herid @herid@qoto.org

It's Leonhard Euler's birthday today! He was born in Basel on April 15, 1707.

Euler was a relentlessly energetic mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the subjects of graph theory and topology and made pioneering discoveries in analysis, number theory, mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy and even music theory. When he lost sight in his right eye, he remarked

"Now I will have fewer distractions."

and even when he became almost blind in his other eye he averaged one paper a week.

I love how he seized the day and explored all the possibilities available to him. Harnessing the tools of calculus, he came up with dozens of amazing formulas, like the one below.

But how do you find a formula like this???

It's not magic: it uses a method called "Euler's continued fraction formula" which can produce *many* similar formulas. This method is not easy to guess, but you can check it using high-school algebra, especially if you don't worry about convergence - which Euler didn't, not much anyway. Then, to apply this method, you need to know some calculus.

Let's see how it works!

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Absolutely disgusting take from a supposed medical doctor. Of course, she's also a COVID minimizer and vaccine "skeptic." The Venn diagram for those two conditions, racist, and piece of shit, is sometimes just a blurry circle.

Pentagon Leaks: What's the Damage?

https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/pentagon-leaks-whats-the-damage

Who are your favorite journalists on here right now?

And who do you wish had migrated over here but hasn’t yet?

I'm new to Mastodon and I have no idea how this works. I just hate Elon Musk and need to try something else.
I like to post my paintings like this one

Sarah Sanders blames 'design error' for form asking job applicants to name something nice about her https://www.rawstory.com/sarah-sanders-job-application-form/

did not need this to be a trilogy thanks

Some interesting tidbits from the warrant affidavit for accused leaker Teixeira:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23777278-teixiera-affidavit (HT @kevincollier )

- He was arrested yesterday, but the warrant was issued this morning, which suggests he was arrested as an emergency measure. Things moved quickly in the last two days.

- At least one of the Discord users ("User 1") is cooperating. I wonder if it's the kid in the WaPo piece or someone else.

- Some "consciousness of guilt" in the access logs thrown in in ¶ 27.

“running a Nazi bar is not […] standing up for free speech. It’s building your own brand as the Nazi bar and abdicating your own free speech rights of association […].”
[…]
"your reputation when you refuse to moderate is not “the grand enabler of free speech.” Because it’s the internet itself that is the grand enabler of free speech. When you’re a private centralized company and you don’t deal with hateful content on your site, you’re the Nazi bar.”

From @mmasnick:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/

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The chosen one

life comes at you fast

This. In America.

For a misdemeanour.

Gift article, so you can read it.

https://wapo.st/43KoNxg