niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

gwern.net is not a book unfortunately

Myself in 7 books:

The Sequences
There is no Antimemetics Division
The Elephant in the Brain
C for Dummies
House of Leaves
Who Owns The Future
1984

Niplav Yushtum™: Mostly a Reputation Hazard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBZP4rLk6bk&t=12896s

Robin Hanson tells you to read textbooks ASMR

i wonder whether anyone will actually get this one

tip: https://i.redd.it/n2a9yldnqtp31.jpg

the bible is boring as shit at the beginning but it picks up once they introduce evolution so don't worry

Who'd thought that *sampling from a distribution* of all problems is that hard

I like this, steampunk math: https://observablehq.com/collection/@ishi/arithmetic

people are always creating new programming languages, but nobody ever writes a new linker

real niplavistani moment

"hey I just give you 11% of my income of the next year, and your boyfriend gives you 4% of his, deal?"

"deal."

i might_{2\%} be able to fix her

in emily in paris Y is mad because X slept with Ys boyfriend. and what does my brain say? 'why don't X and Ys boyfriend pay her the cheerful price to forget the thing?' damn economists

everybody starts with the same bad ideas <> beginners mind

When you wget a file from a substack and then open the local file, the post is shown for around 0.1 seconds and then it vanishes and is replaced by **Failed to load posts**

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