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Sometimes I’ll get a great comment on one of my videos - a comment that really gets what I’m talking about and raises interesting points - and I’ll think “Oh awesome, a new cool person, I should try to bring them in and introduce them to people and so on”, and then I find it’s the alt account of someone I’ve known for years. This is often the way when I find something great that’s relevant to my specific interests. When I go to see who’s responsible, I’m slightly disappointed to find that it was done by someone I already know. A Megagon is a polygon with a million sides. They’re sometimes used as an example in philosophical discussions, because it’s basically a circle for any practical purpose, but it’s importantly, mathematically, very much not a circle. It’s an example of a well defined concept that nonetheless can’t be visualised. Wikipedia has a nice page about the megagon, from which you can learn, amongst other things, that if you made a megagon the size of the Earth, the edges w

> life in a monospace typeface > life in a monospace typeface The True Megagon and The Thai Wizard Sometimes I’ll get a great comment on one of my videos - a comment that really gets what I’m talking about and raises interesting points - and I’ll think “Oh awesome, a new cool person, I should try to bring them in and introduce them to people and so on”, and then I find it’s the alt account of someone I’ve known for years. This is often the way when I find something great that’s relevant to my specific interests. When I go to see who’s responsible, I’m slightly disappointed to find that it was

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