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Tragedy and pain, loss and fear, that is not normal and it must never be normal. Not anywhere. I wept through the end of the movie I was watching. It was ‘Hannah Montana’. It’s terrible and I highly recommend it, particularly if you need a good cry.

I’m giving you a part of my story, because I want you to understand that no, we’re not used to it. We were never used to it. What happened that day is not normal. Bombs, shattered glass and ravaged cities are not our everyday.

I think of Gemmayze and Mar Mikhael, my favorite streets, with their traditional Lebanese red roofs that are (or at least were before the blast) some of the last few left in Beirut.

Although vector spaces are infinite (in our case), you can find a finite set of vectors that can be used to express all vectors in the space. For example, on the plane, we have

Tragedy and pain, loss and fear, that is not normal and it must never be normal. Not anywhere. I wept through the end of the movie I was watching. It was ‘Hannah Montana’. It’s terrible and I highly recommend it, particularly if you need a good cry.

After Santana, we would often go to my brother’s favorite bar: Cyrano. I was just there in December. I scroll through Instagram and see that Rawan, their bartender, was working and lost her life there that day. She was younger than me.

Even if you sold your investment on July 13 at Netflix’s peak price of $575.37, which would equate to a 53,601% return, your shares would only be worth $539,697. Obviously, that dollar amount probably doesn’t warrant me saying “only” but, for the purposes of our example, it doesn’t make you a millionaire.

When the inner product for two vectors is zero, we say that the vectors are orthogonal to each other. (Try to come up with some concrete examples on the plane to understand the concept deeper.)

Let’s say you had the foresight and fortitude to invest $1,005 in Netflix back in 2002 when its IPO share price was only $15. Keep in mind, Netflix didn’t look like it does today — their original business model was based on DVD rentals, a market that Blockbuster (R.I.P.) dominated at the time. To give you an idea of the contrast, in 2002, they had 600,000 subscribers. As of September, they boast more than 195 million global subscribers.

I think of my first driving lesson. My dad put me behind the wheel in one of Beirut’s busiest and most dangerous highways, because “that’s how you learn in life”. I cried the whole way through that highway, that was right across the Beirut Port.

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hy you see ARM CPU-makers such as Ampere making CPUs such as the Altra Max which has a crazy 128 cores. This chip is specifically made for the cloud. You don’t need crazy single-core performance because in the cloud it is all about having as many threads as possible per watt to handle as many concurrent users as possible.

I think of Grand Factory, my favorite club down the street from Mar Mikhael — and J, the guy I “accidentally” ran into there every Thursday when I was 19, and who every Thursday, told me he’d leave his girlfriend for me. They’re married now.

If you’re impatient and expect to see immediate, gargantuan returns, you’re going to burn through your money. Investing in the stock market isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. Don’t dump your hard-earned savings into an “up-and-coming” stock and cross your fingers that it takes off.

I think of my favorite bar there: Vyvyan’s. I think of Santana, their bartender. I’d go there for his Moscow Mule every weekend from 2013 to 2015. Whenever I’m in Beirut I go see Santana and I’m like “I’m back!” and he’s like “Who are you?”

Tears blur my eyes and I’m glad of them, because it’s the only logical response a person can have when they recall all of these places (amongst others), that in a split of a second on August 4th, got completely ravaged.