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19:26, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs uploaded File:What-should-I-do-if-I'm-carrying-an-abstract-algebra-book-around-and-someone-thinks-I'm-doing-remedial-algebra.png
19:23, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What are the most guy-friendly chick flicks of all time (Quora Answer) (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> Kill Bill I & 2. Ultimately, it is a tribute to motherhood, and the ability of a woman of determination to steadfastly refuse to be controlled, subjugated or humiliated by refusing to be handed a label and fate determined by her oppressors. I'm not sure why this wasn't on other lists as I thoroughly enjoyed it and think other men shouldn't be scared away from this moving fable of fem...")
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19:19, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs moved page What are some of the most badass photos ever taken? to What are some of the most badass photos ever taken? (Quora Answer)
19:18, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Was Feynman right when he said, If you give more money to theoretical physics, it doesn’t do any good if it just increases the number of guys following the comet head (Quora Answer) (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> ''[Note added in response to comment: I am responding here to Feynman's suggestion in the second half of the quote that the *only* way to make progress is to encourage career risk. My objection is to the continuing wasteful and dangerous conflation of personal intellectual ri...")
19:17, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Was-Feynman-right-when-he-said-If-you-give-more-money-to-theoretical-physics-it-doesn’t-do-any-good-if-it-just-increases-the-number-of-guys-following-the-comet-head.jpg
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18:57, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page In Kung Fu Panda, how does Po end up developing the capability to be an awesome Kung Fu fighter (Quora Answer) (Created page with " thumb <blockquote> ''This is an important question for our time and must therefore be considered carefully. ''First one must challenge the assumptions of the questioner. Po is not a slob. He is a panda with an appetite and lack of athleticism to match, and principally fat because of this. ''From a defensive perspective, we find out early that Po's rolls of fat i...")
18:55, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:In-Kung-Fu-Panda-how-does-Po-end-up-developing-the-capability-to-be-an-awesome-Kung-Fu-fighter.png
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18:10, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What does it feel like to have an answer collapsed for the first time? (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> ''I can't say how it is for everyone, but it has been a wonderfully liberating experience for me. ''I have been troubled in recent years by the claim emanating from social media circles that crowds are intrinsically wise and that 'big data' has made theory (and theorists) largely irrelevant. Despite the fact that this seems like nonsense to me, many people that I respec...")
18:09, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:What-does-it-feel-like-to-have-an-answer-collapsed-for-the-first-time.png
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18:06, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What are some of the most epic photos ever taken? (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> center ''The landing photograph from Titan. This is likely the most alien world from which humanity has an intimate image.'' - '''Eric Weinstein''' on [https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/answer/Eric-Weinstein-1 Quora] </blockquote> Category:Quora Answers")
18:05, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:What-are-some-of-the-most-epic-photos-ever taken.png
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18:03, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Titan-photo.jpg
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17:53, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What does it feel like to read a groundbreaking academic paper? (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> ''Oddly, it's a secular experience which feels religious in its nature. Ground breaking papers are often dedicated to discoveries rather than creations or solutions. As such they put you in touch with a pre-established structure which was never seen before. ''But you can now get this feeling without reading such papers. Video animation of ATP synthase should blow your mind as...")
17:47, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:What-does-it-feel-like-to-read-a-groundbreaking-academic-paper.png
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17:42, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What is the greatest entrance in cinema history? (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> ''Even Harry Lime would find it hard to beat the entrance of Tim Curry's Dr. Frank-N-Furter given the set up by Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon's Brad&Janet: {{#widget:YouTube|id=ZCZDWZFtyWY}} ''No explanation is needed when the scene speaks for itself. - '''Eric Weinstein''' on [https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-badass-photos-ever-taken/answer/Eric-Weinstein-1 Quora] </bl...")
17:42, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:What-is-the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema history.png
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17:21, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs moved page What's the hardest instrument to play? to What's the most complicated instrument to play?
17:20, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What's the hardest instrument to play? (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> ''To my way of thinking, it is hard to beat the Sarangi. If it wasn't transcendent, there would likely be no reason to maintain such a beast of a violin. Due to the sympathetic strings in its construction, merely tuning it seems nearly a superhuman feat. Among classical instruments, it arguably maxes out simultaneously on depth, beauty, intricacy, and unforgiving difficulty. ''The secret to the instru...")
17:19, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Whats-the-hardest-instrument-to-play.png
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17:05, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What is Occupy Wall Street about? (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> ''I don't believe anyone is genuinely confused about what this is about. It doesn't matter what silly things people put on signs or chant in drum circles. Let's at least be honest with ourselves. ''Like many who have worked in finance, I support derivatives, financial markets, hedge funds, leverage, speculation, innovative financial products, the profit motive, private enterprise and wealth accumulation f...")
17:05, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:What-is-Occupy-Wall-Street-about.png
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17:02, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Why does an economy need derivatives? (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> ''Economies need derivatives and speculators because of the need to transfer uncertainty from those who require stability to those with an ability to bear and manage risk. ''The question could be better phrased, as derivatives are not actually speculative instruments. They are financial instruments which are sometimes used by speculators. To see the importance of this point, imagine a world without in...")
17:01, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Why-does-an-economy-need-derivatives.png
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16:57, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What are some of the most badass photos ever taken? (Created page with "thumb <blockquote> In an effort to draw attention to the plight of the homeless, Robert Overacker traded his life for a single breathtaking shot of a lone man careening over the edge of sanity and into eternity......on a Jetski. We share in this picture, his exaltation and frozen moment of greatest triumph with his fist held high above his head, as he soars above the maelstrom. A split s...")
16:57, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:What-are-some-of-the-most-badass-photos-ever-taken-Robert-Overacker.png
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16:56, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Last-photo-of-robert-overacker-as-he-jet-skies-off-niagara-falls.jpeg.webp
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16:50, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page What is Gauge Theory (intuitively)? (Created page with "<blockquote> ''A gauge theory is a geometric theory of differentiation in which the Rise in Rise/Run is computed as the Rise above a reference level determined endogenously within the theory.'' - '''Eric Weinstein''' on [https://www.quora.com/What-is-Gauge-Theory-%28intuitively%29/answer/Eric-Weinstein-1?ch=10&share=6b553738&srid=uqwOWv Quora] </blockquote> Category:Quora Answers")
04:22, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Go Virtual Young Man (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''"GO VIRTUAL YOUNG MAN"''' Oddly, the Internet is still invisible to the point where many serious thinkers continue to doubt whether it changes modern thought at all. In science we generally first learn about invisible structures from anomalies in concrete systems. The existence of an invisible neutrino on the same footing as visible particles was predicted in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli as the error term necessary to save the principles of conservation of en...")
04:21, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page The Last Question (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> Does something unprecedented happen when we finally learn our own source code? </blockquote>")
04:20, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Russell Conjugation (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''Russell Conjugation''' We are told that we are entitled to our own opinions but not our own facts. This leaves out the observation that the war for our minds and attention is now increasingly being waged over neither facts nor opinions but feelings. In an era in which anyone can publish anything, the quest to control information has largely been lost by institutions, with a race on to weaponize empathy by understanding its basis in linguistics and tweak...")
04:19, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Anthropic Capitalism And The New Gimmick Economy (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''Anthropic Capitalism And The New Gimmick Economy''' Consider a thought experiment: If market capitalism was the brief product of happy coincidences confined in space and time to the developed world of the 19th-20th centuries, (but that were no longer true under 21st century technology) what would our world look like if there were no system to take its place? I have been reluctantly forced to the conclusion that if technology had killed capitalism, econom...")
04:18, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page M-theory or String Theory is the Only Game in Town (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''M-theory / String Theory is the Only Game in Town''' If one views science as an economist, it would stand to reason that the scientific theory that should be first retired would be the one that offers the greatest opportunity for arbitrage in the market place of ideas. Thus it is not sufficient to look for ideas which are merely wrong, as we should instead look for troubled scientific ideas that block progress by inspiring zeal, devotion, and what biolog...")
04:16, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Kayfabe (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''Kayfabe''' The sophisticated "scientific concept" with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling. Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures. Yet most of our t...")
04:15, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Einstein's Revenge: The New Geometric Quantum (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''Einstein's Revenge: The New Geometric Quantum''' The modern theory of the quantum has only recently come to be understood to be even more exquisitely geometric than Einstein's General Relativity. How this realization unfolded over the last 40 years is a fascinating story that has, to the best of my knowledge, never been fully told as it is not particularly popular with some of the very people responsible for this stunning achievement. To set the stage,...")
04:14, 10 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page Excellence (Edge Essay) (Created page with "<blockquote> '''Excellence''' Over the past two decades I have been involved with the war on excellence. I know that those few of us actively involved in the struggle are deeply worried about the epidemic of excellence precisely because excellence compels its hosts to facilitate its spread by altering their perception of its costs and benefits. Most educated people have come to revere the spending of the fabled '10,000 hours' in training to become respected jacks of on...")
21:05, 9 October 2024 Pyrope talk contribs created page File:Eric-Weinstein-Issues-of-Legislation-and-Merit-in-Scientific-Labor-Markets.png