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The SUPERCYCLE guy.

Of all the streaming services I overpay for, the federal government is the worst.

“I don’t care to attend any meeting that would have me on the invite.”— Groucho Marx

False. As of 2020, the reserve requirement is zero.

It’s not “technical debt”. It’s technical off-balance sheet liability. #programming

the final boss in getting the blossom server on ORLY? working turns out to be CORS

Access to fetch at 'https://test.orly.dev/upload' from origin 'https://jumble.social' has been blocked by CORS policy: Request header field x-sha-256 is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers in preflight response.

IIRC, there’s a weird interaction where Chrome will reject your CORS request if you try to include credentials and the Access-Control-Allow-Origin is set to ‘*’.

To perform a credentialed CORS request, the header has to name an origin. So the workaround tends to be to accept an origin parameter somehow (URL parameter, request header), then, server side, use this value to populate the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header in your server response.

That way, the preflight succeeds enough to get to the actual request.

Replying to Avatar StackSats.IO

“A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart is a fantastic short read up next for #bookstr

This was a spontaneous read after I watched some videos about Newton and Fermat and Euler and wondered, where did the brilliant minds go.

In using a lot of AI this year I’ve frequently been thinking on path dependence. That’s a huge topic for another post but I wanted to know how these great minds were educated back then that Leibniz and Newton could independently discover Calculus.

Any way, just something I’d never really thought much of, but mathematics was basically a hobby for most of these guys. Like you play Wordle or watch football, these guys would sit down after a long day at The Mint or as a Judge or whatever and discover new maths and physics. There was no path dependence for them back then.

Lockhart makes major criticism of mathematics as it’s taught today in rigid, rules-based, notation heavy gobbledygook without context, without meaning, and removed from actual problems to be solved.

His lament is that Maths is an art, which is meant to be fun, meant to be play, but the way it has been systematised and formalised and made mandatory learning of rules and formulas and shorthand without context, taught by the most uninspiring box-checking teachers who never explore maths for fun, has completely ruined the field. Sapping all joy out of it, the mental games we can play with it, the learning for the sake of learning, and the wonder in patterns of a realm beyond us.

Lockhart has some very basic solutions which will never reach standardised education but I really appreciated this short book regardless.

I excelled at maths as a kid competing at national level but by the time I got to High School and had a math-heavy schedule for my Uni path, I fucking hated it and nearly failed one of my two graduating math classes.

Lockhart’s lament resonated with me because I can still remember those early years where I did it for fun, and then I recalled that High School experience which was exactly as he described.

It’s inspired me to study Euclid’s Elements next year and see if I can rediscover some of the joy of mathematics for myself.

Highly recommend anyone with kids give this a read. It’s only 2 hours, very approachable, and it might save them from having the joy sapped out of maths as happened to me and I’m sure many others.

I had a similar experience of physics. Loved it through HS, started college with a second major. But at junior level quantum mechanics, it just wasn’t fun anymore.

It’s OK, I know I need to fix something. Just haven’t bothered.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. 🧡 #Bitcoin

Understand that when when interrupts you to connect what you’ve said to her life, this is a sign of great respect in her culture. #psychology

People say “fuck around and find out” but it’s actually a 2x2 matrix:

- Fuck around, find out

- Don’t fuck around, don’t find out

- Don’t fuck around, find out anyway

- Fuck around, don’t find out

#showerthoughts

That’s too bad. The coiner of “enshittification” should be able to see how its exact mechanisms apply to fiat currency.

The most valuable gift is knowledge. The most valuable knowledge to gift is #Bitcoin.

By applying The Syntropy Lens, we can examine the four attachment styles (Secure, Anxious-Preoccupied, Dismissive-Avoidant and Fearful-Avoidant) not just as psychological labels, but as dynamic systems governed by deeper forces of order and disorder. #syntropy

https://the-syntropy-lens.ghost.io/attachment-styles-syntropy-lens/

So I’m trying to bootstrap my site, The Syntropy Lens. So far, I have been putting out one article per day. I could go higher than that. I have questions:

1. Should I increase posting frequency?

2. Should I increase posting venues? (Currently just Nostr and Telegram)

3. Should I be making video content?

#asknostr #syntropy

PSA: Log-scale is a superpower. Log-log is a scam. #stats #datavis

Through The Syntropy Lens, Anton Ego's journey offers a compelling narrative of how even the most entrenched dystropic forces can be reoriented towards creative appreciation. #syntropy

https://the-syntropy-lens.ghost.io/anton-ego/