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QC @qchu.bsky.social · Jun 5

this poem contains several of the worst sentences i've ever written

QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 8

there’s a girl working at my favorite diner who i swear to god has the exact appearance and vibe of an irl wendy from gravity falls and she is really doing something to me good lord

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 7

this probably looked really nice like a week or two ago

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 7

very cultured, nice

QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 7

bless. this is the best stuff on my skyline rn 🫡

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 7

that episode of voyager where she let down her hair really did something for me as a kid

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 7

like you can take a look at the wacky stuff here, it's not hard to e.g. describe ordinals so large ZFC can't construct them, or any other particular computable list of axioms for set theory!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_countable_ordinal

en.wikipedia.org

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 7

*how weird definite-but-not-surveyable collections are

like the collection of countable ordinals is truly insanely large, almost all of them are impossible to describe in any fixed ordinal notation, e.g. almost all of them are uncomputable. it's extremely different in character from N

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 7

i haven't thought through this carefully but yeah, i think in this framework aleph_1, or more precisely omega_1 thought of as the collection of all countable ordinals, is definite but not surveyable. in other papers i think he does a good job emphasizing how weird surveyable collections are

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 7

just got on here to quickly scope out the vibes! looks like they're p good

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 7

🥳

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

the quintessential american pastime might be forcing yourself to do things that happy people do spontaneously

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

i admire your bravery

QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

naturally 🥲

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

🫡🙏

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

whomst among us tho

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

i watched power rangers religiously, starting when i lived in singapore even iirc, but wow watching it with your whole family must've been next level 🥲

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

mood 😔

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

research started in the '50s apparently

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

goes back possibly to 1956!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210103041306/http://www.hutchinsweb.me.uk/MTNI-11-1995.pdf

web.archive.org

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

here's a reference to it from 1983 so it's been around for A While

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/28/business/technology-the-computer-as-translator.html

www.nytimes.com

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

every picture or video of an animal is pretty much universally good, like it's really hard to go wrong with those. the fact that the same isn't true of humans points at some things that i think are very sad

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

the version i heard as a kid was about russian to english and it ended up "the vodka is strong but the meat is rotten," this was a strong meme back in the day

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

peaceful 🥲

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QC @qchu.bsky.social · May 6

flesh salad. german is such a beautiful language

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