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Vishal Mohanty

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  • The Riemann hypothesis (or, how to earn $1 million)
    The Riemann hypothesis (or, how to earn $1 million)
  • Now I know, most likely you're watching this on Youtube or Twitch while some dude with 10 million views does it for you, like a baby bird being chewed-up food. That's culture too.
    Full Monologue - Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy – @schnedwob on Tumblr
  • Have you thought about who you are in this? Are you the man in the pot, Diogenes? Are you his hand? Are you the top of his hammer? I think not. Where your hand moves, the hammer may not follow... nor the man, nor the man's hand. In this you're his will. His intent. The embodied resolve in his uphill ascent.
    Full Monologue - Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy – @schnedwob on Tumblr
  • What's the feeling like? Are you stressed? I guess you don't hate it if you got this far, feeling frustrated- it's underrated. An orange is sweet juicy fruit locked inside a bitter peel. That's not how I feel about a challenge. I only want the bitterness. It's coffee, it's grapefruit, it's licorice.
    Full Monologue - Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy – @schnedwob on Tumblr
  • When everything around us is cultural trash, trash becomes the new medium- the lingua franca of the digital age- and you can build culture out of trash, but only trash culture: b-games, b-movies, b-music, b-philosophy. Maybe this is what digital culture is. A monstrous mountain of trash, the ash-heap of creativity's fountain. A landfill with everything we ever thought of in it. Grand, infinite, and unsorted.
    Full Monologue - Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy – @schnedwob on Tumblr
  • Everything's fresh for about six seconds- until some newer thing beckons- and we hit refresh, and there's years of perservering disappearing into the pile; out of style, out of sight. In this context, it's tempting to make friendly content that's gentle- that lets you churn through it but not earn it. Why make something demanding if it just gets piled up in the landfill, filed in with the bland things?
    Full Monologue - Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy – @schnedwob on Tumblr
  • RIVER: I can't let you die. DOCTOR: But I have to die. RIVER: Shut up! I can't let you die without knowing you are loved by so many, and so much, and by no one more than me. DOCTOR: River, you and I, we know what this means. We are ground zero of an explosion that will engulf all reality. Billions on billions will suffer and die. RIVER: I'll suffer if I have to kill you. DOCTOR: More than every living thing in the universe? RIVER: Yes.
    The Doctor Who Transcripts - The Wedding of River Song
  • RIVER: Those reports of the sun spots and the solar flares. They're wrong. There aren't any. It's not the sun, it's you. The sky is full of a million, million voices saying yes, of course we'll help. You've touched so many lives, saved so many people. Did you think when your time came, you'd really have to do more than just ask? You've decided that the universe is better off without you, but the universe doesn't agree
    The Doctor Who Transcripts - The Wedding of River Song
  • RIVER: This was exactly you. All this. All of it. You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name. Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word Doctor means mighty warrior. How far you've come. And now they've taken a child, the child of your best friends, and they're going to…
    The Doctor Who Transcripts - A Good Man Goes To War
  • KOVARIAN: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules. DOCTOR: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
    The Doctor Who Transcripts - A Good Man Goes To War
  • Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?
    The Doctor Who Transcripts - Dark Water
  • hatred is too strong an emotion to waste on someone that you don't like.
    The Doctor Who Transcripts - Mummy on the Orient Express
  • careers are long; you are talented and have more time than you think. don’t sell your soul to a memeplex without understanding the full terms of the contract.
    escaping flatland: career advice for CS undergrads
  • We do not think in folders. 3:16 We do not retrieve meaning through 3:18 backlinks. Our minds are 3:19 improvisational. They forget on purpose. 3:22 Donald in his theory of cognitive 3:24 evolution argues that human intelligence 3:25 emerged not from static memory storage 3:28 but from external symbolic 3:29 representation. tools like language and 3:31 gesture and writing that allowed us to 3:33 rehearse, share, and restructure 3:35 thought. Culture became a collective 3:37 memory system, not to archive knowledge, 3:39 but to keep it alive, replayed, and 3:42 reworked.
    Why I Deleted My Second Brain: A Journey Back to Real Thinking - YouTube
  • If what you are working on is not important and not likely to lead to important things, then why are you working on it?
    You and Your Research
  • Who else but a man with almost infinite courage would ever think of averaging over all random codes and expect the average code would be good? He knew what he was doing was important and pursued it intensely. Courage, or confidence, is a property to develop in yourself.
    You and Your Research
  • Quantum mechanics suffers from the notorious measurement problem, a problem which demands one or another interpretation of the quantum formalism.
    Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • Physicists routinely discard the advanced solutions for reasons of “causality”. It is not so clear thermodynamic considerations are behind this rejection of solutions, an asymmetry made all the harder to see given the freedom electromagnetism has to rewrite retarded fields in terms of advanced fields and outgoing sourceless radiation (and vice versa).
    Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • The traditional problem is not merely that nomologically possible (anti-thermodynamic) behavior does not occur when it could. That is not straightforwardly a problem: all sorts of nomologically allowed processes do not occur. Rather, the problem is that statistical mechanics seems to make a prediction that is falsified, and that is a problem according to anyone’s theory of confirmation.
    Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • One of our deepest observations about nature is that we remember the past, but not the future: that is, that the psychological arrow of time aligns with the thermo- dynamic arrow of time. In fact, this phenomenon is so deeply embedded in our experience that it took almost all of history even to recognize that there was a question to be answered.
    1310.1095
  • improve your craft 21:38 not because it will get you promoted but 21:40 because it's fun to create things and 21:41 when you do create things don't be 21:43 afraid to share them with the world
    How 1 Software Engineer Outperforms 138 - Lichess Case Study - YouTube
  • Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
    fish shell
  • When you live in a command line, configurations are a deeply personal thing. They are often crafted over years of experience, battles lost, lessons learned, advice followed, and ingenuity rewarded. When you are away from your own configurations, you are an orphaned refugee in unfamiliar and hostile surroundings. You feel clumsy and out of sorts. You are filled with a sense of longing to be back in a place you know. A place you built. A place where all the short-cuts have been worn bare by your own travels. A place you proudly call… $HOME.
    Yet Another Dotfiles Manager - yadm
  • Low-level programming is not the goal unto itself. High-level programming—a new kind of high-level programming—is the goal, and low-level is how we get there.
    High-level is the goal | Ben Visness
  • Low-level programming is artificially terrible. I really believe that. And I know that it doesn’t have to be this way.
    High-level is the goal | Ben Visness
  • If Neovim is the modern Vim, then Helix is post-modern.
    Helix
  • beware of old people with money who want to use you as a missile
    escaping flatland: career advice for CS undergrads
  • I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
    Quote by Gary Keller: “I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to...”
  • “I am so sorry” The king continued, “had we started but one day earlier your father would not have to die.”
    Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant - YouTube