So this is the famous Gradient Descent I've been hearing so much of

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Indulging the beginning of the year with a read on the overlaps (or lack thereof) of moral and mathematical realism - In Justin Clarke-Doane's Morality & Mathematics

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Ordinal addition is *not* commutative! 👀

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A similarity can't take an element to a greater one in the same set

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Kepler's main contribution to truth: his three laws of planetary motion

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Cassandra goes bravely unto her death

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The original source of the Conan quote - in Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan 🌍🏇👑

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... and this is why politicians and unions can demagogically say stuff like 'This company is making money! The only reason it wants to close/sell off/fire workers is greed!'

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The Indispensability Argument will actually only cover a very small amount of math

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Derek Parfit's reasons are generally not my cup of tea, but what he says here sounds quite reasonable:

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The ten commandments - in Mankiw's Principles of Economics

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'Tis difficult to embrace a disembodied soul - Dante, Purgatorio

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