George Hotz - talking hour - 2020-08-31

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George Hotz - talking hour

• Recommendation Martin Shkreli Finance Lesson

• Book: White Noise by Don DeLillo

• Nietzsche, Kirkegard, Kafka are accessible reading material

• The Century of the Self

• David Foster Wallace

  • David Foster Wallace - The Problem with Irony
    • Post-Modernism is irony, cynicism, deprication, seen in Fight Club
    • Post Post-Modernism = Sincerity
    • David really didn't appreciate what post-modernism was doing to American society
    • He advocated Sincerity, there are a few essays worth reading
  • New Sincerity
  • Infinite Jest (recommended)

• Open letter to Paul Graham

  • "False hope trains you on a low bar." - see conclusion
  • In response to Paul Grahams post below
  • Yurvin, creator of urbit, considered a NRx (neo-reactionary) and alt-right
  • Famous for his short political writings at https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/ under the psuedonym Mencius Moldbug
  • Founded a company funded by Peter Thiel https://tlon.io/
  • They are building an OS https://urbit.org/using/install/, Language Hoom and a distributed internet on the Etherium Blockchain
  • The name comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius
  • Authored by Jorge Luis Borges, argentinia author who came up previously
    • Short story about infinity and the inability to forget
    • Time, labyrinth

• The Four Quadrents of Conformism

  • aggressively conventional-minded
  • passively conventional-minded
  • passively independent-minded
  • aggressively independent-minded
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves

• Oswald Spengler

  • Book: Decline of the West

• Book: Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick

• Book: The Book of Why by Judea Pearl

• Transnistria, a country between Ukraine and Moldova, it has a 2.8% Bulgarian popluation, there must be BPH (bullet proof hosting) there

• Transnistria, Republic of Artsakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia - three countries that are not recognised.

• Qbit is a vector of two complex numbers with unit length

• Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem

  • It's a graph problem s(start) -> t (sink) edges (how to maximise flow)
  • The intuition is think of the graph where edges are pipes that have some capacity
  • Residual graph (being able to push 'water' and undo)
  • Greedy path vs Residual approach
  • Cut = partitioning of the vertices into two distinct sections
  • S-t cut = the start vertex has to be in A set and sink vertex in B set

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            u
      2 /   |     \ 1
      s     | 3    t
      1 \   |    / 2
            v 
  residual G'
  
            u
      2 /   |     \ 1
      s     | 3    t
      1 \   |    / 2
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• KOTD - Oxxxymiron (RU) vs Dizaster (USA)

• VERSUS X #SLOVOSPB: Oxxxymiron VS Slava KPSS / Gnoyny (English subtitles)

  • "I would rather die a fucking noname than become famous and end up like you!"

• Messages and dreams - Knowing less

• Book: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

• https://neeva.co/ - Search reimagined