People have fond memories of stories and characters so they don't like when I say this. But now I have a quote about Miyamoto saying it I can just point there.
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When Human League first went on stage 50 years ago did they anticipate that one day they'd play to an audience this old...
Did you know that a goldfish has a longer memory than the average American?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/what-trump-actually-said-no-war-promise
Legends on Netflix is a remarkable show. If it doesn't get showered with awards, especially Tom Burke, then there's no point having awards.
I used to think AppleScript was the hardest language but I think Apple Shortcuts is a full order of magnitude harder.
It's well known you can't knot 2D surfaces in a 3D ambient space but I wish someone had told the duvet cover.
I like how many SD card readers are spring loaded so if your finger slips a tiny bit they double as miniature rocket lauchers sending your data into the wild blue yonder.
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As if she read what I wrote Susan Ann Sulley goes up to the mic and says "I started this when I was 17 and I thought it was just a little thing and I didn't think we'd still be going now".
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There's a piece missing from the document [1] I wrote on differential forms.
The representation of forms I use doesn't give a unique representation of a field. I'm missing an equivalence relation. I'm not going to fix the document now, but thinking about this […]
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Some rambling thoughts: when you turn mathematics to look at mathematics you get logic. But I think there's another aspect of applying mathematics to mathematics: combinatorics.
Eg. Let's say you're starting out computing expectations of polynomials of random Gaussian variables. You may notice […]
