Pythagorean ideas
While only about 1-5% and 1% of people have clinical levels of narcissism and psychopathy respectively – and many of them are in prison […] about a third of the population have above-average levels of dark traits. Such people have a hunger for power and control and are often selfish, unempathetic, manipulative, deceptive and remorseless to some degree.
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Tesla’s net income declined more than 50% last year […] A good chunk of the profit also came from growth in regulatory credits, an uncertain income source going forward in the Trump administration.
DeepSeek has pulled back the curtain to reveal that reasoning models are a lot easier to build than people thought […] If building reasoning models is not as hard as people thought, we can expect a proliferation of free models that are far more capable than we’ve yet seen.
There are reports that DeepSeek-R1 is censoring prompts related to sensitive topics about China […] I hypothesized that the censorship wasn’t baked into the model itself but rather applied as a sanitization layer on the input or output. […] The challenge then becomes finding a way to communicate with the model that slips past these filters. After some experimentation, I discovered that the best way to achieve this was by using a specific subset of charcodes. […] I used base16 (hexadecimal) charcodes, which are space-delimited. This means each character is represented by a two-digit hexadecimal number, separated by spaces. By prompting DeepSeek to converse with me using exclusively these charcodes, I could effectively bypass the filter.
The first hints of quantum behaviour in nature came in works by physicists Max Planck in 1900 and Albert Einstein in 1905. They showed that certain properties of light could best be explained by imagining that it came in discrete, particle-like chunks, rather than as the smooth waves that classical electromagnetism depicts. But their ideas fell short of describing a complete theory. It was the German physicist Werner Heisenberg who, in 1925, first put forward a comprehensive version of quantum mechanics. Later that year, Max Born and Pascual Jordan followed up on that with Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger soon produced an independent formulation of the theory. […] It works wonderfully, explaining things from lasers and chemistry to the Higgs boson and the stability of matter. But physicists don’t know why.
some Pythagorean ideas about numbers: Odd numbers were considered masculine; even numbers feminine because they are weaker than the odd. When divided they have, unlike the odd, nothing in the center. Further, the odds are the master, because odd + even always give odd. And two evens can never produce an odd, while two odds produce an even. Since the birth of a son was considered more fortunate than birth of a daughter, odd numbers became associated with good luck.
