norepicycle

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   by norepicycle 8y ago

   Scholze's win has been predicted for quite a while now, as it turns out. He's a number theorist of stunning originality primarily known for developing a new kind of geometry, that of perfectoid spaces , for arithmetic purposes. H
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   by norepicycle 8y ago

   > As my father was a news and politics junkie (as well as a collector of email addresses) I feel like there's something I'm missing here: something like getting his hands on clever usernames?
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   by norepicycle 8y ago

   A Twitter thread making a similar point: https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/102439440363551539...
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   by norepicycle 8y ago

   > Consequently, those who conquer world dominance in a sector can hardly be undermined. Try telling your children to leave Whatsapp and start using Indoona. They will never do it. On Whatsapp they can interact with all their friends; sen
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   What are your favourite “web 1.0” websites?

   2 points by norepicycle 8y ago|1 comments
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   by norepicycle 8y ago

   An entertaining, particularly biting, and horribly shortcoming-riddled statement of the case against EA that nevertheless captures a common set of views: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_elitist_philanthropy_of_
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   by norepicycle 8y ago

   3Blue1Brown has a YouTube video called the "Triangle of Power" which uses a clever bit of notation to unify exponents and logarithms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULa9Lc4pck A bit lowbrow, perhaps (you'd