gatoesceptico @gatoesceptico@social.privacytools.io

happy holidays from your friends at the pond

In a recent Quanta story, Marijn Heule’s collaborator John Mackey said watching him work on solving Keller’s conjecture in dimension seven was “like watching LeBron James in the NBA Finals.” Heule is now working on one of math’s biggest problems. quantamagazine.org/can-compu…

The Indian Farmer Protest Shaking the World

Farmers and workers around the world are protesting against India’s neo-liberal farm reforms that could change the way farming is done there, forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMcBDrEfK1c

#VICENews #News

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)

Link: https://dwheeler.com/chess-openings/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25446399

Met a very lovely farm kitty
Gave it alot of pats and rubs
She loved to get massaged

@calculsoberic @stux diamonds are valuable because of monopoly over supply from 4 decades ago

I'm getting kinda sick of the narrative that FOSS is written exclusively by rich white men, for themselves and each other. And that FOSS is therefore inherently bad.

I mean, I understand that we're all tired of Hans from Stuttgart, but this narrative just erases so many fucking people. People who are neither, or none of these things.
Maybe stop shitting on their/our efforts trying to make something better than the abusive piles of shit companies churn out these days?

The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolvable

Link: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-black-hole-information-loss-problem.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25140588

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

-Dorothy Parker

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