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The Mathocalypse as a Dataset

For quite a few years of my adult life, I was in a situationship with pure mathematics. Specifically, a small lonely subfield of functional analysis. In his book on the subject, John Conway quipped that functional analysis, itself a somewhat modest corner of real analysis, is so vast that two researchers both working in it might not understand each other’s work. From my tiny specialized subfield, math looked very, very large and whatever progress I might make looked very, very inconsequential. The situationship ended, and my ascendant career as a data-themed, quantitative substacker eventually

LessWrong · EN

I love traveling and I'm quite boring about it

How I stay myself on the road.

Thu Le · EN

Toronto Core

I lived in Toronto for a few years quite a while ago and these are the things that shaped my memory of the great city. Inspired by Saigon Core and Toronto Core . Most of these places will be shut or changed entirely by now but this is a time capsule within my head. An evening at Roy Thomson Hall listening to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Fried Chicken, Pulled Pork Bao and Duck Confit Banh Mi from Banh Mi Boys The far too spicy Kothu Roti from Saffron Spice Kitchen Gra Bong from PAI Mini donuts and a coffee from Little Nicky's A quiet evening in the Aquarium Sour cherry slice from Wanda's Pie

Matt Davey · EN