Friends

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Some things I noticed 05/31/2021:
  1. Intro to p-adic number, Intuition for the p-adic metric, Ostrowki’s Theorem, Gross-Stark conjecture; “instead of condemning, call for release“
  2. “downwind faster than the wind” “pressure differences exert lift force; downward turning of flow sustain difference” “grossly one-sided“
  3. Horst-Wessel-Lied, Bagong Pagsilang; “searching for relatives by taking food for them and seeing if the prison accepts” “will never live that down“

Some things I noticed 04/21/2020:
  1. all we are ever able to do, it seems
  2. “the biggest threat has emerged in the form of America’s government“
  3. “Sovereign currency issuers can conjure up unlimited funds, poor countries cannot. Their debts are foreign.”
  4. “police will never come inside a private property unless invited by the owner or administrator”
  5. Bad call on the part of the poet. Sarcasm presupposes wit. Vastly overestimated her audience.
  6. In some abstract sense, the difference between Riemann integral and Lebesgue integral is like that between SQL and NoSQL.
  7. On the contrary, by producing endless “entertainment”, one could say “the West” rather prepared well
  8. The One That Goes Behind The Scenes
  9. “Their friendship provides a thin, wobbly dramatic peg, but just enough for Mr. O’Toole to show the younger guys out there how the thing is done properly.”
  10. Decoherence
    • “Humanity is a thin layer of bacteria on a ball of mud hurtling through the void.”
    • “You’re here along with the rest of us to speed the entropic death of this planet. To service the chaos. We’re maggots eating a corpse.”

Some things I noticed 04/18/2020:
  1. “the best case for PH, isolate 70% of symptomatic, reduce peak infected to only 900,000 in May or June 2021″
  2. German chancellor explains need for distancing in simple words
  3. Wuhan Military Games COVID origin story in Arabic from a month ago (aged like milk)
  4. Library by a movement translating heretical books to Arabic.
  5. “I just wanna live in a world where being ignorant is choice.”
  6. From Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice
    • “Poverty therefore, is a thing created by that which is called civilized life.”
    • “the condition of every person born into the world, after a state of civilization commences, ought not to be worse than if he had been born before that period”
    • “It is impossible to enjoy affluence with the felicity it is capable of being enjoyed, whilst so much misery is mingled in the scene.”
    • “the accumulation of personal property is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labour that produced it”
  7. “Death and taxes? Death and taxes? What an odd pairing.” – Joe Black
  8. dancing pallbearers in Ghana
  9. “Look, there is no unselfish good deed, sorry” – Joey, to Phoebe
  10. Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
  11. The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall