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[April Color @ColorApril]

Living High above LA street level. A person has set up a living area directly on top of a concrete freeway pillar near the Adams Boulevard exit. The spot includes a flat-screen TV running on an active power source, a long ladder for access, storage bins, household supplies, and a clothesline.

[MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises]

The Hacker Known as 4chan makes a terrifying prediction.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Locked alone in a solitary confinement cell, a man serving a long sentence for murder passed the endless hours with sudoku puzzles — until the day he noticed another inmate handing out little envelopes full of math problems. He asked for one. He solved it. He asked for another. And what happened next, from inside a prison cell with nothing but a pencil and paper, would astonish mathematicians on the other side of the world...

His name is Christopher Havens.

Let's be honest about how his story begins, because it matters. In 2010, Havens took a man's life in a drug-related shooting. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years in a Washington state prison. He was in his late twenties, his life in ruins, and he struggled badly in his early days behind bars. After an altercation with another inmate, he was thrown into solitary confinement for about a year.

And it was there, in that isolation, that something completely unexpected happened.

To pass the crushing hours, Havens started doing sudoku. Then he noticed a fellow inmate passing around small envelopes stuffed with math problems, and asked if he could have one. He worked it out. Then he asked for another. And another.

Something about mathematics — its logic, its order, its quiet, unshakable truth — connected with Christopher Havens in a way that nothing in his life ever had before. He hadn't been a math student. He'd never chased the subject. But now, alone in a cell, it found him. And he threw himself into it completely, studying, by his own account, as much as ten hours a day.

He devoured every math book the prison library had — and then he ran out. So in 2013, Havens did something audacious. He sat down and wrote a letter to an academic mathematics publisher, asking how he might subscribe to a research journal, and whether any mathematician in the world would be willing to correspond with a prisoner about advanced mathematics.

Most letters like that go straight into the wastebasket. But this one found its way to a number theorist named Umberto Cerruti, a professor at the University of Torino in Italy.

Professor Cerruti was skeptical, to put it mildly. He assumed Havens was probably a "crank" — one of the many amateurs who fall in love with numbers and convince themselves they've discovered something. So, to test him, Cerruti mailed him a difficult problem to solve.

What came back in the mail stopped him cold.

Havens mailed back a strip of paper nearly four feet long — about 120 centimeters — covered in one single, enormous, handwritten formula. Cerruti, half-expecting nonsense, carefully typed the whole thing into his computer to check it. And to his astonishment, it was correct. Completely correct.

This was no crank. This was a genuine mathematical mind — one that had taught itself, alone, in a prison cell.

From that moment, a remarkable transatlantic collaboration was born, conducted entirely through handwritten letters crossing the ocean. Cerruti began sending Havens real material in number theory — one of the oldest branches of mathematics, with roots going back more than two thousand years to the ancient Greek Euclid. And here is the part that makes it truly extraordinary: the work was never dumbed down for him. Havens was handed genuine, unsolved research problems — the kind that challenge trained, professional mathematicians — and he worked through them with nothing but a pencil, paper, and the prison mail. No computer. No classroom. No professor down the hall.

The obstacles were constant. When Cerruti tried to send him math books, the prison blocked them, until Havens negotiated with the administration to let them through. With no computer to typeset his work, he taught himself LaTeX — the intricate coding language mathematicians use to format equations — entirely by hand, visualizing every symbol in his head and mailing pages of handwritten code to his collaborators.

#drthehistories

[MindArch @mindarchx]

In 1986 a guy got kicked out of every casino in Vegas for counting cards. So he flew to Hong Kong with $180,000 and started betting on horses instead. He walked away with almost $900 million.

It's Bill Benter. He figured horse racing was just another counting problem. Same math, more moving parts.

He and a partner showed up with $180k and a computer. Benter spent years teaching that computer to guess one thing, the real chance each horse had to win. If his number was better than the odds the bookies gave, he bet. If not, he skipped it.

That's the whole trick. Expected value.

EV = p · b − (1 − p)

Only bet when your win chance p, at odds b, is worth more than your chance of losing.

This recording was never meant to be some hidden gem. Nobody expected Professor Tsitsiklis to hand the whole foundation away in 45 minutes, but that's exactly what happens on the board. Students in that room pay over $80,000 a year to sit through it. It's free right here. It's free right here.

Every quant, every professional bettor, every hedge fund analyst started with this exact hour. Benter just watched it and actually did the homework.

Almost nobody knows this lecture even exists. Watch it before it gets taken down.

The answer is in this video.

[Alejo @bjs_alejo2]

El de marketing se merece 3 aumentos

[The Internet Remains Undefeated @WebUndefeated]

This is why it’s important to let kids be bored.🏴‍☠️😁

[Amirul Abu @AmirulAbu]

why?

why not?

[ًِ @bckupacc99]

🤣

[Luis Rincón Arguello 🇨🇴 @Rincon001A]

Menos mal quedó grabado sino nadie iba a creerle !!

Una escena impresionante se registró la tarde de este martes, día 18, en el centro de Bauru, en el interior del estado de São Paulo.

Dos autos chocaron en el cruce de las calles Marcondes Salgado y Antônio Alves.

Por la fuerza del impacto, uno de los vehículos salió despedido hacia un concesionario de autos.

Pero lo que llamó la atención fue cómo terminó todo.

El auto entró por el estacionamiento del establecimiento y se detuvo perfectamente encajado entre dos vehículos que estaban en exhibición, sin chocar con ninguno de ellos.

Parecía incluso que la conductora simplemente había entrado al lugar para estacionarse.

A pesar del fuerte choque y de la impresionante escena, nadie resultó herido.

Las dos conductoras se encuentran bien y el incidente se saldó únicamente con daños materiales.

De: Extra News Mundo

[SWAMI RAJ @swamiraj636]

He is an athlete without legs.
He is an elite jumper, cyclist, gymnast, and a hopping artis.
An elite athlete.

[betraidx @betraidx]

A broke Italian gambler in 1560 wrote a short manual on how to win at dice. Nobody in finance read it for four hundred years.

The nine-trillion-dollar insurance industry runs on his equation.

His name was Girolamo Cardano. The book was called Liber de Ludo Aleae. He scribbled it in Milan to settle a card debt. Every dollar of premium ever collected on Earth is a footnote to that scribble.

Nobody connected the dots until 1996. A ninety-year-old man in New York wrote a book called Against the Gods and traced every modern risk model back to Cardano's manual. Wall Street called him the historian of risk.

His name was Peter Bernstein. In 2008 a small production company filmed him for thirteen minutes. He walked through the entire five-hundred-year arc. Cardano to Pascal to Fermat to Black-Scholes.

Then he stopped and said the industry had built glass towers on the back of an idea a broke gambler scribbled to shave the house edge.

He died the following summer. Age ninety.

There are only four ways to make money. Labor. Capital. Arbitrage. Insurance. Insurance is the oldest and the least visible. Every actuary on Earth still prices catastrophe risk with Cardano's framework.

The video is thirteen minutes long. Free on YouTube. Twenty-nine thousand people have watched it.

[Malia Boone @Malia_B76]

**THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN GAMBLING HISTORY! 😱🎰💰 From Nearly Broke to an Unbelievable Victory**

[Saloni @saloniiio]

Made in China 🤡
Made for China 💀

[Emad | عماد @XEmaadX]

😂 وزيرة أوغندية تروح تشوف جسر بـ350 ألف دولار… وتشوف هذا!
راحت المسؤولة تفحص مشروع جسر تكلفته 350 ألف دولار.
طلع قدامها أنبوب خرساني صغير تحت طريق ترابي.
رد فعلها يقول كل شيء.

لو المبلغ صحيح، فهذا من أفضح أمثلة الهدر. الجسر هذا حتى 5 آلاف دولار كثير عليه.
تخيلوا المبلغ هذا وين راح؟

[Wild content @Nocapmedia]

Dude made it worse 😭

[Expensive Accident @Expensive__Acc]

A station worker in Finland made a mistake by setting the fuel price to 0.014 EURO per liter. Dude immediately took advantage of the mistake and filled the canister with 1000 liters of fuel .

[DutchForce17 @DutchForce17]

IN 1925, A RUSSIAN ENGINEER PLACED A COPPER RING AROUND A DYING PLANT. THE TUMOR DISAPPEARED. EVERY OTHER PLANT IN THE EXPERIMENT DIED. HIS TECHNOLOGY WAS USED IN HOSPITALS ACROSS EUROPE UNTIL HE WAS KILLED IN NEW YORK IN 1942.

His name was Georges Lakhovsky.

He proposed a theory so dangerous that it had to be erased from medical history. Every living cell is a miniature oscillator. It vibrates at its own specific frequency. When a cell is healthy, it vibrates at its natural resonant frequency. When it becomes diseased, the frequency drops. Cancer, infection, degeneration — all of them are frequency disorders.

In 1925, Lakhovsky conducted an experiment at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. He inoculated geranium plants with cancer-producing bacteria. All plants developed tumors. Around one single plant, he placed a simple open-ended copper ring — 30 centimeters in diameter. Nothing else. No electricity. No chemicals.

Within weeks, the plant with the copper ring shed its tumor completely and grew taller and stronger than it had ever been. Every other plant in the experiment died.

The copper ring was acting as an antenna. It was capturing the full spectrum of cosmic frequencies and feeding them back to the plant's cells. The cells re-tuned themselves to their natural oscillation. The disease could not survive in a cell vibrating at its correct frequency.

Lakhovsky then built the Multi-Wave Oscillator. It used two concentric antennas driven by a Tesla coil to generate a broad spectrum of electromagnetic frequencies simultaneously. The idea was simple — flood the body with every possible frequency, and each cell will naturally resonate with the one it needs to heal.

By the 1930s, his machines were being used in hospitals across France, Italy, and Sweden. Doctors reported recoveries from advanced cancers, severe arthritis, and chronic infections. Patients who had been given weeks to live walked out of clinics.

In 1941, Lakhovsky brought his technology to New York. He began treating patients at a major hospital with extraordinary results.

In 1942, at the age of 72, Georges Lakhovsky was struck by a car in New York City and died shortly after. Immediately following his death, every Multi-Wave Oscillator was removed from American hospitals. His research was labeled quackery. His name was deleted from medical literature.

A man whose machines were healing patients in European hospitals for over a decade was hit by a car and erased from history within months.

The frequency of a healthy human cell is between 62 and 72 MHz. When it drops to 58 MHz, cold symptoms appear. At 42 MHz, cancer begins. At 25 MHz, death.

Your body is not a chemical machine. It is an electrical instrument playing a frequency. Disease is not an invasion. It is a cell that forgot its song.

They did not silence Lakhovsky because his science was wrong. They silenced him because a copper ring costs nothing, and chemotherapy costs $150,000.

[Clara June @ClaraJuneqnor]

Products That Became Successful Because Customers Used Them Completely Wrong 😳

[THAT IRISH & SHOE PLUG™ @SuperSlimEli]

This is crazy, I will legit be confused if I enter a Church and I can't find the drums but I can hear beats 😂