this poem contains several of the worst sentences i've ever written
05.06.2023 19:58 β π 26 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1@qchu.bsky.social
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this poem contains several of the worst sentences i've ever written
05.06.2023 19:58 β π 26 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1thereβs a girl working at my favorite diner who i swear to god has the exact appearance and vibe of an irl wendy from gravity falls and she is really doing something to me good lord
08.05.2023 02:34 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1this probably looked really nice like a week or two ago
07.05.2023 21:50 β π 24 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1very cultured, nice
07.05.2023 16:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0bless. this is the best stuff on my skyline rn π«‘
07.05.2023 16:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0that episode of voyager where she let down her hair really did something for me as a kid
07.05.2023 16:27 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0like you can take a look at the wacky stuff here, it's not hard to e.g. describe ordinals so large ZFC can't construct them, or any other particular computable list of axioms for set theory!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_countable_ordinal
*how weird definite-but-not-surveyable collections are
like the collection of countable ordinals is truly insanely large, almost all of them are impossible to describe in any fixed ordinal notation, e.g. almost all of them are uncomputable. it's extremely different in character from N
i haven't thought through this carefully but yeah, i think in this framework aleph_1, or more precisely omega_1 thought of as the collection of all countable ordinals, is definite but not surveyable. in other papers i think he does a good job emphasizing how weird surveyable collections are
07.05.2023 07:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0just got on here to quickly scope out the vibes! looks like they're p good
07.05.2023 07:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π₯³
07.05.2023 06:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the quintessential american pastime might be forcing yourself to do things that happy people do spontaneously
06.05.2023 22:16 β π 36 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0i admire your bravery
06.05.2023 22:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0naturally π₯²
06.05.2023 22:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π«‘π
06.05.2023 22:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0whomst among us tho
06.05.2023 19:11 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0i watched power rangers religiously, starting when i lived in singapore even iirc, but wow watching it with your whole family must've been next level π₯²
06.05.2023 19:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0mood π
06.05.2023 19:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0research started in the '50s apparently
06.05.2023 19:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0goes back possibly to 1956!
https://web.archive.org/web/20210103041306/http://www.hutchinsweb.me.uk/MTNI-11-1995.pdf
here's a reference to it from 1983 so it's been around for A While
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/28/business/technology-the-computer-as-translator.html
every picture or video of an animal is pretty much universally good, like it's really hard to go wrong with those. the fact that the same isn't true of humans points at some things that i think are very sad
06.05.2023 18:55 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0the version i heard as a kid was about russian to english and it ended up "the vodka is strong but the meat is rotten," this was a strong meme back in the day
06.05.2023 18:50 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0peaceful π₯²
06.05.2023 18:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0flesh salad. german is such a beautiful language
06.05.2023 18:43 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0wow i didn't even know there were toys. toywise i was a transformers and lego guy myself. also i would build transformers out of legos
06.05.2023 18:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i don't remember a single episode but "JAWSOME" is permanently stuck in my head
06.05.2023 18:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0well the worst part is i'm not even sure for myself right
06.05.2023 18:21 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0w e l p
06.05.2023 18:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0yooo same
06.05.2023 18:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0