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Abdul Matin is 35% done

“…but it was actually von Neumann who convinced them that they shouldn’t detonate the devices at ground level, but higher up in the atmosphere, since that way the blast wave would cause incomparably larger damage. He even calculated the optimal height himself—six hundred meters,…”

— Aug 25, 2024 01:28AM

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Abdul Matin is 55% done

“Our earthly existence, since it in itself has a very doubtful meaning, can only be a means towards a goal of another existence. The idea that everything in the world has a meaning is, after all, precisely analogous to the principle that everything has a cause, on which the whole of science rests.
— Kurt Gödel, letter to his mother”

— Dec 29, 2024 04:24AM

Abdul Matin is 51% done

“THERE MUST BE SOMETHING ABOUT THIS CODE THAT YOU HAVEN’T EXPLAINED YET”

— Sep 07, 2024 11:21AM

Abdul Matin is 41% done

“According to Oppenheimer, during a briefing at the RAND Corporation Teller gave such an impressive account of the power that the hydrogen bomb would offer the United States that the Secretary of the Air Force, Thomas K. Finletter, jumped to his feet and shouted, “Give us this weapon and we will rule the world!

— Sep 07, 2024 04:56AM

Abdul Matin is 41% done

“neither the natural nor the social sciences are ever neutral, even if they aspire to be that way.”

— Sep 02, 2024 11:31AM

Abdul Matin is on page 80 of 368

… in some sense, paranoia is logic run amok.

— Aug 22, 2024 09:53AM

Abdul Matin is on page 62 of 368

Enjoying every bit and byte.

— Aug 22, 2024 02:33AM