Adan Rodriguez

I believe in the Son Of God, Jesus Christ. He took my sin. He received just punishment for my sin instead of me and gave me the gift of Eternal Life.

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

“It means you’re
very very Lutheran
but you don’t want
to come out…” Me:

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

https://t.co/nFoPxdaIZc

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

Same same

[Mustafa @oprydai]

the reason i didn’t like calculus and linear algebra in college is simple:

i was learning the math before i understood why i needed it.

• matrices were just grids of numbers.
• derivatives were rules to memorize.
• eigenvectors were something you calculated for an exam.
• jacobians were another ugly matrix.

then i got deeper into robotics, ai, physics, and control.

suddenly:

• matrices became transformations between coordinate frames
• derivatives became motion and rates of change
• jacobians connected joint motion → end-effector motion
• eigenvalues started telling me about stability and system behavior
• gradients became the machinery behind optimization and learning

the math didn’t change.
the context did.

sometimes you don’t hate a subject.
you just haven’t found the problem that makes you need it yet.

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

@theistinthought Step in and help

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

lol I had the same type of sentiment reading the introduction of “the ex-evangelicals” Like “oh wow, your parents took care of you guys, and fed you dessert”. 😂

But also, this should be a warning too I think that your kids don’t thrive quarantined on a culdesac which is what I think is the real issue.

[J. Chase Davis @jchasedavis]

“Oh wow, your parents loved you and raised you in the faith, but you couldn’t watch Harry Potter and you couldn’t sleep around, so you deconstructed. You’re so brave. A real free thinker.”

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

@HwsEleutheroi I’m not even seeing Newman arguments explicitly. I’m seeing more of this sentiment on my TL:
https://t.co/iJPqrsaJUT

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

Julian the Apostate, a pagan, complained about the Christians venerating the relics of Christian martyrs by saying it smelled of “the stench of graves and dead men’s bones.”

This is Christianity and the irony is that it is actually you who is echoing the pagans

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

@Gallo_Woodworks If only it was Jack cheese lol!

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

Boomers wrote shit down and you can get their ancient writings for cheap on Abe books. I have some neat ones about fluid mechanics. Another one on mechanical resonance

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

We are essentially in an infrastructural time bomb where the entire American economy is held together by a few thousand boomers who refused to teach anything to anyone and just held their cushy job until they were 80.

People forget that when an east coast oil pipeline was hacked during Biden, Congress dragged the managers of the pipeline into a hearing and asked why they didn't run it manually and the response was "everyone that knows how is either retired or dead."

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

Coming back to this one when I math tonight

[foley (follard) @follard]

Gonna say it because the math maths: paying off your mortgage early is one of the worst things middle class families do with their money.

I know that sounds insane to some. Your parents told you to pay off the house. Dave Ramsey said the same thing. Every fiber of your being says debt is bad.

But this is the math when you send an extra $500 / month to your mortgage company instead of investing it.

Let's say you have a $400,000 mortgage at 6.5%. Your monthly payment is roughly $2,500. You decide to throw an extra $500 / month at the principal because you want to be debt free as soon as possible.

That extra $500 / month will save you about $130,000 in interest over the life of the loan and you'll pay it off 9 years early. Feels amazing, especially because your parents are proud.

Now let's say you take that same $500 / month and put it into an infix fund averaging 10% annually (which is the historical average of the S&P 500 over any 30 year period).

After 30 years, that $500 / month becomes $1,130,000.

You saved $130,000 in interest but gave up over $1,000,000 in wealth.

And it gets worse. Mortgage interest is tax deductible. So your effective rate on that 6.5% mortgage is closer to 5% if you're itemizing. You are paying off a 5% loan early instead of earning 10%. Every extra dollar you send to the bank is earning you 5 cents when it could be earning you 10.

The house you live in doesn't compound or pay dividends. It sits there and costs you property taxes, insurance, maintenance, and the opportunity cost of your capital.

Wealthy people use cheap debt as a tool. They borrow at 5% and deploy at 10%, 15%, 20%. They understand that not all debt is created equal.

I'm not saying go lever up to your eyeballs. I'm saying the $500 / month you're proudly sending to your mortgage company every month could be the most expensive savings account you've ever opened.

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

DO NOT RENT TRINKETS

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

They lease time pieces?!

Kourtney and I had a little weekend vacation in the big city and while at the wood field mall, I stopped to look at some shinies. The jeweler pulls out a Hamilton and then begins to explain a LEASING option. A LEASING OPTION

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

Sorry, Prime, I think I’m gonna klarna 😔

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Klarna is bad for society

[My Friend Don @TheDonStein]

Your ancestors were evil.

That is why they died. The sting of death is sin.

But God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

What’s “The American Church?”

Where did this phrase originate? And why do millennials love using it so much?

[Steve Bezner @Bezner]

Saw a video of the Indiana Lt. Gov. saying that Christians have forgotten to hate the things God hates.

I disagree.

The American church loves things they were never supposed to love: money and power.

To protect those loves, they hate anything that threatens their hold on them.

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

@sawyer_dm Is the Greek reader from crossway?

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

Probably #1 reason is Decorum. Too bad. Decorums costin ya

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

This is a sincere question. Whats stopping men from driving these people out? Like actually, maybe even physically tossing them out?

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

My chest is on its way

[Joe Rigney @joe_rigney]

Men without chests lead to nations without borders.

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

“But logos Bible software also provides a comprehensive theological library!”

Me with the book wheel I’ll commission @Gallo_Woodworks to make me:

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

@5Solas Find something open source. Ask a software nerd at your church to help you “compile from source”. Then pay him the $100 instead

[Adan Rodriguez @AdanRod13]

@5Solas Find something open source. Ask a software nerd at your church to help you “compile from source”. Then pay him the $100 instead