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[GeoTechWar @geotechwar]

Felt in Tampa, Florida, and Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico after the Cuba M6.1-6.4 earthquake; reports show shaking across the Gulf region. #sismo

🎥 selenozcan, evanaldo, livecamchaser

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@LangmanVince It was awesome 😎🔥

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@florida_grand RIP 💔😔

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Two math olympiad champions wrote a training manual in 1993 on two old Macintosh computers, and every American kid who has won a major math competition in the last decade learned to think from it.

Their names are Sandor Lehoczky and Richard Rusczyk. The book is called The Art of Problem Solving. Most people in math know it as AoPS.

Since 2015, every single member of the US International Math Olympiad team has been an AoPS student. Not most of them. Every one.

That statistic sounds impossible until you understand what the book actually does.

Lehoczky and Rusczyk were not professors. They were competitors. Lehoczky earned the sole perfect AIME score in 1990 and led the national first place team. Rusczyk was a USA Mathematical Olympiad winner and a perfect AIME scorer in 1989. They had both survived the same brutal selection process the book was designed to train students for.

And the first thing they decided was that almost every existing math textbook was teaching the wrong thing.

School math gives you formulas. You memorize them. You apply them. You pass the test. Then you sit down in front of a real competition problem and the formula does not apply, and you have nothing underneath it.

That is the gap. The gap is not knowledge. It is thinking.

The entire premise of AoPS is that problem-solving is a transferable skill, not a bag of memorized tricks. A student who genuinely understands why a technique works can adapt it, combine it with something else, and deploy it in a context they have never seen before. A student who only memorized the technique freezes the moment the problem looks different.

The book teaches the difference between a formula and a method.

A formula tells you what to compute. A method tells you how to see. The students who win olympiads are not the ones who know more formulas. They are the ones who have trained themselves to look at an unfamiliar problem and recognize its structure. To see that this problem is secretly asking the same question as a problem they solved three weeks ago, just dressed differently.

Rusczyk calls this "learning to read the problem." Not reading the words. Reading what the problem is actually asking underneath the words.

The second thing they built into the book is tolerance for being stuck.

Most students treat confusion as a signal to stop. The book treats confusion as the starting point. Every chapter pushes students past the point where the obvious approach runs out. That moment of running out is not failure. That is where the actual thinking begins.

Lehoczky once described it this way. If you can solve a problem quickly, you are not learning. You are performing. Learning only happens when you are past the edge of what you already know.

The book was written on old Macintosh computers in 1993. Rusczyk launched the AoPS website in 2003. Today the community has over one million users. Thousands of students enroll in AoPS online courses every year. Most winners of every major American math competition are AoPS alumni.

A platform built by two kids who were good at math competitions has become the infrastructure that produces the next generation of mathematicians, engineers, and scientists who are good at thinking.

The formulas you memorized in school will eventually be obsolete.

The thinking you trained will not.

What is one problem in your life right now that you have been avoiding because you do not yet know the right formula to solve it?

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@TTExulansic @DigitalDisdain Bingo. Younger guys, esp. They grapple and fight for fun 🙄 To see what they’re made of. Younger male anything really…dolphins, chimps, elephants, chickens… they all fight 🙄

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@1Nicdar Yep 🥹💛

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@CourtenayTurner @linuxhippie Looks like I need to make a pot of coffee 😂

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@japan_nobunaga A certain number of Floridians deeply mistrust (maybe even resent) not finding ice cold air indoors. Especially where food is concerned. If you walk into a grocery store that isn’t at least slightly chilled, leave. Leave immediately. It’s a survival mechanism 😂

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@KatyTalento @masfique ?

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@chrismartenson That flattened from the bottom up (like it’s supposed to).
Towers crumbled to powder from the top down (the suspicious part).

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

June 4th will forever be Killdozer Day 🇺🇸

TLDR - Marvin Heemeyer owned a welding & car repair shop in Granby Colorado but was repeatedly harassed and fined by the corrupt local government until he couldn't take it anymore.

"I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes, reasonable men must do unreasonable things." -Marvin Heemeyer

No innocent citizens were hurt during the incident.

#Killdozer #KilldozerDay #Granby #Colorado #USAF #AirForce #justice #reasonable #government

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@japan_nobunaga Publix chicken tenders.
Potluck magic. 😎🔥

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@ganderdad88 @japan_nobunaga 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

Genius 😂😂

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best:

[Matt The Welder @Matt_The_Welder]

🚨ANOTHER ANIMAL DEATH REPORTED🚨

First came reports of 50 dead chickens and major bee losses. Now a horse has reportedly died following the Santa Rosa County helicopter spray incident.

The farm says @insideFPL initially denied hiring the helicopter. Florida power and light now acknowledges it hired the contractor but says it doesn’t know what chemical was sprayed, while also claiming it isn’t harmful to animals.
Still no public statement from @WiltonSimpson or @FDACS.
What were residents and their animals exposed to?

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@_CryMiaRiver @peterboghossian @TTExulansic

[FloridaGenX @FloridaGenX]

@warsurv 2021 footage

https://t.co/WJLthHNpuY

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing”

Now for just one moment entertain the possibility there is still consciousness and awareness in the brain while it is artificially being kept alive and tested on.

Think about it, brain in a jar forever.

[Dr. James Joyce @drjamesbjoyce]

😡 RESEARCH GONE WRONG 😡
😣 FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK 😣

I haven’t used the anger emoji in years, but here we are… 😡

I’ve spent over 40 years researching, developing, and inventing technologies, for private sector concerns, universities, and military/intel communities ✅

I was also a TeraGrid and XSEDE (precursors to ‘ACCESS’) Administrator. This is a global group of university and research facility supercomputers, where researchers from around the world can use the computing resources of any or all of these supercomputers ✅

All the top university supercomputers from around the world were/are on this network, as were places like CERN… 👀

When I was active, there were 17 of us (Administrators) selected from over 20,000 applicants worldwide. We were ones who scheduled, setup, and ran all the professors and researchers and scientists programs, tests, and scenarios, and we obviously had enhanced privileges on all the supercomputers 🤔

Some Administrators are one trick ponies. They understand how to run the jobs. Some are polymaths. They understand how to run the jobs AND the science or tech involved 🤔

Example: If a meteorologist wanted to run a large scale global CO2 cow fart simulation, they would contact one of us to make it happen. If they ran their scenario and didn’t like the results, they could change their parameters and ask us to run it again… We saw everything… Some of us understood everything, too… 👀

To be sure, I’ve seen a WIDE range of research, with most of it being relatively banal, some humorous (cow farts…), some being EXTREMELY disturbing (chimeras…), and some I will never discuss 🤫

That being said, I NEVER thought it would be possible to see research that was more disturbing than what’s in my mental archives… until THIS👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Think about the level of disassociation these sociopaths… er… I mean… ‘scientists’ must have from humanity 😳

If there’s a chance those brains are conscious… CAN YOU IMAGINE!?!

See why I’m angry? 😡

What kind of people are we dealing with here 🤷🏽‍♂️

What kind of people are we REALLY dealing with here ⁉️

[Histoire & Odyssée @HistoireOdyssee]

Pendant près de 700 ans, ce manuscrit consacré à Merlin, au Saint Graal et au roi Arthur est resté confidentiel.

Rédigé entre 1290 et 1310 en ancien français, le Graal de Clermont-Tonnerre compte parmi les plus anciens témoins conservés du cycle du Lancelot-Graal. Il réunit notamment l’Estoire du Graal, le Merlin en prose et la Suite-Vulgate du Merlin.

Riche de 126 enluminures attribuées au mystérieux Maître de l’Apocalypse de Liège, il présente plusieurs scènes rares, dont une représentation de Merlin métamorphosé en cerf.

Conservé dans des collections privées depuis la fin du Moyen Âge et jamais exposé publiquement, l'ouvrage n'a pu être étudié que de manière limitée par les chercheurs.

Certains spécialistes espèrent désormais qu'il rejoindra une institution publique afin de mieux comprendre son texte, ses illustrations et les particularités qui le distinguent des autres versions connues des légendes arthuriennes.

Le manuscrit sera mis aux enchères à Londres le 8 juillet prochain, avec une estimation comprise entre 2 et 2,5 millions d'euros.

Vidéos et informations : Christie, Guardian.