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Listen to "the cosmic collective" to get into that techno groovy groove.

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Classic (not classical 🥸) photo

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

#Onthisday in 1995, Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell reported a new state of matter after they cooled rubidium atoms to an extremely low temperature. The Bose-Einstein condensate they created had been predicted decades earlier by Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose.

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Some neat physics happening here

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I used to think the Beatles sucked when I was really young because their music was so basic. Then their music connected me to friends and family in surprising ways. There is so much more to music than notes and to math than proofs.

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Values of interval continuous functions wiggle under the control of the wiggle of their arguments.

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Quine's "Methods of Logic Fourth Edition"

[The Book Land @the_book_land]

I'm curious: what books have you reread the most?

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Like citrus to scurvy, we tend to lag two centuries behind our better methods.

[xlr8harder @xlr8harder]

are you telling me we made it to 2026 before someone was like "hey what happens if we give the magic mushrooms to people with alzheimer's"

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What company is using AI to eliminate the use of AI?

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The rubber bumpers on my old Blackberries melted into an infinitely sticky goo.

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

View of Tokyo's Shin-Ohashi bridge in Rain, by Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1876

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Effective explanations explain away analysis.

[R.P. @ResonantPyre]

““It is central to Wittgenstein's teaching that the conceptual underpinnings to a felt need for explanation must be scrutinized, for what it is, exactly, that wants explanation may only become clear through such an investigation.”

This is a wonderful synopsis by Warren Goldfarb

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Validities are the air that theories breath from logic.

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How does logic help? It teaches us to speak of the world without wasting our breath.

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Why logic? It helps us sort out what is true of the world from what is not.

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Dogs eat rotted birdseed and then pant out that stank like it is an air freshener.

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Why logic? It helps us sort out what is true of the world from what is not.

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"Write with a knife."

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I strive to make my writing unsummarizable, in the sense that it has so little fluff left in it that if you take any words out, as summaries by definition do, you lose a lot of interesting ideas.

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The most wonderful textbook is Quine's "Methods of Logic Fourth Edition".

[Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn]

Hard to list one, so a few. Each brought moments of great pleasure, even elation:

- G. F. Simmons, Topology and Modern Analysis
- Ira Levine, Quantum Chemistry
- Clayden et al. Organic Chemistry
- L&L, Mechanics
- David Griffiths, Electrodynamics
- Feynman Lectures
- Tucker, Applied Combinatorics
- Stryer, Biochemistry

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Likely to make you smile.

[The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpress]

A rich, thorough exploration of infinity that combines mathematical precision with playful, accessible coverage of a fascinating variety of paradoxes and conundrums.

@JDHamkins's "The Book of Infinity" publishes in August! https://t.co/RIPeTGe74X

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Technology dehumunculizes humans, it does not dehumanize them.

[Andrew McLuhan @amicusadastra]

Technology can only make us less human

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Is there an elementary or straightforward way to get at the infinite product formula for sine that reveals the role of pi without assuming it is already known that sine is periodic? Here is an elementary proof that fails on that point: https://t.co/3UNkbfLLjZ

[Martin @martinmrmar]

Today's problem for you 😎💪