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Today we celebrate the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani.
While the world knows her as the first woman to win the Fields Medal, her brilliance was legendary in Iran long before that. Even before her global accolades, she was famous among students and scholars for her exceptional book on Number Theory, which remains a staple for Olympiad aspirants.
A genius who proved that the most complex surfaces still hold beautiful, hidden symmetries.
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Today, May 12, we celebrate the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) - the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal.
Her groundbreaking work on Riemann surfaces and moduli spaces continues to inspire mathematicians worldwide.
May 12 is now International Women in Mathematics Day.
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So grateful my grandmother died in 2023. Having to live through carpet bombing, and Tehran turning into Gaza, would have terrified her.
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Everything we're doing to make codebases "agent-ready" (better docs, less dead code, smaller surfaces) engineers always needed too. Agents just have zero tolerance for the entropy humans learned to work around. They can't "just know" a file is outdated or a code path is dead. They take your codebase at face value, which means it finally has to be worth taking at face value.
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Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ thetimes.com/world/middle-ea…
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I literally think about California’s geography permanently. You don’t know how privileged you are. It’s a perfect Olympia with a giant bay, a massive agricultural valley, diverse climates, southern niches for cities, a Mediterranean climate, and a wine region. Absolutely goated.
No one is saying it yet .. but there's a great opportunity for a new kind of tech leadership to arise.
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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
ALT Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."
ALT “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
ALT A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.
They have always been the most important .. AI or not. Even at the peak adoption of serverless and public cloud they still were the most important builders.
Many years ago, I used to think of AI as something that was very much intertwined with philosophy. Surprised that there's almost no philosophy talk with recent developments.
As if the job market isn’t already though enough, I have the new requirement for my job to be cycle commute friendly… very doable in the Bay Area I presume