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von Neumann and Morgenstern are a joy to read :-D

Surely nobody has ever gerrymandered a concept

If all of humanity had made it the central focus to figure out quantum physics in 1910 before 1915, would they have been able to?

Once I believed that the paper Progress Measures for Grokking via Mechanistic Interpretability had found the network grokking onto the Schönhage-Strassen algorithm on the task of modular multiplication, not on modular addition around the circle

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pros:
- might spur the development of new technology

cons:
- millions would die
- nature and ancient history would be destroyed
- a land invasion of either country would be insanely difficult
- there's no point
- government would give itself even more emergency powers

Sending this to deletionist admins every day until they stop

…and of course the person has mainly deletions as their contributions

this is how internet knowledge dies

well then I'll go back to my own Wikipedia with coke and hookers[1]

[1]: niplav.github.io/

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Come on! The other variants don't have sources either! WTF

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…and it got reverted

*grumble grumble grumble*

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Rest assured that the Wikipedia articles on obscure tic-tac-toe variants are now slightly better

“neniel” could also be a biblical angel

just loving this little guy: (·,·). it's like he's looking through a crack: ‘come on, you'll understand the function definition! I believe in you (·,·)’

Highly recommended to kick a short-term akratic rut

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What is the Bayesian version of calibration?

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