dmcdeezy

life is very long

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@RestoredTruth8 Thoughts on Cleon Skousen’s, “Meaning of the Atonement”? How does your view square away with his?

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

Many such cases

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

> be me
> can't math at all
> suffered in math in school
> mathematical dyslexia
> weird symbols scare me
> can program though
> self taught c programmer
> been programming for like, 20 years
> see spoopy calculus thingy
> ask ai thingy
> "can translate calculus to c?"
> ai thingy responds
> "programming just discrete mathematics lol r u dumb? of course"
> shows me calculus thingy translated to C
> makes literally perfect sense
> look inside
> calculus, discrete mathematics, algebra
> all make perfect sense

Wtf why did the public school system make math seem so crazy

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@GaintrustMikey Dumb question, when you break diet phase and go back to maintenance, do you compute your new maintenance calories at weight you cut to, or go back to maintaining at your original starting weight calories?

[Tocharus @Tocharus]

I am reminded how much I hate 115-120IQ people every time I speak with an engineer. Never ask an engineer a question.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

>be Jim Simons
>born 1938 in Brookline, Massachusetts
>shark eyes, warm smile, galaxy brain
>age 3, realize numbers double infinitely
>age 4, obsessed with Zeno's paradox
>parents: "what is wrong with this kid"

1950s:
>MIT at 17
>graduate in 3 years
>too easy
>Berkeley PhD in 2 years
>thesis is 20 pages
>advisor doesn't know if it's genius or insane

1964:
>join the NSA
>job: crack Soviet codes
>coldest war, hardest puzzles
>you're very good at this

1967:
>write a letter to the New York Times
>call Vietnam "a stupid war"
>NSA: "you can't do that"
>you: "just did"
>fired immediately

1968:
>become math professor at Stony Brook
>age 30, youngest department chair ever
>do actual math
>invent Chern-Simons theory
>physicists use it for decades
>you treat it like a footnote

1978:
>get bored of academia
>everyone says markets are random
>you: "what if that's bullshit"
>start trading with math

1982:
>found Renaissance Technologies
>strip mall office in Long Island
>no suits, no MBAs
>hire physicists, astronomers, codebreakers
>Wall Street experience? disqualifying

1988:
>launch Medallion Fund
>close it to outsiders almost immediately
>only employees can invest
>this matters

the method:
>find patterns humans can't see
>trade thousands of times a day
>tiny edge × massive volume × time = infinite money
>nobody knows exactly how
>employees sign insane NDAs
>secrets go to the grave

the returns:
>66% annually before fees
>39% after fees
>for 30+ years
>not a single losing year
>2008 financial crisis: +82.4%
>best track record in history
>better than Buffett, Soros, everyone
>not even close

the money:
>net worth hits $31 billion
>all from math
>no oil, no inheritance
>just patterns in the noise

tragedy:
>son Paul died in 1996 bicycle accident
>son Nicholas drowns in 2003
>two sons gone
>pour billions into autism research, math education, basic science

May 2024:
>die at 86
>never wrote a memoir
>never explained how Medallion works
>never needed credit

the codebreaker who cracked the market.

66% a year.
30 years.

the greatest investor who ever lived
and nobody knows how he did it.

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@RefRetrieval Man is living the Hero’s journey.

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@MetabolicUncle Would sprints on an air bike provide similar results? Still trying to lose weight and can’t full on sprint yet.

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@AllyFogg Never forget Harambe

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@AutismCapital right again award

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@io_sammt Here is the best example I’ve found for making changes to a program while it’s running and allowing for debugging without crashing: https://t.co/CnZjId6tvZ

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@io_sammt Not an online playground I know of, but if you download SBCL it’s easy to play around with it. But your post is interesting as well!

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

Pluribus, the show about Mormons taking over the world.

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@Faustzme @Latterdaytruth For young millennials it felt like an adult thing to recognize the “imperfections” in the church. Namely early prophet teachings. Sadly, most millennials were one-shotted by this in an attempt to appear sophisticated. Brigham Young was based.

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@maiamindel BYU

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@ReaperManBill @EricCMeadows @bmariner @grok I always thought the Newport Beach and Redlands temple must be one of the smallest, but there a quite a few smaller on this list.

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

Never thought about it this way.

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

As someone w a computer science background, I was very confused the first time I encountered math ppl insisting a tensor wasn’t a matrix. Bc they are both clearly multidimensional arrays. But then I realized…mathematicians always use strongly typed languages in their heads!

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@nalinrajput23 Common Lisp

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@iyoushetwt Intro to CS - Emacs

[dmcdeezy @deemcdeezy]

@Singularitarian Thank god for LLMs, I’ve had so many questions like this for different subjects and too afraid to post these questions publicly.