I'd claim that twas intellect that lead me to Catholicism but the truth is more mundane. I was born into it. A gift I don't deserve. That makes me concerned that I am just out here happily confirming my biases like everyone else. How lucky for me to be born into the right religion!!

But when I hit the questioning age I decided that sticking with it till falsified made more sense than dropping it till proven. After all my ancestors successfully reproduced and lived good lives.

The thing that got my attention, was that every time I asked my own questions, and did the painful leg work to really figure out for myself some obscure corner of morality or philosophy, it turned out that the church had already come to my hard fought conclusions millenia ago and had better reasoning for it. Every. Darn. Time.

When a source of information has a 100% track-record (I am talking beliefs taught not necessarily the actions of adherents) you don't stop questioning for yourself, but you also just go with what they say for the things you haven't had time or ability to tackle yourself. Having a look-up table for how to handle obscure situations in a complex world is a superpower.

There's more to it than that but it's kinda were I start post parental indoctrination.

It's like that story of engineers reinforcing the parts of planes that had bullet holes.

Don't recommend more videos like the ones watched, I already covered that topic, recommend topics I haven't watched but that a person like me might like.

Well, your score was information, so my result doesn't count. I picked a starting word with uncommon letters. By my third guess I couldn't think of a word so I put in something that _looked_ a word and behold..

Didn't know that was a word.

Yeah, I've only gotten in two a smattering of times since this craze began. I'm more of a 4-5 guy.

Lol, You are a inspiration sir

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Also I should buy a lottery ticket today.

I am more likely to zap 1000sats because it is a rare occasion that I want to let someone know that their contribution is valuable. So when I zap it is generally large-ish.

Thanks for asking!

White whale or not, I haven't really made progress since I wrote my senior thesis. My main accomplishment there was rediscovering Wheel Sieves 20 years after Paul Pritchard did. Though I only found that out a few years ago :-p My research game isn't great.

Wheels are a delightful way to think about the distribution of primes. They have lots of surprising properties. They are what allowed me to count the twin co-primes to the first N primes. I'd show the formula, it is pretty simple, but not sure how to write the product operator in text.

Whelp, it seems I am now a great uncle. Feels strange for a kid my age.

Hell exists not because God refuses us, but because we refuse God. In heaven we are united with God who is perfect. What if we don't want to be perfect? What if we spent our lives defining ourselves by lies and self-serving desires? Then union with God becomes worse than hell because everything that we are would be burned away. If we value the creature we have become, more than we want to be with God, then God will honor that choice by allowing us to choose to exist apart from Him.

The trouble is that since God is All Good, not merely a good being, but a being who IS goodness itself, then hell is devoid of good. Not completely since existence itself is a good, but enough to keep those souls that will not change, from having to change. Heaven for them would be abject horror, but the little love that remains in hell is still a torment for them.

Caveat: I haven't personally used web sockets.

The reason is latency and simplicity (of implementation)

Generally a client isn't interested in making new connections, it is interested in being able to send and receive data quickly to a small set of relays. Web sockets, once established, have much lower overhead than http. This allows all kinds of low latency communication.

Dealing with raw sockets is a pain, however, but solutions for web sockets exist in every language and platform. This allows relatively easy web clients as well as native clients.

The main genius of nostr is that it is humble. It doesn't try to do too much, and used common web technologies that, while not optimal, are at least acceptable and easy to work with given the existing layers of abstractaction available.

This is also a drawback. Nostr is kinda inefficient for it. But adoption is harder than optimization.

And after midnight.

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Sneaking a game in just before midnight.

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I just want to know if there are infinite twin primes. It is one of those things that are easy to formulate but very hard to prove. That is probably why I like it. An idiot like me can understand it but because it is unsolved I get to pretend that I am doing something special.

Twin primes aren't actually very special, they are just one case of a prime gap.

p_(n+1) - p_n = m

Where m = 2

But you could set m to any positive integer and ask questions about the distribution of gaps that size.

For m=1 there is only 1 pair at n=1. {2,3}

Then all odd m have 0 occurrences.

But if you pick an even m there appear to be infinite but it is a bear to prove. I think real mathematicians have proven that at least some small gap sizes must occur infinitely often. I think the best we know is that at least one gap size less than or equal to 246 occurs infinitely often.

The best I have done myself, was to show that for any finite list of primes there are infinitely many twins co-prime to the numbers in the list, and I can even count them for you. The problem is that isn't a finite list of primes.

The problem has had me nerd-sniped for over 20 years because it is just so unlikely that there could be a finite number of them. If given some finite list of primes I can always find a huge number of candidate twin primes, then they would all have to be supremely unlucky to end up cancelled by some larger prime with none escaping ever.

Correction. Billion dollar idea.

My like goes for the whole thread. Good work!

Well boo! Thanks for the info.

Oooh. A portmanteau of post and roast! I can't wait for your unfiltered take-downs of the rest of us. #noastr

Don't look now but apparently I follow you.

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