Maksym Mamontov

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@vokinburt_avia Вітаю!

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@InUKRofficial Ніфігасобі! А шо кажуть біологи?

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@war_monitor_ua Гадки не маю як ви визначаєте рівень балістичних загроз, і навіть не хочу зараз знати. Але було б вкрай цікаво почитати мемуари, років через 3 після перемоги.

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@anya_v_seli О да, я минулого року садив

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@anya_v_seli Це коли вйобуєш на городі а не на роботі.

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@Danko007 Ого, треба буде перечитати!

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture.

I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back.

His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra.

Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach.

Here's the story almost nobody tells you.

Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds.

The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away.

The decision quietly changed how the world learns math.

For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb.

Strang inverted the entire curriculum.

He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood.

His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct.

The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room.

For 62 years.

The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet.

Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos.

His final lecture was in May 2023.

The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out.

His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right.

That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management.

The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home.

20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge.

The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free.

The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

[Wild Hornets @wilendhornets]

After a tough week, it’s time for a satisfying video. Make sure to watch until the end ❤️‍🔥

And remember that behind this beautiful Shahed destruction is the extremely hard work of a “Tortuga” crew operator — involving a complex approach and target acquisition.

The high video quality is thanks to the Hornet Vision 360 digital video system.

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@five_gear_ Читабельність. Якщо це не одноразовий код то його будуть багато читати.

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@viterzbayraku От би ще Comfy

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@five_gear_ "The art of electronics" Хоровіца і Хілла

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@doucommunity Vim

[EMPR.media @EuromaidanPR]

New born and 4-year-old girl injured in Russian attack on Dnipro overnight. Bastards!

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

Це ціна нашої гідності.
This is price of our dignity.

[Сергій Болвінов @serhii_bolvinov]

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В цій квартирі на шостому поверсі згоріли батьки маленької Мілани. Дівчинці чотири роки і вона ще не знає, що тато з мамою загинули, розповідати про цей їй буде психолог. Вона врятувалася разом із старшим братом. Максиму вже 20 років, але і він не одразу зміг усвідомити, що маму та вітчима врятувати вже неможливо.

Вся родина спала вдома – 40-річна Світлана та її чоловік на мансардному поверсі. Старший син Світлани та спільна з чоловіком донька Мілана – внизу. О другій ночі у шестиповерхівку поцілив російський шахед. Це звичайний житловий комплекс в селі Білогородка, Бучанський район.

Одразу здійнялася пожежа, мешканці кинулися рятуватися з будинку. Максим встиг лише відкрити двері – його з сестрою на вулицю забрали сусіди.

Дівчинка була у шокову стані, на місце одразу приїхав батько її старшого брата, він супроводжував обох до лікарні. На щастя, фізично Мілана та Максим не постраждали і госпіталізація не знадобилася. Також гостра реакція на стрес в їхньої сусідки, 9-річної Софії.

Вигоріти повністю після влучання встигли дві квартири в цьому будинку. Але всі мешканці встигли врятуватися, за медичною допомогою ніхто не звертався.

Ми всю ніч працювали на місці влучання, знайшли уламки ворожого шахеда та вже розслідуємо цей воєнний злочин. Як і сотні інших. І кожна з таких справ – це зруйновані долі, осиротілі діти, знищені родини. Ми фіксуємо та ретельно зберігаємо все, кожен доказ – для майбутніх трибуналів.

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The parents of little Milana burned to death in this apartment on the sixth floor. The girl is four years old and does not yet know that her father and mother have died; a psychologist will tell her about it. She was rescued along with her older brother. Maxim is already 20 years old, but even he could not immediately comprehend that it was impossible to save his mother and stepfather.

The whole family was asleep at home — 40-year-old Svitlana and her husband were in the attic. Svitlana's older son and her and her husband's daughter Milana were downstairs. At two o'clock in the morning, a russian “Shahid” missile struck the six-story building. It is an ordinary residential complex in the village of Bilohorodka, Bucha district.

A fire broke out immediately, and the residents rushed to escape from the building. Maksym only had time to open the door – his neighbors took him and his sister out into the street.

The girl was in shock, and her older brother's father immediately arrived at the scene and accompanied both of them to the hospital. Fortunately, Milana and Maxim were not physically injured and did not need to be hospitalized. Their neighbor, 9-year-old Sofia, also had an acute stress reaction.

Two apartments in this building were completely burned out after being hit. But all the residents managed to escape, and no one sought medical attention.

We worked all night at the site of the strike, found fragments of the enemy's shahid, and are already investigating this war crime. Like hundreds of others. And each of these cases means ruined lives, orphaned children, and destroyed families. We record and carefully preserve everything, every piece of evidence, for future tribunals.

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@vaxryy Are they really mandatory?

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@vaxryy Or you can learn not to push the brake too much :)

[Maksym Mamontov @FaustMadf]

@vaxryy What systems do you mean? In my Mazda, which was manufactured in 2020, the only annoying thing is i-stop, which turns off the engine when you stop at a crossroad and push the brake a little too much. It can be turned off, but not permanently.

[Одеса-Сатира®✙ @uanews3]

– Біженці?
– Ми з Констахи. Нам би до Краматорська.
– Зброя, заборонені речі? Що в багажнику?
- У мене там речі... ну, наші. Ми що могли пакували. Скласти все швидко – все життя в багажник...
– Вагітна?
– Останній місяць. Нам швидше треба. Хочемо в Крамі на поїзд. Там Інтерсіті завтра, в обід, пів третьої... На Київ.
– Іосіф...Блін, не бачу...
– Йосип. Йосип я. Вона – Марія. Ось, в Дії гляньте, там прописку видно краще...
– Бачу вже... Ох, бля... Чоловіче, куди ж ти поїдеш далі?! Медика! Док! Сюди, швидше, Док, бігом!...
... - Ну, ви й фартові.... Син у тебе. На, кури. Йосип.... Тебе, хоч, не на честь Сталіна назвали?! ... Господи, що за часи... На блок-посту родити... В хліві вже ліпше... Ну, ти, цей, не переживай. У нас Док, він шарить. В порядку твої...
... – Бажаю здоров'я! Пацани, тут породіллю треба довезти. Їх троє. В Крам. Вас троє? Помістяться! Ну, ви ж не царі – малого з мамкою в кабіну, ви з папкою – в кузов....
... - Чюєш, Док, а шо це так світить? Та нє, як на безпілотник – заяскраве. І висить постійно над нами... Як Зоря... Та яка, нафіг, Зоря, над Донбасом?! Певно, супутник... НАТО, певно, запустило....
... – Док, так давай того "ланоса", що вагітну привіз, відіпхаємо. Це ж осел – не машина. Заглох – не заведеш... Вони ж поїхали, а нам тут грайся... Господи, на саме Різдво, то роди приймай, то машини тягай...
Над териконом непорушно висіла яскрава Зоря.
Вовка Пастушок докурив у жменю і розтоптав каблуком недопалок.
Зоря була дуже дивною, але не викликала страху.
Пастушок подумав, що непогано було б мати стінгер та вальнути, про всяк випадок, те яскраве світло над териконом...
...Розтелепана Навара несла на захід Немовля і Маму, і троє зі сходу, з-під Бахмута, дали їм свою фліску, фляжку і грілку.
Навряд, чи на світі були щедріші царі...
...Дві тисячі двадцять п'ятий раз.
Дві тисячі двадцять п'ятий раз, а у світі все так само – пастушки приймають Його першими, а царі обдаровують тричі.
І тільки міняються іроди...
(с) Володимир Шершень Бараняк