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Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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I almost want to go Twitter diving to see if kache has the requisite unhinged rant about how universities are only making quantum physics hard to get money/because of woke or whatever

e: holy shit I already regret this

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yeah, 3b1b animations can take you through all of undergrad math in probably a month if it all existed and you used anki

We could bottle this arrogance and sell it as an emetic.

And besides, we all know that mathematics videos peaked with the Angle Dance.

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as one of many people here who has undergone undergrad math, i reckon a month of youtube and anki might not be enough for even intro to linear algebra. I’m even saying this as someone who skipped all lectures and crammed before all the tests.

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oh, cool, they also claim to be a twitter engineer. that’s probably telling too (if true)

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i see your twitter engineer and i raise you elite promptfondler

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there’s more

or you could use something like qrencode that already is a thing and pipe it to image viewer of your choice

yeah which might it be

he’s also lying box understander

(idk why these screenshots get stretched to entire width available sometimes and sometimes they don’t)

there’s a lot of this

we had these since manhattan project. sit tf down

i think we have different standards on being coherent

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finding and looking up information you need effectively is a skill that is both very useful and i don’t think it’s taught explicitly, it’s a byproduct of being taught how to do research more generally. slapping a lying box in its place is not a substitute

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7 points

(wipes away a single tear)

Beautiful, man, just beautiful

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jesus christ

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yeah don’t do it to yourself. I forget how I originally noticed this weirdo, it may have been through amolitor99’s continuous anthropology safari of TPOT freaks. Speaking of which, somebody needs to get that guy over here

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i have tried occasionally but will try again

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dammit now I’m going to have to look at twitter

tpot fresh on my mind, too. just yesterday i was telling someone about how one of the people semi in that cluster had me going 🤨 and then had to explain a little about some of the highlights of tpot

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Oh. He retweets Cremieux.

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whoa…on second thought, maybe this dude is having a manic episode or something? yeesh!

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