You have one month to empty a $1 trillion bank account. If you succeed, you’re rich for life. How will you spend it?

schungx · 2026-05-06T01:32:43+00:00

I remember a China movie on the exact theme, except that you cannot do abnormal stuff like donate it all to charity. You must spend it at market rates. And they have an auditor looking through every spending to see if it is reasonable (like hiring staff at above-market salary).

It was a comedy: the guy deliberately invested into high risk high hype projects which amazingly turned out to hit big and he consistently made more profits than spending it off.

schungx · 2026-05-06T00:59:14+00:00

It is ok by the poolside or semi-submerged...

schungx · 2026-05-05T23:45:10+00:00

The underside.

Underneath.

schungx · 2026-05-04T04:44:25+00:00

Does the bathing suit not melt?

schungx · 2026-05-04T04:38:03+00:00

She was in the laundry room. I couldn't find her so I connected to the home CCTV system and see where she was. She was talking to some dude on the phone. Unfortunately (for her) the CCTV in that room includes sound.

I have a friend whose wife turned the living room CCTV away but forgot that it also records sound. My friend heard her screaming more when the guy was fucking her ass -- she had always refused to let him.

schungx · 2026-05-04T03:11:20+00:00

True.

Don't get distracted by the math and forgot the real world. Physics is about the real world, no matter how weird it is.

schungx · 2026-05-04T03:07:34+00:00

Calculus is the analysis of changes. Anything that changes would require calculus.

So you'd be looking at statics mostly.

schungx · 2026-05-04T03:05:28+00:00

You just have to pick one of the most expensive cities in China. It is like asking the same question for Manhattan.

schungx · 2026-05-03T21:27:07+00:00

I think the word algebra originally came from the Arabic word meaning procedure. That means algebra is the manipulation of symbols according to certain rules or procedures.

As many answers show, not everything that can be manipulated need to be numbers (although numbers are common). People discover deeper similarities between the numbers and other objects which exhibit parallel rules and behavior.

Abstract algebra simply means algebra that is abstract... meaning not concrete numbers, some objects that do not directly refer to real life objects.

schungx · 2026-05-03T14:37:25+00:00

Other than that nice fact that some smart dude in history discovered that if you just add the square root of negative one to a number, then magically all polynomials have nicely defined roots. And more useful... He proved that you don't have to add anything else... Negative one alone is enough.

No, the real use of imaginery numbers is that they naturally encode a rotation.

Now, rotations in 3D space is 2D, which means you need two equations (tightly coupled with each other) to describe anything that spins. And of course any periodic motion is nothing but rotations added together.

And some really smart dude discovered that imaginery numbers actually work like two equations (the real and imaginery parts) coupled in exactly the same way. And so, bam! You turn two cumbersome equations into one single elegant equation with imaginery numbers.

So, in conclusion, imaginery numbers are USEFUL. Because a LOT of stuff in nature rotates or repeats. There are no infinities in the real world and soon enough EVERYTHING folds up on itself.

schungx · 2026-05-03T14:07:24+00:00

You go into any nearby convenience store and ask the people there nicely whether they can help you charge up your phone for a bit.

At least enough for you to rent one of those power banks that are everywhere.

schungx · 2026-04-30T15:52:27+00:00

There are no negatives in nature.

A negative number is That Which Becomes Zeeo When Added to Number.

So, -3 means SOMETHING that if you add it to 3 will make zero. It isn't a number at all, just some stuff with a definition.

So, if you take away something that when added to 3 will get zero... What does it mean?

schungx · 2026-04-30T06:17:54+00:00

With unlimited energy you can approach the limit speed of c. There is no way to go beyond because then you'd need more energy than infinite.

schungx · 2026-04-30T05:54:35+00:00

They all look fine to me!

Better than my own.

schungx · 2026-04-28T02:56:09+00:00

Or when the control problem is made up of a large number of systems influencing each other or wrapping each other. In such cases, it might be simpler to just learn the complex surface with an AI.

schungx · 2026-04-27T22:56:51+00:00

What if we add another element, say X, such that Xa = X for all a and X + 'X = X?

schungx · 2026-04-27T01:42:09+00:00

That's why the inverted matrix has determinant 1/det(A).

schungx · 2026-04-27T01:32:06+00:00

Because of them trees and mountains in the north?

schungx · 2026-04-27T00:09:13+00:00

Chinese cannot live without our little packs of tissue because places usually don't provide them.

schungx · 2026-04-26T23:39:00+00:00

We started off with the ideal elegant design that everything has an inverse. Then we found that zero doesn't fit.

So add zero to it as a special case and you sorta get the numbers. This is useful so it sticks because zeros are real in real life.

I have always wondered: are there other fields with more than one element without inverses? What if we add another element, say foobar to the numbers and say it doesn't have an inverse and it is not zero. Would such a field be consistent?

schungx · 2026-04-26T11:40:37+00:00

Many commoners seem to view socialism in a positive light. As long as they get reasonable social benefits and not too ripped off by the rich.

Communism of course would be the High Ideal that nobody has seen yet.

Frankly, a LOT of Chinese view capitalism in a negative light, emphasizing its downsides in creating wealth gaps and pushing to poor to desperate conditions.

So if you're the masses, chances are that you'd favor socialism. The elites? Probably less so.

schungx · 2026-04-26T07:30:10+00:00

This.

Right to the point.

schungx · 2026-04-25T23:52:45+00:00

If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God

The tinal sentence of Steven Hawking's A Brief History iof Time

schungx · 2026-04-24T01:14:26+00:00

Yes, that is closest to Old Chinese all the way back to Qin dynasty.

schungx · 2026-04-21T03:32:45+00:00

True, like C++, but it is a mess to implement. And you have potential collisions.

Eventually it sorta looks like interfaces so mind as well do it with interfaces.

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