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expression of frustration about people who touch other while sleeping next to each other

Category Mech for mechanisms, and Incen for incentive-compatible mechanisms

Is this anything? (I don't know category theory)

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I'm going to be in the PRC autumn 2025, anyone can (self-)recommend people to meet up with?

(or places to visit, but I'm less interested in places)

Interests: AI, geopolitics, daygame/deliberate-getting-laid, algorithms, meditation, futurism/forecasting, building comprehensive world-models, reading, weightlifting

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Algebraic derivatives living over vector spaces with tensor product would probably be the easiest thing to figure out, surely some commutative algebraists would care about such a thing

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I feel like a lot of mathematicians would be interested in the fact that we know how to generalise the chain rule to non-cartesian settings using optics, if only we had examples that they'd be interested in. The first thing I can think of is trying to get a chain rule for the derivative of a function that's a stochastic process, where the value of the function and its derivative are probabilistically correlated

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@niplav Mistakes are where you learn. Successes are where you celebrate.

I'm learning so much more on botched dates than smooth ones

... And I notice I have no idea how to escalate on a first date so a second date is in the cards bc it's either been first date - > my place or chodery or losing her after first date so far

"making sure you got this" is death because it displays that I *need* her answer

I approach a blonde, she says she's in a hurry to meet her friend

Gives me her number (checked, it's real)

See her 5 minutes later with a guy and flowers in her arm

> women

Approach today with a *very* hot Iranian

Things I could've done better: Realise earlier that she was a timewaster (or ignore the boyfriend claim)
When she said "nothing" on the question of what she does probe where she gets money from, maybe from the government? Them make fun of her for being a welfare queen

^ is the most shippable one, here's what I was going for

Do you notice the bug?

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Learnings:

1. making animations with manim is 5× easier bc of language models
2. Manim support for graphs is pretty slim and buggy

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