Fundamental theorem of arithmetic¹: every whole number can be split into a product of prime numbers in a unique way.

Through a somewhat messed up example:

I spent the last hour looking and failing to find the paper that made this specific claim:

I love the Litany, but think it could benefit from more present tense. A litany is an entreating. That’s why they’re recited over and over. It tells one how to treat something as they are currently experiencing it.

The best feeling in a party is just sinking into a chair and talking about whatever you feel like with another. The best feeling in a party is doing something you’ve never done before and finding you enjoy it, or glorious wipe out like in that motorbike scene in 10 Things I Hate About You. The best feeling in a party is discovering someone strange in the same ways as you and feeling understood and not broken but just different and being ok with that.

they were all my friends and they died.

(some writing without hesitation or editing. possibly with repetition and deviation.)

i went to kauai with my parents last summer. we walked across some trail that left me covered in mud, and near the entrance to the trail we saw a frog lying on its back, feebly twitching. i figured it would die. i left it there.

phenolization: (partially) destroying nail matrix with phenol to prevent ingrown nails.

A set/category theoretic interpretation.

A space can be compactified by adding a point at infinity. The point of this abstraction, as with abstraction in general, is not so much generalization as unification.

Visual programming languages have not taken off in the mainstream. Languages like Scratch and Logo have mostly been known as educational tools and not for “serious” programming.

i learned some nonstandard analysis and clifford algebra, mostly through david hestenes’s ‘geometric algebra’.

The youth of our region is gifting you, the young ones of the 21st century, with Koryazhma that has been turned from a small village into a modern town within ten years, Severdodvinsk that we built on land that used to be swamps, and the colossal wood industry of the North: Kotlass, Solombal and Arkhangelsk factories. We know that you will have better lives than us,” the letter continues. “You will do great things in our galaxy, will make our planet great. We are a little jealous of all you who are celebrating the centenary of our Soviet motherland. But we also know that you will be a little jealous of our restless young generation. We have a clear aim, a great future ahead of us and lots of things to accomplish. We have things that we can invest out hearts, brains, energy and labour in, and this is the source of our happiness.

why don’t we have video game engines that can do full riemannian geometry? would be so cool. hyperbolica should be more common. don’t you all want to see what lines could look like?

The PACELC theorem seems awfully named to me.