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I guess I can still shill things on here.
I'm alive and working at Antithesis in London. It's been fun watching this slightly mad Hegel-themed project take shape
So I wrote a new property-based testing library
antithesis.com/blog/2026/heg…
Morning, just passing through. Twitter break has been good for me and unlike previous times I feel no urge to come back, so I’m extending it indefinitely
Thread for notebook posts, first one is here teapawt.org/drossbucket/status/142…
Experimenting with having a notebook blog, and also testing out Ghost. Here's the first post, on why I'm fine with my second brain being a total mess
lucykeer.com/notebucket/seco…
Why single character variable names in maths make sense even though programmers don't like them lucykeer.com/notebucket/vari…
Lucy Keer 🪣 retweeted
a course with only two students that you travel 80km to teach every week can still be a great success if they happen to be particularly good students
> "the only course in history where all its attendees received a Nobel Prize"
teapawt.org/burkov/status/17856965…
Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar used to travel 80 kilometers every week from the Yerkes Observatory to the University of Chicago, where he taught a course attended by only two students. When asked why he spent his time this way, the professor replied that they were very good students.
In 1957, Lee Tsung-Dao and Yang Chen-Ning were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. The course taught by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar became the only course in history where all its attendees received a Nobel Prize.
Unblocked the For you tab to get my weekly dose of brainworms and it's weirdly good? Whatever they've done to it, they should keep it like that
I still couldn't stand to keep it unblocked permanently, but it was normally like that I'd consider using it more
Lucy Keer 🪣 retweeted
like, "math trauma" is a very coarse and quite overt/obvious version of this. i think it can get very specific, like "i jive with most of abstract algebra but rings make me subtly sad such that i never spent much time on them"
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i feel like various content specific emotional cruft is the dark matter of the STEM world
invisibly governing what makes some domains click or not click for diff types of people
which probably explains everything in the world but I'm not 100% sure teapawt.org/drossbucket/status/180…
Music teaching methods in 18th century Italy.
It's going to be difficult to turn this into my monocause but I can try, somehow the very next tweet in my feed turns out to be pretty relevant teapawt.org/_StevenFan/status/1805…
I miss vgr threads teapawt.org/vgr/status/14212686743…
Obvious in retrospect, but TIL "orientation" comes from "facing east"
Christian churches used do this but I guess it faded out alongside the Reformation for some reason
The word “orientation” literally means “pointing east”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orie…
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but everyone is like yeah whatever I like blueberries and galaxies, what the fuck are you talking about meekaale, yeah it's great that we live in a cosmos that affords fractal fields of coherent intelligible centers but sir this is a wendy's
Lucy Keer 🪣 retweeted
it's fundamentally fascinating to me why the cosmos has such an extreme tendency to create centers, planets, clusters, nexuses, structures, harmonies, hierarchies
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I’m feeling quite fascinated by this “art including the pandemic” question
What stands out to me is that (A) we each went through something, and (B) we were isolated while it happened
