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Jan. 31st, 2026 07:35 pm
Moral or, more precisely, immoral issues aside, Epstein ran a successful service business where he provided his customers, aka "friends", with exactly what they wanted when they wanted it. He also assumed legal risks, which the customers appreciated. That aspect of the business ultimately led to his incarceration and death.
Madame Hollywood was convicted in the 1990s, so Epstein learned from her mistakes and located his high-end sex services center on an island, not in a large city like LA where the word would eventually get out.
I wonder who provides the services now and how they deal with risks.
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Jan. 25th, 2026 06:22 pmWSJ: Federal agents holding a man down and spraying chemical irritants in his face last week in Minneapolis. RICHARD TSONG-TAATARII/STAR TRIBUNE/ZUMA PRESS
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/minneapolis-pretti-trump-immigration-protests-068b69d4
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/minneapolis-pretti-trump-immigration-protests-068b69d4
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Jun. 24th, 2025 01:59 pmPrediction markets don't buy the "obliteration" story
https://polymarket.com/event/fordow-nuclear-facility-destroyed-before-july
https://polymarket.com/event/fordow-nuclear-facility-destroyed-before-july
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Feb. 2nd, 2025 11:18 pmI keep coming back to this video about the relationship between (pre-)sheafs and cohomology. Here he says that "the number one technique in mathematics is turning any problem into a linear algebra problem.
More generally, Lawvere often talks about mapping geometry to algebra.
https://youtu.be/RPuWHN0BTio?si=U0h7YM-3GlcyvnS5&t=1890
D --> J <-- T ( c: D --> T is the solution to a choice problem, per Lawvere).
d: D --> J
e: T --> J
c: D --> T
This diagram is a regular Kan extension problem, with a cohomology twist, i.e. assigning values to both objects and arrows.
More generally, Lawvere often talks about mapping geometry to algebra.
https://youtu.be/RPuWHN0BTio?si=U0h7YM-3GlcyvnS5&t=1890
D --> J <-- T ( c: D --> T is the solution to a choice problem, per Lawvere).
d: D --> J
e: T --> J
c: D --> T
This diagram is a regular Kan extension problem, with a cohomology twist, i.e. assigning values to both objects and arrows.
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Sep. 14th, 2024 10:31 amFDA approved Airpods2 as hearing aids for people with mild to medium hearing loss. https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-airpods-pro-hearing-aid-features-af0f2714
As soon as it rolls out the software update this fall, Apple will instantly make the AirPods Pro 2 into a medical device, essentially turning every pair of the company’s top-selling headphones into over-the-counter hearing aids.
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75% of people with hearing loss let it go untreated, according to the Apple Hearing Study, a project run with the University of Michigan. In case you don’t trust medical statistics from a trillion-dollar company trying to sell you something, the audiologists I consulted told me that number sounded right.
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Aug. 15th, 2024 11:33 am
Ukrainian forces said they accepted the surrender of the largest single group of Russian soldiers since the start of the war more than two years ago, as Kyiv’s military claimed to continue expanding its cross-border incursion.
A Ukrainian Security Service unit operating in Russia’s Kursk region took 102 Russian servicemen as prisoners-of-war, according to a person with knowledge of the operation, who asked not to be identified because the matter is sensitive.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-15/ukraine-reports-largest-surrender-by-russian-troops-of-the-war
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Feb. 27th, 2024 08:08 pmThe development of computerized simulations and techniques for real-time imaging at microscopic scales provides a partial solution to the problem of visu- alizing such n-dimensional entities, by providing, in effect, 4D projections of them. With these techniques, the scientist or any other viewer of the imagery is removed from the production of the representation, however, which negatively affects the quality of insight and inference.
Quoted from Drawing Processes of Life, 2024.
One purpose of going from viewing to insight development would be discovery of transition points in the process of change, see e.g.
For example, the emergence of new opportunities and related decision forks can be represented as a critical point within the Morse-Smale theory.
