Spencer Smith

Math, CS. Data Engineer. To be unwilling to change one's mind is intellectual failure. Passion. Compassion.

[Spencer Smith @spensmitht]

Instead of, expecting yourself to pick up a new habit overnight, think to yourself, “What is the longest period I genuinely think I can do this?”

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alright who can tell me why searching for 'obsequious' on google comes up with joe biden

[Naval @naval]

You don’t want fame, you want respect.

Respect comes from living up to their standards.

You don’t want respect, you want self-respect.

Self-respect comes from living up to your own standards.

The same standards that you apply to other people.

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

the realization that the opposing side - that *all* the extremist opposing sides throughout all of human history, from the bloodthirsty assyrians to the raiding mongols to modern fascism - all probably felt as similarly righteously and genuine as you - should be VERY SOBERING

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

Many ppl can't imagine what it's like to be the opposing side; you subconsciously imagine the other people must 'feel' evil or not 'really' believe what they claim, and since you yourself *don't* feel evil and *do* feel genuine belief, this is quiet proof that you must be right

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@SarahTheHaider To progress or to conserve, that is the question that divides

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@SarahTheHaider Totally checks out with Right wing being labeled Conservative. Conservatives prefer and wish to preserve history. That’s the nature of left vs right, progressive (new) and conservative (traditional)

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@Alienware Are we privy to a timeline for an Alienware HDMI 2.1 OLED? Looking to upgrade.. I’m still frequently playing PS5, which I’m aware is currently supported under 2.0, but don’t want to buy something that’s gonna be out of date in the next year. Thank you

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@RichardMCNgo @Aella_Girl Standard rat thinkers. Any pointers on what that means? Just self awareness & reflection?

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@revenantscholar @SarahTheHaider I agree with lots of what you’re saying, but as I was trying to add more, I began to think about specifically trig. Do you think trig was easier for her because of the introduction of first principles? I’m not sure I think trig is first principal-like

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@SarahTheHaider @revenantscholar You may be better at reasoning when you are consciously aware of the derivation of “rules” from the axioms. Like @revenantscholar is indicating, algebra in HS/UNI is that of “use the quadratic formula” where negation or p->q is easy to derive from the axioms of the logic system.

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@cmuratori Don’t totally understand your point. Clean code hasn’t anything to do with work quantity, it’s about responsiveness to change. What do you mean? I agree performance has its time and place, and to me that space is narrow for most software, and of course necessary

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@vgr do you find you have higher boundary or interior intelligence?

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The phone app should be way better on iPhone, way out of date. Needs to be able to search for businesses

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@sthorpe @fermatslibrary Trying to follow. I’m aware n(n+1)/2 is the sum of all integers through n. Are you indicating a specific case of this problem?

[Daniel O'Connor @Singularitarian]

In math books, the

Theorem:
Proof:

format should be replaced with

Theorem:
Proof idea:
Proof:

The proof idea is a short summary of the key idea behind the proof. Given the proof idea, you might be able to figure out the full proof.

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@BrunoBombardi @Sora_Sakurai I like the shake!

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@DreamedAwayRPG Definitely. This is a sweet mechanic!

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@BrunoBombardi I prefer B here, the red does feel a little uninteresting

[Spencer Smith @spensmitht]

My favorite here is there

That’s the lyric I hear in Proper Dose from TSSF. It’s actually my favorite mirror’s there.

They both work and I prefer the first