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Over the last few months, adjunction and natural transformation have been the most important concepts in my work. I wonder how people come up with such beautiful ideas; ideas that are both intuitive and rigorous.


https://youtu.be/KaBz45nZEZw?t=10m
https://youtu.be/GTzatG_pUmg?t=34m20s

Also, one of my students solved the Underwear Gnomes Profit problem. I'm really proud of him.



http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s02e17-gnomes

Speaking of shithole countries

"От 25 до 35% неправильно высланных."
"Теснота невероятная, - есть места, где на человека приходится меньше 1/10 кв метра площади... кубатура меньше гробовой."

https://corporatelie.livejournal.com/188590.html

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In the circumstances it was good news, for the nobility could look forward even to an unsuccessful war with greater complacency than to an ignominious peace. Accordingly they made the most of the situation; the Senate ordered an immediate raising of troops and a general mobilization on the largest possible scale and with even greater urgency than in the previous year, in the hope that the revolutionary proposals which the tribunes were bringing forward might be forgotten in the bustle and excitement of three imminent campaigns.

-- Titus Livy. “The Early History of Rome.”