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I also have a hypothesis about the relationship between aphantasia and working in higher dimensions:
In HS, I initially found planar and 3D geometry challenging because I couldn't picture anything. Then I quickly figured out how to get the right answers without visualization
It feels like every time I open ChatGPT, whether on desktop or mobile, some mischievous elf has changed the UI and capriciously added and removed features at random.
Alex Ellis retweeted
A Patrick Stewart anecdote I’ve always loved: Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, was once asked about the decision to cast Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
The reporter said, “Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness.” To which Gene Roddenberry replied, “No, by the 24th century, no one will care.”
If P = NP but all the things we thought were not P just have huge constants, then the only reasonable conclusion is that we are in a simulation and these constants were chosen to be inaccessible to denizens of the simulation
I love when a film or TV show deploys a piece of music SO WELL that, for me, it becomes the canonical setting and meaning-cluster for that piece of music. this phenomenon deserves its own term. maybe a long German word.
I don't think it was intentional, but this had what looked like a sly half reference to one of my favorite niche roadside attractions
