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5 May, 11 tweets, 2 min read
Buying cryptocurrency is basically the opposite of buying carbon offsets. Like it's just investing in wasting energy
I like that cryptocurrency has made people more interested in proof assistants, but it would still be unethical to buy IMO, not even considering the black markets you support. I am all for buying DOGE though that's investing in comedy
Some newer ones are better apparently

So, revising to say it may be cool to buy Tezos and so on. Would have to read more about what is involved, but glad not all of them are just wasting resources
Does anyone know how energy efficient the Proof of Stake cryptocurrencies are?
Interesting, so better, but still not amazing

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I'm not sure I even believe in offsets when the activity itself doesn't always seem necessary, but research on much more efficient cryptocurrencies sounds good if people are going to keep buying these things, so I'm glad the world is trying
Doge is also wasteful apparently someone should make a better meme. Like why not just have it literally tied to nothing the value is the humor

What a weird timeline to be discussing the carbon footprint of memes

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7 May
Tag yourself I'm "these proofs make me happy" and "please fund this research area I promise it will generate ten more papers"
FWIW if you want to write a "please fund this research area" paper, I recommend writing a large survey paper for Foundations & Trends with a heavy future work focus, rather than just a vision paper. You get to define the field
Vision paper gets you attention and is fun but you're expected to deliver very soon after, which might be hard if you haven't convinced other people to work with you yet. Survey paper makes you into an (actual) expert quickly, establishes connections, defines the field
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6 May
It is strange to me that people often assume the smallest possible things we can observe must be the smallest possible things that exist, when for example we know well there are parts of the universe too far away for us to observe
I think more people need a healthy dose of modern logic to realize how hopeless it is to be able to ever describe and understand everything through any framework, and how that's actually totally fine
How boring would the universe be if we could fully understand it from within it?
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5 May
Just read a draft of my thesis and it was like 90% good? I'm confused because I remember hating it the whole time I was writing?
Maybe I'm just sufficiently sleep deprived to think it's good
New plan to graduate: deprive committee of sleep
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30 Apr
Did you have a part-time job during high school?
Yeses so far are more than 2x the US average
It's interesting by social class, some couldn’t find work, some people worked to support their families, some to support themselves with spending money, some just for the sake of learning work ethic, some for fun, and some were above working
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29 Apr
Mushroom foraging is a really fascinating area combining intuition with structure. Another fun source of inspiration: I am a member of a mushroom ID group on Facebook. Often, when a user posts a photo, it's not enough for an ID, so experts ask for specific information
They might ask, "where was this found?" Or "can you take a photo of the gills?"
A distinguishing feature of experts is the ability to quickly identify the right questions to ask to arrive at a positive ID more efficiently and with high certainty
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29 Apr
Oh my gosh I wrote my generals report while I was so depressed I barely survived and honestly, the comments in the LaTeX are so snarky they're hilarious and I'm going to share some without context below
% like machine learning or whatever; but honestly, I doubt it
% clarify this nonsensical explanation
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