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A human who is not me, a carrot, a potato, and I need to cross a river. There is a boat that can only carry 3 things across the river. I cannot be left alone because if I am, I will run away. How does the human get us across the river

The response:

Here's how the human can get everyone across the river:

Trips:

Trip 1: The human takes the carrot and the potato across the river. Trip 2: The human returns alone. Trip 3: The human takes you across the river. Trip 4: The human returns with the carrot. Trip 5: The human takes the potato across the river. Trip 6: The human returns alone. Trip 7: The human takes the carrot and you across the river.

Explanation:

This solution ensures that you are never left alone on either side of the river. The human acts as the ferry, carefully transporting the items and you while always being present to prevent your escape.

As noted earlier, I have a monograph published with Springer, so this rankles in a personal way.

"I’m a moderate Holocaust denier." —Curtis Yarvin

wake up babe, new Yud profile pic just dropped

(And by "just" I mean "sometime in the past three weeks or so". I don't skim his exTwitter feed for sneerables very often.)

Typo:

Thorat didn’t look hrough his “own” book either

It would appear CNN was also at the eugenics conference? Why are all these mainstream news orgs at a 200-person event where all the speakers are eugenicists and racists?

https://bsky.app/profile/bmceuen.bsky.social/post/3lmmtefdl422j

And in response to an Atlantic subhead saying "Perpetuating humanity should be a cross-politics consensus, but the left was mostly absent at a recent pro-natalism conference":

yeah, weird that the left wasn’t present at the Fourteen Words conference

https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3lmmqjx3fdc2e

yet I hold

space for it

As a wise friend of mine said years ago, when hipsters drinking PBR were having a cultural moment, "You can say you're drinking piss beer 'ironically', but at the end of the day, you're still drinking piss beer."

Having read all the Asimov novels when I was younger....

Larry Gonick's Cartoon Guide to the Computer is in part a time capsule from a bygone age, and also an introduction to topics of enduring importance. It's a comic book that explains how to design a Boolean circuit to implement an arbitrary truth table.

We have a couple threads of book recommendations, first here and then again here. They're very miscellaneous and may or may not cover what you're interested in.