3rd base coach

[Space Investor @SpaceInvestor_D]

The Great Space Corridor

[Restructuring__ @Restructuring__]

This is hilarious

Centerview asked $150mm to restructure Venezuela

Lazard counteroffered at...$25mm, which is 83% lower

Look, I am the first one to believe restructuring advisors should get paid, but Centerview asking $150mm for Venezuela and justifying it by saying it corresponds to 0.1% of total debt restructured is kind of hilarious

And finally, great stuff by Lazard really undercutting them and matching the sum paid to advise Greece ($200bn+ of debt)

[Goshawk Trades @GoshawkTrades]

my trading books tier list after 7 years and a lot of hours reading:

[3rd base coach @blindoptimism25]

@Steve_Sailer Dogs do not possess what we in Christendom call a "soul". In fact no animals do. Void of constant stimulation as human history was until 30 years ago, people found other ways to have fun which was without sin, i.e dog-fighting and killing animals.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

pour ceux qui pourraient se demander à quoi ça sert sachez que les courbes elliptiques c'est sans doute le morceau de maths le +RENTABLE de toute l'histoire

chaque cadenas dans votre navigateur, chaque virement bancaire, chaque messagewhatsapp mais aussi chaque transaction BTC tourne sur des courbes elliptiques sur corps finis (ecdsa secp256k1 curve25519) en gros ce sont elles qui signent et chiffrent tout l'internet moderne tout autour de vous, oui oui vous avez bien lu

d’ailleurs si la planète entière se rue sur la cryptographie post quantique (avec des startups qui lèvent actuellement des centaines de millions) c'est exactement parce que l'algo de shor sur machine quantique casse le logarithme discret sur ces courbes et les isogénies entre courbes elliptiques sont elles mêmes une piste sérieuse pour y résister (sujet dont j’ai déjà longuement parlé ici)

ajoutez la factorisation de lenstra par courbes elliptiques, les codes correcteurs issus de courbes sur corps finis qui fiabilisent tes disques durs et les communications spatiales et et le mémoire lui même (bsd iwasawa modularité, c'est l'étude structurelle de ces mêmes objets, celle qui a permis à wiles de démontrer le dernier théorème de Fermat au passage)

pour moi le + beau c'est que ces courbes ont été des maths pures pendant 2000 ans, pour rappel Hardy se vantait que la théorie des nombres ne servirait jamais à rien, aujourd'hui elle sécurise toute la civilisation, je dis BIEN TOUTE LA CIVILISATION HUMAINE, en ce cens la recherche fondamentale la + abstraite finit souvent par devenir l'infrastructure la + concrète, juste avec quelques décennies d'avance

d’ailleurs au passage votre propre téléphone a ouvert sa connexion à Twitter avec un échange de clés sur courbe elliptique

[3rd base coach @blindoptimism25]

@taobanker I've recently been having this same thought pattern. How much economic utility does a major CFB head coach provide to justify 10M a year? The same for dealership managers sometimes making over 1M? Tricky to rectify.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

Same guy btw

[Alps @alpaysh]

Banger.

[3rd base coach @blindoptimism25]

@222cara Bring Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God into your heart. Accept the Trinity

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

When you leave an HFT, they put you on a non-compete for 1 or even 2 years! This is the biggest gift from HFTs to open source world.

Aman Gupta is being paid by Jump Trading (to sit at home) just added multi-token prediction to llama.cpp which speeds up local LLM models by 2x

[AN🌱NA @Anna_15_06_099]

© Bruno Barbey in his famous series "The Italians". Palermo, Sicily, 1964.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

Today in 1987, an 18-year-old from West Germany named Mathias Rust penetrates Soviet air defences and lands a Cessna 172 in Moscow's Red Square. The stunt, an epic humiliation for the Soviet military, earns the teen worldwide fame, as well as a 14-month stay in a Russian prison.

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

A striking photo taken in 1954 shows Admiral Nelson’s flagship, the HMS Victory, resting in Portsmouth Dockyard under a blanket of snow.

[The Name of War @TheNameofWar]

An American soldier rushes to defend his post in Afghanistan wearing ‘I ❤️ NY’ boxer shorts and flip flops after being woken from his sleep, 2009

[Enza Altieri @EnzaAltieri]

a birthday cake

Cuba, 1997
Abbās Attār

[3rd base coach @blindoptimism25]

@kelly_o_edwards Thank you for all that you do, Father.

[Cult.Repo @CultRepo]

The trailer for C++: The Documentary is out now. Decades of commitment, ingenuity, and a language that refused to die — from Bell Labs to trading floors to CERN.

Feat: @stroustrup, @incomputable, @clattner_llvm, @ahejlsber, @romero and many more.

Thanks to: @WeAreHRT for making this film possible and to @CppCon for supporting the project

https://t.co/2B4Ic0kp81

[Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo) @__paleologo]

I recently bought this book on Amazon, mostly out of curiosity. It goes next to Polya's, Hilbert & Courant, and other classics. It covers the equivalent of the infamous math 55a/b Harvard sequence. Written by *amazing* Russian mathematicians (I studied analysis on Nikolskii's two volumes--awesome). It's 60 years old. Not a vice, these days. It is also unique in that every chapter has a historical context in the historical materialism tradition, very interesting and useful. And it's instructive to read how a great mathematician presents standard material. Some parts (the use of computers in mathematics) are dated. It's ok. Most aren't. And there is a lot of geometric intuition in Russian analysis descriptions! Which I like.

1120 pages. $42 paperback (recommended), $17 kindle.
If you are a high school student, or an autodidact, I can't think of many other books that will make a better intro. Polya sells for $25, Hilbert-Courant $27. They can be found on the internet, but paper is so much better. Per dollar spent, these books, and the hundred hours you'll spend on them, will make you an incommensurably more cultured and happier person.

There is no AI for that.