I use exwm as my windows manager [1], so for me, everything is emacs-first. Therefore, trimming a video in emacs is more natural than using another program to do it. I love the experience of using exwm and emacs for everything whenever possible.
We are straying a bit off-topic with this, but driving a standard can actually be a lot of fun. I have an automatic right now, but I have always enjoyed driving a standard more than automatics. This next point may be due to the quality of my particular automatic, but I have found passing vehicles on the highway to be a lot faster in a standard, because I can choose to just drop into a lower gear and hit the gas, I don't have to hit the gas and then wait for the vehicle to decide that it should go into a lower gear. So, it doesn't have to be a practical skill or a sign of arrogance, someone might just enjoy driving a standard as I do.
I'm an old person. I love emacs, no complaints here. Does this mean that when you are old, you will love emacs as well? Conclusion: in the long run, everyone loves emacs :-)
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You should fix the typos in the linked notion document. I am guessing the typos are an accidental result of a recent edit, since the description in notion is not one-to-one with the description you pasted here.
> The discovery was the result of almost exactly one year of work and about $2 million of Durant’s own money.
> Durant, who made his money off the boom, said he put his time and money into the project to show people that they aren’t helpless to technology giants and that we can figure out massive problems if we work together.
If I sold absolutely everything I owned, I would not even have close to half of what it Durant invested in his pet project. While I like his intended sentiment, I can't help but notice the irony.
Yeah I’m totally fine with him spending his money on whatever hobby he likes, but the message is just strange, this and the other message that “he wants [GPUs] to be used for research and discovery”. And donating the $3k prize money to his high school to advance math and science education after burning $2m… It’s obviously still a nice thing, but why would you even mention it…
That said, maybe he felt pressured to give the reporter more than “I was just having fun”.
Thank you so much for sharing the link. I really enjoy reading Clifford Pickover's books. As a young teen, I was inspired by Wonders of Numbers and Surfing Through Hyperspace.
I am fond of the following explanations for the choice in naming [1]. However, your explanation came directly from the horses mouth ;-)
1. The name “vampire” evokes the image of a creature that bites and multiplies. Similarly, vampire numbers “bite” a larger number into two smaller numbers (fangs) that, when multiplied together, recreate the original number.
2. Clifford A. Pickover, who introduced the term in his book “Keys to Infinity,” often uses imaginative and evocative language to engage readers in mathematical concepts. The term “vampire numbers” reflects his creative approach to making mathematics more accessible and intriguing to a wide audience.
[1]: https://github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm