Conor Grogan

@jconorgrogan

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i dont think so. I went from 1200 to CM in my 20s and it didnt impact much. i wish I had some of that time back to focus on building things :D

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Code here https://github.com/jconorgrogan/SpiralOfTheodorus where I tried to examine the famous pattern in some new ways

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I created a new fractal I've never seen before, via nesting the Spiral of Theodorus at every sqrt(4) radial line. It seems to form this sort of toroidal shape

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Alignment is simply the expression that a certain set of individuals' demonstrated wants (whether historical, or in present day expression or query), are not worthy, valid, or allowable Nobody wants to have the (real) debate about who is qualified to disqualify the wants of others

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Memory is the storage of patterns that have repeated in the past. Intelligence is the recognition that some part of the system itself has altered and is no longer repeating as it used to.

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Thanks guys! We are thinking of putting some muscle behind this and open sourcing it. May reach out soon!

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If we can prove that a certain statement is unprovable within a specific formal system, we can use that knowledge to define a new concept that incorporates that unprovability as a fundamental property. Building on that, we can build formal structures based on the information and differences between concepts

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Over the last 9 months since launch, Friend.Tech has earned more revenue than Opensea, Arbitrum, Binance Smart Chain, Optimism, Polygon, Curve, and ENS. Curve has the lowest FDV of any of them at $930M

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I've owned every major headset since the Vive. nothing compares to Eleven Table Tennis on the rift. Just such a cool, simple, great game

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Its completely wild but some of my own hobby work completely independently led me into a direction that, when I reviewed Arvix/Consensus for something similar, led me directly to his musings. So that means either we are both crazy in independent ways (which would be interesting in its own right!) or something else

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I have a strong suspicion that Atiyah's final papers on Riemann Hypothesis and the Fine-Structure Constant (largely dismissed as the rantings of an old man and admittedly almost impossible to parse and lacking detail/rigor) will be re-read and lauded for their foresight in the near future

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And I feel like from this perspective it more intuitively explains Gödel!

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if the premises exclude certain possibilities, then the conclusion must exclude at least as many possibilities. This is a subtle but big shift. Instead of focusing on the truth or falsity of propositions, we're focusing on their information content, on the possibilities they exclude.

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-But from an information-theoretic perspective, we might instead define inference in terms of the information content of propositions. A valid inference would be one that preserves or increases information -

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-In traditional logic, the basic rules of inference (like modus ponens or modus tollens) are typically defined in terms of the truth values of propositions. A valid inference is one that preserves truth - if the premises are true, then the conclusion must also be true.

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Longer diatribe: - If information is fundamentally defined by what is not known, then it seems logical that our basic rules of reasoning and inference should also be grounded in this distinction between what is known and what is not known.

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One of my predictions is that pure mathematics is going to realize that it needs to be tightly bound to information theory (specifically defining things by what can't be know)

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To give a quick example why it's cool: you can find Phi, the golden ratio Simply start at 1/1 go right, then left, then right down the tree(and repeat forever as long as you want). The "operation space" of this number is simply the oscillation of R and L; and this gets you Fib sequence too!

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Im working on some code to better help visualize these things, as to my knowledge, they've only been written by hand before. Working on an n-dimensional tree next. If you want to help heres the github https://github.com/jconorgrogan/Stern-Brocot-Tree-exploration

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I think Stern-Brocot trees are one of the most under-appreciated things in all of mathematics, and think there is a TON still to unpack here (For instance, the conceptual "meaning" of Euler's number e has a wild interpretation in the tree and I don't think its well understood)

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