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1950: A. Einstein's Letter to Erwin Schrödinger where he talks about the famous Schrödinger's cat thought experiment 🐈

I like this better than the dot airplane

The universe is quite literally a song

Picture of an Osprey taken the moment before diving in

Luke Gromen Good chart. Here's another 200 years of backhistory

I can't explain to you how absolutely insane this image is. BTC at $100k+ and futures basis at <15%

Every software engineer should read Google's Spanner paper. Spanner proved CAP theorem wrong by inventing TrueTime that achieved <7ms clock synchronization at planet-scale. Very few innovations impact software we use as much. Must read.

A lot of individual facts that the bears were saying in 2023 and 2024 were correct, but those facts were dwarfed by fiscal dominance.

Guides to Choosing a Money Manager By Seth Klarman

From Probability to Finance by Yong Jiao

Lecture Notes on Monte Carlo & Markov Chains stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/stat…

Language models were invented in 1950 by Claude Shannon.

Warren Buffett's portfolio: Stocks: $298.7 billion Cash: $325.2 billion

Life in the 1970s 🧵 1. San Francisco's Lombard Street, 1975

Still all in the hands of one man. But based on these comments the off-ramp is being pieced together if he eventually wants to take it. The administration doubling down on China and leaving the door open for negotiation with everyone else.

Stock markets can go a long, long time with no returns. Decades, even. via UBS

This is not a trick: the cosine of the imaginary number 𝑖 is (e⁻¹ + e)/2. How on Earth does this follow from the definition of the cosine? No matter how hard you try, you cannot construct a right triangle with an angle 𝑖. What kind of sorcery is this? Read on to find out.

Is math discovered or invented? Most scientists say discovered. I used to agree. But I’ve come to think we invent systems to impose order, and math is our most powerful language for expressing that order.

Long before LaTeX, most mathematical theses relied on hand-inserted symbols. But in 1968, Dennis Ritchie - creator of C - typeset his entire thesis, subscripts and all, with astonishing accuracy. How exactly he pulled it off remains a mystery. Learn more in this week's paper

Incredible Japan 🇯🇵 🧵 1. this is really crazy