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@Paradox The one that makes things extremely better

I mean the other kinds would also be interesting, but not as hopeful

Although if someone could explain black hole geometry in poetry I'd celebrate that

There is surprisingly little post singularity poetry

I didn't expect breaking up with someone to feel this bad

Does the human mind do second-order prediction to steer towards grokking? I remember that there's a way to feel when you're about to understand

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Very interesting "near-miss" of two integer sequences. I have to think about why the early coincidence happens.

oeis.org/A000240
oeis.org/A182390

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@pixx@merveilles.town Any sufficiently predictable magic is indistinguishable from science.

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Consensual Gramscian Incrementalism
Adorno: I agree!
Horkheimer: I agree!
[Western civilization frowning at the side]
Is there somebody you forgot to ask?

@amy This somewhat makes sense:

0==false, by the Anna Karenina principle one should return 0
Every other number designates a failure state, I guess?

2nd original sin in computing was 1==true 1==false

@chjara if you use it the default way and toss in a raw non-greek non-roman letter it produces garbage, as far as I remember

TeX definitely does

@wxcafe connects to systems in biological organisms: robustness to combination creates modularity

@dredmorbius
"bash arithmetic", two of the scariest words in the English language

Ffmpeg but sung like the hhhgregg/doing alright daft punk remixes

fascinating reddit phenomenon 

@jonny unholursed

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