Double Date
My strangest experience on Tinder was in Sichuan. Dunno why but I got >100 matches in 12 minutes, a truly bizarre experience, felt like my guts were getting swizzled with hot gravel. But something worse approaches.
Worse Than a Sranc
In R Scott Bakker’s Second Apocalypse series, there’re these monks called the Dûnyain and these goblins called the Sranc.
thanks whole foods lady
I was 17 and had free period before and after lunch. So, 3 hour lunches.
Another way of doing big O notation
I had a fun talk about this with an interviewer once when they asked me about the runtime complexity of some algorithm.
Compactness of the Classical Groups
MOM Alok’s thinking about conic sections again.
Derivative AT a Discontinuity
But this is impossible by definition
Boolean Algebra, Arithmetic POV
(written long time ago, publish or languish)
discontinuous linear functions
Let \(H > \mathbb{Nat}\) be unlimited.
Continuous vs Bounded
Nonstandard analysis gives a nice link between continuous and bounded functions, which are small and large-scale notions.1
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Credit to Takuma Imamura for showing me this definition ↩
Minimal Surfaces
GPT-4 did this in 1 shot.
November 2, 2023
Been going through Mosteller’s 50 challenging problems in probability.
NTK reparametrization
I’ve been learning about the neural tangent kernel and some things confused me.
Kate from Vancouver, please email me
You replied to my dissection post and I decided then that I wished to be your friend. You didn’t leave your email, but asked how old I was in earth years. My email is alokbeniwal@gmail.com, please reach out if you see this.
ChatGPT Session: Emotions, Etymology, Hyperfiniteness
List as many emotions as you can. Then list their etymologies
Some ChatGPT Sessions
No particular theme. Quoted text is me, rest is GPT.