Allison Power θ π Σ

Amateur mathematician and software developer. YouTube allison7; Github allison-7 & foxxgames; Discord allison_96

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Alyssa Rosenzweig reverse-engineered Apple’s M1 GPU.

Now the Linux driver supports graphics standards macOS doesn’t.

[Allison Power θ π Σ @ms_allison_7]

Oh Canada 🇨🇦🍁

[Missellie @Missellie19]

Canada’s trade war anthem

[Miyaki Hozo @HozoMiyaki]

I love being a alt trans girl baddie

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

A major police raid in the UK ended with officers seizing drugs, cash and firearms.

The police dogs who helped find the evidence then posed proudly beside the haul.

[CopyRebeldia @CopyRebeldia]

Así se ve un sueldo de 750.000 dólares al año: un tipo en camiseta blanca, un pizarrón y 2 horas y media.

Stanford, CS336. Percy Liang construye un LLM desde cero. Lo que hay debajo de Claude y ChatGPT, y arranca por la parte que todos saltan: el modelo no lee tu texto, lee números.

Anthropic paga ese sueldo a los ingenieros que entienden esa capa.

Lo único que cobra Stanford son 2 horas y media de tu atención.

[The Math Flow @TheMathFlow]

Sine and cosine are the same wave seen from a different perspective.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Car trouble sounds.

[🎞️ nove.goods]

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Stanford mathematician spent 40 years watching brilliant students fail at hard problems.

Not because they were stupid.

Because nobody taught them what to do before they started solving.

His name is George Pólya.

His 1945 book has sold over a million copies and never gone out of print.

Marvin Minsky, the man who built the first neural network machine at MIT, said publicly that everyone should read it.

Most people have never heard of it.

The failure Pólya watched repeat itself for four decades was always the same.

A problem appears. The student feels anxiety. They immediately start calculating.

Not because calculating was the right move. Because it felt better than sitting with not knowing.

The calculation was almost always wrong.

Not from lack of skill. From lack of understanding what was actually being asked.

He called it the most neglected step in all of problem solving.

Step one is to understand the problem. Not skim it. Not assume you've seen something similar. Actually understand it.

His filter was one question: can you restate the problem in your own words without looking at it?

If you can't, you haven't understood it. You've only read it.

Most people skip this and spend hours stuck on a problem they never actually understood.

Step two is to make a plan. Not execute. Plan.

The pattern Pólya saw in every successful problem solver was the same. When something feels impossible, find a simpler version and solve that first.

Not because the simpler version is the goal. Because it gives you a method you can carry back.

He phrased it once with precision: if you cannot solve the proposed problem, try to solve a related one.

That question alone is worth more than most problem-solving courses ever taught.

Step three is to execute. Everyone thinks this is the whole game.

It is the third of four steps. Pólya spent the least time on it because it is the most obvious. Once you understand and have a plan, execution is mostly patience.

Step four is the one almost nobody does.

Look back.

Not to check the arithmetic. To ask: can I verify this with a different method? Can I use this method somewhere else? What would I do differently?

This is where the real learning lives.

Every expert Pólya studied had this habit. Every struggling student skipped from the answer to the next question, carrying nothing forward, starting from zero every single time.

His deepest insight was not a technique. It was a diagnosis.

Intelligent people feel bad at problem solving because they confuse reading a problem with understanding it. They confuse starting to work with having a method. They confuse getting an answer with having learned anything.

These are not the same things.

The students who get genuinely good at hard problems are not the ones who practice more.

They are the ones who slow down at the two moments every instinct tells them to rush.

The beginning and the end.

The problem was almost never as hard as it looked.

They just hadn't understood it yet.

[Axstone ✨ @axstonee]

Hi my name is Selin!
You’ve doom scrolled your way my art. Enjoy!

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

This is a math joke.
Source: https://t.co/CW04WCMmNW

[Damir Akaza @Damir_Akaza]

A 26-year-old woman who repairs game consoles quit her job, opened an online workshop, and now earns more than her former colleagues in the trade.

For four years she worked in an ordinary repair shop, behind a counter, where nobody sees what happens to your console after you hand it in.

The price list: stick drift, one stick - $10–19. Two - $19–31. Hall effect sensors - up to $34. Cleaning, battery replacement, small jobs - from $6.

Work out for yourself how many consoles a month that takes to actually make a living.

After she quit, she set up a workshop at home and started bringing in $3,000 a month and up.

Viewers send donations on Twitch and Boosty while she repairs PlayStations and Xboxes live, taking them apart in front of thousands of people and narrating every step.

Haters will say it only works because she's a woman running streams. But the consoles are mailed to her from the other side of the country. Nobody goes to that trouble over looks.

Since she opened the online workshop, her income and her order count have both grown several times over.

All it took was turning on a camera.

[haruka no yume【はるかのゆめ】 @haruka_no_yume]

🇯🇵 This amazing video by Capcom from 1996 gives us a behind-the-scenes tour of Capcom's R&D headquarters in Japan. I love the guy in the Rockman (Megaman) costume just casually working in the background!

[mentalium @mentalium_]

Jane street pays $600,000 for the skill of selling anything to anyone, and now this 21 minute Tony Robbins masterclass filmed 30 years ago in his castle gives it to you completely free.

This is the uncut 1992 session. Just raw persuasion from the master who coached presidents and billionaires.

You will learn how to find anyone's buying state and anchor your offer to that feeling. No scripts. No tricks. Just psychology that works on everyone.

This rare tape disappears regularly. Save it while you can ⭣

[nerde o eski şarkılar @eskisarkiIar]

Kaygıyla mücadele ediyorsan bu eseri dinle. Yaklaşık 30 saniye içinde nefes alışın değişmeye başlayacak. Bedeni sakinleştiren şey ise notaların arasındaki sessizlik.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

People who spend long periods of time at home and slowly lose the desire to go outside often think they're just resting. But psychologically, many of them are experiencing something called mental rumination. It's a state where the brain starts slowing down while the number of thoughts inside keeps increasing and the motivation to do anything slowly disappears. The mind gets stuck in the past, worries about the future and burns itself out. This isn't laziness, it's a nervous system stuck in survival mode. And the longer it lasts, the more distant normal life begins to feel. And the difficult part is that you usually can't escape it through one massive burst of motivation. And sometimes,recovery starts with just one small step.

[Obsolete Sony @ObsoleteSony]

This much cool should be illegal

[The Golden Age @thegoldenaged]

How early mornings felt as kids

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaFolder]

POV: you're about to watch A Bug's Life for the very first time and this masterpiece comes on

[Ajinkya Muley @jynx_29]

New devs really out there learning kubernetes through brainrot videos

[KeriA @KeriA1776again]

This dog has a good ear.

Source: billy.the.talking.puppy