Karan

Making my mitochondria proud. This place is my 'notes to self'.

[Karan @elevated_quark]

grief is a celebration of a person’s worth

[Karan @elevated_quark]

“member of technical staff”

[Jim Keller @jimkxa]

@p_ferragu I think a great Intel is worth $1 trillion. Seems a little careless to throw w it away

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The cost of avoiding structure is that every day has to be renegotiated from scratch.

[Karan @elevated_quark]

getting vectorized must feel so good for the scalar code

[Mathieu @miniapeur]

getting normalized must feel so good for the vectors

[Karan @elevated_quark]

if you want to check if a given positive integer is prime, the odds are in your favor

[Karan @elevated_quark]

hand chopper is a discrete approximation of an electric mixer

not that interesting once I typed this tho

[Karan @elevated_quark]

TIL: it is called “dynamic programming” because richard bellman (the one in bellman-ford) wanted a grandiose term that would help him secure funding during the cold war era. not that it has anything to with “dynamic” or “programming”

[Karan @elevated_quark]

a can opener is a great example of cutting edge technology

[Karan @elevated_quark]

in math, build an intuition that lets you *believe* that the result holds, before you try too hard to prove it.

[Karan @elevated_quark]

TIL comparison based sorting cannot beat nlogn, because arriving at a sorted order among all n! possible permutations, requires …drumroll… log(n!) comparisons at a minimum, i.e. O(nlogn)

why is this not taught in schools?

[Karan @elevated_quark]

everything is a comedy if you survive it and you survive things by thinking that it’s a comedy

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

love talking to old folks about life and stuff they’ve seen it all done it all and most importantly they prove to you that everything is a comedy if you survive it and you survive things by thinking that it’s a comedy

[Karan @elevated_quark]

pattern recognition fades; pattern compression compounds

[Karan @elevated_quark]

don't advertise depth to someone who trades in breadth

[Karan @elevated_quark]

tolerate ambiguity, but demand coherence

[Karan @elevated_quark]

only theorists lose sleep over O(n log⁡ n). engineers know it’s just O(n) with mood lighting.

[Karan @elevated_quark]

love is hard to relearn because it opens you up to pain.

[Karan @elevated_quark]

deliciousness of food is upper bounded by how it looks in a camera photo

[Karan @elevated_quark]

love grows out of shared mastery