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Agreed! I'm realizing that my comment came across as negative, but I did appreciate seeing a second path to the same place. I also agree that the expression x^(1/x) feels like a mo…

Logs will appear no matter what, at some point in the line of reasoning. They are only held back until differentiating in this approach. I think the expression for the derivative o…

"Catitude" is a good one. One might also say "felinity". Or "kittyhood". Or "purrsonality"! I've only watched the movie version, but all these feel like they were words spoken by a…

Hey now, I turned out all right.

For the past decade there has here in Norway been a recurring news sensation surrounding the mountain Mannen [1] (literally "the man" ) located in Romsdal in the northernmost part …

Right on point, "a blessing and a curse".

The tailoring was just for taper and length. The waist I didn't do much with so it's pretty loose. Besides, the pants are simply supposed to be worn with suspenders. I'm not sure a…

I absolutely have! Didn't think it was worth the tangent so I'm glad you're bringing it up. Women's fashion is so much more varied in shape, size, style, and fit, and some of it ev…

This is a premise I can get behind. One of the silliest battles I have found myself fighting against society has been my search for comfortable yet attractive men's pants. I deeply…

Me too, and I was disappointed to see this comment section mostly full of people either blaming the author or explaining why their experience actually makes sense. It's like a posi…

"Permitted" is a strong word for activity enabled by a protocol. It implies some moral acceptance from the ones who designed the tool. I think a better word would be "possible". Si…

You are right to point that out, but I don't think the article is making a claim that its findings compose a recipe for exceptionalism. It actually seems very careful not to make a…

I've been surprised to find myself making multiple similar pivots over the years. A lot of what I dismissed in my younger years as lacking of intellectual merit, I have come around…

That's a pretty flimsy argument. Yes, you can map mathematical ideas onto concepts within different fields of study, but that's kind of the point. Mathematics aims to abstract away…

"Don't eat much" is quite different from "don't eat at all for a period of time", both conceptually and in how they impact the body.

My friend shared some screenshots of ChatGPT giving a convincing response to the prompt > Outline a proof of the snake lemma Satisfied with the output, my friend then asked it to o…

I don't think that's accurate. One of the things that make incubation and choosing which startups to fund so difficult is precisely the lack of track record. According to Graham hi…

It' uplifting to hear that these things can be managed and unlearned. I hate knowing that I am my own biggest obstacle in certain respects.

Goodhart's law strikes again.

I think this is a big one as well, and would go one step further and say that anyone no matter their place on the spectrum may fail at communication in this way. I bet most junior …

Here's some advice from a Norwegian who programmed in Vim for years on the nordic layout: do yourself a favor and get an American keyboard ASAP. The brackets alone are worth it.

One of the most delightful yet surprising things about learning another language is to see a whole new part of the internet (not to mention "the world") become accessible and unvei…

With all the devotion on display from so many very clever people, it's hard not to be at least a little curious about Emacs. But I still have something holding me back. On the one …

La ligilo tute ne malpravas. Vi vere faris _tujan_ vortaron!

I got sucked into Esperanto after a year in Spain trying to learn Spanish. I was intrigued by the premise of an easy to learn, exception free language, with vocabulary that would a…