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  • You can go read the Wikipedia article if you want to understand “that” part… I guess, idk, go fuck yourself!!!

    Some YouTube math video about lambda calculus, the asshole casually said “you can check the Wikipedia article” on an aspect that didn’t fit inside his 10-minute video. As if Wikipedia didn’t frustrate even professional mathematicians themselves, with the obtuse exposition and a thousand notations and citations.

    Fortunately, there are other math educators on YouTube.
    On the topic of lambda calculus, search for this title:
    PLUS times PLUS

    It’s wild stuff! It’s as if like math is like a shirt, and lambda calculus pulls one arm inside out, there are some weird logical seams in math when you use different tools with the same numbers.








  • Remember that 80s magazine OMNI?
    Science, tech, sci-fi, Mensa-caliber games… by the very same Bob Guccione who published Penthouse!

    Every issue had an in-depth interview with a prominent and interesting scientist, figures like Alan Guth or Luc Montagnier or Morris Berman.
    One issue was a little more off-beat, the interview was with an anthropologist, whose student life and career went like this:

    Attending the University Of Montana in Missoula, this student loved drinking every day, so he asked the question - “What’s a relatively easy major with little math, that will interfere the least with my drinking?” - and landed on Anthropology.

    After graduation, the next question became - “What will I do my thesis about?” - a friend gave him the vague advice to do it on something he knew or was passionate about, and like a “eureka” moment, it hit him: “I’m gonna research drinking culture, bars!”

    And so, he became one of the rarefied few for whom drinking on the job was basically a requirement!



  • “I’ve never seen anyone sad in a Ferrari. In fact, I’ve never seen anyone in a Ferrari, I’ve only seen the Ferrari as I pass by the dealership showroom.”

    Lamborghinis, on the other hand… I once saw a farmer driving his Lambo tractor truck! And while I didn’t get a good look at his face, it was still awesome.