in fact, that it is backed by real property (i.e, a house). These seem more like loans, secured by crypto, used to b…

Ahh. Surely this explains Klaus Fuchs, the most important spy in the Manhattan Project and a long-time communist?

Can you explain the API a bit more? If you're batching writes in a single thread, doesn't that imply that clients don't 'know' when their writes are actually committed to disk? Or …

Do you have a source for your claims that "[t]he war on drugs was started as a way to target people of color by Nixon", and especially that Nixon admitted it on the WH tapes? As fa…