Me playing Rachmaninoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9TVOzGZwXM

I met my wife in a line for a portable toilet

I took a class from Richard Feynman while I was a student at Caltech. I got him to sign a copy of The Feynman Lectures in Physics.

I contributed to the Manifold codebase and made an onboarding and process so people could figure out their college admission chances! Not released in production branch yet but you can check it out early here: https://dev-git-fork-chcl6-main-mantic.vercel.app/college (if you want to see what it would look like to a new user, check it out in incognito mode where you're signed out)

(Context -- For !=@8 see the 'If you had to go on a date with Cabbage or…' polls)

I have learned about 8 languages in my life. These are English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Russian and Swedish. I know some better than the others, however, I forgot almost all of my Latin vocabulary. If we included programming languages too, then the list would be even longer. Some of those are Java, Kotlin, python, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript,...

As you might recognise, I like languages.

Some stories from when I was in middle school:

1. I passed the astronomy exam with 100%, while the 2 smartest science teachers in the school had gotten 98% and 99% when they took it back when they were young.

2. I noticed a flaw in our class physics textbook, produced a ~1 page mathematical proof, and got both the teachers and a visiting influential laser physicist to confirm (it used a formula for electrical power in terms of current and resistance to justify the improved efficiency of alternating current, while using example numbers that were physically inconsistent with maximum power transfer theorem, due to dependence of current on voltage and resistance rather than vice versa).

3. A particularly annoying teacher, who would often intentionally mispronounce my name and try too hard to be down with the kids, was bragging to a kid in my class about how he was better than the kid at drumming, insisting that he was "born with it". I raised my hand and asked "this thing you claim you were born with, was it arrogance?", triggering class commotion. I nearly got detention but it was worth it for the story lol.

I did a 10 day Vipassana retreat once with 9 days of noble silence. I speak German, English, Dutch and a tiny bit of Croatian.

Bonus joke:

Three construction workers are sitting on a rooftop during their lunch break. The first one unpacks his sandwich and says: “Liverwurst again. That old lady never comes up with anything else.” He throws it down. The second construction worker says: “Head cheese again. That old lady just wants to annoy me.” He also throws his sandwich down. The third construction worker throws his sandwich down without looking at what it is filled with. “Why are you throwing it away without looking?” “Cheese again. I hate cheese!” “How do you know that?” “I made it myself this morning!”

Instead of going to university, I got recommended to a parent company of my school by my CS teacher and the principal. After working there for a horrible 8 months I quit and started my own self-employment as an agency for YouTube growth. Now 3 years later, still in debt from high school, without 1 parent and living in bad legal conditions, I was still able to $2,000/month.

My goal is to get to $20k/mo in about 3 months.

I will spend all the money from bounty on advertisement for that very question:

I started a cult with 5 members

I'm an engineer but in my free time I crochet

I flew a WWII-era training biplane before. Not flew in, but flew, I did everything except the takeoff and landing, which the pilot in the other seat of the two-seater plane did. I did some tricks in the air like a figure 8, and would have done a barrel roll but the instructor had a bad hip that didn't respond well to going upside down, so we didn't do that.

When I was 13 years old, I wrote a bot to help me play chess on lichess.org with a special method that they could not detect, and have gotten to the top 50 in the world in bullet, blitz, and rapid multiple times. This allowed me to play against many gms, and notable players. I now think cheating is a massive problem in chess. I regret what I did, and hope to develop behavioral analysis methods to detect cheaters to allow a fair play environment. (There is an issue that deep learning can be used not to find the best moves, but to imitate human play, which is very hard to detect)

i discovered a new formula for the Fibonacci numbers~

I am not the first person to discover these, but they're pretty cool.

264^2 = 69696

10999989 x 9 = 98999901 (works with any amount of 9's in the middle)
21999978 x 4 = 87999912 (works with any amount of 9's in the middle)

3168^2 = 10036224,
6501^2 = 42263001
(more at https://worldofnumbers.com/em192.htm)

987654321/123456789 = 8.00000007...

1/2 + 1/3 + 1/5 + 1/7 + ... (where the denominators are all of the prime numbers) diverges, while
1/1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ... (where the denominators are all of the numbers without the digit 9) converges.

I own a 100 million+ YT channel (real)

Literally me (100%)

I took care of my mother in law after she had a (minor) stroke. Organized medical appointments, made sure she ate well and didn't stress or work too much. It's been a few years and she's still doing fine.