Sublime

Xavior is a quintessential move monkey, a sleight-of-hand artist dedicated to mastering and innovating the hardest moves a person can do with a deck of cards. He is most famous for his flawless pass—where a stack of cards is undetectably and instantaneously moved from the top of the deck to the bottom, or vice versa, or from one area to another

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Using Mathematics to Make Money by Jim Simons https://t.co/UJJzAqnTH0

Laura idolizes Mercedes Talma, a British magician who rose to prominence in the early twentieth century and performed in the world-famous act Le Roy, Talma & Bosco, a troupe that included the famed Belgian conjurer Servais Le Roy, who also happened to be her husband. Although her career began as an assistant to her spouse, over time she herself

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There are completely mind-blowing examples in the GPT4 "sparks of AGI" study https://t.co/RDgg8E3F6V

I always hated that when I studied Physics, I had no intuition of what order I could study topics in, except linear. The latest LLM use-case I love is feeding the Table of Contents of a textbook and asking it to create the dependency graph of topics! Here are some:... See more

sounds strange, but a clockmaker from France ushered in magic’s golden age. Jean Eugéne Robert-Houdin, France’s most famous magician (and from whom, in 1891, Harry Houdini sourced his stage name) used his background as an engineer to revolutionize magic not only in the ingenuity and complexity of props, but in the presentation of the craft. He saw

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