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+My thesis
+=========
+
+At the time of writing this repo consists of some notes only.
+Will be about rational homotopy theory or something.
+
+## building
+It will create a build directory for all those stupid latex files.
+
+```
+cd thesis
+make
+open thesis.pdf
+```
+