Today I learned that the duration of first-generation compact disks was fixed at seventy-five minutes so that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony could unfurl without interruption. #beethoven #symphony #music #audio #cd #wikipedia #til
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University of Arizona '2024 Math/Computer Science
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- git blame is an alias for whoami
- TIL you can selectively move values into a Rust closure by inserting dummy moves, avoiding the "move" keyword.
- The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.
- I happily announce that the future 4th edition of my book Linear Algebra Done Right will be an Open Access book. Thus the electronic version of the book will be legally free to the world. The print version, to be published by Springer, will be reasonably priced. #LinearAlgebra
