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I play with computers...security//forensics ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ ~ Azoy gait es! ~

[ᔕOTTO ᐯOᑕE @_Sotto_Voce]

The side of 9/11 not shown enough.

[ᔕOTTO ᐯOᑕE @_Sotto_Voce]

@SlimeSpookyBone @TheFP I’m with you. I don’t believe half these people have been diagnosed. It’s trendy in certain circles. I didn’t get diagnosed with one test or visit. It affects my life in ways they can’t understand. Normal and boring sounds great.

[ᔕOTTO ᐯOᑕE @_Sotto_Voce]

Brilliant Professor. His classes took Linear Algebra to the next level for me.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

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.

[Mas Mas🇮🇷 @MasMas2171]

🚨URGENT! Don't scroll past, there is an innocent teenage girl here that needs your help. Share this so the world knows her story.

Niloufar Esfahani is her name, Niloufar means water lily in Farsi.

They are going to HANG her.

Before that, they are going to RAPE her.

One of many.

This is the true face of Islamic Republic.

Look into her eyes, her beautiful face.

What has she done but ask for freedom? For a normal life?

Niloufar could be your daughter, your sister, your girlfriend.

THIS is why we want this regime to end, this is exactly why.

She is in a dark cell now, scared, probably thinking no one will save her, no one cares, be that person.

BE HER VOICE.

#DigitalBlackOutIran
#IranMassacre

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Historic!

This is the highest quality video ever taken of the moon!

[Gazelle غزاله شارمهد @GazelleSharmahd]

This is Tehran now. They are not Iranians. They don’t speak our language. They are Hashd Al shabi jihadists from Iraq speaking Arabic.

Iran does not have a “government” that somehow kills “its own people”. Iran is under Arab-Islamic occupation for 47 years. The Ayatollahs just learned a bit of Persian, but they are all foreign enemies to Iran, killing Iranians and will continue to do so as long as they remain in power.

Where is the anti-occupation crowd? Where are the opposers of “foreign invasion” when US and IDF troops came to take out these jihadists? Where are the UN and EU debates about breach of international law? Where is the “no war” rally for these guys patrolling the streets of Iran in preparation for a massacre?

If you are not doing everything you can to take this regime and their proxy forces down you are complicit in all their crimes against our people.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

BREAKING: Massive rally in Toronto, Canada, as thousands of Canadians took to the streets to show their overwhelming support for the brave Iranian people.

Hundreds of Lion and Sun flags were seen.

Freedom for Iran.

[Kelley Lane @Kelleyswords]

#Stuxnet #Cyberwarfare

[ᔕOTTO ᐯOᑕE @_Sotto_Voce]

@TammyThomp98032 @TheFP @SulkinMaya The irony is that many protesting to gut the rich come from upper class families. All those people cheering at colleges like Colombia rarely come from poor households.

[Dr. Brian L. Cox @BrianCox_RLTW]

It looks like a transnational terrorist group invaded a sovereign country almost 2 years ago now and provoked a large-scale armed conflict by committing one of the most horrific atrocities in living memory then chose to deliberately hide & fight among its own civilian population.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Senator @ChrisVanHollen, with respect, you don't understand us - or the Palestinians.

You seems to think that the belief that Jews have some "Biblical right" to Judea and Samaria is unique to Smotrich and Ben Gvir.

Senator, I too believe Jews have a right to the Biblical heartland where the Jewish story was born. Most Jews for most of Jewish history believed that in one way or another. This belief has been central to Jewish worship and ritual for a couple of millennia and counting.

For all the great Jewish debates about this land, there's no debate over the basic Jewish attachment to it and yearning for return, or the simple fact that it is a foundational and ancient article of Jewish faith that our redemption is situated there.

The notion that this belief is somehow unique to Smotrich or Ben Gvir is an insult.

Senator, a great many Israelis have been willing over the years to divide this land with the Palestinians, but not because they didn't believe it was part of their historic homeland. Our right to it, they believed, clashed with a more urgent Palestinian right to independence. This was the view of a very large part of the Israeli left back when the left still won elections.

That belief eroded only when the Israeli left collapsed as a political force in the wave of 140 suicide bombings that Palestinians call the "Second Intifada."

The trouble, senator, our great confusion, lies in the fact that the Israeli left's willingness to compromise is understood by a great many Israelis, include ex-leftists, to have been the cause of that wave of brutality.

We learned about this connection from Palestinians themselves. Palestinian ideological elites, in countless explicit, public statements, explained to their people that the willingness of many Israelis to compromise over what they claim as their homeland was proof that the Jews secretly knew the land wasn't truly and authentically theirs, and therefore would abandon it if faced with sufficient bloodshed and brutality.

This argument is still very widely held and constantly repeated among Palestinian ideological elites. Just dip a toe into pro-Palestinian Twitter for two minutes and you'll see it everywhere, especially in Arabic: The idea that the Jews are something artificial, that their identity is fake and thin, that their attachment to the land is conditional and easily broken.

The willingness to compromise, in other words, has long served as evidence to Hamas and its ilk that the destruction of Israel was possible - and if it is possible, Hamas argues, it is immoral not to reach for it.

Senator, on the altar of this theory of us, Hamas and others have spent nearly four decades going to war against every peace attempt and rejected and still reject, openly and explicitly, any permanent compromise.

And if you understood this thorny little catch-22 of the Palestinian political imagination, if you actually listened to Palestinian discourse rather than the apologia of diaspora elites and their progressive "allies," you'd be less interested in gotcha questions and more keen on separating the Palestinian cause from its catastrophically self-destructive standard-bearers.

Study the bloody, tragic tale of the collapse of the Israeli left, senator, and you will understand why the Palestinian national movement keeps destroying itself.

[ᔕOTTO ᐯOᑕE @_Sotto_Voce]

@PicturesFoIder Looks like pantry moth larvae. Get rid of all grains and flours. Clean cabinets with peppermint oil. Put all spices and grains in freezer for a couple days when brought into house. They are a bitch to get rid of.

[ᔕOTTO ᐯOᑕE @_Sotto_Voce]

This….

[Mason Goad 古美笋 @GoadMason]

Students for Justice in Palestine's (SJP's) leadership, membership, and bed fellows have enjoyed hiding behind relative anonymity---masking their faces, organizational structure, and allied groups---as they've caused chaos on college campuses these last several months.

That ends today.

But first, some background...
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[ᔕOTTO ᐯOᑕE @_Sotto_Voce]

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[ᔕOTTO ᐯOᑕE @_Sotto_Voce]

@thepresterkhan @CatrionaCgx @Unitedcajunnavy I’ll pass this along because many people want to help but don’t want to give to the Red Cross or others like it. Stay safe.

[United Cajun Navy @Unitedcajunnavy]

Thanks to @Mercury1Charity, we've doubled our "Cajun Wing" Squadron from 25 to 50 🚁s doing SAR & Air Drops! We're also offering an all expense paid swamp tour back in Louisiana for anybody impeding relief efforts! #FAFO 🐊💪⚜️ #louisianimals #CajunNavy #NorthCarolinaFloods

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

All eyes on Rafah.

Rafah is where the hostages were murdered.

Rafah is where their bodies were found in a tunnel.

Rafah is where the world told Israel that it couldn’t go to save its people.