Glad you found it awesome! :)

Thanks! I wonder if there are any websites hosting open source 3d models. Also thought I’d drop this resources too!

FreeCAD (Open source CAD modeler): https://wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCAD

Sorry didn’t mean to cause any trouble. I collect and share internet resources with others. If you want to verify this for yourself, my post history has questions similar to this one. I removed the image to make this post more ‘generic’. I am genuinely trying to share resources. My apologies if it came across as advertising.

No it’s not. This was one example of a powerful resource. Another is Libgen, and the List of Awesome

https://github.com/topics/awesome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

Vsauce is awesome! He makes you question everything after each video!

Also…

Some of my favorites are from Edward Frenkel and the Langlands Program. In analogy the Langlands Program can be thought of as the “Theory of Everything” of mathematics linking various seemingly disconnected fields together.

Another great video is from 3b1b where he shows Pi somehow emerge from 2 blocks colliding against each other.

Links & Resources

• YouTube - The Langlands Program - Numberphile
• YouTube - Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox
• Wikipedia - Langlands Program
• YouTube - Why do colliding blocks compute pi?
• YouTube - The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle

Please solve the partial differential equation to continue watching the video:

“I am not a robot” captcha is getting too hard…": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru6fi4O4lp4

Your comment belongs higher. When given the opportunity to make money by social media advertising sometimes in the thousands or millions, companies, share holders, and conflict of interest groups take it. Cablemod’s burning adapters, cryptocurrency scams, payed positive youtube reviews are some great examples. In general there is no honor system and its best to assume anything that can be abused will.

Also manipulating votes is incredibly effective towards swaying public opinion due to the bandwagon effect. Spend a days worth of effort making fake accounts and downvoting any opinion you see as undesirable and most people will follow suit. This is especially bad in echo chambers like on twitter, reddit, etc.

I wish a broader audience could be aware of this. The best I can do is try to spread the word.

Sources:

• The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc
• Cablemod Recall: https://old.reddit.com/r/cablemod/comments/18o7bnv/planned_voluntary_safety_recall_of_cablemod/
• FTX Scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_FTX
• Bandwagon Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect
• Echo Chamber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)

Self hosting is smart! Usually good things always come to an end, at least if they are not open sourced.

The Patriot Act and Snowden’s leaks have shown companies will go against their privacy policy to appease governments. Search engines especially are targeted by five eyes with the PRISM program where copies of all your data, linked to your payment, are sent to Five Eyes and stored. Gag orders and legal threats prevent disclosure, as has been done with prior tech companies who have tried to push back against this.

Be wary of trusting corporations with your data as monetization is a powerful incentive.

Valve is great! Private and non-profit organizations give me some hope for a better internet one day.

Regarding Kagi, there are other potential concerns with privacy, data leaks and price gouging as well. The Patriot Act and Snowden’s leaks have shown that companies will lie in their privacy policy to appeal to authorities even if they claim they are not storing information. All your health related searches, sensitive personal details, private life, etc is also always linked to your payment method waiting for a potential data leak if they are lying. (Or a copy is just sent to five eyes)

All that is to say, be wary of trusting your privacy to companies. Monetization is a powerful motivator!

I’m worried eventually even Kagi will get enshittified. It has been a common trend that almost always occurs. Open source is the only way to ensure stability. Conflict of interest is what leads to companies either overcharging, or even accepting to get bought out.

Don’t get me wrong, Kagi seems to be a great company thus far! But for something as important as search it would be best to have an open source solution.

Hmm, I did notice a sudden severe drop in quality recently. Perhaps they are A/B testing something.

Thanks! Never given brave a try before

Altavista was ahead of their time. The modern internet desperately needs a technical search engine.

I’ve heard a lot of great things about Kagi, though the search limit and subscription is a little off-putting. A self-hosted Kagi would be amazing though!

Thank you!

I found public instances often have issues connecting to many search engines at once, will look into self hosting it. Thanks!

Thanks for the further detail!

There was a response I left in the main comment thread but I’m not sure if you will get the notification. I wanted to post it again so you see it

Response below

Please feel free to ask any questions! Math is a wonderful field full of beauty but unfortunately almost all education systems fail to show this and instead makes it seem like raw robotic calculations instead of creativity.

Math is best learned visually and with context to more abstract terms. 3Blue1Brown is the best resource in my opinion for this!

Here’s a mindblowing fact for you along with a video from 3Blue1Brown. Imagine you are sliding a 1,000,000 kg box and slamming it into a 1 kg box on an ice surface with no friction. The 1 kg box hits a wall and bounces back to hit the 1,000,000 kg box again.

The number of bounces that appear is the digits of Pi. Crazy right? Why would pi appear here? If you want to learn more here’s a video from the best math teacher in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs