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This is a page turner! I have a hard time imagining what everyone looks like. There’s 2 TV versions of this. Australian and American with Uma Thurman. Who does Uma play? I’m guessing Rosie

RIP Tommy dePaola.

FOR TRUE LARB, I WILL SACRIFICE. I want to eat some good larb

I'm kind of always reading this book

For any odd prime p, there are p-1 coprime integers (1 to p-1). Exactly half of these will be quadratic residues mod p. In the previous example where p is 11, there are 10 coprime integers - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - of which exactly 5 are quadratic residues. (1, 3, 4, 5, 9)

We're assembling the modular worlds.. the shadows of the integers

I've made it to quadratic residues, but the going is getting difficult. No fault of the book though. I feel like this is really as accessible as it can get. Just have to put the time in.

Quadratic residues mod 11 are 1, 3, 4, 5, 9:

1^2 = 1 mod 11
2^2 = 4 mod 11
3^2 = 9 mod 11
4^2 = 5 mod 11
5^2 = 4 mod 11
6^2 = 3 mod 11
7^2 = 5 mod 11
8^2 = 9 mod 11
9^2 = 4 mod 11
10^2 = 1 mod 11

Page 2 of this book and I’m already having panic attacks

AlphaZero seems to have the best of both worlds. It exhibits the machine's ability to calculate accurately and deeply at a superhuman level. It also shows the human ability to steer the game into a position that looks generally promising without needing to calculate all the way to checkmate.

Quite fascinating so far. They think AlphaZero plays sharper checkmate-forcing lines to avoid tricky tactical endgames where there's only one winning variation (the kind of thing at which Stockfish excels). Basically AlphaZero plays in a way that keeps as many options open as possible. Hard to summarize but pretty interesting. If you're into this kind of thing :)

Ok I'm hooked. What the hell is this countdown?!

Very inspiring thus far. She contends with a lot of sexist pigs. But Annapurna awaits

He just doesn't give up!!

In a life of pursuits adopted and discarded with the ebb and flow of Shannon's promiscuous curiosity, chess remained one of his few lifelong pastimes. One story has it that Shannon played so much chess at Bell Labs that “at least one supervisor became somewhat worried.”

“Then I got a job doing magic at a bar mitzvah party, and it changed my life.”

“Work is the meat in the hamburger of life.” 🤔

“Work is the meat in the hamburger of life.” 🤔

Rereading this. Now that the movie's coming out, it's easier for me to imagine the scenes from this book as I'm reading, which makes it much funnier. I've been laughing out loud. Can't wait to see Franco's take! A lot of the stuff in the trailer is taken more or less directly from the book.

I love it when a book throws me for a loop. This is not what I expected at all. In a good way!

Ehhh maybe Brix isn't so cool. She keeps falling for these "bad boys" and losing her identity in the relationship.

What if... this book is actually quite boring?!
It seemed so riveting at Camp Mather but now that I'm back home it's becoming a slog

shout out to goodreads san francisco public library integration the BEST HIDDEN FEATURE EVER

"Zappos was supposed to be done with its migration into Amazon's systems by now. The original goal was 2015, then Q1 2016, and now the date was put into later 2016. Supercloud has led Zappos to lose a lot of its tech talent, and it has delayed innovation. The company hasn't updated its website significantly in nearly a decade."

GR folks-- 'Supercloud' was Zappos version of 'Move to Prod'

Wait a minute this about "Holacracy!" (sinister musical sting) Batshit crazy. It's actually not complimentary to Tony Hseih at all

30 pages in and I'm already incredibly annoyed by this book's glib hagiographic tone. The level of oblivious privilege is off the charts. Reading on in hopes of some juicy dirt or some kind of interesting truth about vegas and or hseih. If I wasn't from vegas and interested in the downtown container park, I would have already tossed this.

"When it comes to games or love, men hate being chased." 🤔 we do ???

I really love the design of this book. Independent of what it says, the book design is so good. Abd the uncredited illustrations are delicious.

This is surprisingly good.

I am very hostile towards this book. Just based on the capitalization of the title I hate it.

I always enjoy interviews w/ Tao Lin... http://www.vice.com/read/tao-lin-is-c...

This is entertaining. Lots of anthropology talk (she is the lowest rank baboon) She's "going native"